Accounting at Edgewood College

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

Edgewood is located in Madison, Wisconsin and approximately 2,007 students attend the school each year. Of the 87 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Edgewood College in 2021, 5 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.

Edgewood Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Master’s Degree in Accounting

Edgewood Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Edgewood 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 Edgewood 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
	170
	192
	213
	289
	345
	415
	415
	427
	510
	528
	584
	806
	898
	898
	947

In 2021, 5 students received their master’s degree in accounting from Edgewood. This makes it the #416 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Accounting Student Demographics at Edgewood

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

Edgewood Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at Edgewood awarded 5 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 80% of these degrees went to men with the other 20% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Edgewood since its program graduates 34% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Edgewood Accounting Master’s Program

Of the 5 accounting students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Edgewood, about 40% were men and 60% were women.

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

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

Edgewood 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 WI, the home state for Edgewood College.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Accountants and Auditors	22,610	$68,410
Credit Analysts	1,820	$70,550
Financial Examiners	1,360	$76,680
Business Professors	1,210	$104,290
Budget Analysts	870	$72,380

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.