Does Olin have any special programs for students interested in careers in accounting?
Yes. Our faculty recently developed a specialized master’s program called the Master of Science in Business Administration with Concentration in Accounting (MSBA) for students wanting to meet the 150 hour education requirement for public accounting certification that exists in most of the United States. This program is like the ‘3+2’ program leading to the MBA in the respect that students apply for admission to the MSBA during their third undergraduate year and begin doing graduate course work in their fourth year. The MSBA differs from the ‘3+2’ leading to the MBA in several important respects: one, students concentrate specifically in the area of accounting in the MSBA, whereas the MBA program is more of a general management degree; two, students in the MSBA program are able to continue doing undergraduate course in areas of interest even after they enter the MSBA program, whereas students in the MBA program take only graduate course work.
