The accounting degree provides excellent preparation for entry into the business world. Critical. Thinking skills developed lead to a wide variety of employment opportunities.  Our students who choose to take the CPA Exam pass at a rate higher than the national average.  For those students not wishing to pursue public accounting, the employment opportunities that exist include, but are   not limited to: Internal Audit, Corporate Accounting (including Cost Accounting), Governmental Organizations (including cities and towns and the IRS and FBI), Nonprofit Accounting; roles in a wide variety of functional areas in organizations.  Many of our students go on to graduate school for a Master of Science in Accounting, Taxation or a Master of Business Administration.

Requirements for the Accounting major:  Principles of Microeconomics (EC141), Business Statistics (BU121), Financial and Cost Accounting (AC111), Financial Management (FI261), Auditing (AC313) and Business Law (BU321).