Bachelor of Science Accounting

Total Credits Required: 120

• Required Major Core Courses: 33
• Required Major Capstone Course: 3
• Required Business Core Courses: 39
• Remaining General Education and Elective Courses: 45

Required Major Core Courses

• Principles of Accounting II(3 Credits, ACCT 221)
• Intermediate Accounting I(3 Credits, ACCT 310)
• Intermediate Accounting II(3 Credits, ACCT 311)
• Cost Accounting Data Analytics(3 Credits, ACCT 321)
• Federal Income Tax I(3 Credits, ACCT 323)
• Accounting Information Systems(3 Credits, ACCT 326)
• Accounting for Government and Not-for-Profit Organizations(3 Credits, ACCT 410)
  or any upper-level ACCT course
• Ethics and Professionalism in Accounting(3 Credits, ACCT 411)

or Business Ethics(3 Credits, BMGT 382)

• Auditing Theory and Practice(3 Credits, ACCT 422)
• Internal Auditing(3 Credits, ACCT 436)
  or any upper-level ACCT course
• Fraud and Forensic Accounting(3 Credits, ACCT 438)
  or any upper-level ACCT course

Required Major Capstone Course

• Advanced Accounting Capstone(3 Credits, ACCT 496)

Required Business Core Courses: 

The following required courses may be applied to general education requirements:

• Principles of Macroeconomics(3 Credits, ECON 201)
• Principles of Microeconomics(3 Credits, ECON 203)
• Information Systems in Organizations(3 Credits, IFSM 300)
• Introduction to Statistics(3 Credits, STAT 200)
• Academic Writing II(3 Credits, WRTG 112)
  

The following required courses may be applied to elective requirements:

• Principles of Accounting I(3 Credits, ACCT 220)
• Building Sustainable Futures(3 Credits, BMGT 240)
• Data, Cybersecurity, and AI in Business Strategy(3 Credits, BMGT 250)
• Management and Organization Theory(3 Credits, BMGT 364)
• Business Law I(3 Credits, BMGT 380)
• Business Finance(3 Credits, FINC 330)
• Marketing Principles(3 Credits, MRKT 210)
• OMPG 300

* This information is for students who enroll in the 2025-2026 academic year. For prior year requirements for this program or to review UMGC's complete program requirements for a specific academic year, visit our program catalog archive

Accounting

If you completed your undergraduate degree at UMGC with coursework in accounting, an accelerated pathway between UMGC undergraduate and graduate programs in accounting allows you to reduce your total coursework for a related graduate degree and/or certificate in Accounting or Accounting Information Security. . Depending on the program, you may earn 3 or 6 credits.

Specific undergraduate courses may earn credit toward one of the following degree programs:

• MBA

• MS in Accounting and Financial Management 

• MS in CyberAccounting 

• MS in Management with a concentration in accounting

• For the MBA, you may be awarded 3 credits for ACCT 605 Accounting for Managers.
• For the MS and certificate programs, you may earn up to 6 credits, as follows: 

• If you completed ACCT 438 Fraud and Forensic Accounting and ACCT 440 Forensic and Investigative Accounting, you may be awarded credit for ACCT 630 Fraud Examination. 

• If you completed ACCT 422 Auditing Theory and Practice and ACCT 436 Internal Auditing, you may be awarded credit for ACCT 628 Auditing and Attestation. 

• If you completed ACCT 323 Federal Income Tax I and ACCT 417 Federal Income Tax II, you may be awarded credit for ACCT 613 Tax Compliance and Planning.

The substitutions listed above are the only ones possible. Note that a minimum grade of B must be earned in each undergraduate course for the credits to be accepted at the graduate level.