Accounting at Northern State University

If you plan to study accounting, take a look at what Northern State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NSU is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota and approximately 3,431 students attend the school each year. Of the 69 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northern State University in 2021, 18 of them were accounting majors.

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

NSU Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Online Classes Are Available at NSU

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? NSU offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NSU Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how NSU 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 NSU 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
	23
	75
	112
	131
	151
	181
	189
	309
	584
	584
	843
	1,023

Earnings of NSU Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at NSU is $45,902. This is less than $46,292, which is the national average of all accounting majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Accounting Student Demographics at NSU

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

NSU Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in accounting from NSU in 2021, 83% were men and 17% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at NSU since its program graduates 42% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at NSU 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 Northern State University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	15
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Concentrations Within Accounting

The following accounting concentations are available at Northern State University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Northern State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	18

Related Majors

• International Business
• Management Information Systems
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• 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 SD, the home state for Northern State University.

Occupation	Jobs in SD	Average Salary in SD
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	9,670	$33,970
Accountants and Auditors	4,480	$65,800
Financial Managers	680	$132,030
Financial Analysts	450	$73,870
Credit Analysts	380	$62,210

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.