Accounting Doctoral Placement: A Geographic Analysis

Authors

  • Amelia Annette Baldwin University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
  • Carol E. Brown Oregon State University

Keywords:

Education, Doctoral education,

Abstract

Accounting doctoral placement is described according to the geography of graduate employment. The results show that most U.S. programs provide graduates to schools in the state or the region. Since many doctoral programs
prefer to place their graduates in high ranking research programs or in other doctoral schools, geographic concentration suggests many of them are serving a regional need, rather than placing graduates at the highest
(research ranked) schools. Additionally, many programs have a relatively high level of foreign placements. Whether these foreign placements add to the prestige of the program is unknown, but they do not help combat the U.S.
accounting doctoral shortage.

Author Biographies

Amelia Annette Baldwin, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Amelia Annette Baldwin is the Neal Pendergraft Professor of Accounting in the College of Business at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. She has been teaching and researching accounting and business issues since 1987. She has published over 40 refereed research articles, several professional articles, as well as a monograph and a textbook.

Carol E. Brown, Oregon State University

Carol Brown recently retired as associate dean for programs in Oregon State University’s College of Business. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Oregon State. Her primary research areas are emerging technologies and accounting labor markets. She has published in Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Expert Systems with Applications, Financial Counseling & Planning, Management Accounting, Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Education, Journal of Education for Business, Advances in Accounting Education, and Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance & Management, among many others.

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Published

2012-12-05

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012)

Section

ABR Journal Articles

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