<p>Ok so I don't know if I am just bad at researching colleges but, Ive been on this site for the past week now looking at schools with good accounting programs. A lot of people say SDSU,CSU Fullerton, and SJSU, now SDSU is a reach but the others school I'm pretty sure I can get into(talked to my counselor), but when i looked up these sites for the majors, only SDSU seems to have an accounting major, the rest only have Business Administration with an accounting concentration. </p>
<p>So what are the difference between those?</p>
<p>And it says fullerton is acreddited for accounting but it does not have an accounting major.</p>
<p>shown here:</p>
<p>Major & Minors</p>
<p>and SJSU is not accredited but i heard it has a good program but again, no accounting major.</p>
<p>shown here:</p>
<p>SJSU Catalog</p>
<p>if I'm wrong can you post like a link that says there is an accounting major for these schools, because I really want to know this information because I would like to get all the courses (150 credits) to sit for CPA exam.</p>
<p>sorry about reposting this but i was in the wrong category.</p>
<p>There is no real difference. I am at CSU-LB double majoring in MIS and Accounting…technically you can say “double concentrating” but it is the same exact thing as a double major. A lot of schools nationally do this if I am not mistaken.</p>
<p>I will be able to sit for the CPA exam just like the guy from UCB or UCSD.</p>
<p>On a side note it irks me a bit i got into fullerton but they didnt tell me i got until AFTER the deadline to accept the admission from Long Beach. Fullerton is one of only 5 (or 6?) schools with the designation for accounting in the state.</p>
<p>BTW there is no requirement for having a degree with the words accounting on it to sit for the CPA. You just need the 24 credit hours of accounting.</p>
<p>Monorojo notes,“BTW there is no requirement for having a degree with the words accounting on it to sit for the CPA. You just need the 24 credit hours of accounting.”</p>
<p>Response: This isn’t always true and may not even be true for the majority of the cases. For example, to sit for the CPA in florida, you need two legal courses and 36 credits in accounting/tax</p>
<p>Maryland only requires 24 credits,but there are other requirements such as ethics, certain economic courses etc. You REALLY need to check with the applicable State Board of Accountancy in the state where you will be taking the exam.</p>
<p>taxguy I was operating under the assumption that the TC was targeting California specifically. Since all the schools he listed were in Cali. The California CPA requirements get kind of crazy in 2014 and I am honestly a bit confused by them. Maybe you can clarify?</p>
<p>Monorojo, thanks for the link. Yes, it is as I said. Right now, in addition to the 24 credits of accounting you need 20 credits of business related courses and 10 credits of ethics/philosophy. This number of business related courses is going up starting Jan 2014 to 24 credits. It appears that they are dropping the ethics requirements starting in 2014 ,but this isn’t clear. You would need to call the State Board of Accountancy for the details. However, I knew that California required more than just 24 credits of accounting courses to be eligible for the CPA exam.</p>
<p>Simply speaking, for the new 2014 CA requirement, you need -
30 semester accounting
38 semester business (anything beyond 30 accounting can go to business)
10 semester ethics (title as listed on that tip sheet)</p>
<p>And to answer OP’s original question, for practical purpose, a busi Admin w/ concentration in acct is equivalent to an acct major. But technically, an acct major tends to require more acct unit to graduate. Busi Admin w/ acct might require less acct units, but it doesn’t stop the students to take more acct units as electives (as long as the department offers them) to meet the CPA requirement.</p>
<p>"But technically, an acct major tends to require more acct unit to graduate. Busi Admin w/ acct might require less acct units, but it doesn’t stop the students to take more acct units as electives (as long as the department offers them) to meet the CPA requirement. "</p>
<p>Is that true? I’m not sure. I feel like my BBA accounting program was very similar (in the accounting courses required) to other schools which were just an Accounting. </p>
<p>I would think that maybe a BBA requires additional coursework in business subjects beyond accounting.
While with just an Accounting degree, the school may have more flexibility to offer and students have more flexibility to take whatever it is they wish as electives (not necessarily accounting or business topics).</p>
<p>^ I compared a few program in Calif, pulled out the degree requirement from different schools and counted the acct units REQUIRED to graduate, not the courses that the department offers.<br>
I could be wrong. So I probably should stated it was my observation in my previous post.</p>
Isn’t this the same thing? Given a typical degree require roughly 120 semester units to graduate, if a BBA major require more course work in business subject (excluding acct), it would require less “pure” acct course work than an ACCT major.</p>
<p>DD is an acct major, not BBA. I just looked up her school requirement
10 quarter lower acct, 35 quarter upper acct. This is totaling 45 quarter (equiv. 30 semester) acct units REQUIRED in order to graduate. And this is not include the accounting elective (another 24 quarter units) that students could take, of course not required.</p>
<p>"Isn’t this the same thing? Giving a typical degree require roughly 120 semester units to graduate. If a BBA require more course work in business subject (excluding acct), it would require less “pure” acct course work than an ACCT major? "</p>
<p>Not necessarily. 120 credits is alot of classes - the accounting credits required for a BBA-Accounting or an Accounting degree could be equal, but then have different (non-accounting) requirements on top of them. the 120 isn’t comprised solely of business and accoutning classes. </p>
<p>But you might be right, I really have no idea. I’d imagine that a BBA in accounting would have more writing required and a BS in accounting would have more math, but who knows. Additionally, individual schools probably add there own requirements to the degrees they hand out - so it may vary by school. On top of that, there may be a BA in accounting and who knows how many other accounting degrees out there. </p>
<p>To the OP: This doesn’t really concern you - makes no difference to the outside world.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with you 120 credits include a lot of classes, busi/acct are only parts of it. As I listed in my post #13, even DD’s acct major, only 45 units are required out of 180 total units (quarter). </p>
<p>And I totally agree with you, this ACCT vs BBA "makes no difference to the outside world. " As a fact, I stated in my post #8, “for practical purpose, a busi Admin w/ concentration in acct is equivalent to an acct major” at the first place. The only difference, from my observation, is ACCT major is “forced” to take a few more acct units. But BBA major can achieve the same acct units voluntarily by using elective.</p>