Accounting

Accounting is one of the largest fields of professional employment. Accountants specialize in auditing, tax work, cost accounting, budgeting, and systems and procedures, in the public and private sectors. The A.A.S. degree lets you begin your career immediately upon graduation. Although it is not designed for transfer, some students do transfer to four-year colleges and universities.

• Career Opportunities
• Transfer Options
• Program Requirements
• Program Chair / Faculty

Career Opportunities

Typical positions filled by recent accounting graduates fall in the areas of accounting, budget analysis, controlling, financial analysis, billing, public accounting, and management.

Graduates of the accounting program have been placed with many area firms, including Borg-Warner Automotive; Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little, and Mikelson; Cornell University; Cortland Memorial Hospital; Monarch Machine Tool Co.; Pall Trinity Micro Corporation; The CBORD Group, Inc.; Tompkins County; and Tompkins Trust Company.

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Transfer Options

Based on placement survey data over the past four years, 13 percent of accounting graduates have transferred to four-year institutions, primarily in accounting or business administration.

Recent graduates have continued their education at a four-year college or university. Transfer institutions include:

• Binghamton University
• Cornell University
• Ithaca College
• SUNY Oswego
• SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry
• SUNY Cortland

For specific transfer information, contact the counseling and career services office and the coordinator of transfer services.

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Program Requirements

Program requirements are detailed in the Degrees and Certificates (pdf, 1.6MB) section of the TC3 college catalog.

All sections of the current college catalog are available online.

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