Accounting at Illinois Wesleyan University

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

Illinois Wesleyan is located in Bloomington, Illinois and approximately 1,693 students attend the school each year. Of the 126 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2019, 49 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.

Illinois Wesleyan Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Illinois Wesleyan Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Illinois Wesleyan 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 Illinois Wesleyan 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	7
Best Accounting Schools	10
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	11
Most Focused Accounting Schools	26
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	313
Most Popular Accounting Schools	430

Accounting Student Demographics at Illinois Wesleyan

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

Illinois Wesleyan Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at Illinois Wesleyan awarded 49 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 61% of these degrees went to men with the other 39% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Illinois Wesleyan since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Illinois Wesleyan 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 Illinois Wesleyan University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	36
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Illinois Wesleyan also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2019, 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 Illinois Wesleyan University.

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 Republicofjosh01 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.