Degrees & Majors

Program Information

The undergraduate accounting program is designed to provide the foundation-level technical and analytical accounting knowledge and skills need to become a professional in the accounting field and to pursue a fifth (graduate) year of accounting study. The primary emphasis of the program is preparation for students who wish to apply for admission to the Master of Professional Accountancy program. In addition the program designed to provide appropriate preparation for entry level positions business and graduate study in law or other business fields.

Accelerated progress

In four semesters, you can earn your master of professional accountancy and be eligible to sit for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Our staff takes a personalized approach to helping students become a CPA, including personalized study plans and scheduling which exam sections to tackle first.

All the right ingredients

Many students in your cohort will bring work experience from a variety of backgrounds and industries such as law, journalism, economics, anthropology, and business, giving everyone in the cohort a new, unique perspective.

Opportunities to meet your future employers

The Accounting Career Showcase connects more than 40 accounting firms with School of Accountancy students. Also, many of the leading firms around Atlanta, including Smith & Howard, Moore Stephens Tiller and Georgia-Pacific, regularly host site visits, offering students face time with senior managers and partners. For the latest information about required courses, view the Robinson College of Business website.

We are one of the elite programs in the country

Robinson’s Master of Actuarial Science program is offered by the only school accredited by the Society of Actuaries as a Center of Actuarial Excellence in the Southeast. Our department is ranked #6 by U.S. News & World Report and has been ranked within the top 10 for more than 10 years. The program is accredited as a University Risk Program by the Professional Risk Managers Association. Other programs can claim two of these credentials, but only Robinson has achieved all three.

We are the experts

Many Master of Actuarial Science faculty are credentialed actuaries with significant experience in the professional and academic fields. Further, our actuaries are global scholars serving on editorial boards of several journals relevant for actuarial science, including the ASTIN Bulletin, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Risks, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Mathematical Studies and Statistica Sinica.

We’ll help you climb the corporate ladder

By housing our program in a business school instead of a math department, students learn business skills and acumen as well as actuarial science, creating multiple pathways up the corporate ladder. As a result of the college’s history and large scale, employers from around the country heavily recruit our talent. For the latest information about required courses, view the Robinson College of Business website.

The Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies program provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for the interdisciplinary study of people of African descent, connecting with the community and promoting social justice, while offering a curriculum that reflects the highest aspirations of education in an evolving society. Our department’s research focus engages the experiences of Africans and African descendants in the U.S. and globally through the lenses of ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality and social structure. Our instruction and curriculum promotes critical thinking, research skills and proficiency in oral and written communication.

Africana Studies is a growing discipline. An increasing number of employers are seeking to fill positions with people who possess a cultural and historical analysis of Black people in the U.S., the African diaspora, and around the globe. As a discipline that is interdisciplinary and diasporic, African American Studies specifically educates students in:

• Black political, cultural, philosophical and artistic thought and practice
• Black popular and mass culture
• Race in relation to the study of gender and sexuality
• Social justice through community engagement

This certificate program allows master’s and doctoral students in other disciplines to amplify the Africentric analysis in their own course of study. Some may simply want to explore a specific area reflected in their course of study. Others may wish to pursue employment for which a certificate in African American Studies is deemed an advantage.

Half of your learning will occur outside the classroom

Our corporate partners grant our students access to their proprietary data so they can apply program concepts to business problems. We call these month-long projects Insight Sprints.

We will put you on employers’ radar

The Robinson College of Business is in the heart of Atlanta, the business capital of the Southeast. More than 150,000 companies are headquartered here, including 26 Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of hot start-ups. The program’s Insight Sprints and speaker events will give you face time with desirable employers.

We lead in analytics education

U.S. News & World Report ranks our graduate and undergraduate computer information systems programs in the top 10 in the nation. In 2015, the UT Dallas Research Productivity Index ranked us #1 for a rise in research productivity ranking among the top 50 U.S. business schools in the last five years. For the latest information about required courses, view the Robinson College of Business website.

Program Information

Anthropology, the study of humans, provides students with a perspective on the nature of humankind over time and in different environments. It is concerned with humans as biological beings (biological anthropology), with prehistory and cultural evolution (archaeology), and with how humans order their worlds socially and culturally (social/cultural anthropology), as well as with the nature of human language (linguistic anthropology). The Department of Anthropology offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology. Undergraduate majors are encouraged to take a wide range of courses in archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. For the latest information about required courses, view the Undergraduate Catalog. For more information about the Minor in Anthropology, view the Department of Anthropology website.

The applied behavior analysis program gives students the opportunity to work in a clinical and community environment to help people with disabilities. It teaches how to master basic behavioral-analytic skills, such as measurement, experimental design and various behavioral change components to help students become better therapists. Program highlights include collaborations with faculty members, opportunities for practicum internship placements and a cohort model that fosters lasting professional relationships. You will also learn client-centered responsibilities, such as problem identification, methods of intervention and implementation, management and supervision. This course also gives you important foundation knowledge, which includes the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Professional Disciplinary and Ethical Standards and Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts. Exam pass-rate data are not published for sequences with fewer than six first-time candidates in a single year or for sequences within their first four years of operation. To access current pass rates, current and potential students may visit BACB’s Verified Course Sequences page. The coursework and practicum courses completed for the master of science degree in applied behavior analysis have been approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc. ® as meeting the coursework and experience requirements for eligibility to take the Board Certified Behavior Analyst Examination ®. Applicants will have to meet additional requirements to apply. There is a non-degree version of this program. Please view the admissions requirements below.   New for 2020 – we have a new initiative that hopes to recruit, train and support graduate students interested in graduating with an M.S. in Applied Behavior Analysis. The program is called Project Behavioral Early Education Scholars (BEES) and it can help provide financial support as you study for this degree. Learn more about this funding opportunity.