Accounting at George Mason University

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

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 37,316 students attend the school each year. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 251 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from GMU.

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

GMU Accounting Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at GMU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? GMU offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

GMU Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at GMU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at GMU 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 Online Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools	2
Most Popular Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools	6
Most Popular Accounting Schools	22
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	22
Most Popular Online Accounting Schools	74
Most Popular Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	93
Best Accounting Schools	162
Most Focused Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	324
Most Focused Accounting Schools	430
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	448

In 2019, 64 students received their master’s degree in accounting from GMU. This makes it the #93 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Accounting Student Demographics at GMU

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

GMU Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 251 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in accounting from GMU in 2019, 42% were men and 58% were women.

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 George Mason University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	97
Black or African American	25
Hispanic or Latino	37
White	65
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

GMU Accounting Master’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 64 accounting majors earned their master's degree from GMU. Of these graduates, 38% were men and 62% were women.

In the accounting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 41% of degree recipients. That is 10% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	16
International Students	20
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Auditing

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 VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Accountants and Auditors	41,230	$85,640
Budget Analysts	3,730	$91,000
Financial Examiners	1,920	$80,700
Credit Analysts	1,730	$85,090

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 Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.