Professional Accounting Coalition Expresses Strong Opposition to Draft Regulation Excluding Accounting From Professional Degree Designation

Professional Accounting Coalition Expresses Strong Opposition to Draft Regulation Excluding Accounting from Professional Degree Designation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), together with eight other professional accounting organizations representing approximately 1.5 million accounting and finance professionals, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education expressing strong opposition to…

Accounting groups band together to protest Ed. Dept. downgrade

Nine organizations wrote to the Department of Education expressing strong opposition to proposed rules excluding accounting from recognition as a professional degree program.

Exclusion of accounting programme from professional degree designation opposed

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), along with eight other professional groups, has urged the US Department of Education to maintain the accounting programme professional degree designation in its new draft regulation. The AICPA and eight other professional groups represent approximately 1.5 million accounting and finance professionals. The recent Department of Education draft regulation excludes accounting programmes across the US from a pr…

Accounting Organizations Unite Against Administration De-Listing Accounting as Professional Degree

The Department of Education’s recent proposed regulation would exclude accounting programs across the country from a professional degree designation for the purposes of graduate student loan eligibility, which will do great harm to the profession.