Towson University Accounting Major (B.S., College of Business and Economics): 2027 Review

Score

63.1 of 100

Cost (20%)

3.2 of 10

Graduate Earnings (20%)

7.9 of 10

Completion (15%)

8.4 of 10

Flexibility (15%)

0.0 of 10

Credential Alignment (10%)

10.0 of 10

Track Record (10%)

9.3 of 10

Program Reputation (10%)

9.0 of 10

Credits

120

Format

On Campus

Time to Finish

48 to 60 months

Accreditation

AACSB (confirmed on the official list)

AACSB Accounting

Accounting accreditation listed by AACSB

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

Every Towson accounting major completes at least one professional internship before graduating, and the required live case competition puts you in front of corporate partners. The department also holds AACSB accounting accreditation.

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting is offered by the Department of Accounting in Towson University's College of Business and Economics. Towson is a public university in Maryland. You take classes in person on the Towson campus.

• Students who want proof of experience: the degree requires one professional internship, with ACCT 497 placing you in a real accounting setting.
• Future auditors and fraud examiners: Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination has you work with IDEA fraud-detection software.
• Students who want to join a Big Four or regional firm: the Accounting Open House brings Baltimore-area firms to campus each year.
• Candidates for the certified public accountant (CPA) license who want the 150 hours: the accelerated B.S./M.S. fits the Maryland requirement.

In Intermediate Accounting I you work through cash, receivables, revenue recognition, time value of money and inventory. Intermediate Accounting II turns to plant and equipment, leases, long-term debt and income taxes, with data analytics projects. Accounting Information Systems looks at transaction cycles, internal controls and data mining, and you complete projects in Tableau.

In Management Accounting I you learn job-order, process and activity-based costing. Tax Accounting I shows you gross income, deductions and taxable income for individual taxpayers. Electives include forensic, sustainability and governmental and not-for-profit accounting. The capstone, MNGT 481 Strategic Management, includes a Live Strategy Case Competition with corporate partners.

Beta Alpha Psi, the National Association of Black Accountants and the TU Society of Accountancy run firm visits and tutoring.

The major is 120 credits. You first declare pre-accounting and finish lower-level prerequisites before you apply to the major, and you'll find it's screened. From another college, no more than nine accounting credits count toward admission, and at least half of the major's credits must be earned at Towson.

The accelerated B.S./M.S. and the M.S. in Accounting and Business Advisory Services are designed to complete the 150 credits that Maryland and many other states require for CPA licensing.

Towson reports about $1,077 per credit to federal data. There's also a list of named scholarships, including awards from Deloitte and SC&H.

You'll take classes in person on the Towson campus. The college reports an average class size of 30. The annual CBE Career Fair draws more than 40 employers, and the Accounting Open House is a recruiting fair for Greater Baltimore accounting and advisory firms.

Towson holds AACSB accreditation for both business administration and accounting. The department says only three Maryland public universities have the additional accounting accreditation. The major supplies the accounting courses for the Uniform CPA Examination in Maryland, and the department partners with providers of CPA review materials. You can start at a CPA firm with the bachelor's then finish the 150 credits later.

Where this degree can lead: Accounting Degree Jobs.

Poets&Quants, in its 2025 profile of Towson undergraduate business, reports that every 2024 business graduate completed at least one business internship. It also reports that 94.9 percent of 2024 business graduates found jobs within three months.

The same profile lists accounting employers such as CohnReznick, Aprio, EY, PwC, RSM and SC&H among the top employers of recent graduates. It places the College of Business and Economics at No. 74 in its 2025 ranking of undergraduate business programs.

• Which pre-accounting courses do I need before I can apply to the screened major?
• How do ACCT 497 and the professional experience course count toward the required internship?
• Which firms attend the Accounting Open House each year?
• Which path to the 150 credits fits me best: the B.S./M.S. or the joint M.S. with the University of Baltimore?
• How do the Deloitte and SC&H scholarships work?

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