SUNY Poly ranked #3 for Master's in Accounting by Non-Profit
Colleges Online
Published:
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 15:28
Non-Profit Colleges Online writes: Our Students Before Profits Award was created to promote nonprofit colleges and universities offering online degree programs that put students before profits and education before the bottom line.
For our 2015 Online Master’s in Accounting award winners, we selected online programs from accredited, nonprofit colleges and universities with objectively lower than average tuition cost and have ranked the programs according to their affordability.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, accounting, and auditing jobs are expected to grow 16% by 2020 which is a faster than average growth rate. Additionally, business environments are dramatically changing driven by factors such as increased regulation, complexity and competitiveness of the business climate, and the move towards an increasingly global economy. This means that finance and accounting professionals with graduate training will only be in increasingly high demand in the coming years.
The Master in Accounting is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge in finance and accounting necessary to fill a wide variety of upper-level positions. The degree will provide professionals with the necessary educational requirements to gain licensure as a Certified Public Accountant in most states. The degree will also provide a base of business knowledge applicable to a number of other career trajectories in business.
Though this ranking is primarily concerned with the affordability of Accounting programs, many programs here have consistently been ranked among the top of their kind by other national publications and we believe they deserve to be considered among the best online master’s in accounting programs available.
Note that tuition rates listed below are based on cost per credit and individual programs may have additional fees.
#3. SUNY Polytechnic Institute
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SUNY Polytechnic Institute is a public research university with campuses in Marcy, Utica-Rome, and Albany New York and is part of the State University of New York System. SUNY Polytechnic enrolls over 3,000 students in over 30 bachelor’s and associate’s degrees, 15 master’s degrees and three doctoral degrees. SUNY Polytechnic is a leader in high-tech learning environments and is on the cutting edge of technological study.
Program Overview The online Master of Accountancy program offered by SUNY Polytechnic is available as a full-time or part-time program of study and is designed to allow students to pursue their professional interests and satisfy the 150 credit requirement for certification as a CPA. Students graduating from this program will be equipped to advance their careers in a wide range of professional accounting areas including public accounting, corporate accounting, not-for-profit accounting, and government accounting. This program requires a minimum of 33 credits for completion of the degree.
Accreditation: SUNY is regionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Tuition: $14,256
