Accounting

This program offers students a strong general business education together with the opportunity for a concentration in finance, international business, management, or marketing. The BS degree program in Accounting is appropriate for graduates of associate’s degree programs as well as for new and transfer students.

Admission, Continuation, and Graduation Requirements

For admission, continuation, and graduation from the Bachelor of Science degree program in Accounting students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5. 

Graduate Course Double Counting Policy | Business Management MS

Undergraduate students majoring in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and satisfying the following criteria may be granted permission to take up to three graduate courses at undergraduate tuition to be counted towards their bachelor’s degree. These graduate courses may be used only to substitute for 400-level elective requirements (ACC, BDA, BUS, ECO, FNC, MGT, MKT) designations. All graduate courses in the Business Management program can be taken as double-counting courses. All graduate courses in the Business Management Program can be taken. This allows students to earn two degrees, the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees in five years.

Criteria:

• Current enrollment in a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits.

• Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above.

• Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Business School faculty under whom the applicant has studied.

• Permission from the course instructor, the coordinator of the graduate program, and the department chairperson.

• Application for admission and conditional acceptance into the Business Management graduate program

Graduate Course Double Counting Policy | Healthcare Management MS

Undergraduate students majoring in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and satisfying the following criteria may be granted permission to take up to three graduate courses at undergraduate tuition to be counted towards their bachelor’s degree. These graduate courses may be used only to substitute for 400-level courses that satisfy elective requirements for the undergraduate major. All graduate courses at the 600-level in the Healthcare Management program are eligible. This allows students to earn two degrees, the bachelor’s and the master’s degrees in five years.

Criteria:

• Current enrollment in the bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or Economics at the College of Staten Island and completion of three years of study with 90 or more earned credits. 

• Cumulative GPA 3.3 or above.

• Two letters of recommendation, at least one from a full-time College of Staten Island Business School faculty under whom the applicant has studied. 

• Permission from the course instructor, the coordinator of the graduate program, and the department chairperson.

• Application for admission and conditional acceptance into to the Healthcare Management graduate program.