Accounting
Add it up.
Obviously, accounting works with numbers, but what those numbers represent is where accounting becomes powerful. Those numbers have implications to all users of financial statements. Your management of those numbers is essential to 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 graduates apart is the complete business education they receive at Purdue, within Krannert's largest major. Your core accounting schedule includes courses like business law, marketing, and human resource management. Students greatly benefit by combining this complete business education with advanced course offerings in audit, tax, forensic and international accounting.
In today's competitive job market, the more you can contribute, the more valuable you are. Many accounting students find flexibility within their schedules to obtain spring semester internships during their final years. Krannert has also established advanced programs like the MS(A) or the Certificate of Advanced Accounting, which is designed to offer Purdue Undergraduate Accounting majors an educationally sound approach to meeting the educational requirements to sit for the CPA Exam.
Do the math; an accounting degree from Purdue is worth more.
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Accounting careers
Accounting is our major with the largest enrollment. About 85 percent of our students are placed within six months of graduating.
What sets our graduates apart and makes them so sought after? Business sense. We don't just teach accounting. We give you a business education that focuses on accounting.
Transfer to accounting
The process of transferring couldn't be simpler. If you are transferring from another university, talk to an advisor and we'll give you step-by-step instructions.
If you are already a Purdue student, changing your major is referred to as CODO - Change of Degree Objective. Our advisors can help you with that as well.