Master of Science in Accounting at SMU Cox
Expand your career while you prepare for CPA certification. Public Accounting Report ranks this nine-month program No. 3 in the U.S. among smaller schools.
Expand your career while you prepare for CPA certification. Public Accounting Report ranks this nine-month program No. 3 in the U.S. among smaller schools.
"Each year, Professor Sommers improves the Cox MSA, updating the curriculum based on student feedback and his experience."
Stephanie Lau
Vice President of Talent, Embark
Don't mistake the power of your class cohort. Students find that their cohorts are integral to studying for both SMU Cox classes and the subsequent CPA exams taken after graduation and before employment begins.
Use the Business Library at SMU Cox to check out technology, use computers, or find textbooks put on reserve by professors. This center, we've found, is crucial to our student's success!
Use our Career Management Center to help you meet and network with employers looking for recent graduates from Accounting programs. Some of our alumni have landed at Ernest & Young, KPMG, and BDO to name a few.
Senior financial analyst at Southwest Airlines “The accounting program at SMU was the best decision I have made. My professors help me realize my potential for pursuing a career in accounting and pushed me to go beyond just graduating with a Master’s degree in accounting, but also to get my CPA license.”
After completing her BBA as an accounting major at SMU Cox, Allison Cooley branched out and enrolled in the Cox MSA program with a tax concentration. On graduating — with her CPA license, thanks to a push from her professors — Allison accepted a job as a tax consultant at Deloitte. Two years later, license in hand, she switched back to accounting, and today she forecasts revenue as a senior financial analyst at Southwest Airlines.
Assurance associate at PwC
When Poets&Quants featured Sabrina Janski as one of its Best and Brightest of 2016, the then SMU Cox undergrad said, “I would love to begin working as a full-time associate for Pricewaterhouse Coopers” post-graduation. Done! First, she dived deeper by studying for her MSA at Cox and interning in PwC's downtown Dallas office during her spring term. A few months later, on graduating, the company offered her a job: full-time associate.
Assurance associate at EY
Eric Mercado was one of five SMU Cox accounting students whose team won the Ernst & Young Beam Abroad Case Competition and were whisked off to London, where they visited the EY London office and shared a meal with the EY global leadership team. Connections matter. Today, Eric is working at EY in Dallas.