Some students attend graduate school in business, law or the liberal arts. At the University of Richmond, students are taught to understand accounting and its many complexities rather than being forced to memorize purely mechanical procedures. The entire program stresses the theory behind accounting so that graduates will have the basis of knowledge to begin a life-long career. Richmond's scores on national accounting exams are consistently in the top ten of all business schools in the entire country, but the main goal of the program is to provide students with the ability to analyze a problem and arrive at a viable solution. The accounting department attempts to work with each student as an individual.
Class sizes are small and interactions between faculty and students are commonplace.
While fulfilling the program's basic requirements, students can tailor their course work to individual interests. Although Virginia does not have a 150-hour educational requirement for the CPA exam, students can earn those credits in a wide variety of ways while at Richmond. The demand for accountants in the job market is strong. Public accounting jobs attract approximately 70 percent of our accounting graduates. Other graduates go into cost accounting, internal auditing, government accounting and graduate school.