Accounting at University of Houston

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at University of Houston. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UH is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 47,090 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 333 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from UH.

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

UH Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Master’s Degree in Accounting

UH Accounting Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at UH 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
	9
	12
	231
	241
	333
	343
	429

In 2021, 173 students received their master’s degree in accounting from UH. This makes it the #13 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of UH Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH is $47,454. This is 3% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at UH

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

UH Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 333 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from UH in 2020-2021, 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at UH since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% 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 University of Houston with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	95
Black or African American	22
Hispanic or Latino	117
White	60
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

UH Accounting Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 173 accounting majors earned their master's degree from UH. Of these graduates, 36% were men and 64% were women.

In the accounting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 64% of degree recipients. That is 28% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	59
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	35
White	47
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UH 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 University of Houston. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	506

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business/Corporate Communications
• Human Resource 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 TX, the home state for University of Houston.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	131,250	$41,390
Accountants and Auditors	115,270	$80,200
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Financial Analysts	26,850	$94,980
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	13,300	$44,390

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 RJN2 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.