<p>what are some big accounting firms that recruit from uci and ucsb? i don’t know anything about any of the firms so maybe if someone could let me know which firms are really well known. i briefly looked at the list of employers for uci at oci and KPMG appears to be the only accounting/audit company that recruits from irvine. what about sb? what companies recruit from sb? are they better/more well known than kpmg?</p>
<p>the big four do recruit here at UCSB. this includes</p>
<p>deloitte, price waterhouse coopers, KPMG, ernst and young</p>
<p>my father was a partner at deloitte in the orange county and los angeles offices, and he said that they recruited many of their future accountants at ucsb. i would imagine the same would be for uci as well, but he seemed to mention ucsb a lot. after he retired, he taught in the mba program at uci, and i remember they had a conference room named after deloitte & touche (the name of deloitte at the time), likely because deloitte gave some sort of funds to uci. so im sure either school would be a good choice.</p>
<p>I think you would do fine at either school. While UCI might not have as many recruiters at this point, it makes up for it in its proximity to the accounting firms in the Irvine/Costa Mesa area. </p>
<p>If you do pick UCI, I would pop in the MBA program office. They shot up in the rankings recently (up 11 spots to #38) and might have some advice for you.</p>
<p>thanks everyone! :)</p>
<p>I will be majoring in Economics at UCSD. How will this look to accounting firms?</p>
<p>ucsd's econ is in the top ten or eleven programs in the county (us news graduate econ ranking). im sure this will look very very good. a ucsd degree always looks good, but especially in econ.</p>
<p>Great! Thanks</p>
<p>Accounting firms won't be interested in you because your major is Economics. You need to have an accounting emphasis. In other words, you have to be qualified to take the CPA exam.</p>
<p>agree with UCSBstud949.
this might give more insightful info.</p>
<p>do all uc's offer accounting though? for some reason i thought only specific ones offered accounting, like only ucr and uc berkeley offer business. i could be wrong however. if accounting and business werent offered, i would think econ with an emphasis on accounting related or relevent areas and classes would be ok, especially from a highly regarded school such as ucsd if it prepped you for the cpa exam.</p>
<p>so, all I have to do is minor in accounting.</p>
<p>i just went on ucsd's main site and their econ site. ucsd does not offer accounting as a major or minor. but the econ department has numerous classes involving accounting. i would imagine that would be your best bet, but again, i am not an expert regarding accounting or accouting firms, my father just happened to be a partner for deloitte, so i just go off things i have overheard from him over the years. anyways, best of luck!</p>
<p>agreed with all the above statements. Accounting firms require you to have some type of accounting background, preferably up to an intermediate level, just to get an internship. My good friend is the Director of the UCI Career Center and we are relieved that the accounting minor is growing at a fast pace. They are modifying the minor to include more students in the program so that they can be qualified to receive consideration from the big four earlier in their college careers.</p>
<p>The accounting minor is extremely competitive at UCI. The average GPA to get in was a 3.64. However, it's not just the GPA of course. They consider the entire candidate.</p>
<p>Well I'm already taking accounting at my local city college, and I of course plan on taking more accounting at UCSD. So I think I'll be ok, right?</p>