Accounting at Rutgers University - New Brunswick

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

Rutgers New Brunswick is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and approximately 50,254 students attend the school each year. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 150 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Rutgers New Brunswick.

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

Rutgers New Brunswick Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Rutgers New Brunswick Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Rutgers New Brunswick performed in these rankings.

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 Rutgers New Brunswick 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	83
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	95
Best Accounting Schools	118
Most Popular Accounting Schools	136
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	904
Most Focused Accounting Schools	1,153

Accounting Student Demographics at Rutgers New Brunswick

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

Rutgers New Brunswick Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at Rutgers New Brunswick awarded 150 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 47% of these degrees went to men with the other 53% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Rutgers New Brunswick since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Rutgers University - New Brunswick with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	41
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	63
International Students	27
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Rutgers New Brunswick 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 NJ, the home state for Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Accountants and Auditors	37,370	$90,400
Credit Analysts	2,690	$85,030
Business Professors	2,510	$111,740
Financial Examiners	2,310	$109,100
Budget Analysts	2,160	$83,710

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 Zampromote under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.