Admission to the Joint Program

Applicants must apply and be accepted to both the MBA and MS Accounting programs. It is recommended that students interested in this joint degree initiate the application process for the MS Accounting portion of the degree during their first semester of enrollment in the MBA program, but no later than their second semester of enrollment.

Contact the Liautaud Graduate School of Business Programs Office at (312) 996-4573 for more information and for specific admission requirements to the MS Accounting portion of the joint program. Current students interested in applying to a joint program should contact their academic adviser.

Degree Requirements

A minimum of 68 semester hours are required for the joint degree. For students with an undergraduate degree in accounting, no background courses are required. Non-accounting undergraduate students may be required to take background courses in accounting, management information systems, operations research and/or business communications as part of their MS Accounting degree requirements.

Courses Required only for the MBA	Courses Required only for MSA
ACTG 500(4) Introduction to Financial Accounting	ACTG 515(4) Accounting Theory and Paradigms
ECON 520 (4) Microeconomics for Business Decisions	ACTG 593 (4) Accounting Research: Methodology and Communication
FIN 500 (4) Introduction to Corporate Finance	500-level non-background Accounting course (4)
IDS 532 (4) Introduction to Operations Management
MGMT 541 (4) Organizational Behavior
MKTG 500 (4) Introduction to Marketing
MBA Electives (20 semester hours) At least 12 semester hours towards a concentration outside of Accounting and 8 semester hours outside of Accounting and the concentration.	ACTG Electives (16 semester hours) To be chosen from the following list: 417, 446, 456, 465, 475, 484, 509, 516, 525, 535, 545, 585 *(with at least one marked )**

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