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Forensic Accounting 4-year Degree Program

Combine accounting, criminal justice, information technology and legal studies and you have one of the hottest career fields—forensic accounting.

Our 4-year degree program will provide the skills you need to detect risk and recommend protective measures. Organizations that employ forensic accountants include insurers, banks, major accounting firms, large corporations, law firms and government.

Bachelor of Science in Forensic Accounting: Highlights

This is to some degree a multi-disciplinary program, drawing on various fields to prepare students for a specialized career field.

• Accounting courses include preparation for the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) exam.
• Business courses include business law, ethics, finance and fraud examination.
• Criminal justice courses include investigation processes and procedures.
• Computing studies include information security, data and networks, and computer forensics
• Legal courses include a student of American legal systems

Offered on campus and online, the 4-year degree in forensic accounting can be completed in 36 months of full-time study.

About our accredited college and the forensic accounting degree

Globe University is nationally accredited by ACICS. In addition to the forensic accounting degree program, opportunities include the MBA: Accounting emphasis and associate degree programs. Please call 1-877-655-7676 for information about the program, our school or careers in forensic accounting.

Visit Minnesota School of Business website for statistics on the program at Globe campuses.  

Notes. 1 – Tuition, fees and textbook costs are current as of October 3, 2011 and represent estimated costs for students completing the program “on-time” based on current tuition levels which are subject to change; 2 – “Median Federal Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from federal student loans for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 3 – “Median Private Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from private loan sources for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 4 – “Median Institutional Loan Debt” is the median value of total debt from institutional financing plans for students completing the program in the 2010-2011 award year; 5 – the “On-Time Completion Rate” reflects the percentage of students completing the program in 2010-2011 who did so within the normal program length; 6 – Job placement rate calculated for 2010-2011 program graduates using the methodology established by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS – www.acics.org); 7 – O*Net is the U.S. Department of Labor’s database for job titles and information related to employment in specific career fields. The occupations listed in the table above result from entering the program’s CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) Code into the O*Net Crosswalk at http://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/. CIP codes reflect broad categories of educational programs rather than the specific focus of a program offered at a particular institution. As a result, the occupations listed above represent potential careers that may be obtained by graduates of this program and may include occupations in which program graduates do not work. Please speak to an admissions representative to learn more about specific career opportunities for graduates of this program. Values of “n/a” appear for programs that had fewer than 10 graduates in 2010-2011.