Accounting at Loras College

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at Loras College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Loras is located in Dubuque, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,404. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Loras.

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

Loras Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Loras Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Loras performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Loras 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	357
Best Accounting Schools	446
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	479
	650
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	798
	921
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,111

Earnings of Loras Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Loras is $42,323. This is less than $46,292, which is the national average of all accounting majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Accounting Student Demographics at Loras

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

Loras Accounting Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Loras. About 22% of these graduates were women and the other 78% were men. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Loras since its program graduates 36% more men than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Loras 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 Loras College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce
• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing

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 IA, the home state for Loras College.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	19,780	$38,900
Accountants and Auditors	9,600	$67,030
Financial Managers	8,630	$114,620
Financial Analysts	2,410	$83,230
Financial Examiners	1,310	$65,410

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 Bahua at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.