Get Ready for a Career in a Fast-Growing Field
Gain a solid foundation in business and economics and participate in an internship at a public, private or non-profit organization.
Accounting Major
Our B.S. in accounting requires a concentrated academic effort on your part as a student, but the rewards are many. The program includes accounting, economics, finance and management coursework. These not only give you a strong foundation in accounting, but also ensure that you can integrate your accounting knowledge into the world of business and economics.
What Will I Learn?
In addition to a strong foundation in accounting, our program contains a strong writing and career development component. As the nature of business has changed, the need to communicate effectively has increased. Our program has in place a special course in professionalism to help ensure that you will have the skills necessary to achieve your career goals.
Our program helps you prepare for the certified public accountant (CPA) examination. You can also pursue other professional certifications (such as CMA, CIA, CFE, to name a few) or continue on to graduate school.
What is Unique About Our Program?
Work One-on-One with Our Accounting Faculty
The accounting faculty are dedicated to provide you with a curriculum that empowers you with the most advanced technical and analytical skills such as Excel, VBA, Spreadsheet Automation, SQL and more. This will distinguish you from others and make you more marketable in the accounting and financial markets.
Dedicated Office of Internships & Career Opportunities
The School of Business and Economics has an office dedicated to making sure you have career planning advice and resources and internship opportunities to fit your career goals.
We have a large number of internships and co-ops available for our students. Many of the internships are on campus or within the local business community. We also have opportunities with international companies like IBM.
We are continuously cultivating internship and networking opportunities for our accounting majors at SUNY Plattsburgh. It is our way of enhancing your leadership development, team building skills and giving you the hands-on opportunities you need to be successful.
The program’s added emphasis on obtaining soft-skills such as writing, communication, professionalism, leadership along with the emphasis placed on gaining a broad-based and diverse business acumen is exactly what's needed in today’s global economy.
Jason Sugg, Corporate Headquarters, Accounting Consolidation Manager at IBM
What Are My Career Opportunities?
Our Graduates are Successful
Our alumni are employed by CPA firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG International, Deloitte & Touche USA, Ernst & Young and Urbach Hacker Young Advisors. Our graduates also work at multinational corporations and Wall Street firms such as IBM, GE, AT&T, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Prudential Financial, Ben & Jerry’s, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
IBM Job Placements and Co-ops
We have created a very strong partnership with International Business Machines (IBM). In the last 10 years, IBM has recruited over 100 accounting majors for its nationally recognized co-op program. Our students have been placed at various IBM sites in New York, Vermont and Connecticut. A number of our accounting majors have also won the National IBM CO-OP of the Year Award. Many of our students who complete the co-op program have been offered full-time employment upon graduation.