MBA in Accounting in United Kingdom

Accounting students who would like an advanced degree can work towards an MBA Accounting. Classes may include financial management, economic analysis, marketing management, financial and managerial accounting, federal taxation, auditing, and business ethics and law. Masters in Accounting programs usually last one or two years. In either case, students are expected to complete 30 to 36 credit or semester hours in order to qualify for their degree. This, coupled with the 120 hours studied at the undergraduate level means students will be able to take professional-level accountancy examinations such as the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination in the US, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualification in the UK.

Education in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under different governments: the UK Government is responsible for England, and the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are responsible for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively. Depending on your previous education, you may need to take extra courses to strengthen your background knowledge of accounting, mathematics or finance before you start your master’s degree. This could be through a summer school program, or a distance-learning or online learning scheme. This applies to students whose bachelor’s degrees did not include a substantial amount of accounting-based courses, students who wish to switch disciplines entirely, and students who have been out of academia for too long.

Candidates may be required to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examinations test (GRE) and international candidates may need to prove their proficiency in the language of teaching.