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Accounting Minor (RSM-MN-001)

The requirements below are for students who declared the Accounting minor prior to Fall 2026. Would you like to view the requirements for the new version of the Accounting minor and declare it? Click here.

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-005 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 it is not applying as ECON-004 on your degree audit, send a VAC message to the Economics Department 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

*Click here for a printable Accounting minor Course Planning Checklist.

LOWER DIVISION CORE: 2 COURSES (8 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES QUARTER(S) TYPICALLY OFFERED
MGT/ECON-004
OR
MGT-045		 Financial Accounting
OR
Principles of Accounting		 None Fall, Winter, Spring
MGT-005 Managerial Accounting None Fall, Winter, Spring

 

UPPER DIVISION CORE: 5 COURSES (20 UNITS)

To stay on track for graduation, we recommend students start the upper-division sequence no later than Winter quarter of their junior year. If not, you may need to take Summer Session courses.

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES QUARTER(S) TYPICALLY OFFERED
MGT-131A Intermediate Accounting A MGT/ECON-004 (or MGT-045) AND MGT-005 Fall, Winter
MGT-131B Intermediate Accounting A MGT-131A Spring
MGT-132 Auditing  MGT-131B Fall, Spring
MGT-135 Federal Taxation - Companies MGT-131A

*If you’ve completed MGT-131A but not MGT-131B, submit an EASy Request so we can preauthorize your enrollment in MGT-135
 Fall, Spring
MGT-136  Advanced Accounting MGT-131B Winter

 

Below are additional accounting courses Rady offers. Please note that they do not apply toward the Accounting minor.

  • MGT-133: Advanced Cost Accounting
  • MGT-134: Federal Taxation - Individuals
  • MGT-137: Financial Statement Analysis
  • MGT-139: Accounting Information Systems
  • MGT-147: Not-for-Profit Government Accounting
  • MGT-148: Mergers and Acquisitions
  • MGT-149: Topics in Accounting

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.