MBA in Professional Accounting Advanced Standing

The Master of Business Administration in Professional Accounting (MBA-PA) degree requires a minimum of 49 credits. However, some students receive advanced standing for prior academic work. A student may receive a maximum of 12 credits of advanced standing (i.e., graduate transfer credits and undergraduate course recognition credits are limited to 12 maximum credits).

You may receive advanced standing in a number of ways.

A student may receive up to a maximum of 12 credits of graduate coursework completed with a B or better and no more than 8 years old at an AACSB-accredited institution or such other courses as economics, information technology and advanced statistics completed at an AACSB-accredited institution or liberal arts and science institution with equivalent accreditation.

Please note: No advanced credit can be awarded for any course taken more than eight years before the time of initial application to the MBA-PA program.

To apply for credit, please complete the Petition for MBA Advanced Standing: Professional Accounting Program Form. 

Business Majors

A student may receive three (3) credits for every three (3) credits of undergraduate upper-division course work completed with a B or better in business core areas of study (a) at an AACSB-accredited institution, or (b) such other courses as economics, information technology, and advanced statistics completed at an AACSB-accredited institution.

Arts & Sciences Majors

A student may receive three (3) credits for a three (3) credit elective undergraduate upper-division course that is comparable to a Rutgers Business School core course in economics, information technology, and advanced statistics, if he or she completed the course with a B or better at an accredited institution.

No advanced credit can be awarded for any course taken more than eight years before the time of initial application to the MBA-PA program.