The MAcct Degree at The University of Montana is a 30-hour professional degree program. Students are enrolled in the graduate (600-level) courses following completion of the Business Foundation and Accounting Fundamental prerequisite courses. With advising from the MAcct Graduate Director, you can begin the accounting fundamental prerequisites while finishing the business foundation courses. And, you may begin the electives for the MAcct while finishing the accounting fundamental coursework. The required MAcct courses, however, are taken after all other prerequisites have been completed. (Note below that the Business Foundation classes can be taken either as undergraduate classes or via our own graduate-level internet classes.) Since there is an MBA Program also offered in the Business School, most MAcct students choose to take their electives from this program. But elective credits can also be taken as thesis, independent study, internship, or graduate credits in another discipline on campus.

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Foundation Program

MAcct Fundamentals

MAcct Professional Program

Transfer credits

On occasion, students enter the MAcct program having completed graduate work at other institutions. Or a student may take graduate credits at UM while holding graduate nondegree status. The policy on transfer credits at UM allows for a maximum of nine (9) credits to transfer from another graduate program or from UM graduate nondegree status to the MAcct Program upon recommendation of the Graduate Director. These credits must be acceptable to the School of Business Administration and the UM Graduate School to be included as part of the 30 credits required to complete the MAcct Program. Only courses where an A or B were earned can be transferred. And, although the credits will count toward the 30 graduation credits, the grades transferred in will not be included as part of your GPA. Other than under very unique circumstances, no class that is over 5 years old at the completion of the MAcct can be transferred in.

Continuous and Terminal Registration

Once you are admitted to a Graduate Program and until completion of that program, The University of Montana requires that all graduate students register for a minimum of 1 credit in every academic term (excluding summer sessions) and 4 credits each year. A student may file a leave of absence request if he plans to step out of the program for a time. This request must be signed by the Graduate Director and the Dean of the Graduate School. If the request is denied, and you step out anyway, you will be dropped from the program and will have to reapply to be readmitted at a later date. If you step out without a leave of absence or you do not return after the leave period if it was granted, you will be dropped from the program and will have to reapply to be readmitted.

All graduate students must register for at least one credit in their terminal, final, diploma semester whether they need the credit to graduate or not.

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