DIFFERENCES IN FACTORS AFFECTING CHOICE OF MAJOR BY FRESHMEN AND TRANSFER ACCOUNTING STUDENTS

摘要

There has been a significant drop in accounting enrollments nationwide in the past few years. It hasrnbecome important to understand the factors that influence student's choice of accounting as a major andrntheir choice of college and university. This study attempts to determine the factors that led accountingrnstudents at Cal Poly to choose accounting as their major and come to Cal Poly.rnThe study shows that the majority of accounting department students are transfer students. Most studentsrnchose to major in accounting at junior college or after they started at Cal Poly Pomona. Very fewrnstudents chose their major while in high school.