Welcome to the Master of Science in Accounting program at Rhodes College, proudly housed within our Department of Business. Built upon a strong foundation of undergraduate business concepts, our flexible, tailored one-year program equips you with the advanced analytical skills and ethical grounding required to excel in today's dynamic financial landscape. Whether you choose our traditional path or our accelerated option, you will learn to navigate the complexities of modern business and pave your way to professional licensure.
Academic Excellence
Our tailored graduate curriculum targets essential competencies in advanced auditing, entity taxation, data analytics, and risk management to ensure comprehensive professional mastery.
Career Readiness
We offer an exceptional launchpad for your CPA career, highlighted by a dedicated accelerated pathway option allowing you to complete both your bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just four and a half years.
Impact & Purpose
Rooted in the liberal arts, our program emphasizes leadership and business ethics, and provides unique opportunities.
Community & Support
Students benefit from deeply supportive, expert faculty mentorship and extensive networking initiatives that connect them directly to major global and regional accounting firms.
Careers/ Perks / Alumni Success Section
- Proven Track Record: Benefit from a program that has maintained a near 100% job placement rate since its launch more than 35 years ago.
- Elite Exam Performance: Gain the preparation needed to consistently exceed national average pass rates and achieve the highest CPA exam pass rates in Memphis.
- CPA Licensure Mapping: Complete a curriculum purposefully mapped to help you successfully pass all core and discipline sections of the changing CPA exam format.
- The Accelerated Pathway: High-achieving undergraduates with a 3.0 cumulative GPA can double-count up to 12 graduate credit hours during their senior year, maximizing scheduling and saving on tuition costs.
- Protected Scholarship Funding: Utilizing the accelerated pathway ensures graduate credits double-count toward your general undergraduate total, protecting your undergraduate scholarship eligibility.
- Premier Recruitment Access: Connect directly with decision-makers from close to 25 top-tier firms—including EY, KPMG, AutoZone, First Horizon, and RBG—at our annual "Meet the Firms" event.
- Peak Season Internships: The flexible program structure allows for intensive, 40-hour-a-week winter internships during peak accounting "busy season," often directly resulting in full-time job offers.
Ready to Lead the Future of Accounting?
Don't just adapt to changing industry standards—drive them. Whether you are aiming to maximize your career earnings, pass the CPA exam with confidence, or secure a competitive position before graduation, the Rhodes MS in Accounting provides the pathway, the network, and the expertise to get you there
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At the beginning of the school year, Rhodes holds a highly successful Meet the Firms event, with accounting firms, finance firms, and corporations on site to meet students with accounting-related career interests (accounting, finance, computer science, da
Grant Ramey, a graduate of Rhodes College with a bachelor’s degree in economics/business (2018) and a master’s degree in accounting (2019), is one of only 137 winners of the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award recently announced by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). The award recognizes outstanding performance on the Uniform CPA Examination.
When senior business major Bryce Berry arrived in Memphis in 2016 as a first-year from St. Louis, little did he know that his college journey would take him to Cape Town, South Africa. As a result of winning a merit-based scholarship allowing students to obtain work experience in a foreign country, he was a finance intern for the nonprofit organization Gold Youth. He describes it as an unforgettable experience that has equipped him with life and career skills.