<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am about to apply for MACC as an international student. I have some queries which i hope someone will be able to answer.</p>
<p>1- Should I target Top ranked schools or second-third tier accredited schools will be good enough to land me interviews at firms and corporations?</p>
<p>2- Job outlook and acceptability of International student after MACC and CPA?</p>
<p>I have more questions to ask but they depend on answers to above ones.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>If you go to a top school, your chances of getting an interview at the big 4 (which are the best places to start your career as an accountant) are higher, but you’ll probably get interviewed by local firms at any decent university.</p>
<p>*** “best place to start your career” is subjective ***</p>
<p>Pretty damn good place to start your career though.</p>
<p>^^^ Yes, indeed.</p>
<p>Thanks people for your replies.</p>
<p>I am asking this because, at second and third tier schools , do regional and local firms offer jobs to international students?</p>
<p>I think that at top schools international students have better opportunities at job hunting and they have better career service and more connections?</p>
<p>any thoughts suggestions???</p>
<p>Yes, top schools will generally have better career services and connections.</p>
<p>Also, my earlier comment about the big 4 being the best place to start your accounting career was taken from BusinessWeek, which ranked the big 4 as first through fourth best company to start your career with, so it may be subjective, but the experts agree.</p>
<p>The question has not been answered so I am bumping this thread.</p>
<p>“Do regional and local firms offer jobs to international students?”</p>
<p>I don’t think they do because then they have to deal with alot of paper work and they will have a fat piece of paper saying they must pay $XXXXXXXXX. (Green Card or something)</p>
<p>They do, I know someone that is doing it now.</p>
<p>@ precision</p>
<p>work visa, i think, cost around $2k and i read somewhere last week that this year work visa quota is still not reached in contrast to last few years when it used to take 30 -40 days to fill.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>I will be around 28 yrs (MAcc will take around 2yrs) , when done with MAcc. Do age will be a negative point specially when i am an international student?</p>
<p>I am looking into Uni of Georgia and Uni of Florida accounting Programs, anyone having any idea about these programs and international student acceptance into these programs?</p>
<p>Thakyou.</p>
<p>What is this MAcc that everyone is talking about?</p>
<p>A secret weapon.</p>
<p>
Of course it’s not reached. Why should it?
Fake gov’t unemployment rate is at 10+% (real, U6, is probably around 20%).
There are lots of qualified unemployed people and every year universities graduate thousands of accountants. Why should we hire non-citizens when there are plenty of unemployed Americans?</p>
<p>@ rheidzan</p>
<p>man my reply was to "I don’t think they do because then they have to deal with alot of paper work and they will have a fat piece of paper saying they must pay $XXXXXXXXX. (Green Card or something) "
and work visa quota was used to mostly filled by consulting and large finance corps, now most of them are out of business or is handicapped by the restrictions in recent legislation stimulus bill.</p>
<p>anyways this recession will soon be over. </p>
<p>My brother is in US and he told me to come to US thats why i was asking about job prospects after MS.</p>