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Overcoming Challenges with Optimism Instead of Anxiety
How the MPAc program has helped me develop confidence in my professional abilities
The MPAc program is so much more than accounting—It has given me the opportunity to meet amazing people and become a stronger, more confident professional who is no longer controlled by anxiety.
MPAc Job Placement Success: 100% Job Placement with Record Average Starting Salary
Entire Class of 2022 secured jobs within weeks of starting program
MPAc Associate Director Erica Wondra discusses the many benefits of earning your masters in accounting at UC Davis.
MSBA Job Success: 90% Placed Within Six Months, Record $109K+ Average Salary Plus $9.4K Bonus
The graduating class of 2021 is proving, once again, the power of the UC Davis MSBA degree.
Ninety percent of the UC Davis MSBA 2021 graduates landed job offers within six months of graduation.
MSBA Practicum: Takeaways for Effective Teamwork
Shared vision and complementary skills essential to our team’s success
A highlight of the MSBA is the program-long practicum project. Our team is collaborating with the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMC-RI) to improve data processes in the Cancer Avatar project.
Finding the Right Fit for Your MBA
Top 5 factors to consider
Our goal is to help you find the right fit as you make a significant investment in yourself to pursue an MBA to advance your personal and professional pursuits. My top five factors to consider: culture and location, flexibility, leadership development, hands-on learning and rankings.
How to Protect Your Career from a Fraud Scheme
Tips for empowering people at any level of an organization so they don't succumb to a fraud scheme
Unfortunately, as scandal after scandal has shown us, an ethical mindset is becoming increasingly important in the accounting world. I offer five tips to protect yourself from a from a fraud scheme.
My MSBA Practicum Team Dynamics
How the diversity of my team and our roles is helping me find my way
For our practicum project, our MSBA team worked with a media non-profit based in the Bay Area, KQED, one of the member television stations throughout the U.S. that are part of the Public Broadcasting Service.
Let’s Talk Business! Engineering My Future Career
UC Davis MBA program helps me learn business skills, lingo and apply it to my career
I know what words like “cash,” “credit,” and having a “balanced budget” mean in a personal finance context. But I was lost in my engineering job at a local utility company when co-workers used industry lingo to describe corporate budgets.
Tackling Behavioral Interviews
Tips from an Amazon recruiter on how to ace an interview
One of the highlights of the MSBA experience is an exclusive Interview Preparation Series where industry professionals from top companies guide us on how to be successful in interviews.
Global IMPACT: How We Partnered with the United Nations to Improve the Social Good
Well, I’m here to tell you that, at UC Davis, you actually CAN make a global impact with your work. How do I know? I’m here to tell you. Our team consulting project for the United Nations was to increase the awareness and inspire the adoption of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) by the social-good community.
Tight-knit, Helpful Community at UC Davis Reminds Me of Home
How my love for accounting deepened in the Master of Professional Accountancy program
Born to a small family in the Caribbean, my road to UC Davis has been anything but linear. What kept me moving forward—and enabled me to earn my graduate accounting degree—was my family’s values of hard work and determination.
Tech Job Panel Offers Insider Tips, Networking Among MBA Students
UC Davis MBA students in tech industry share expertise and insight with students and prospects
Many companies are expanding operations or pursuing aggressive workforce expansion plans in the future. Plus, salaries are on the rise in the tech sector. I moderated a panel of recruiters from Netflix, Meta and Stick Fix, all alumni and students.