MBA in professional accounting or BS in accounting

College Majors Business Major
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<p>Hello everyone! I am confused about my career options. I have the choice of either:</p>

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<li><p>Majoring in Biology as an undergrad and then completing a MBA in professional accounting program through a BA/MBA at Rutgers. This was take a total of 4 years but it will cost more than option 2 (about 22,000 more)</p></li>
<li><p>Major in Accounting for undergrad. This also will take 4 years but will cost less.</p></li>
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<p>I started college with Biology major and almost done with it, and I do like it so that is the rationale for number 1. The professional accounting program also offers more guidance than accounting undergrad (90% of the people in the MBA program are employed by graduation with average 60,000 salary). Also, both programs give me 150 credits for CPA.</p>

<p>Will an MBA benefit me for accounting? Are any jobs available that need a biology and business background or will my BA in biology be useless? Should I just dive right into accounting by majoring in it for undergrad?</p>

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<p>Not necessary. In Texas’s CPA requirement, you need 24 business course credit, along with a 3 credit accounting ethic course. But it depends on your state, maybe your state doesn’t need to have those business elective credits, etc.</p>

<p>If it’s like that in your state, and you don’t have any business credit hours, you’ll need to take a few in graduate level or so forth.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your reply. The CPA requirements are met for both options so that is not the problem. My question is which option would be best for me? Get a BA in Bio & then get an MBA in Professional Accounting OR Transfer to Business School now (I am a sophmore)</p>