Admission Requirements

Students interested in majoring in accounting begin as pre-accounting students and are paired with a faculty advisor. Advisors work with students to help them stay on track and meet the requirements for admission to the accounting major. When students are eligible for review, the College of Business and Economics evaluates their qualifications and communicates their admission decision via email.

In order to be admitted to the accounting major, students must meet the requirements for their designated catalog year.

  1. Formal admission to Towson University as a degree candidate.
  2. Minimum Overall GPA of 2.30 for all coursework taken at Towson University.
  3. Minimum GPA of 2.70 for the six CBE lower-level core courses
    • ACCT 201
    • ACCT 202
    • ECON 201 (or 203)
    • ECON 202 (or 204)
    • ECON 205 (or MATH 231 or MATH 233)
    • LEGL 225. 
  4. Minimum GPA of 2.70 for at least three of the upper-level accounting courses required for admission to the major:
    • ACCT 301 Intermediate Accounting I
    • ACCT 302 Intermediate Accounting II
    • ACCT 341 Management Accounting I or ACCT 361 Tax Accounting I

Minimum grade of C or higher for ALL of the courses required for admission to the major.

No more than two courses required for admission to the major may be repeated. Of the two courses, no more than one course may be repeated twice.

Students who take an upper-level major-only accounting course before being admitted to the accounting major will be disenrolled from the course.