by our College Data Analytics TeamThe main focus area for this major is Other Accounting and Related Services. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Accounting is a major offered under the business, management and marketing program of study at Towson University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in accounting, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:
Out-of-state part-time graduates at Towson paid an average of $908 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $439 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $7,902 | $16,344 |
| Fees | $2,628 | $2,628 |
The median early career salary of accounting students who receive their master’s degree from Towson is $62,508 per year. That is 11% higher than the national average of $56,422.
Towson does not offer an online option for its accounting master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Towson Online Learning page.
Women made up around 52.9% of the accounting students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 54.1%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in accounting at Towson in 2019-2020, 35.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 29%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 3 |
| Black or African American | 2 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 9 |
| International Students | 2 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
Accounting students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Other Accounting and Related Services | 17 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to accounting.
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Human Resource Management | 67 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 23 |
*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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.