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Chapter 6 Graduate Program Requirements/Course Descriptions
College of Business

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

Mission Statement

The mission of the accounting programs in the Department of Accounting is to offer graduate and undergraduate accounting programs of high quality, which meet the needs for students for professional careers in the field. This mission includes providing a broad-based education and education in general business and accounting. The department is responsive to the needs of employers and other constituents of its programs. The department is also alert to the current issues in the local, regional, and national environment and plans and implements changes in the educational process to respond to those issues when needed. The faculty of the accounting program assist in accomplishing this mission through a planned integration of their teaching, intellectual, and service contribution

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The Master of Science in Accounting has been separately accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

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Five-Year (150-Hour) Professional Accounting Program

The Five-Year Professional Accounting Program is a 3/2 degree program. Undergraduate accounting majors should apply for admission to the program during the second semester of their junior year. Once admitted, these students would be allowed to take graduate courses while, technically, undergraduate students. In this program, the degree plan for the Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Accounting is combined with that of the Master of Science in Accounting (M.S.A.). The advantage of the program is that it allows accounting majors to spread the graduate courses required for the M.S.A. degree over the fourth and fifth years of the 150-hour program. Upon successful completion of the 150-hour program, students will be simultaneously awarded the B.B.A. in Accounting and the M.S. in Accounting degrees

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Admission Criteria: To be admitted to the Five-Year (150-Hour) Professional Accounting Program, students must meet the following criteria:

  1. be a declared accounting major
  2. have an overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.0, a GPA of 3.0 in accounting courses taken, and an acceptable score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
  3. have completed a minimum of 6 hours of upper-level undergraduate accounting courses including ACC 3023, Intermediate Financial Accounting I

In addition, the student must have completed at least 12 hours of upper-level undergraduate accounting courses by the end of the first semester following admission into the program.

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