AACSB Accreditation

[new-student]

<p>Could someone explain the benefit of attending a school that has the additional accounting accreditation?</p>

<p>Some schools only have the AACSB business accreditation, while others have the additional accounting accreditation. What’s the difference?</p>

[a_mom]

<p>One of the difference you might care the most is Standard 33 “Accounting Student Placement”, which doesn’t apply to business accreditation.

Standard 33</p>

<p>Each accounting program demonstrates its success in the following areas with regard to the particular market(s) the program serves:</p>

<pre><code>Placement of students within three months of graduation
Career success of graduates at an appropriate later time (e.g., 5 or 10 years)
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<p>[ACCOUNTING STUDENT PLACEMENT—Related Business Standard: None]</p>

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<p>[AACSB</a> Accounting Accreditation Standards](<a href=“http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accounting/standards/participants/standard33.asp]AACSB”>http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accounting/standards/participants/standard33.asp)
[AACSB</a> Accounting Accreditation Standards](<a href=“http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accounting/standards/participants/]AACSB”>http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accounting/standards/participants/)</p>

<p>In order to maintain the accreditation, these program has to have a certain job placement rate of the job market that the program serves, either public accounting or corporation accounting, government etc.
However, this does NOT suggest that the non-accounting-accreditation programs don’t have good accounting job placement. Other program might just choose not to be accredited .</p>