To apply, applicants must demonstrate how they meet, or plan to meet, pre-enrollment course requirements in accounting and general business. Specifically, applicants must have successfully completed the listed credits/courses below prior to enrolling in the program.

Pre-Enrollment Requirements

MS in Accounting Required Credits(Accounting Courses* 9)

Accounting coursework must include:

Financial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

General Business (Non-Accounting) Courses** 30

General Business coursework must include:

Principles of Statistics or Data Analysis

Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

* Accounting coursework must be completed at a degree-granting, accredited (or government recognized) college or university. Accounting courses/credits taken at community colleges and online programs are not acceptable for meeting the accounting coursework pre-enrollment requirement.

** General Business (Non-Accounting) coursework must be completed at a degree-granting, accredited (or government recognized) college or university. For General Business coursework, courses/credits taken at community colleges and online programs that are degree-granting and accredited (or government recognized) are acceptable for meeting the pre-enrollment requirement.

If courses that you have taken do not correspond to the standard U.S. semester credit system, please email gradadmissions@stern.nyu.edu for specific direction.

Credits earned toward your undergraduate degree for Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and/or Statistics are acceptable for the General Business pre-enrollment requirement if they are listed on your undergraduate transcripts, and you may count these credits toward the 30 credits that must be completed in General Business.

While all of the above coursework including the aforementioned AP credits meet the NYU Stern pre-enrollment requirements, we cannot certify that the coursework will meet the NY State requirements for the CPA exam. If an applicant has questions about NY State requirements, the student must contact NY State directly at comped@nysed.gov.

General business course content areas may include the following:

Business Statistics

Business Law

Business Strategy

Computer Science

Economics

Finance

Information Technology Systems

Management

Marketing

Operations Management

Organizational Behavior

Quantitative Methods

The Ross Institute’s mission is to support state-of-the-art research in accounting, auditing, and financial reporting to capital markets, and disseminate such research to the business community: investors, corporate officers, and auditors, as well as the business media. This mission includes conveying to researchers the feedback of practitioners. We are, accordingly, creating an environment for enhancing research and its application.