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NC State College of Management’s Accounting Programs Ranked among the Top 30

The undergraduate accounting program tied for 24th place along with five other accounting programs. The Master of Accounting (MAC) program in the college’s Jenkins Graduate School of Management tied for 27th place, earning it an honorable mention, along with five other graduate accounting programs.

“We are pleased to have the quality of our program acknowledged by faculty at other colleges and universities,” said Frank Buckless, professor and head of the Department of Accounting at NC State College of Management.

“We know that we are preparing individuals for leadership in the accounting profession, and continually upgrade our curriculum to assure our students are ready for today’s challenging environment. This ranking helps to validate what our recruiters and industry contacts already tell us about the quality of our graduates and the preparation they have received.”

In the past year, the college’s accounting faculty developed courses for a new concentration in enterprise risk management for the Master of Accounting program, in addition to the IT concentration that has been in place for several years. At the undergraduate level, accounting students may take concentrations of courses in financial analysis, information systems, internal audit, and managerial accounting.

The college’s accounting programs have been ranked among the top 30 since 2005. Both placed 27th in 2007 and 20th in 2006. In 2005, the MAC program was ranked 24th and the undergraduate program, 23rd. This year, the undergraduate program tied for 24th along with Florida State University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Utah, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The college’s MAC program tied for 27th with College of William & Mary, Boston College, Virginia Tech, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Wake Forest University, earning honorable mentions in the ranking report.

More than 1,550 educators participated in the 2008 survey of accounting professors, the highest number of survey participants in this decade. The survey asks accounting professors, department heads and department chairs to name the degree-granting undergraduate and graduate accounting programs that they feel most consistently turn out students capable of some day attaining partner status.