The Best Accounting Grad Schools

University of Texas at Austin

• U.S. News & World Report, which compiles its rankings from business school deans and directors, and the Public Accounting Report, which surveys business professors, both rank the accounting graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin as the best in the nation. Students in the McCombs School of Business can pursue a master of public accounting (MPA) degree, an Integrated program in which they earn a bachelor of business administration and MPA degree concurrently, an MBA with a concentration in accounting or a Ph.D.

  Department of Accounting
  McCombs School of Business
  The University of Texas at Austin
  1 University Station B6400
  Austin, TX 78712-0211
  512-471-5215
  mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/contact.asp

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers a concurrent bachelor/master in accounting science degree, a master of science in accounting (for students with no background in accounting), a master of accounting science (for students with a background in accounting) and a Ph.D. A master of science in taxation is offered at U of I's Chicago campus. While the Public Accounting Report ranks Illinois' College of Business as the second-best in the country for accounting graduate programs, U.S. News & World Report ranks the program fourth (tied with the University of Michigan).

  Department of Accountancy ?
  University of Illinois ?
  360 Wohlers Hall ?
  1206 South Sixth Street ?
  Champaign, IL 61820 ?
  217-333-0857
  business.uiuc.edu/accountancy/news_accountancy/news_home.aspx

University of Southern California

• Ranked fourth in the country by the Public Accounting Report and sixth in the country by U.S. News & World Report, the University of Southern California’s Leventhal master of accounting is a one-year program geared toward those with and without an undergraduate background in accounting. (Those without an accounting background enter the program during the summer for an intensive program before the rest of the class enters in the fall.) The intense program of study relies on teamwork and case study analysis to give students real-world practice with accounting principles.

  USC Leventhal School of Accounting?
  3660 Trousdale Parkway, ACC 101?
  Los Angeles, CA 90089-0441?
  213-740-4838
  marshall.usc.edu/leventhal/curriculum/macc/macc-program/index.htm

University of Michigan

• The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan offers a 10-month master of accounting program that's integrated with its MBA program. Accounting students may take elective courses in the MBA program alongside those pursuing MBAs. The program’s capstone course is Accounting Public Policy, held annually in Washington, D.C. The Public Accounting Report ranks the Ross master of accounting as the fifth best in the nation, while U.S. News & World Report ranks the program fourth (tied with the University of Illinois).

  University of Michigan Business School
  Department of Accounting
  701 Tappan Street
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  734-763-2376
  bus-webdev.bus.umich.edu/Academics/Departments/Accounting/Accounting/default.htm