Master of Science in Accounting
MSA Program Graduate Course Requirements
Once the MSA student has fulfilled the requirements for the undergraduate core accounting courses, he or she must complete 33 hours for his or her MSA program as outlined below. The program requirements include 5 required graduate accounting courses (15 hours), 2 courses (6 hours) in an Accounting Concentration (either Assurance Services or Taxation), 3 required graduate business and economics courses (9 hours) and 1 free elective course which may be in either accounting, business, or economics.
Required Graduate Accounting Courses
Concentrations (choose one) ***
Required Graduate Business Courses
One "Free" Elective Course
Students are encouraged, but not required, to select a course from the following. Graduate courses outside of the College of Business must be approved by the MSA Coordinator.
***: With the approval of the MSA coordinator, the student may also structure a concentration tailored to the needs of the student by blending the two "concentration" graduate accounting courses and the free elective.
Note 1: If an MSA student took ACCT 43013, 43014, 43020, 43033, or 43034 as a Kent State accounting undergraduate (or substantially similar courses at another institution), the related graduate level course (ACCT 53013, 53014, 53020, 53033, or 53034) will not be required of that student in the MSA program. Rather, the student will substitute an additional accounting elective for each such course.
Similarly, if the MSA coordinator waives one of the three required graduate business courses (B AD 64005, ECON 62021, B AD 66061), the student will instead take an additional business (non-accounting) elective. (See Appendix 2 for general waiver guidelines.)
Note 2: The MSA coordinator will review the transcript of all incoming students with an undergraduate accounting degree from institutions other than Kent State to determine if the complete accounting core has been met. This could result in some additional undergraduate prerequisite coursework in some situations.
Note 3: A student may (but does not have to) register for required graduate courses or graduate electives from which the student has been waived (except BAD 65051). If a student does not register for a waived course, he or she will instead choose another graduate level business elective (noted as open to MSA students in that semester's schedule of classes). The student could take other graduate level business courses (not noted as open to MSA students) with the instructor's permission and/or the department's permission, but such courses often have prerequisites which must be met. The International Business Experience (usually BAD 60093) is the only workshop course (one done in conjunction with the College of Continuing Studies) that counts as a business elective.
Note 4: Neither BAD 63037 nor 63038 count for credit as accounting or non-accounting courses in the MSA program (these are BAD courses for non-accounting masters students).
