Mba cpa llm phd ***?

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<p>The acronym-centric world of business and law has left me confused.</p>

<p>I am currantly an accounting major/finance minor and I am looking to create a roadmap for my future. Initially I wanted to get a MS in Taxation and possibly go to law school. When I started looking at tax programs, I decided I needed to know the real differences between an MBA and an MS. Then I wanted to know the differences between a JD and an LLM. Then I wanted to know if a PhD is worth it and then after I gave the mouse a cookie he wanted an Advil for the headache he got from all the vauge explainations.</p>

<p>tl;dr</p>

<p>I am trying to decide which pretty pieces of parchment would look nicest on my office wall.</p>

<p>My current plan looks like this:</p>

<ol>
<li>BS Accounting - Nevada</li>
<li>MS Taxation - Golden Gate</li>
<li>JD - Santa Clara</li>
<li>???</li>
<li>PROFIT!</li>
</ol>

<p>Advice, comments, death threats, they are all welcome.</p>

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<p>Do a PhD if you want to live the life of an academic and do research. Unless it’s like a math PhD from MIT or something in which case maybe you can get a job on Wall Street.</p>

<p>A JD from a non-top 14 school is really iffy in terms of employment, but still extremely expensive. So adding 150k of debt and losing out on 3 years of work means that JD from Santa Clara makes no sense.</p>