Master's of Business Administration | Accounting

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Lead in Business and Bookkeeping with an MBA in Accounting

If you want to be an effective leader in business, you need a broad base of skills and knowledge covering management and business principles from many disciplines. But if you want to focus on finances and cost management, you may need specialized accounting training. Liberty University designed the Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Accounting to equip you with the knowledge and training you need to be a business leader with financial expertise.

Through this MBA Accounting online program, you will study essential areas of business management while also gaining mastery of tax preparation, auditing, accounting theory, and accounting information systems.

By conferring Liberty’s Master of Business Administration – Accounting program, you can build upon your undergraduate studies in business with specialized training in financial management, budgeting, global economics, tax research, and jurisprudence.

Courses within our MBA can prepare you to serve effectively as a leader in the modern business world. Our program emphasizes the importance of applying ethics to management practices and integrates faith with academics in a professional atmosphere. You will also study accounting ethics and best practices — skills that are mastered in a team environment and prepare you to be a successful business executive with accounting training.

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Why Choose Liberty’s MBA in Accounting?

Our online MBA in Accounting degree is an industry leader in online MBA degree programs, taught by business professionals with practical, real-world experience in leadership and accounting settings. An MBA specialization in accounting will give you a valuable collection of skills that can help you solve problems in your business and design systems to improve your financial processes.

The best online MBA in Accounting programs offer a mix of quality education and flexibility. Liberty University’s flexible online format requires no set login times for class, allowing you to remain active in your job and present with your family. You can get the skills and training you need without disrupting your life with commuting to a campus.

Our MBA in Accounting provides some of the same courses you’d find in our Master of Science in Accounting, but with a focus on advanced business principles. You can learn how smart accounting practices can be applied to your business and how to implement them for the benefit of your organization effectively. If you are hoping to sit for the CPA exam, you should look at our Master of Science in Accounting.

What Will You Study in Liberty’s MBA in Accounting?

Liberty’s online MBA degree will teach you the fundamental concepts of business administration. You can learn about strategic marketing, organizational structure, global business concepts, and the fundamentals of human resources. Through this program, you can gain a working knowledge of the steps of the decision processes involved in creating a strategic marketing program. You will also learn about the social and technical systems of organizations with an emphasis on the structural changes necessary to improve and maintain productivity and quality of work life.

Liberty University’s online MBA in Accounting will also give you access to the essential knowledge you need in the day-to-day management of a company. You will graduate with a knowledge base in essential human resource topics and learn how to evaluate and implement best practices in the human resources field. You will also study concepts and analytic methods useful in understanding the management of a firm’s operations.

Our knowledgeable faculty members can prepare you for leadership positions within the area of accounting by providing advanced training in the following areas:

Interpreting accounting data to solve problems and challenges for businesses, organizations, and corporations
Interpreting the federal tax system and its complexities so that you can guide clients through the process while minimizing liabilities
Understanding the legal issues that are prevalent in business

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At Liberty University, a private Christian education is less expensive than you think. Over the last 10 years, Liberty University’s Online Program has only raised its standard tuition costs by less than 5% – and most of our online tuition rates rank in the top 35% for affordability for 2025 when compared to our leading online competitors.

Graduate Full Time	$580/Credit
Graduate Part Time	$645/Credit
Military Graduate	$290/Credit

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 3.0 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Students must also have completed at least 15 hours of upper-level (300-400) undergraduate business credit. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
The Accounting cognate requires the following undergraduate prerequisite courses; however, they can be taken after admission into the program:
- ACCT 211 (Financial Principles)
- ACCT 212 (Managerial Principles)
- ACCT 301 (Intermediate Financial Accounting I)
- ACCT 302 (Intermediate Financial Accounting II)
- ACCT 311 (Corporate Accounting)
- ACCT 401 (Individual Taxation)
- ACCT 404 (Assurance and Attestation)
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.

Upon acceptance, the graduate transfer department will evaluate students for 27 hours of business credit in the following subject areas: accounting, business ethics, business finance, business integration and strategic management, business leadership, global dimensions of business, information management systems, legal environment of business, macroeconomics, human resource management, operations/production management, organizational behavior, marketing, microeconomics, or quantitative research techniques/statistics. Those who are missing some or all of these subject areas may be required to take BMAL 590.

Bridge Program

Students who are missing some or all admission requirements may be placed into the Graduate Certificate in Management and Leadership as a bridge.* Upon successful completion of this certificate with at least a 3.0 GPA, these students can be reevaluated for the MBA program.

*In order to be eligible for the bridge, admission requirements for the graduate certificate must still be met.

Preliminary Acceptance

If you are sending in a preliminary transcript for acceptance, you must:

Be in your final term and planning to start your master’s degree after the last day of class for your bachelor’s degree.
Complete a Bachelor’s Self-Certification Form confirming your completion date. You may download the form from the Forms and Downloads page or contact an admissions counselor to submit the form on your behalf.
Submit an official/unofficial transcript to confirm that you are in your final term. The preliminary transcript must show a minimum of 105 completed credit hours.
If you are a current Liberty University student completing your undergraduate degree, you will need to submit a Degree/Certificate Completion Application.
Send in an additional, final official transcript with a conferral date on it by the end of your first semester of enrollment in the new master’s degree.

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Unofficial College Transcript Policy

Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:

Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
Cumulative GPA
A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
Degree and date conferred (if applicable)

Official College Transcript Policy

An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.

If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

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Tuition discounts – $290 per credit hour for graduate courses
Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as a First Responder*
8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)

*Not applicable to certificates.

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is accounting in business administration a substitute for a Master of Science in Accounting?

Different accounting tracks have many purposes. The MBA in Accounting is intended to provide a robust background in business management and a focused set of accounting courses to prepare you for management with accounting responsibilities.

However, if you want to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), the Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) is a better choice for your career needs. The MSA program focuses on the discipline and profession of accounting and is designed to cover a wider variety of advanced accounting studies. Because of this format, the courses can meet content requirements for the CPA exam.

Depending on your background, the additional graduate accounting courses may qualify you to sit for the CPA exam. However, the MBA in Accounting is not designed to prepare you for these requirements.

Is an MBA in Accounting worth it?

Before you invest time and money into a new degree, you want to know that you will be rewarded for your effort. Earning an MBA in Accounting can increase your career opportunities or help you shift toward an accounting career from your current role.

However, flexibility and new job opportunities are not the only benefits of earning an MBA. With graduate studies in business and accounting, you can look forward to higher pay potential.

What can you do with an MBA in Accounting?

Are you trying to equip yourself specifically to pursue an accounting career, or do you need accounting skills to meet needs in your current role? Liberty’s MBA in Accounting can open the door to exciting new options.

Our programs in accounting equip students to perform essential financial reporting, accounting systems management, and cost assessment to fill crucial needs in many industries. With an MBA in Accounting, you will be equipped to lead in a management role while also performing and managing important financial tasks in your organization.

These skills can prepare you for many administrative roles in business such as:

Chief executive officer
Chief operating officer
Chief financial officer
Financial consultant
Financial manager
Managerial analyst
Sales manager

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