Admission Criteria and Prerequisites 

Admission Criteria

The Graduate Management Admissions Test OR successful completion of all four parts of the CPA exam is required for admission to the MSA program.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites are based on the background and previous training of the student. All students must be proficient with a spreadsheet program and have the following courses (or their equivalent) prior to starting MSA course work. Courses must be taken at an AACSB accredited school. Credit from community or junior colleges will not be accepted.

Accounting Courses

• Intermediate Accounting I
• Intermediate Accounting II
• Federal Income Tax Accounting
• Auditing
• Cost Accounting

Business Courses

• Principles of Management
• Organizational Behavior
• Statistics
• Managerial Finance
• Micro Economics
• Macro Economics
• Business Law

For students without business undergraduate courses, the completion of five courses offered by JMU over the Internet will fulfill the business course prerequisite. Each course is the equivalent of three credit hours.

• MBA 501. Management and Organization Behavior
• MBA 502. Statistics and Management Science
• MBA 504. Managerial Finance
• MBA 505. Foundations of Economics
• MBA 506. Legal Environment of Business
• Each course is offered three times a year and is 100% self-paced

The course work for the Master of Science in Accountancy requires thirty credit hours at the graduate-level consisting of a common core and electives.

Admission information for international students can be found at http://www.jmu.edu/grad/international/.