Accounting at Mount Mercy University

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

Mount Mercy is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and approximately 1,705 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 9 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from Mount Mercy.

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

Mount Mercy Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Mount Mercy Accounting Rankings

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

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 Mount Mercy 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
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	798
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,180
Most Popular Accounting Schools	1,407

Earnings of Mount Mercy Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Mount Mercy is $50,444. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 9% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Mount Mercy

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Mount Mercy University.

Mount Mercy Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 56% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Mount Mercy since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Mount Mercy 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 Mount Mercy University with a bachelor's in accounting.

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

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

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• International Business
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• Hospitality 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 IA, the home state for Mount Mercy University.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.