Accounting at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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

Ship is located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 6,130. Of the 332 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 2021, 29 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.

Ship Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Ship Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Ship compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Ship 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
	57
	244
	256
	471
	981

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from Ship Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Ship is $49,738. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 7% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Ship

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

Ship Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 29 accounting students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Ship, about 59% were men and 41% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Ship since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Ship 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 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	26
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Ship 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 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	29

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing

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 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

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
• Image Credit: By Cgboeree under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.