Masters in Professional accounting?

happy1
Fri, 22 May 2015 00:43:20 +0000

If you are at the school now why don’t you make an appointment with someone at the program to discuss the program itself, recent placement rates, and how graduates do on the CPA exam. This is a pre-professional program and you would not be out of line to ask to meet and discuss these questions.

The programs I know of you would not have to take accounting courses before entering the program. If you get the chance to take one though it would not be a bad thing so you can get a sense for accounting before committing to an expensive program.

My S has a couple of friends who went through an intensive one year program at Rutgers and they did well. The one negative is that a lot of the Big 4 hiring gets is done through an internship program which undergraduate accounting students generally do the summer before they are ready to start full time work. Students in a one year program as won’t have a chance to do a summer internship – many one year programs have winter internships but firms don’t’ seem to take a ton of interns that time of year. Still depending on the program you could have a chance to wind up at a Big 4 or another solid firm.

Once again, I’d contact the person in change of the program and ask to meet.