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MSAIT DEGREE PROGRAM
 

The Master of Science in Accounting and Information Technology (MSAIT) program prepares students for successful careers in management of accounting information systems and IT auditing, governance, controls, and compliance. The program offers an applied learning approach that blends accounting and information technology knowledge, skills, and abilities. The program is jointly delivered by the Department of Accounting and the Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods.

Students who are preparing to become auditors (internal and IT systems), business information systems consultants, and information security specialists will benefit significantly from this degree.  The combination of accounting and information systems will make the students very marketable.  Students will understand how to design, develop, modify, use, secure, and audit information systems; how to select and implement systems; how to leverage business applications (digital business, data warehousing and data mining), project management, and information security for the betterment of the organization.  Consulting, CPA firms, financial institutions, government agencies and internal audit departments in business and healthcare institutions are the type of organizations that would typically recruit these skill sets.
 

Requirements for the MSAIT Degree. Applicants to the MSAIT degree program who hold an undergraduate degree in accounting from an AACSB accredited university will normally require 36 semester hours of graduate course credit to complete the program. Applicants with undergraduate degrees in other disciplines or from a non-AACSB accredited university could be required to complete up to 15 semester hours of additional leveling coursework.

The program is comprised of accounting core courses (12 hours), information technology core courses (12 hours), prescribed accounting electives (6 hours), prescribed information technology electives (3 hours) and a 3 hour free graduate business elective.  A student may design the program to have the 30 advanced hours and other requirements to be a CPA candidate in Texas.
 

The 12 hours of required accounting core courses include:
 
ACC 5362 Cost and Managerial Accounting Theory
ACC 5371 Accounting Information Systems
ACC 5373 Fraud Detection and Prevention
ACC 5375 Business Information Consulting
 
The 12 hours of required information technology core courses include:
CIS 5355 Database Management Systems
CIS 5358 IT Systems Project Management
CIS 5368 Information Security
CIS 5370 Enterprise Resource Planning
 

These 24 hours are supplemented with 12 hours of electives from both accounting, information technology, and other business courses.

Note that to be eligible to take the CPA exam in Texas, the candidate must have 21 hours of related business courses taken either as part of undergraduate degree or taken at another university.  Contact the Accounting Department for a list of suggested business courses.
 
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