MS in Accounting

When Gloria Jiang MSA ’14 was an undergraduate, she says she purposely tried to stay away from her parents’ career paths in finance and accounting when she was deciding the major in college. But once she entered the workforce, she quickly realized that accounting was “the business language spoken everywhere in the world.” And she wanted to learn it.

For a long time, Ashley Yantz MSA ’13 always had dreams of becoming a neuroscientist. But at 22, in the midst of a neuroscience doctorate program, she took a bold move to change career paths.

Bentley's MS in Accounting earned high marks recently in Eduniversial's annual rankings of best graduate accounting and auditing in North America, coming in 28th. Eduniversal bases its rankings on three main criteria: program reputation, salary of first employment, and student satisfaction.

In 1985, big box retailer Home Depot’s stock dropped 23 percent. The reasons why were complex, and it took a dedicated leadership team to resolve those issues. On the front lines of that team were accountants, who performed cash flow analyses, assessing profit margins, cash burn rate, operating expenses, and other financial factors so they could alert those at the top on some potentially dangerous financial trends. With the information gathered by the accountants, the chain was able to set a new course for success, and move into a period of growth.

Michael Lin (MSA ’10) has always been interested in the “language” of the business world. He first began learning it while working toward an undergraduate degree in Finance in Beijing, but quickly decided to go on to pursue a master’s degree.

“I think it is a trend now that more and more people feel they need further education after they graduate college. I’m one of them,” Lin says. He decided to pursue a Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) at Bentley University since he sees accounting as the cornerstone of a successful business career.