<p>Hi everyone, I am an accounting major. I have still deciding which university should i transfer to. Please i need your suggestions and list of good accounting schools.</p>
<p>Bentley in Massachusetts…</p>
<p>UIUC…my alma mater. 
It’s a great accounting school and because it’s been one of the top-ranked for so long the alumni connections are great. Most of my friends from college are partners at Big Four firms now. Which is kind of weird because I remember when they were silly 19 year-olds.</p>
<p>While EllieMom is correct in bragging on UIUC, the latest statistics would say you should transfer to BYU. I teach accounting at a cc and regularly receive information from my state society of CPAs, including CPA exam pass rates. Utah had the highest pass rate on the exam at something like 61.7% for the last reporting period (4Q '12?). They were almost 5% points ahead of the second place school and that spread was greater than the spread between schools #2 & #8. I can’t remember them all, but I’m 99% sure those schools did include UIUC and UT-Austin.
Have you been to the Everything You Wanted to Know About Accounting Thread over in the business discussion area of CC? It was started by taxguy and has lots of great information.</p>
<p>What is your home state? What can your family afford?</p>
<p>Other than the big name schools (Duke, Northwester, Penn, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, etc.) you could look at UT Austin, UIUC, Michigan, Indiana University-Bloomington, NYU, Ohio State, University of Florida…</p>
<p>Adosadvising, please don’t give misleading info. Most of the big name schools you cite don’t even offer accounting. M</p>
<p>Wasn’t being intentionally misleading. I had searched for American MBA accounting posts for one of my kids and this thread popped up. Apologies, but Its my first time on the site, so likely i searched incorrectly. Anyway, The original poster didn’t specify what level and I thought this was specifically for graduate school (and those i mentioned are the ones his advisor and he came up with). Obviously, i’m in the wrong forum for grad, But thank you for being so nice about bringing it to my attention. Cheers!</p>
<p>Find out what you’d like to do with an accounting. Then find out where those firms that do that send their recruiters.</p>
<p>You can contact career services at the colleges and get some of that info.</p>
<p>Since you’re a transfer, your financial situation must be considered since transfers don’t usually get much aid.</p>
<p>What is your budget? How much will your family pay? If money is an issue, then your instate public with good acct’g may be your best choice.</p>
<p>I work in a public accounting firm - many of our staff members and partners graduated from the local state university and have done just fine. Don’t take this wrong, but accounting is not rocket science and any school with a business program is going to cover the same information in sufficient fashion to teach you the basics. Many people have then gone on to get a masters in taxation from our local private university that only specializes in business - after they’ve been working for a couple of years.</p>