Accounting at The College of Westchester

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

CW is located in White Plains, New York and has a total student population of 934. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from CW.

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

CW Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

CW Accounting Rankings

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

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 CW 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
	36
	81
	584
	747
	821
	850
	910
	1,002
	1,090
	1,103

Accounting Student Demographics at CW

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

CW Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 17 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from CW in 2020-2021, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at CW since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 44% more racial-ethnic minorities in its accounting bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping

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 NY, the home state for The College of Westchester.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors	110,780	$96,300
Financial Examiners	9,030	$115,980
Business Professors	8,910	$110,500
Credit Analysts	7,440	$119,180
Tax Examiners, Collectors, and Revenue Agents	4,830	$70,560

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.