Business Major Questions (Accounting concentration)

XFER14
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:42:39 +0000

I might have been a little confused about the work experience requirement when I wrote my post last night, I’ll double check that. The representative from the sister campus did confirm that the accreditation will come from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), so that should help put things into perspective.

For more perspective, we are in the Hawaii—far from New York or where major firms are (as far as I know). The University of Hawaii at Manoa (flagship) and University of Hawaii West Oahu (sister campus) are the two colleges we’re comparing. D has not looked into other schools mainly because of no interest in leaving the state.

We’re not familiar with any well-known accounting firms around here but we’ll do some more research on the positions that attract her most, and the type of environment she’s looking for. We’re also working on obtaining more information, but it seems as if both colleges can’t tell us where majority of their graduates go (is it usual for state schools to not know?). We do understand the concern about social growth if she pursues online courses and will take that into account.

Overall, D doesn’t seem to plan to move out of state to work. A lot of the information here seems to have the “elite” firms in mind, in which case the ASSCB accreditation will do her better. But the fact that she plans to stay in Hawaii – where little to no firms of the like are here, and presumably less competition (?) from graduates of the top schools on the mainland – she still wonders if the sister campus will give her equal opportunities. This is where she’s at right now, and I don’t know what to say to her.