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Overview for Accounting

A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax accounting, legal aspects of accounting, auditing, reporting procedures, statement analysis, planning and consulting, business information systems, accounting research methods, professional standards and ethics, and applications to specific for-profit, public, and non-profit organizations.

Careers for Accounting Majors

A major in Accounting is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided.

Colleges Offering a Major in Accounting

Top 14 West Virginia Colleges with the highest percentage of Accounting among the 2007-2008 graduating class.

AddInfoCollege Name Degrees Awarded/
Percentage
SelectivityTuition
Wheeling Jesuit University
Wheeling, WV
 17
(7.0%)
Moderately Selective$24,390 
University of Charleston
Charleston, WV
 8
(5.4%)
Moderately Selective$23,150 
Bluefield State College
Bluefield, WV
 8
(3.7%)
Less Selective$8,568 
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Ohio Valley University
Vienna, WV
 4
(3.3%)
 $16,990 
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
 123
(3.2%)
Highly Selective- 
Marshall University
Huntington, WV
 42
(2.9%)
Less Selective$11,124 
West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Montgomery, WV
 5
(2.4%)
Highly Selective$12,748 
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Bethany College
Bethany, WV
 4
(2.4%)
Less Selective$19,565 
Alderson Broaddus College
Philippi, WV
 3
(2.3%)
Moderately Selective$21,020 
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, WV
 5
(2.2%)
Less Selective$22,880 
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.