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Accounting (MS) - Requirements and Policies

  1. Minimum credit hour requirement for MSA: 36 Maximum credit hour requirement for MSA: 57
  2. Candidates may transfer a maximum of six semester hours of approved graduate work toward their Fontbonne MSA. Only graduate level courses taken within the last four  years, subject to limited exceptions, at an accredited degree-granting institution, with a letter grade of B or higher, will be considered. All transfer credit must be approved on a course-by-course basis by  the department of business administration.
  3. In order to be eligible for dual enrollment (see dual enrollment in both the undergraduate academic policies and regulations section and the graduate program information section in this catalog) a student in the graduate business program must be classified as a senior (a minimum of 90 credit hours earned) and have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0. Graduate courses may be taken by dually enrolled students on a space-available basis and must be approved by the graduate program director, since preference is given to students enrolled in the graduate program. A maximum of nine graduate credit hours taken during dual enrollment may be applied to the total required for the master’s degree.
  4. A letter grade of C- or better is required for all courses in the PREPARATORY CORE. Students receiving less than a C- in a PREPARATORY CORE course must retake the course and earn a grade of C- or better. However, students receiving
    a grade less than C- in two or more PREPARATORY CORE courses may be dismissed from the program notwithstanding a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the REQUIRED CORE.
  5. A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 is required for the REQUIRED CORE. Any students receiving a grade less than B- in two or more courses or an F in one course in the REQUIRED CORE may be dismissed from the program
    notwithstanding a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
  6. The minimum time for the completion of the program is one year. The maximum completion time is six years beginning on the date of the first class of the first REQUIRED CORE course.

Minimum requirements for entry into the master’s degree program in accounting are a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education with a GPA of 2.75 and a GMAT score of 475 or higher.