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The Accounting program is designed to offer students the opportunity to study traditional and contemporary areas of accounting. The program offers various courses that expose students to both established accounting standards and emerging accounting issues. The Accounting program:Provides Business Administration and liberal arts students with an understanding of the development and use of accounting records and statements, budgeting funds, and cash flow analysis.
Makes available to non-Accounting Business Administration majors the Accounting courses needed to strengthen their fields of specialization.
Students interested in accounting as a profession will find the courses necessary to prepare them for work as internal or external auditors, cost accountants, staff accountants, comptrollers, and public accountants, or positions in governmental and not-for-profit agencies and institutions.
Required courses in the program will assist in preparing students for professional certification exams including Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
A freshman applicant is defined as an individual who has completed or will complete a high school degree or its equivalent and has fewer than 12 transferrable college credit hours. The admission requirements for freshman applicants are as follows:
Complete the online application.
Roosevelt requires applicants to attain a cumulative unweighted high school GPA of 2.0 for at least 3 years of study. Students with a GPA just below 2.0 may be still considered for admission on a case-by-case basis. Self-reported information is accepted for most programs but an official transcript will be required if you are admitted to Roosevelt University.
If you took dual enrollment classes at your local community college as part of your high school diploma, you will need to submit transcripts from your community college in addition to your high school transcripts.
Roosevelt is test-optional. If you have taken the ACT or SAT we encourage you to send your scores, though these are not required for admission.