Montclair State University

Program

Undergraduate Program Overview

The accounting program is designed to provide students with enough information to be successful in the accounting profession both in public accounting and in industry. Beside the undergraduate program, the department faculty teach all the accounting courses in the MBA concentration. This is for those students who are not undergraduate accounting majors.

The MS in Accounting is offered and available to undergraduate accounting majors. This thirty-three credit program will provide the 150 credit hours needed to obtain the CPA license in New Jersey.

Presently thirty-five firms recruit on campus. There are numerous internships available and over $45,000 in scholarship money awarded.

New Accounting Retention Policy

The following standards are effective for all incoming accounting students during the fall 2009 semester. Those students already concentrating in accounting would not be affected.
Once a student concentrated in accounting, the 2.75 cum must be maintained.

This threshold is threefold:

If a student falls below a 2.75 cum in a semester, they will go on probation for the next semester. If their cum does not come back to a 2.75, they will no longer be able to concentration in accounting.

Undergraduate Curriculum

General Education Requirements (51-54 credits)

	Courses	Credits
A	New Student Seminar GNED199 New Student Seminar	1
B	Interdisciplinary Core Scientific Issues (3) National and Global Issues (please choose one) (3)	6
C	Communication ENWR105 College Writing I (3) ENWR106 College Writing II (3) SPCM101 Fundamentals of Speech (3)	9
D	Fine and Performing Arts * Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them.	3
F	Humanities World Literature or General Humanities (Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them) (3) Philosophy or Religion (Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them) (3)	6
G	Computer Science INFO273 Intro to Computers in Business	0-3
H	Mathematics MATH114 Math for Business II	3
I	Natural/Physical Science Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them.	4
J	Physical Education Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them.	1
K	Social Science American or European History (Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them) (3) Non-Western Cultural Perspectives (Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them) (3) Social Science (Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one from them) (3)	9
L	General Education Elective ECON101 Principles of Economics: Macro	3
	World Languages ** Refer to online catalog for approved courses and select one or two from them.	3-6

* At least one course in one of these categories must satisfy the Multi-Cultural Awareness requirement (please see course catalog).
** If student places out of some/all of this requirement, substitute equivalent # of free elective semester hours.