Accounting at DeSales University

Every accounting school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the accounting program at DeSales University stacks up to those at other schools.

DeSales is located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 3,302. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 36 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from DeSales.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Accounting section at the bottom of this page.

DeSales Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Online Classes Are Available at DeSales

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? DeSales offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

DeSales Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how DeSales performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at DeSales is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Accounting. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	119
	286
	344
	362
	383
	385
	404
	504
	544
	660
	711
	1,186

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from DeSales Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at DeSales is $47,378. This is 2% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at DeSales

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at DeSales University.

DeSales Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at DeSales since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at DeSales are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from DeSales University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	29
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

DeSales also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Accounting

If you plan to be a accounting major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from DeSales University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	36

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing
• Finance & Financial Management
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Accounting Grads May Go Into

A degree in accounting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for DeSales University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	55,360	$40,660
Accountants and Auditors	51,720	$75,250
Financial Managers	17,730	$156,730
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Business Professors	5,490	$91,520

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.