Build your quantitative skills. Expand your communications skills. Develop your critical thinking skills.
The Vanderbilt MAcc program prepares students from diverse disciplines for an exciting career in business…in only one year. A hallmark of our program is an immersion in business fundamentals and on-the-job training in public accounting through an intensive second-semester internship. You’ll build quantitative skills—learning to interpret numbers and analyze information in ways that will help companies make smart decisions. You’ll expand your oral and written communications skills and develop critical-thinking skills that can lead to business solutions.
Through the Vanderbilt MAcc courses and internship, you’ll learn the language business speaks and gain specialized knowledge for pursuing your career goals:
- You’ll Be Equipped to Succeed
You’re groomed for immediate employment—with new knowledge in accounting and business, along with stronger communications, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. - You’ll Have Opportunities for Significant Financial Rewards
Immediate and long-term pay in the public accounting profession are attractive, so return on your investment is high. Pay is linked to performance: the harder you work the more you earn. - You’ll Enjoy Geographic Mobility
The Vanderbilt MAcc program helps prepare you to work with leading companies in vibrant cities around the world. This field offers superb domestic and international geographic mobility. - You’ll Have Business Connections that Last a Lifetime
Your career path can lead to a spot as firm partner, as an executive in the corporate sector, or as an entrepreneur. The Vanderbilt MAcc Advisory Board, with membership from the top professional services firms, ensures excellent exposure to career opportunities.
Vanderbilt offers an outstanding learning environment and a prestigious degree that’s recognized in business centers across the globe. Our MAcc Advisory Board offers insights and relationships that keep our educational goals in sync with the needs of leading professional services firms—even as that landscape continues to change. What’s more, Vanderbilt offers exposure to interdisciplinary expertise that’s critically important in today’s business world.
In addition to an outstanding learning environment and prestigious degree, the Vanderbilt MAcc program places at your fingertips all of the resources of the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Vanderbilt community.
- Assistance in career planning—writing résumés, networking, and individualized assistance.
- A Vanderbilt-sponsored, structured internship recruiting process with our partner firms.
- Access to all of the services and databases of the world-class Walker Management Library.
- Rich opportunities to participate in student life, hear from and interact with distinguished speakers and faculty, and enhance your résumé through clubs in your areas of interest.
- Interaction with Vanderbilt students from various backgrounds and programs, both inside the classroom and out.
- State-of-the-art wireless computer environment with access to extensive databases.
