Accountancy Rankings

School of Accountancy Achieves High Rankings

Each year the Public Accounting Report (PAR) surveys accounting educators and asks them to rank accounting programs in three categories: undergraduate, masters, and doctoral. The University of Missouri is consistently ranked in all three categories.

Missouri is ranked #15 in the nation for the top 25 Graduate (Masters) Programs. We are now close to one of our previous highs in the rankings (#14 in 2003), and have marked an ascent of 10 spots on the rankings from 2007. As PAR notes, "University of Michigan and University of Missouri-Columbia shared the honors as the biggest climbers in the graduate rankings... Mizzou jumped to No. 15 from No.25 in 2007."

Missouri is also ranked #19 in the nation for Top 25 Doctoral Programs. This is the highest ranking that we have attained in doctoral program rankings on the PAR survey. In 2006, we had made it to the honorable mention list; in 2007, we made it to the top 25. We have now climbed 6 spots in the rankings from 2007.

Another important development is the recent research productivity ranking of 9th in the nation, as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The ranking is based on a comprehensive analysis of disciplines in over 300 universities by Academic Analytics, an independent consulting firm. For accounting, the rankings were based on actual publications during the period 2003-2006.

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