The accounting department at the University of Richmond is well known throughout the country for producing especially high quality graduates each year.
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.