<p>Does anyone know/recommend of any good colleges for majoring in Accounting? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>University of Illinois</p>
<p>how competitive? what part of the country? how big/small?</p>
<p>There are many good ones. University of Texes, University of Illinios, Baruch College, which is part of CUNY. University of Chicago is very good but only for grad school.</p>
<p>To be honest most schools that have accounting programs will be very similar because the curriculum is very structured and pretty well mandated by the State Boards of Accountancy. Thus, other than a few electives, the curriculum will be the same from school to school</p>
<p>…You are probably thinking," if most accounting school are pretty much very similar, what then makes the best ones stand out, say other than prestige?"</p>
<p>Response: I am not sure that any one of them stands out. I attended the City of University of NY (Baruch) college and majored in accounting. I had all the job offers ( back then) that I could handle. Admittedly, I had very good grades.</p>
<p>I think if you attend any accounting program and get top grades, you can get almost any position that you want. If you want presigious schools, I have already noted the better ranked ones.However, as I said, it won’t make a difference if you get good grades. You local state university would be just as good and probably 1/3rd the price.</p>
<p>Most top business schools might be more prestigious. However, you really need to check out the curriculum of the business school because not all of them have accounting as a major. For example, Carnnegie Mellon has a very strong business program, but it doesn’t have a program in accounting.</p>
<p>Other very strong, programs would be University of Maryland, Syracuse University, and Wash U St. Louis…Also check out Claremont McKinna, which is part of the Claremont schools, which has a strong accounting/economics program.</p>
<p>Hope this all helps</p>
<p>what about schools on the west coast?</p>
<p>University of Texas at Austin and try to get into the PPA program</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill has a great business program, which includes a focus on accounting.</p>
<p>ILLINOIS!</p>
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<p>west coast!</p>
<p>Illinois is stupid that they focus so much on accounting. But there you go, at least you will have a good acounting school for all those accountants. The other most notable public school would be UT Austin</p>
<p>Bentley College is also Top 20 for accounting.</p>
<p>i wanna go 2 illinois 4 acctg. so bad it hurts</p>