Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has six forensic accounting schools within its city limits. University of Louisville, the highest ranked school in the city with a forensic accounting program, has a total student population of 21,016. It is the 1677th highest ranked school in the USA and the 14th highest in the state of Kentucky (#1 is Centre College). To learn more about forensic accounting programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of forensic accounting professors at University of Louisville such as Alan Attaway, Kathryn Blandford, Lisa Blum, Christy Burge, Richard Coppage, and Archie Faircloth.
Forensic Accounting students from Louisville schools who go on to become forensic accountants, forensics specialists, crime scene forensics specialists, computer forensics specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 1,106,980 people working as accountants and auditors alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $67,430. Also, Bill and account collectors make on average $32,560 per year and there are about 403,100 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area alone, there are 1,710 employed bill and account collectors earning an average salary of $29,860. Accountants and auditors in this area earn $58,880/yr and there are 4,620 employed.
Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 7.772 out of every 1000 jobs in Louisville are held by accountants and auditors, and 2.887/1000 are held by bill and account collectors.
Of the 6 forensic accounting schools in Louisville, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Louisville Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,363/yr) for forensic accounting students, with Jefferson Community and Technical College as the lowest, reported at only $8,103/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Louisville |
| Jeffersonville | IN | - | 3 | 16.878 | 5 | 4.0 miles |
| New Albany | IN | - | 1 | 50.4945 | 53 | 6.4 miles |
| Hanover | IN | - | 1 | 62.3933 | 55 | 37.1 miles |
| Saint Catharine | KY | - | 1 | 13.7868 | 38 | 44.1 miles |
| Frankfort | KY | - | 1 | 45.3097 | 44 | 47.1 miles |
| Lexington | KY | 279,146 | 12 | 25.7509 | 248 | 70.7 miles |
| Florence | KY | - | 8 | 23.3148 | 213 | 80.8 miles |
| Crestview Hills | KY | - | 1 | 24.073 | 65 | 83.8 miles |
| Covington | KY | 43,469 | 3 | 25.6472 | 61 | 87.4 miles |
| Oakland City | IN | - | 1 | 58.4328 | 69 | 87.5 miles |
| Cincinnati | OH | 332,807 | 36 | 23.3732 | 744 | 92.0 miles |
| Bowling Green | KY | 56,941 | 5 | 29.5084 | 365 | 94.6 miles |
| Greenwood | IN | 50,562 | 2 | 33.0452 | 104 | 98.9 miles |
| Evansville | IN | 115,666 | 5 | 36.7615 | 255 | 99.4 miles |
| Somerset | KY | - | 1 | 14.9987 | 47 | 99.8 miles |