<p>Lets say an engineering major is halfway through his degree. How would he change his career path from engineering to accounting? Start taking accounting elective courses at his college and then apply for a MAcc, once finishing the bachelors degree?</p>
<p>Yes, that is the best way to go. Start prepping for that GMAT in your spare time too.</p>
<p>You need a strong GPA.</p>
<p>Why are you changing from Engineering to Accounting? Unless you’re finding accounting more interesting, or think engineering is too difficult, engineering is the way to go - at least for undergrad. </p>
<p>Also, you can do an MBA in Accounting.</p>
<p>SalvationArmani, why did you capitalize both of them in the first sentence, and then do them both lower case in the next sentence? These are not proper nouns, ever.</p>
<p>Salvation, that is exactly why he’s DOING engineering undergrad. Why would he do a worthless no ranked MBA accounting program straight out of college?</p>
<p>Yeah, I messed up the capitalization. Happens once in a while with my posts.</p>
<p>Dawgie - He hasn’t really explained why he’s switching into accounting in his OP - still unclear if its the salary/job prospects or interest. Engineers do afterall command a higher starting salary than accountants do. I am not saying he would have to apply for an MBA in accounting straight away. He can always get there after a few years of engineering related work experience. Depending on one’s career goals, that may be the better path to take.</p>
<p>I’m actually going to be a college freshman this fall as a computer science major. But my school has CS in the engineering department, which is kind of strange since CS isn’t really engineering. I’m really stuck between two quantitative majors (accounting and cs/engineering) and I was just wondering how I would be able to switch computer science to accounting in case I didn’t like CS. </p>
<p>What is the difference between an MBA in accounting and a MAcc? How can someone become a good accountant if his undergrad is non-accounting but has an accounting MBA? and it doesn’t even seem like you can sit in for the CPA in that route (the MBA route). </p>
<p>thank you for the reponses</p>
<p>Considering that you just said the word “quantitative” and you split hairs between CS and engineering, I am 99% sure that you belong in CS. Especially since accounting isn’t quantitative, especially compared to minoring in math or physics.</p>
<p>What really would have been a dead giveaway, though, is if you capitalized the word “quantitative”.</p>
<p>how is accounting not quantitative?</p>
<p>It’s just not.</p>
<p>what…? You use numbers, make calculations, etc. and everything about accounting is numbers. How is it not quantitative?</p>
<p>The math in accounting is mostly addition and subtraction. Computers do all of that for you. The accountants job is more about judgment and whatnot. Even middle school dropouts could do the math in accounting classes.</p>
<p>There’s so little math in accounting, it’s not even funny.</p>
<p>you basically need to make sure you have the correct classes and credits to sit for the CPA exam. Most decent accountants these days have a BA in accounting. The main thing that will set you out from the rest is the CPA.</p>
<p>For what it is worth, I started out as a physics major. After two full years, I realized that physics wasn’t for me. I then transferred to a school that had an accounting program and finished it in three years. You could do as I have done or get a masters.</p>
<p>I await whistleblower’s reply.</p>
<p>^here’s the general gist of his response, Dawgie:</p>
<p>“Well, it looks like you didn’t capitalize either engineering or accounting, so this is going to be a tough decision to make (since neither of the two are proper nouns and there’s no subliminal messaging in your post). However, taxguy majored in accounting and minored in economics, physics, and mathematics and the politics of ancient mesopotamian religious philosophy. His sons aren’t even at the Big 4 and are doing well, so I recommend you follow in their footsteps.”</p>
<p>I know MAcc is one year program. How long are masters in accounting programs usually? In fact how long are MBAs in general?</p>
<p>^are you serious?</p>
<p>Let me help you out:</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+long+does+it+take+to+complete+a+masters+in+accounting]Let”>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+long+does+it+take+to+complete+a+masters+in+accounting)</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+long+does+it+take+to+complete+an+MBA]Let”>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+long+does+it+take+to+complete+an+MBA)</p>