Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the responses! My son is more interested in the marketing/sales side of Business than the finance side but it is good to know that any of the colleges should be just fine!

The best marketers and salespeople go on to be GMs and CEOs. Make sure he takes accounting. Marketing and sales who know accounting well have a secret weapon and will be promoted more quickly than peers.

Accounting at JMU is difficult. My friends who took accounting said junior year was extremely difficult. They were the ones recruited right out of school for Arther Andersen and Deloitte and have gone on to be partners or CFOs, so not dummies. I’m not sure it would be worth it to OP’s son to do an accounting major just because you think there is an edge to becoming a CEO.

I’m a cpa and have worked with plenty of other accountants who went to either JMU or Va tech. All very very happy. VCU is a tier below and I’ve never heard of anyone who went there that wasn’t first gen.