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Best you can become is an adjunct or a lecturer with a masters.
A true professor needs a phd. That will likely take 5 years to get is my guess.
Best of luck to you
I’m not saying what I think is right. I’m just commenting on what the market dictates. If you want to be a professor, specifically a tenured professor at the majority of institutions you need a phd. Now, can you be a “teaching professor?” Sure. But that is generally treated as different than a PhD. It commenting on whether that is right or wrong. Go to the American Accounting Association website and check the job board
I went to a top 5 accounting program and the best professors were the adjunct professors without PhDs. They just did a lot more consulting than the other professors and still made great money. With a PhD you’ll just get paid more to do research.
I would reach out to professors you had at your university and get their opinions
Those people were teaching for fun.
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Get your CPA license and then get your PhD.
Prior comments are generally correct about the true professor role but I’ve seen some non-PhDs in senior lecturer roles that seem like a pretty good gig for the right person. It depends what you want to do. Do you just want to teach, or do you also want the title and to publish research?
Adjunct teach to dip your toe in. I’d start by looking at junior colleges and then also leveraging previous professors. That’s how I got started
Can confirm. You need a PhD.
That some pretty serious naivety. You earned an accounting degree without realizing what was going on around you?
and that’s some pretty serious foolishness. Maybe OP didn’t know they wanted to be a professor when going through school, and that’s okay. They’re now looking to the bowl for insight. How is this contributing at all to the conversation? The grammar issue really tops this off. Do better.
Universities pay professors to research. Ranking are all based on research. Teaching is very, very secondary. Research active PhD professors start at 250k. Without a PhD, you might top out at low 100’s.
Gotta publish.
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If you want to just teach part-time (which doesn’t seem your goal) then a graduate degree is enough for certain colleges.
I’ve seen ppl with 1-2 years audit experience who quit, go do their PhD where they got their undergrad/ masters and become a professor there. I envy them
Why do you need a PHD as long as you have experience as an accountant for few years which means someone who has become a member of a professional body you can teach accountancy.
You need to be clear are you wanting teach accountancy to college students or to people who want to become accountant?
Those two are different, for college students you just need to have teaching qualification while teaching accountancy to people who want to become accountant you will need wider knowledge and experience.