Accounting at Baruch College

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

Baruch is located in New York, New York and approximately 18,029 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,974 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College in 2019, 651 of them were accounting majors.

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

Baruch Accounting Degrees Available

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

Baruch Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Baruch 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 Baruch 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
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Focused Accounting Schools	4
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	135
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	363

In 2019, 268 students received their master’s degree in accounting from Baruch. This makes it the #5 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Accounting Student Demographics at Baruch

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

Baruch Accounting Bachelor’s Program

In the 2018-2019 academic year, 651 students earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Baruch. About 60% of these graduates were women and the other 40% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 Baruch College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	296
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	71
White	85
International Students	165
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Baruch Accounting Master’s Program

Of the 268 students who earned a master's degree in Accounting from Baruch in 2018-2019, 42% were men and 58% were women.

In the accounting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 46% of degree recipients. That is 15% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	102
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	71
International Students	74
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Baruch also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 Baruch College.

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
• Image Credit: By Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.