San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has thirteen bookkeeping schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a bookkeeping program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Bookkeeping students from San Antonio schools who go on to become bookkeepers, bookkeeping clerks, accounting managers, accounting officers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 1,757,870 people working as bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $34,750. Also, Accountants and auditors make on average $67,430 per year and there are about 1,106,980 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 5,650 employed accountants and auditors earning an average salary of $59,450. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in this area earn $33,090/yr and there are 10,140 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 12.113 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, and 6.754/1000 are held by accountants and auditors.
Of the 13 bookkeeping schools in San Antonio, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-San Antonio Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,174/yr) for bookkeeping students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |