Accounting at Mount Mercy University

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

Mount Mercy is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,835. Of the 199 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Mercy University in 2019, 6 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.

Mount Mercy Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Mount Mercy Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Mount Mercy compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Mount Mercy 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	326
Best Accounting Schools	376
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	898
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	944
Most Popular Accounting Schools	1,196
Most Focused Accounting Schools	1,217

Accounting Student Demographics at Mount Mercy

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

Mount Mercy Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 accounting students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2018-2019 from Mount Mercy, about 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at Mount Mercy since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Mount Mercy 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 Mount Mercy University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Mount Mercy 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 IA, the home state for Mount Mercy University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Accountants and Auditors	9,600	$67,030
Financial Examiners	1,310	$65,410
Credit Analysts	1,140	$68,680
Business Professors	1,110	$114,450
Budget Analysts	270	$75,100

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.