Accounting at Santa Clara University

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

SCU is located in Santa Clara, California and approximately 8,642 students attend the school each year. Of the 485 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University in 2019, 53 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.

SCU Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

SCU Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at SCU 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 SCU 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
Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools	1
Most Focused Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools	2
Most Popular Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools	3
Best Accounting Schools	11
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	18
Most Popular Accounting Schools	150
Most Focused Accounting Schools	215
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	288
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	629

Accounting Student Demographics at SCU

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

SCU Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at SCU awarded 53 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 SCU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Santa Clara University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	21
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Accounting and Business/Management

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 CA, the home state for Santa Clara University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Accountants and Auditors	148,600	$84,430
Tax Examiners, Collectors, and Revenue Agents	8,660	$66,600
Credit Analysts	8,620	$89,430
Budget Analysts	6,870	$90,780
Financial Examiners	5,120	$108,740

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 Arnaudh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.