Accounting at Wartburg College

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

Wartburg is located in Waverly, Iowa and approximately 1,563 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Wartburg.

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

Wartburg Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Wartburg Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Wartburg 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 Wartburg 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	91
Best Accounting Schools	113
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	118
	122
	199
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	609

Earnings of Wartburg Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Wartburg is $55,999. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 21% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Wartburg

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

Wartburg Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from Wartburg. About 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Wartburg since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Wartburg 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 Wartburg College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	11
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Wartburg 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
• General Business/Commerce

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 Wartburg 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 Me under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.