Master of Accounting Blog

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The world’s financial markets are demanding greater corporate transparency and higher quality financial reporting. As a result, there is growing need for highly trained accounting professionals with superb critical thinking skills and integrity.

Accounting is a high-demand skill that provides excellent earning potential to Master’s graduates. As a result, regardless of undergraduate major or background, a graduate degree in accounting can transform your career trajectory in as little as one year.

Applications are being accepted for the one-year Rice Master of Accounting (MAcc) cohort that will begin in August 2025 and finish in May 2026.

Read about the Rice MAcc’s “related business” course prerequisites.

The one-year Rice Master of Accounting (MAcc) program welcomes students from all undergraduate majors. Our intentionally small program ensures that you will get to know your classmates and professors well. You belong here!

We recently caught up with Blakely Maynard, who earned her Master of Accounting (MAcc) degree from Rice in 2020. We asked her a few questions about her professional journey since she graduated from our program. Read what she told us below!

We recently caught up with Sherwin Philip, who graduated from Rice’s Master of Accounting (MAcc) program in 2022. We asked him a few questions about his experience working at one of the “Big Four” public accounting firms. Read what he told us below!

Grant Ketterer, MAcc Class of 2023, brings us along for a day in the life of a Rice MAcc student.

During the summer before the one-year Rice Master of Accounting program, Rice MAcc student Jasmine Lee interned with EY, one of the “Big Four” public accounting firms. She writes firsthand about her experience.