Master of Accounting Program
The Master of Accounting (MAcc) degree program is intended for students preparing to enter the accounting profession as well as for those seeking to further their existing accounting careers. Designed to accommodate both undergraduate accounting majors and students with other undergraduate backgrounds, the program permits students to take an advanced course of study in accounting.
The MAcc degree requires at least one research course, at least one accounting seminar which is related to the research course, two graduate-level accounting electives, one additional accounting course, and at least two additional graduate-level non-accounting electives.
The MAcc program may require as few as 30 hours for students with recent undergraduate accounting degrees and as many as 69 hours for students with no previous business and accounting study. Most of our students are working full time, so classes are generally scheduled in the evening.
The MAcc program may require as few as 30 hours for students with recent undergraduate accounting majors and as many as 69 hours for students with no previous business and accounting study. The course requirements are distributed across the following four areas:
I.) General Business Core
Students must have credit for the equivalent of one three-credit-hour course in each of the areas listed below. These requirements may be met with graduate course work or may be waived with appropriate courses taken at the undergraduate level. Please see specific graduate core courses and their descriptions for more details.
Economics Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting Marketing Financial Management Organizational Behavior Business Strategy
II.) Professional Core
Students must have credit for the equivalent of each of the following three-credit-hour courses (click on class numbers, or see undergraduate accounting course descriptions). These courses may be taken concurrently with the MAcc degree requirements (listed below) or may be waived with appropriate undergraduate-level courses.
BA 3401 Financial Accounting and Reporting I BA 3402 Financial Accounting and Reporting II BA 3421 Accounting Information Systems & Spreadsheet Applications BA 3411 Cost Accounting (or ACCT 5411) BA 3441 Income Taxes
III.) MAcc Accounting Requirements/Electives
A. Accounting Courses
B. Research Course
BA 4401 Financial Accounting and Reporting III BA 4402 Financial Accounting and Reporting IV BA 4435 Auditing
ACCT 5402 Professional Accounting Research or ACCT 5441 Tax Research
C. Seminar Course (Related to Research Course Selected in A):
ACCT 5403 Seminar in Financial Accounting Theory or ACCT 6441 Seminar in Taxation or ACCT 5435 Seminar in Auditing For more information about these courses, click on the class numbers or see graduate accounting course descriptions.
D. ElectivesFor general study in the MAcc Program, students must complete:1.) At least two additional graduate-level accounting courses2.) At least one additional accounting course (may be met with a course from the professional core
IV.) MAcc Non-Accounting Requirements/Electives
The requirements listed below may be waived with appropriate undergraduate courses. All students need at least 9 credit hours of graduate-level non-accounting course work beyond the general business core. Electives may be necessary to satisfy this requirement.
BA 5100 Managerial Communication BA 5900 Law, Ethics, and Business IS 5800 Management Information Systems LOM 5300 Statistical Analysis for Management Decisions LOM 5320 Production and Operations Management
All MAcc degree students must complete at least 15 hours in accounting (a minimum of 12 hours at the graduate-level). Students who waive the maximum number of hours must complete 30 credit-hours to earn the MAcc degree.
Application to Graduate Programs at UM-St. Louis
Application materials are available in the College of Business Administration Graduate Office (Room 250 University Center) or online at: https://fusion.umsl.edu/mba/request2.cfm.
A complete application includes official transcripts, a personal statement, two letters of reference, and an official report of your score on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). Learn more about the GMAT at http://www.gmat.org/. Students planning to enter the M.Acc. program are strongly encouraged to complete their application, including the GMAT, several months before entering the graduate program. Early admission will allow greater flexibility in scheduling graduate courses.