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Most Popular Schools for Accounting Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax accounting, legal aspects of accounting, auditing, reporting procedures, statement analysis, planning and consulting, business information systems, accounting research methods, professional standards and ethics, and applications to specific for-profit, public, and non-profit organizations.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Southern New Hampshire University 984 6% $51,538
2 Wake Technical Community College 920 10% $4,268
3 University of Phoenix-Arizona 899 3% $10,912
4 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 865 18% $32,681
5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 763 6% $30,102
6 Western Governors University 625 2% $6,870
7 The University of Texas at Dallas 620 8% $29,286
8 The University of Texas at Austin 568 4% $26,506
9 University of Houston 539 6% $23,225
10 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 507 4% $36,652
11 Liberty University 478 3% $40,075
12 Texas A & M University-College Station 472 3% $29,506
13 Florida Atlantic University 451 6% $24,235
14 CUNY Queens College 446 12% $28,907
15 University of Maryland-College Park 426 4% $27,146
16 George Mason University 421 5% $30,284
17 Ohio State University-Main Campus 411 3% $27,367
18 The University of Alabama 399 5% $29,872
19 University of Central Florida 393 2% $22,548
20 Florida International University 389 3% $23,506
21 Colorado State University-Global Campus 384 12% N/A
22 Michigan State University 383 3% $28,862
23 University of Mississippi 382 7% $25,436
24 Texas Tech University 380 5% $24,472
25 Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs 380 7% $13,374
26 Rutgers University-Newark 375 13% $32,708
27 Arizona State University-Tempe 360 3% $28,048
28 DePaul University 354 6% $57,678
29 University of Missouri-Columbia 349 4% $26,766
30 Binghamton University 346 8% $26,866
31 California State University-Northridge 345 3% $22,969
32 Northern Illinois University 342 7% $29,117
33 University of Southern California 332 2% $74,825
34 Temple University 326 4% $33,004
35 Bentley University 322 18% $68,710
36 Georgia State University 320 4% $26,014
37 University of Utah 312 4% $24,472
38 University of Georgia 309 3% $26,688
39 Grand Canyon University 308 1% $32,100
40 CUNY Brooklyn College 308 8% $8,604
41 University of South Florida-Main Campus 300 3% $23,320
42 University of Kansas 294 5% $26,566
43 Florida State University 289 3% $22,168
44 Brigham Young University-Provo 286 4% $18,776
45 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 279 3% $30,913
46 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 278 3% $23,977
47 Fordham University 269 6% $74,265
48 The University of Texas at San Antonio 269 4% $23,715
49 Auburn University 264 4% $31,590
50 University of Kentucky 263 4% $30,101
51 Miami University-Oxford 263 5% $33,229
52 University of Maryland-University College 261 2% $7,416
53 University at Buffalo 260 4% $27,758
54 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 258 3% $33,503
55 Texas State University 257 3% $23,130
56 James Madison University 257 5% $27,356
57 University of Connecticut 256 3% $32,404
58 University of Florida 256 2% $21,211
59 Purdue University Global-Davenport 253 3% $14,343
60 University of Wisconsin-Madison 251 2% $26,025
61 University of Houston-Downtown 250 7% $7,732
62 Pace University 249 7% $66,499
63 Baylor University 248 6% $62,527
64 St John's University-New York 247 7% $61,408
65 Clemson University 246 4% $31,270
66 Kennesaw State University 243 4% $25,773
67 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 242 4% $31,510
68 University of South Carolina-Columbia 241 3% $28,301
69 Illinois State University 236 4% $29,758
70 SUNY at Albany 236 5% $26,734
71 Washington State University 235 3% $27,484
72 University of Nevada-Las Vegas 230 4% $24,035
73 University of Arizona 227 2% $29,217
74 University of Notre Dame 225 7% $71,801
75 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 224 3% $23,694
76 University of North Texas 223 2% $24,712
77 Portland State University 218 3% $26,085
78 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 218 2% $27,476
79 University of Arkansas 213 4% $25,500
80 The University of Texas at Arlington 213 2% $26,660
81 Appalachian State University 212 4% $19,194
82 Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global 211 5% $13,778
83 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 209 3% $30,360
84 Franklin University 209 12% $13,729
85 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 207 3% $26,834
86 University of Illinois at Chicago 207 3% $30,866
87 Grand Valley State University 206 4% $24,948
88 Ashford University 205 2% $13,230
89 Southern Methodist University 205 5% $74,737
90 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 203 3% $29,097
91 Georgia Southern University 199 3% $23,014
92 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 198 3% $24,105
93 DeVry University-Illinois 198 4% $17,869
94 University of Alabama at Birmingham 192 4% $26,336
95 Metropolitan State University of Denver 189 6% $9,066
96 University of Miami 188 4% $68,460
97 Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Cupey Campus 187 8% $7,520
98 Lone Star College System 186 2% $4,150
99 Boston College 185 5% $73,092
100 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 184 4% $20,471

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Accounting program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.