<p>I’m currently attending Indiana Tech for my bachelors in accounting. The school is non-aacsb accredited.</p>
<p>I’m going straight into getting my MBA when i’m done with my bachelors…I want to go to IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis), which is an aacsb accredited school. It’s said that IUPUI’s business program is the equivalent to Indiana business program, which is one of the best in the nation.</p>
<p>How hard would the transition be?</p>
<p>You might look into going to Ivy Tech Fort Wayne instead of Indiana Tech. You can take about thirty credits a year at Ivy Tech for less than $4,000 a year, and Indiana Tech is $20,000+. And IUPUI and Ivy Tech have a partnership to get Ivy Tech students into Kelley at IUPUI. </p>
<p>Here is a list of business classes IUPUI Kelley will accept from Ivy Tech. The list at the bottom has all the general education classes that IUPUI (and IU Bloomington) will accept.
[Ivy</a> Tech Passport Student: Transfer Students: Admissions: Undergraduate Programs: Kelley School of Business: IUPUI Indianapolis](<a href=“Admissions | Bachelor's Degree in Business | Kelley Indianapolis”>Admissions | Bachelor's Degree in Business | Kelley Indianapolis)</p>
<p>Kelley IUPUI is not rated anywhere near as high as Bloomington. But both IUPUI and IU will give tranfer credit for many, many Ivy Tech classes, probably almost the whole two years you take the classes.
[Pages</a> - Home](<a href=“http://www.transferin.net/Pages/Home.aspx]Pages”>http://www.transferin.net/Pages/Home.aspx)</p>
<p>Thanks for responding.</p>
<p>I already went to Ivy Tech and i’m at a point where i’m taking junior and senior classes right now. Ivy Tech only offers an associates. I’ll be done with my bachelors next year.</p>
<p>Indiana Tech and Ivy Tech have a transfer agreement so i’m hoping alot of my Indiana Tech classes will transfer to IUPUI for that reason.</p>
<p>I thought Kelley was Kelley…I didn’t know different campuses are rated different. Are they not all taught the same with the same books?</p>
<p>Looking at that link i’m nervous about the College Algebra and Calculus. I took College Algebra before and had to drop it. I’m not good at high level math…and i’m older than most students (32). It’s been a while since i’ve had any math courses that I did take. Indiana Tech doesn’t have those math requirements. But they do have high English requirements though…which actually makes more sense as an Accounting Major as accounting has nothing to do with Algebra it’s just basic math. Accouting has more to do with regulations and laws.</p>
<p>As much as I would like to be not just great or good…but just average at algebra type math…i’m not. I’m below average at algebra…and I really try at it. I love science, and most sciences require high level math…that’s why I never got into that.</p>
<p>The big problem with not going to an accredited program is really for accounting majors: you can only earn the required accounting credits to sit for the CPA exam at an accredited school.</p>
<p>That said, the earlier poster was definitely right about this:
“Kelley IUPUI is not rated anywhere near as high as Bloomington.”
Bloomington gets some high finance recruiters and people who know business schools all around the country have heard of it, and you simply can’t say either about IUPUI.</p>
<p>The school i’m at is not aacsb accredited but it is regionally accredited.</p>
<p>For Indiana the requirements are 150 semester credit hours and a bachelor’s degree: [Indiana</a> CPA exam requirements - Becker Review - Becker CPA Exam Review](<a href=“http://www.becker.com/accounting/cpaexamreview/indiana/index.cfm]Indiana”>http://www.becker.com/accounting/cpaexamreview/indiana/index.cfm)</p>
<p>I don’t know why there are so many questions about AACSB accreditation. It has been discussed adnauseum throughout the thread, “Everything you wanted to know or should know about accounting.”</p>
<p>There are three sets of accreditation. The first, and most important set, is the regional accreditation. I would NEVER, EVER recommend a school that isn’t regionally accredited. This is the only mandatory accreditation.</p>
<p>The second and third types of accreditation are by the AACSB. The first is for the overall business school. This is the most important of the two . The second one is for accounting programs in particular.</p>
<p>All AACSB accreditations are optional! As long as you have the regional accreditation, your credits will transfer and schools will accept you into graduate school. Thus, while the AACSB accreditation is nice to have, it isn’t mandatory. Did I say that enough times?</p>
<p>With the above said, however, if you attend an AACSB accredited school, I have found that other AACSB schools will make it easier for you to attend their graduate program. Here is a case in point.</p>
<p>My son graduated from Towson University with a degree in accounting with a 3.1 overall GPA. Towson is an AACSB accredited school. He applied for a graduate program in Financial Planning at Bentley University,which is also AACSB accredited. Frankly they thought his GPA and GMATs were a bit low for Bentley’s program;however, when the dean of admission found out that he attended an AACSB accredited school, everything changed. They were suddenly interested in him and provisionally admitted him pending achieving a certain GPA, which he did. Thus, attending an AACSB school as an undergrad, can make admission easier for another AACSB school for graduate work. However, they will accept you from an non-AACSB school. You would just need a higher GPA.</p>