Spring 2025
Classes Start
Jan 13
Session B
Classes Start
mar 2
Program Overview
Do you have a head for numbers? Accounting is more than just crunching numbers – it plays a vital role in running a business by helping to track income and expenditures and provide management and investors with the financial information needed to make business decisions. RCU’s Accounting BBA prepares you to become a trusted advisor who can interpret numbers, forecast financial outcomes, and guide corporate strategy.
degree requirements
Graduating with a degree in Accounting means you’re fluent in a financial language that makes you a valuable commodity to the business world. You’ll gain a strong foundation in mathematics, economics, and business, as well as accounting.
By the end of your program, you’ll be well versed in leadership and business skills. You’ll also benefit from a combination of professional development opportunities, mentoring, volunteering, internships, and apprenticeships that provide you with practical experience outside the classroom. Through class instruction and real-world experience, you will become a critical thinker who knows how to problem-solve with a mind for social responsibility. You’ll also have the technical competence, ethical standards, and professional communication skills it takes to compete in the Accounting field.
- CRITICAL THINKING: Professional graduates think critically and apply systems thinking to decision making.
- PROBLEM-SOLVING and APPLICATION: Professional graduates apply functional area concepts and theories appropriately.
- PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Professional graduates communicate effectively by preparing and delivering oral and written presentations using appropriate technologies.
- SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY: Professional graduates align personal, professional, and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards of conduct including an understanding of corporate social responsibility.
- VOCATIONAL AWARENESS: Professional graduates demonstrate an understanding of God’s ongoing story in the world and their responsibility to God, self, organization, and the world as a part of that ongoing story.
- TECHNICAL COMPETENCY: Professional graduates prepare, apply, interpret, and evaluate financial and non-financial information in accordance with approved accounting standards to assist them in making business and organizational decisions.
- ETHICAL CONDUCT: Professional graduates analyze, assess, and respond to ethical challenges faced in a business environment using historical events, the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, and the student’s own moral code to act in an ethical and professionally responsible manner.
Total Credit Hours: 120
- General Education Core: 35 hours
- Business Core: 42 hours
- Accounting Major: 30 hours
- Electives: 13 hours
- Student Business Senate
Program Statistics
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Graduates hired within 6 months
Jobs filled by Rochester grads
Career Opportunities
Types of Jobs
- Accountant
- Auditor
- Certified Public Accountant
- Budget Analyst
- Tax Examiner
- Financial Examiner
- Financial Analyst
$50,000
$77,250
$114,500
Avg. Salaries post graduation
(Courtesy of Salary.com)
Market Trends
Projected Growth (2021-2031): 4-7%
Projected Job Openings (2021-2031): 136,400
(Courtesy of O*Net Online)
student experience
Internships
Clubs
- Student Business Senate
Activities
alumni TESTIMONIAL
Attending a small college gave me countless opportunities to be involved, to lead, to serve. These experiences gave me a chance to ‘fail’ in a safe setting, and to succeed in some too. I’ve found myself in small organizations and a small college where I could be in communities that impact people positively and help fix some broken systems. That started for me at Rochester and carries on with me today.
Laura Corp
Faculty
Accounting and Financial Studies School of Business and Technology
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 302B
(248) 218-2052
kstokes@rochesteru.edu
School of Business and Technology
RUAC 302B
(248) 218-2052
kstokes@rochesteru.edu