• Undergraduate Programs

Karan Ahuja

Senior
Electrical Engineering and Management
Mumbai, India

Accounting

Add it up.

Obviously accounting works with numbers, but what those numbers represent is where accounting becomes powerful. Those numbers are jobs, vacations, tuition, cars, braces, retirement, investments, hobbies, inheritance and salaries. Your management of those numbers is essential to these (and a thousand other) components of people’s lives and well-being.

Lots of people can learn to add and subtract and perform the technical functions associated with accounting. What sets our grads apart is the complete business education they receive here at Purdue. Your core accounting schedule includes courses like business law, marketing, and human resource management.
In a competitive job market (like now), the more you can contribute the more valuable you are.

Do the math; an accounting degree from Purdue is worth more.

You will earn a Bachelor of Science in Management with a major in accounting.

During your first year you will take general university coursework. In your sophomore year you will begin taking introductory management courses.

Students usually take five courses (about 15 credit hours) each semester. A semester lasts for about 16 weeks.  

Your junior and senior years, your schedule is comprised almost entirely of professional coursework. The kinds of classes you will enroll in during your last two years at Purdue are:

Junior Year:	Senior Year:
Business Statistics Finance Marketing Management Information Systems Organizational Behavior Business Law Human Resource Management Intermediate Accounting I Intermediate Accounting II Managerial Accounting II	Operations Management Regulatory Policy Managerial Policy Professional Electives International Electives Auditing Advanced Accounting

For additional information on the Accounting program, you are encouraged to visit the Accounting department Web site.