The school offers one degree—the Master of Professional Accountancy. The program leading to the MPA is essentially the culmination of a five-year program. A student who earns the bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting may normally complete the MPA program on a full-time basis with one year’s additional work. A minimum of thirty (30) hours of graduate work is required. Students may apply for entry into the MPA program at any time to commence coursework in the subsequent academic period. A part-time program is also available.
More detailed information on the admissions process is available online at www.usm.edu/business/accounting/about-mpa.
Students with a variety of educational backgrounds may enter the program. Students who have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university must either transfer or take the following business environment and tool courses:
- Applied Calculus for Business 3 hrs.
- Principles of Economics 6 hrs.
- Managerial Statistics I 3 hrs.
- Management for Organizations 3 hrs.
- Legal Environment of Business 3 hrs.
- Advanced Business Law 3 hrs.
- Principles of Finance 3 hrs.
- Global Managerial Policy and Strategy 3 hrs.
- Principles of Marketing 3 hrs.
The following lower-division accounting courses are also required:
- Introduction to Financial Accounting 3 hrs.
- Intermediate Accounting 6 hrs.
- Advanced Accounting 3 hrs.
- Auditing 3 hrs.
- Accounting Information Systems 3 hrs.
- Cost Accounting 3 hrs.
- Income Tax Accounting 3 hrs.
- Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting 3 hrs.
