<p>Does anyone happen to know which masters of accounting programs are specifically geared towards liberal arts majors? I know of UNC, but that's about it. What other programs are out there?</p>
<p>Two I’m aware of: </p>
<p>University of Michigan: You need four semesters of accounting.
Washtington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>USC and Boston College</p>
<p>Wash U in STL has an accounting masters program? Do you have a link to the requirements needed to apply by any chance/are you familiar with them?</p>
<p>[Admissions:</a> Master of Accounting](<a href=“http://www.olin.wustl.edu/academicprograms/MACC/Admissions/Pages/default.aspx]Admissions:”>http://www.olin.wustl.edu/academicprograms/MACC/Admissions/Pages/default.aspx)</p>
<p>I’m somewhat familiar with the program, mostly because many of their students came to my school to take classes that weren’t offered through WashU’s program. Some states have course requirements for the CPA exam that WashU does not offer. WashU is a great school overall, but not really known for having an outstanding accounting program. I looked elsewhere for grad school, even though I had many reasons I wanted to be in St Louis.</p>
<p>^Doesn’t the name carry a lot of weight though? I mean, if I told someone I was going to WUSTL for their Masters in Accounting, even here on the west coast, the average joe would give me a lot more credence than if I went to Texas A&M or even the University of Washington despite the fact that those 2 have top 10 or close to top 10 programs in accounting. WUSTL is a fairly prestigious undergraduate institute, so doesn’t this and the network offered from being affiliated with their institution offer advantages as a result despite not being “ranked” or does it really not matter?</p>
<p>I also noticed that UT-Austin has pretty light prereqs-only required accounting course is intro to financial accounting, along with intro micro, macroecon, and statistics</p>
<p>[Pre-enrollment</a> Requirements - MPA, Department of Accounting, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa/traditional/advising/prereqs.asp]Pre-enrollment”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa/traditional/advising/prereqs.asp)</p>
<p>I mean, if you’re into prestigious schools w/ a name that carries a lot of weight, there are ranked schools for accounting like that. Michigan, Notre Dame, USC, etc. The heaviest recruiting seemed to be out of a ranked state school, in my area.</p>
<p>This seems like a personal issue: do you want to go to a school like WUSTL where you can later brag about the kind of school you went to (which also happens to be the kind that isn’t great at accounting), or a highly ranked accounting program where you can brag about the kind of company you work for, your job offers, or the salary you can command and people will still respect your school, and those who actually know business programs will respect it more. Personally, the second choice seems much more appealing.</p>
<p>If you really want to do a liberal arts program, you might as well go to the best overall school you can get into and go to an MPA program for a couple semesters somewhere that the big4 likes after you finish. If you really know you ultimately want to work in accounting, then you might as well get the solid background of a full 5-year accounting program at a school with better placement for accounting.</p>