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The key to your future success is a graduate degree.

The UIC Business Liautaud Graduate School is designed to position you to excel at accounting by having key insights into an industry rapidly changing with new technologies. Your degree will prepare you to secure career in accounting or other areas of business that realize that accounting is indeed the true language of business.

Whether you are looking to complete your accounting education and sit for the CPA exam, or move into another career field, the UIC Business Liautaud Graduate School puts you on the path to achieving your goals.

Our curriculum is flexible and the program welcomes applicants with accounting, business, and non-business degrees. We take into account the undergraduate courses you’ve already taken, allowing you to obtain your degree in 8–16 courses (32–64 credit hours) depending on your background. You can also pursue a joint MBA/MSA.

Program Outcomes

Today, accountants are much more than just human calculators, they are business consultants. Today’s accountants interpret data and use it to provide financial advice. They are counted on to be the expert in how to reduce costs and increase revenue. Our program blends research with real-world applications to bring you a degree that gives you that edge sought by many firms as they identify future leaders, partners and executives.

Career outcomes

Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, public accounting, management accounting, government accounting, internal audit in public accounting firms, private industry, financial institutions, government and nonprofit accounting.

Curriculum

Our MSA program prepares highly qualified individuals for professional careers in accounting, regardless of their field of undergraduate study, in a one- to two-year program. The program’s objective is to prepare graduates for professional examinations, including the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and the CMA (Certificate in Management Accounting) exams. The CPA is a valuable professional certification and can open many career paths, and the UIC Business Liautaud Graduate School MSA satisfies all educational requirements for the CPA.