Accounting at Wisconsin Lutheran College

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

WLC is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has a total student population of 1,248. Of the 83 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wisconsin Lutheran College in 2019, 10 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.

WLC Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

WLC Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at WLC 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 WLC 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	270
Best Accounting Schools	312
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	315
Most Focused Accounting Schools	521
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	783
Most Popular Accounting Schools	1,031

Accounting Student Demographics at WLC

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

WLC Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 30% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at WLC since its program graduates 24% more men than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at WLC 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 Wisconsin Lutheran College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

WLC 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 WI, the home state for Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Accountants and Auditors	22,610	$68,410
Credit Analysts	1,820	$70,550
Financial Examiners	1,360	$76,680
Business Professors	1,210	$104,290
Budget Analysts	870	$72,380

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 txnetstars under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.