CUNY Bernard M Baruch College MS Accountancy: 2027 Review

Score

69.8 of 100, rank 17 of 50

Cost (20%)

4.9 of 10

Graduate Earnings (20%)

9.8 of 10

Completion (15%)

7.1 of 10

Flexibility (15%)

0.0 of 10

Credential Alignment (10%)

10.0 of 10

Track Record (10%)

10.0 of 10

Program Reputation (10%)

9.8 of 10

Credits

30 to 70 credits, depending on waivers

Format

On Campus

Accreditation

AACSB (confirmed on the official list)

See exactly how we score on the methodology page. We checked the school's figures on October 8, 2026.

Baruch's Master of Science in Accountancy is the school's most popular accountancy graduate program, and waivers can shrink your degree to 30 credits. Its Information Analytics track adds a data core and may carry a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) designation.

This Master of Science in Accountancy sits in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business, CUNY Baruch College in New York City. You'll attend in person. You'll choose from three tracks: General, Information Analytics (non-STEM) and Information Analytics (STEM).

• Baruch undergraduates: the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and MS path toward becoming a certified public accountant (CPA) lets you finish the master's in one year.
• Students with an accounting degree who want the STEM track: it asks for a bachelor's in accounting from a regionally accredited U.S. university earned within five years.
• Career builders in tax: ACC 9861 and TAX 9878 cover individual and entity taxation.
• Data-minded accountants: the analytics electives include data mining, visualization and natural language processing.
• Students who want a specialist degree: the program calls itself more specialized than the MBA Accountancy.

Intermediate and Advanced Financial Accounting (ACC 9804 and ACC 9805) go from the balance sheet and revenue recognition to the most advanced reporting concepts. ACC 9811 Managerial Accounting Theory and Practice uses accounting data for planning and internal decisions. ACC 9821 Auditing covers audit standards, professional ethics and legal liability.

ACC 9861 studies the Internal Revenue Code and how individual taxpayers and corporations are taxed, and TAX 9878 Taxation of Business Entities covers corporations, partnerships, estates and trusts. ACC 9806 Financial Statement Analysis explains public-company disclosures and how markets respond. ACC 9886 Data Analytics in Accounting has you apply analytics to real accounting problems.

The analytics track adds database, data warehousing, programming and data visualization electives. ACC 9850 Accounting Practicum offers a supervised work experience.

Credits run from 30 to 70 depending on waivers earned from your undergraduate coursework. The General track lists 34 credits of accounting and taxation requirements, and the analytics track adds 13 credits of data requirements. After waivers, the STEM track ranges from 30 to 33 credits. Terms start in fall and spring. Baruch undergraduates can finish in one year through the BBA/MS Path to CPA.

You'll pay about $855 per credit, Baruch reports.

You attend classes in person at Baruch in New York City. Fall and spring starts give you two ways to begin each year.

Zicklin holds dual AACSB accreditation in accounting and business. The program is a New York State Licensure Qualifying Registered program, so it meets the state's CPA education requirements. A CPA advisor and a graduate accountancy advising team support you along the way.

Where this degree can lead: Accounting Degree Jobs.

An accounting student quoted by The Princeton Review says faculty answer email, so you're not limited to office hours. Students there also call the teachers excellent. They say Baruch is consistently a top school for Wall Street firms. U.S. News 2026 lists Zicklin accounting first in New York among public institutions.

The 2024 report from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) was published in August 2025. It counted 502 first-time CPA Exam candidates from Baruch, among the most of any university. Baruch's newsroom reported in 2024 that Zicklin students received Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) scholarships for the eighth year in a row.

• Which of my undergraduate courses earn waivers, and what will my final credit count be?
• Does the Information Analytics (STEM) track fit my timeline and visa plans?
• How is the ACC 9850 practicum placed?
• When do I meet the CPA advisor?
• Which analytics electives do students pair with ACC 9886?

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