<p>I live in PA and am looking at local schools to go for accounting. One of them "Bloomsburg University" offers a specialization in forensic accounting, and it says it was the first in the nation to have that specialization nationally accredditted, or something like that.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am pretty sure I want forensic accounting. Does getting a specialization actually help when getting a job or is it just a marketing scheme the school is using? Like for example its my understanding most forensic jobs are with the government (FBI, CIA, IRS, local and state police departments) is the government going to take about the specialization? What about private employers?</p>
<p>And most importantly if you read at the bottom of the link about the program, does it seem like it would actually give me a head-start (in learning the ropes of the speciality) if thats what I want to specialize in? </p>
<p>Or would I just be better off going to a better business school in my region like kings college? (which has a higher concentration of business students, tuition is more so you would expect quality to go up, and the SAT scores, and GPA are much higher, and they seem to have more students persue graduate studies.</p>
<p>Forensics is not exclusive to government. Big 4 has a whole division for forensics. You are better off going to a top business school, as the specialization won’t mean crap. Don’t worry about tuition if the school holds a signficantly better reputation. Trust me it matters, as superficial as it sounds.</p>
<p>That’s a lot of effort to not practice law. </p>
<p>I was looking at a website a few months ago devoted to tax lawyers, and it was FILLED with newly minted LLM’s(nearly all in a combo JD/LLM in Tax program of some kind) crying about how big four recruiters were ignoring them but actually trying to recruit people with just BBA’s in Accounting. So I don’t know if there’s a glut of tax lawyers out there or if in the present environment they’re gunshy about hiring lawyers(who will demand more money sooner or later). </p>
<p>Anyway, while I’m certainly no expert, if you aren’t going to actually be a lawyer, spending 3+ years to get an expensive degree you don’t want to fully use seems a little crazy.</p>
<p>^I concur with the post above. Check out taxtalent.com if you want to learn more about tax accounting, tax law, etc. I too have read that a lot of tax attorneys are becoming disgruntled because they can’t find many jobs. The other thing you’ll have to consider is that you generally have to go to a Top 14 law school, and even there, you have to do very well at said law school to get the really good jobs, which isn’t easy.</p>