Percentage Hired
Public vs. Private Accounting
Projected Starting Salaries (2002 to 2006)
Footnotes
AICPA Salary Information

This class was particularly successful in obtaining job offers.  Thirty of the 35 total students in the class of 2001, or 86 percent, had accepted job offers by their graduation date in May 2001.  

The 5 students who were not employed by graduation either declined job offers to attend graduate school (1 student), decided to attend graduate school and work part-time at one of the Big Five accounting firms (1 student), voluntarily chose not to seek employment immediately (1 student was relocating to the Mid-West while another wanted to travel for a little while), or was still seeking employment (1 student).

Our department just recently learned that 1 of those 5 students, the world traveler, is now employed in a Marketing position with a start-up company in midtown Manhattan.

The class of 2001 overwhelmingly preferred to start their careers in public accounting.  Eighty-seven percent of the students who had accepted job offers by graduation chose to enter public accounting.  Twenty-three students or 77 percent of the students with offers by graduation chose to work for one of the Big Five accounting firms.  Three students or 10 percent of the students with offers by graduation chose to work for a large, regional or second-tier, national public accounting firm.

The remaining 13 percent, 4 students, of those with job offers by graduation chose to enter private accounting -- all in financial services.  These students accepted positions with Merrill Lynch, American Express, and a bank as a loan officer.

All but 2 of the 35 students planned on taking the CPA examination.  This represents 94 percent of the entire class, but what's most interesting is that the majority of students who were not employed by graduation and who accepted jobs in private accounting planned on taking the CPA examination.