Accounting at Augustana College

If you plan to study accounting, take a look at what Augustana College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Augustana is located in Rock Island, Illinois and approximately 2,389 students attend the school each year. Of the 241 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
	62
	64
	73
	127
	135
	183
	276
	377
	506
	770

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

Of the 50 accounting students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Augustana, about 66% were men and 34% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Augustana since its program graduates 20% 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

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
Business Professors	4,030	$107,910
Credit Analysts	3,330	$77,800
Financial Examiners	2,120	$102,690
Budget Analysts	1,450	$75,700

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.