Accounting Minor (RSM-MN-001)
The Accounting minor at the Rady School of Management provides a high-quality education for students seeking a professional career in accounting. The minor meets the interests of those students who understand the related importance of accounting in other career tracks such as finance, investment, project management, operations, entrepreneurship and general management.
UCSD undergrads on the accounting minor pathway are welcome to explore the Junior Application pathway for the Masters of Professional Accountancy (MPAc) program at the Rady School of Management. The Junior Application process allows highly qualified UC undergraduates in junior standing to be identified early for conditional nomination to the MPAc program beginning the following fall. For more information, contact Rady’s Graduate Admissions at radygradadmissions@ucsd.edu.
The Accounting minor can be combined with any major or minor.
To assist with your planning and to review course descriptions, click on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes on Rady’s undergraduate webpage.
Important Policies:
- All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better. Students must finish the minor with an overall GPA of 2.0 or higher.
- Students may overlap 8 upper division units between their major and minor. There is no restriction for overlapping lower-division units.
- Upper-division courses are not permitted to overlap between minors. Only lower-division courses are permitted to overlap.
- A minimum of 5 courses for the Accounting minor must be taken at UC San Diego.
- If you are a current student and took a managerial accounting course outside of UC San Diego and it is not applying as MGT 5 on your degree audit, submit a Rady petition to request course equivalency.
- If you took a financial accounting course outside of UC San Diego and would like to ECON-004 credit for it but it is not applying as such on your degree audit, send a VAC message to the Economics Department to request course equivalency. Likewise, If you took a financial accounting course outside of UC San Diego and would like to MGT-045 credit for it but it is not applying as such on your degree audit, send a VAC message to the Rady School of Management to request course equivalency.
Declaring the Minor
The accounting minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree. There is no separate admissions process. We highly encourage students to declare the Accounting Minor as soon as possible, to ensure you are meeting all program requirements. Rady sends important information regarding class offerings and policy changes to our minor students through our minor list.
You may declare a minor through Tritonlink by using the Major/ Minor Tool. For more information on how to declare, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page
Minor Requirements
As of Fall 2026, there are two versions of the Accounting minor depending on when a student declares it. Each version requires 7 courses. Students can only have one Accounting minor.
Students who do not have the Accounting minor declared prior to Fall 2026 cannot declare the pre-Fall 2026 version.
Students who declared the Accounting minor prior to Fall 2026 are welcome to drop their current Accounting minor and declare the new Fall 2026 version of the Accounting minor but they cannot move back to the pre-Fall 2026 version of the minor.
To view the requirements for the pre-Fall 2026 Accounting minor, click here.
To view the requirements for the new Fall 2026 version of the minor, click here.
CPA Resources
If you wish to excel in the Public Accounting profession, you may need to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). The California Board of Accountancy (CBA) requires coursework in specific areas alongside a year’s worth of professional experience in accounting. Depending on when you take the exam, it may also require 225 quarter units (150 semester units) of college coursework.
Units can be completed prior to graduation or after graduation at another institution.*
When planning to sit for the CPA exam, Rady strongly recommends scheduling an appointment with a Rady advisor by sending Rady a VAC message and utilizing two resources: (1) CPA Tip Sheet*** and the (2) Self-Assessment Excel File.
The CPA Tip Sheet and Self-Assessment you use is based on when you plan on taking the CPA exam.
| Date Taking the Exam | Requirements to Follow |
|---|---|
| On/Before December 31, 2026 | Current Tip Sheet |
| January 1, 2027 – December 31, 2028 | Choose between the current Tip Sheet and the New Tip Sheet |
| On/After January 1, 2029 | New Tip Sheet |
*Visit the Rady FAQ page under “Beyond Undergrad” for more information
***While reviewing the tip sheet, note that semester and quarter units are weighted differently (semester units x 1.5 = quarter units).
Questions?
Current UC San Diego students: Please submit your questions via the VAC and an advisor will respond in 1–3 business days.
Non-UC San Diego students: Email us at undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.
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