I took my accounting courses at a state college. It took anyone who had passed a junior college. The intermediate accounting courses were enormous. After that year, classes were much much smaller. Basically, the school didn’t weed people out at the beginning, but if they couldn’t keep up with the work, they were gone. That seemed like a reasonable alternative to high scores for entrance.
After all, when it comes to the working world, a bad accountant is worse than no accountant.
And as to the value of an accounting degree there, all the big auditing firms, banks, corporations etc. were interviewing there as much as any other school.

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