U.S. News and World Report and Bloomberg BusinessWeek rank business schools and accounting programs.
While accounting is a popular field of study within business programs, just because a business school is top-ranked doesn't necessarily mean that the accounting program is top-ranked as well. And just because a school has a top-flight business program does not automatically mean that the accounting program is highly-rated. Students, faculty and deans also have varying opinions on what makes a good accounting program or business school, which influences publications' rankings depending upon what rating criteria they use.
Accounting
While deans and faculty rated the accounting program at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business as No. 8 in the country, students surveyed by Bloomberg BusinessWeek rated the program (which requires 18 credits of accounting courses) tops in the nation. College deans and faculty gave the program at the University of Texas at Austin the highest rating on U.S. News and World Report's ranking of Best Accounting Programs, but students in Bloomberg surveys disagreed, rating the program at No. 16. According to their website, UT Austin's McCombs School of Business Accountancy program also ranked No. 2 in the nation on a Public Accounting Report survey of accounting professors.
Mendoza College of Business
Department of Accountancy
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5646
574-631-7324
business.nd.edu/Undergraduate_Studies/Academics/Accountancy_Major/
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Accounting
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B6400
Austin, TX 78712-0211
512-471-5215
mccombs.utexas.edu/dept/accounting/contact.asp
Business
Bloomberg's student surveys ranked Notre Dame's Mendoza School of Business as the best overall business school in the country, while the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School takes the top spot in U.S. News and World Report's faculty and dean survey. Mendoza offers six undergraduate business majors and four graduate degrees, while the Wharton School offers more than 20 undergraduate concentrations, 18 MBA options and 9 doctoral programs.
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5646
574-631-7505
business.nd.edu
Wharton School of Business
3730 Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340
215-898-7608
wharton.upenn.edu
Other Top Accounting and Business Schools
Students, deans and faculty come close to agreeing on the prestige of Brigham Young University's BS degree in Accountancy, with faculty and deans ranking the program third according to U.S. News and students ranking the program second in the nation according to Bloomberg.
Students in the Brigham Young program take what is known as the "Junior Core": they enroll in six core accounting courses during their junior year and usually take no other classes during that time.
The University of California at Berkeley has a top overall business program according to deans, faculty and students, with students ranking the program sixth and deans and faculty giving Berkeley at No. 2 ranking on the U.S. News list (tied with MIT). Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers undergraduate degrees, three different MBA programs, a Master's degree in Financial Engineering and a Ph.D.
Marriott School
730 TNRB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-3113
801-422-4285
marriottschool.byu.edu/bsacc/
Haas School of Business
2220 Piedmont Avenue
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
510-642-7989
haas.berkeley.edu
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