<p>I am in a five-year integrated accounting program where I will receive my master's and bachelor's degree in Accounting upon graduation (I take a mix of graduate-level classes during my fourth year and fifth year). This program is consistently ranked one of the highest Accounting programs in the nation.</p>
<p>My University recommends that I should split up my GPA to display my undergraduate GPA and graduate GPA rather than just showing my Overall GPA. What would looking more appealing to Big 4 employers?</p>
<p>I have a 3.5 undergraduate GPA and a 3.3 graduate GPA. My Overall GPA is a 3.4.</p>
<p>I know most Big 4 firms will have a minimum GPA of 3.0. What I am more concerned with is there "preferred" GPA, which could be a '3.4' or '3.5' and depending on my situation, I could get screwed depending on how I display my GPAs on my resume. In my situation, I do not know if employers would look at just my undergraduate GPA, both undergrad and grad GPA, or Overall GPA.</p>
<p>I have pretty good 'accounting/auditing' experience if that is in any way a factor. How do you think I should display my GPA on my resume?</p>
<p>My dh is a partner for one of the big 4 firms for the past 16 years just answered the question…he said they prefer more information and suggests that you give both GPA’s. He does a lot of college recruiting and said that the lack of information is sometimes purposely omitted for fear of negative reaction to a low GPA. He said they will always ask about the GPA so include it.</p>
<p>are you in grad school? I don’t think you can combine undergrad and graduate GPAs… does your school calculate them together?</p>
<p>If you have a 3.5 undergrad, and a 3.3 graduate, your “cumulative” GPA is only 3.4 if you have the same number of undergraduate credits and graduate credits. But again, I don’t think I have ever seen someone combine undergraduate and graduate GPAs.</p>
<p>That is a very wierd program. So you’ll be working on 2 degrees simultaneously?
I think it would be okay to show your cumulative in that case. Your resume would look like:</p>
<p>XXX University, City, State<br>
Masters of Accounting
BA in Accounting
Cumulative GPA 3.4
Expected graduation date with CPA exam eligibility: June 2012</p>
<p>I think that looks fine, if you want to separate them, just put a dash after each degree & your separate GPAs. But you’d probably be better off just keeping the cumulative, especially if you’ve only really taken a few grad classes so far.</p>
<p>Display them both separately if you have completed both programs. </p>
<p>Undergrad 3.5</p>
<p>Graduate 3.3</p>
<p>If you are still in pursuit of the Masters Degree, don’t put anything down for GPA.
These employers aren’t going to stress about a .2 GPA difference and most firms don’t give a #### about your graduate GPA, just as long as you have a degree. Most Big 4 firms would typically look for either an MS in Accounting or an MS in Tax, but in reality they just want you to be 150 Credit Eligible, and the Masters is secondary. You could get an MS in Finance and they would have no problem, as long as you plan on sitting for the CPA Exam.</p>