Accounting at Augustana College

What traits are you looking for in a accounting school? To help you decide if Augustana College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's accounting program.

Augustana is located in Rock Island, Illinois and approximately 2,389 students attend the school each year. Of the 914 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in 2021, 50 of them were accounting majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Accounting section at the bottom of this page.

Augustana Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Augustana Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Augustana compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Augustana is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Accounting. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	64
Most Popular Accounting Schools	508
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	537
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,009

Earnings of Augustana Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Augustana is $54,498. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 18% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Augustana

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Augustana College.

Augustana Accounting Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 50 students earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Augustana. About 34% of these graduates were women and the other 66% were men. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Augustana since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 66% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Augustana are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Augustana College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	33
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Augustana also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• International Business
• Marketing
• Finance & Financial Management
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Accounting Grads May Go Into

A degree in accounting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Augustana College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Accountants and Auditors	53,280	$81,060
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	50,800	$42,520
Financial Managers	40,040	$144,680
Financial Analysts	14,810	$88,760
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	4,240	$49,000

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Smallbones under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.