BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Keeping in step with rapidly evolving uses of digital information by the world’s leading accounting and professional services firms, the Indiana University Kelley School of Business will begin offering a Master of Science in Accounting with Data and Analytics degree.
Kelley has offered an intensive one-year Master of Science in Accounting since 1998, and its curriculum has evolved in recent years to support the new direction being offered through the new degree.
More recently, substantive changes to the curriculum have included more stand‐alone and integrated data and analytics coursework.
“As in other professional fields, leading professional services firms increasingly are employing artificial intelligence, robotics, digitization, data and analytics and are requiring our graduates to understand the technologies and methodologies used in today’s highly complex, data‐centric accounting environment,” said Leslie Hodder, faculty chair of Graduate Accounting Programs and the Conrad Prebys Professor. “Our curriculum has been on the leading edge of these changes and we sought this name change because it more accurately reflects what our program offers today.”
The in‐residence program is designed for students with undergraduate accounting degrees who wish to develop deeper subject‐matter expertise and data‐analytics skills before embarking on their careers in professional services or at corporations.