Accounting at Lake Erie College

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

LEC is located in Painesville, Ohio and approximately 1,160 students attend the school each year. Of the 56 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lake Erie College in 2019, 9 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.

LEC Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

LEC Accounting Rankings

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

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 LEC 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
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	283
Most Focused Accounting Schools	473
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	808
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	854
Best Accounting Schools	1,051
Most Popular Accounting Schools	1,072

Accounting Student Demographics at LEC

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

LEC Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 9 accounting majors earned their bachelor's degree from LEC. Of these graduates, 56% were men and 44% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at LEC since its program graduates 10% more men than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at LEC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its accounting bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

LEC 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 OH, the home state for Lake Erie College.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Accountants and Auditors	45,670	$72,370
Business Professors	3,900	$108,400
Credit Analysts	2,980	$77,510
Financial Examiners	2,630	$78,540
Tax Examiners, Collectors, and Revenue Agents	1,340	$66,440

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 User:Dkocan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.