PhD Concentrations Accounting

The distinguished reputation of Carlson School's Accounting PhD program is a point of extreme pride for our department's faculty. We are committed to upholding and expanding this reputation through our continued dedication to working closely with our students to prepare them to enter a life of scholarly research. As one of the premier theoretical accounting programs in the nation, we are ranked #1 in analytical financial accounting. Empirical accounting research has also become a strong component of the program due to the significant increase in faculty advising capacity in recent years. Students gain immediate and continued exposure in "real time" to the most important research in the field by taking a wide array of seminars and attending the department's active research workshop series as well as the two national research conferences we host each year. We feel that the measure of any PhD program is the success of its graduates, so we are especially proud of our performance on this dimension, too. Our graduates have been placed and tenured at the most prestigious business schools in the nation, including those at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas Austin, Northwestern University and the Ohio State University.