page_title: Gies College of Business
section_title: Accountancy
hierarchical_section_title: Gies College of Business / Academic departments / Accountancy
caption_attribution_description: Wohlers Hall
context_page_description: Gies College of Business is the business school of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The school offers on-campus undergraduate program, on-campus specialized masters program, Ph.D. program and online programs. The school is accredited by the AACSB International.
  As of 2019, there are over 70,000 alumni in the world, including several Fulbright scholars. In 2013, 2014 and 2016, the college was ranked among top 5 sources of CFOs to Fortune 500 and S&P 500 firms.
context_section_description: The Department of Accountancy was founded in 1953.
  The University offered courses in accounting before the creation of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Business. The courses in the university were offered through the Department of Economics from 1902 to 1915. The college began the first PhD program in 1937 and has graduated more accountancy PhD candidates than any other accountancy department in the United States. After the formation of the college, the accountancy program was moved into the Department of Business Organization until the Department's reorganization in the 1950s.
  In 1919, H. T. Scovill helped establish the Beta Alpha Psi accounting honor society.
caption: Wohlers Hall during the Spring of 2004.
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