Accounting at The College of New Jersey

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

TCNJ is located in Ewing, New Jersey and has a total student population of 7,783. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 48 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from TCNJ.

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

TCNJ Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

TCNJ Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at TCNJ 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 TCNJ 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
	24
	31
	32
	51
	147
	295
	441
	520
	530
	1,027

Earnings of TCNJ Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at TCNJ is $63,294. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 37% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at TCNJ

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at The College of New Jersey.

TCNJ Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 48 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from TCNJ. About 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at TCNJ since its program graduates 19% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at TCNJ are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	28
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

TCNJ 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 The College of New Jersey. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	48

Related Majors

• 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 NJ, the home state for The College of New Jersey.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	43,380	$46,860
Accountants and Auditors	37,370	$90,400
Financial Managers	21,340	$175,880
Financial Analysts	10,560	$106,100
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	4,130	$47,450

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 Tomwsulcer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.