McCombs Accounting No. 1 for the Ninth Year

McCombs has once again taken first place in Public Accounting Report’s undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral rankings

Undergraduate Ranking: No. 1

For 27 years in a row, McCombs has placed first or second in this ranking. Second place went to the school’s only undergraduate rival, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by Brigham Young University in third.

Master’s Ranking: No. 1

McCombs has led the nation at the master’s level (Texas McCombs MPA) in 24 out of the past 25 surveys. Illinois and BYU took second and third place, respectively.

Doctoral Ranking: No. 1

For the 10th year in a row, McCombs has now taken the №1 spot at the Ph.D. level and has landed among the top four every year since 1994. The University of Chicago took second place this year, bumping Illinois to third. Stanford held steady at №4, and the University of Pennsylvania overtook Michigan for №5.

Nearly 1,000 accounting professors from approximately 200 U.S. colleges and universities that offer accounting degrees participated in the 37th Annual Professors Survey this past spring. For the three program levels, faculty participants are asked to rank five accounting programs at U.S. colleges and universities that “consistently turn out graduates who are capable of becoming accounting firm partners in the future.”