Accounting at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and has a total student population of 52,679. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 385 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from UIUC.

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

UIUC Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

UIUC Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at UIUC 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 UIUC 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
	6
	9
	13
	19
	184
	472

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in accounting from UIUC. This is the #473 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Accounting Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at UIUC awarded 385 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 54% of these degrees went to men with the other 46% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	76
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	38
White	155
International Students	101
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

UIUC 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.