Accounting at University of North Texas

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

UNT is located in Denton, Texas and approximately 40,953 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 196 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from UNT.

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

UNT Accounting Degrees Available

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

UNT Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how UNT 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 UNT 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
	41
	68
	91
	223
	333
	340

In 2021, 66 students received their master’s degree in accounting from UNT. This makes it the #69 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of UNT Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at UNT is $47,295. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 2% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at UNT

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

UNT Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 196 accounting majors earned their bachelor's degree from UNT. Of these graduates, 52% were men and 48% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at UNT since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 North Texas with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	48
White	90
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

UNT Accounting Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of accounting master's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 42% men graduate in accounting each year. UNT does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 5% more men than average.

In the accounting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 42% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	33
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

UNT 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 North Texas. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	262

Related Majors

• General Sales & Marketing
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Real Estate
• Taxation
• Insurance

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 North Texas.

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.