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As a former hiring manager in an accounting field (I've interviewed entry-level candidates for Big 4 and for large corporations; I no longer hire entry-level though), I can tell you two things with certainty- 1. the school you went to definitely matters, but 2. nobody cares who the school is accredited by.
If you go to a top tier school, you open top tier doors. If you go to a middle-ranked school, you may not get to interview at the top companies/firms though you may have a shot if you do really really well and work hard to get in front of the right people. If you go to a terrible college, you'll probably need to "wash" your resume by getting your extra 30 hours from a well-ranked or well-known MSA/MST program, and your GPA will be under very close scrutiny.
As a former hiring manager in an accounting field (I've interviewed entry-level candidates for Big 4 and for large corporations; I no longer hire entry-level though), I can tell you two things with certainty- 1. the school you went to definitely matters, but 2. nobody cares who the school is accredited by.
If you go to a top tier school, you open top tier doors. If you go to a middle-ranked school, you may not get to interview at the top companies/firms though you may have a shot if you do really really well and work hard to get in front of the right people. If you go to a terrible college, you'll probably need to "wash" your resume by getting your extra 30 hours from a well-ranked or well-known MSA/MST program, and your GPA will be under very close scrutiny.
This is what I figured. Employers rarely check for programmatic accreditation in a lot of fields. If a job requires a license, you either meet the licensing requirements or you don't. It just so happens that most top-ranked schools go through the process of earning programmatic accreditation. It makes people think that employers care about accreditation when they really just care about the school's rank. A lot of low-ranked and unranked schools have AACSB accreditation, so it's nothing special.
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