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About the Ph.D. Prep Program BYU's School of Accountancy offers a specialized PhD Prep Track as part of the Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) degree. The program is designed to prepare students to enroll in a Ph.D. program in accounting at another university after finishing their master’s degree. Students in both the five-year integrated program and the two-year graduate program are eligible to apply to the PhD Prep Track. The program involves Ph.D.-style seminars to learn about research and academic work, as well as coursework in mathematics, econometrics, and statistics. Students who participated in this program have been highly successful in placing at research intensive Ph.D. programs. Those who complete their Ph.D. in accounting enter a field where there is high demand, and it is projected that this will be the case for the foreseeable future. Starting salaries for new professors in accounting are two to four times higher than starting salaries for MAcc graduates. Learn more about the Prep Track by reading the History of the Prep Track. Advice, Suggestions, and Resources This site is meant to provide useful advice, suggestions, and resources for all users. These are separated by topical area: Ph.D. Prep Track and Doctoral Student Q&A Research Teaching and Service Other Topics File:Duke.jpg University Information File:Belltower.jpg External Sites People One purpose of this website is to improve networking among past Ph.D. prep students, current Ph.D. prep students, and friends of BYU. Please make sure you are included in the website and you keep your information up to date. File:Writing.jpg Current Ph.D. Prep Track Students Current Doctoral Students File:Eraser.jpg Current Faculty File:Accounting.jpg Practitioners Also, please see our collective Accomplishments and Successes. Announcements We have started a Facebook page entitled BYU Accounting Academics and and Friends. Feel free to like it if you want to network with others interested in BYU. For those attending the AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, please note that the BYU reception is scheduled for Sunday evening, August 1 from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. in the Wyndam Park 55 Hotel in the Market Street room, 3rd floor. As in the past, this is a desert reception – ice cream and cookies. If you meets someone you would like to invite, feel free to do so. A new accounting research ranking website is available. Over 5,000 pages of data are available on university rankings, Ph.D. rankings, and individual authors. Enjoy! We are trying to create some really good content on the page: So you want to get a Ph.D.?. We just added the video below to the Life as a Professor page: Please help out! Not sure what to do or how to do it? See the Help page. Quote "Starting now, you must use your education not to say something impressive but to do something that will lift others and help them be successful. In other words, you must use your education not to distinguish yourself from others but to devote yourself to them--to helping them grow and flourish, even if it seems at the expense of your own prominence and glory. This is the way of our Savior." Elder Robert D. Hales, BYU Spring Commencement 2006 (full text available here) - more Quotes