<p>I was looking at minor in accounting, but it looks like it wouldn't help you sit for the CPA exam.</p>
<p>If the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) now recommend that all states require 150 college credit hours in order to sit for the CPA exam and you start the McIntire School in your third year, can you get enough credit hours to sit for the exam?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.vscpa.com/files/PDF/150_hour.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vscpa.com/files/PDF/150_hour.pdf</a>
you need 120 credits to graduate from uva. that pdf tell you about how many of the 150 required to sit for the exam need to be in accounting related things. it does not seem like a minor would get you there. mcintire is known for being a great comm school so i’m sure you’re not the only one who wants to take this test. there are proly great resources if you email them. but 150 credits is a whole extra year. it seems like you might need some graduate work or course overload.</p>
<p>It depends on how many credits you take each semester and if you are willing to go to summer school. The average amount of credits taken per semester is 15 or 16 credits. Without summer school, eight semesters (4 years) would bring you to a total of 120 or 128 credits. So let’s say you want to take more than 16 credits like 18. Without summer school, you would have accumulated 144 credits. If you take two 3-credit classes during the summers after first, second, and third years with a 16-credit semester workload, then you would have 128 credits from the regular semesters and 18 credits from the summer sessions, giving you a total of 146 credits. With a few semesters being harder than others, you could be taking more than 16 credits once and a while. </p>
<p>Of course, this is completely ignoring any AP, IB, or transfer credit you may have which could make achieving 150 credits a little easier.</p>
<p>Usually to sit for the CPA, you need to major in ACCT for undergrad and you have to have it as focus in masters program (masters of accounting, or MBA). I believe in NY you need like 21 hours undergrad and 15 hours graduate or something like that. Basically minoring in accounting is definitely enough. You need a minimum of 150 hours plus additional work in accounting before you take the CPA. I guess at UVA, you’d have to major in accounting and possibly get into the master of accounting program there.</p>