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| re: UNO MS Accounting Questions? At most where you get your MS will only matter for the first job from a recruitment perspective. The big 4 from several offices recruit heavily out of LSU. The big 4 probably doesn't recruit as heavy out of UNO if at all. If you have a job already lined up you could get your MS from university of phoenix and it wouldn't matter. The main point being that the MS itself doesn't hold any prestige. If one guy got his CPA without having an MS he won't earn any less in the long run than a CPA who has an MS, nor will a CPA without an MS ever lose a job to a CPA with an MS for that reason alone. At most the big 4 might pay an MS graduate 2-4K more the first year with the firm. That's it. Hardly a good return on an extra year of school. Reply • Back to Top |
| Precisely, that's all I was getting at, and I'm just going to try and reiterate my point/support yours more here. Anyone who recruits UNO recruits LSU, but anyone who recruits LSU does not necessarily recruit UNO. B4 NOLA recruit UNO, but that's about it B4-wise. So if you want to stay in NOLA, I'm not sure it makes much of a difference, you're probably afforded the same opportunities in that regard, and honestly I do not think they judge an MS LSU v an MS UNO (especially with an undergrad LSU) any different. I just tend to think of it as maximizing your opportunities. Again, the degree itself makes no difference, but where you get it from will expose (recruit) you to different openings. Ignore the non-local ops because I've seen LT post before she's not intending to leave the metro area, so take like Entergy, for instance, they recruit LSU pretty well from my knowledge and while they will pick up some people from UNO, its a heck of a lot less (assuming they're not still in a hiring freeze which they were 3 years ago). So IMO, in deciding between LSU and UNO and ignoring non-local ops, it just becomes a matter of whether you think that additional possible exposure is worth the additional cost. I personally think it is, because you can't get those opportunities back later, but if your goal is just to get into a small or medium sized local office, it doesn't matter at all. You just have to think about where you want to be in a decade; going from small/local to B4 is really tough, going from B4 to small is really easy. I'm just trying to give advice that weighs both scenarios so people don't have regrets down the line. Reply • Back to Top |
Thanks kfizzle  . I really appreciate your sound advice. Did you attend LSU for both undergrad and grad school?Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by lsu xman on 5/3 at 3:59 am to ladytiger118 I took 12hrs of grad classes at UNO and I have a MS-Accting from LSU(05'). UNO grad classes are way easier than LSU. If you want a great GPA without having to bust your tail, go to UNO. This post was edited on 5/3 at 4:00 am Reply • Back to Top |
| LSU undergrad UNO grad. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Geez you don't get any better first hand advice than this.  Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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