Accounting at Oglethorpe University

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

Oglethorpe is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 1,264 students attend the school each year. Of the 63 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Oglethorpe University in 2019, 17 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.

Oglethorpe Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Oglethorpe Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe 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 Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
Most Focused Accounting Schools	83
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	620
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	722
Most Popular Accounting Schools	827
Best Accounting Schools	859

Accounting Student Demographics at Oglethorpe

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

Oglethorpe Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at Oglethorpe awarded 17 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 53% of these degrees went to men with the other 47% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Oglethorpe since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Oglethorpe University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Oglethorpe 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 GA, the home state for Oglethorpe University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Accountants and Auditors	37,200	$75,930
Credit Analysts	2,320	$70,040
Tax Examiners, Collectors, and Revenue Agents	2,020	$50,490
Business Professors	1,930	$94,670
Budget Analysts	1,730	$70,050

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 Boston Public Library under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.