Accounting at Lakeland University

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

Lakeland is located in Plymouth, Wisconsin and has a total student population of 2,753. Of the 310 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lakeland University in 2021, 107 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.

Lakeland Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Online Classes Are Available at Lakeland

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Lakeland offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Lakeland Accounting Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Lakeland 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
	1
	17
	18
	34
	118
	183
	228
	234
	305
	380
	461
	805

Earnings of Lakeland Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Lakeland is $48,541. This is 5% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Lakeland

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

Lakeland Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 107 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Lakeland in 2020-2021, 22% were men and 78% were women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Lakeland 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 Lakeland University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	83
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Concentrations Within Accounting

Accounting majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Lakeland University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	107

Related Majors

• Hospitality Management
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing
• Business Administration & 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 WI, the home state for Lakeland University.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	37,260	$37,910
Accountants and Auditors	22,610	$68,410
Financial Managers	7,420	$134,850
Financial Analysts	4,190	$81,000
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	2,410	$44,590

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 self under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.