What do you say?? Do you think I should go for masters rather than doing staying more time on undergrad.? If that's the case don't worry about Masters. Just get 150 credit hours of undergraduate. Just make sure you have taken enough upper-division accounting and business classes. People in your accounting program will be able to tell you which classes from your school count as upper-division accounting classes.

ani ahile samma ko mero grades ramrai cha. 3.82 cha GPA hopefully after this semester it'll be 3.87-- Club involvement and stuff is good but I have realized that two things are crucial for being able to get your foot in the door. One is good gpa and the other one is networking. So just focus on your gpa. Anything above 3.5 should be good. Make sure all your professors know who you are. Try to built a relationship with them and ask them if they know anyone who might be able to help you find an internship. Being involved in Beta Alpha Psi might be a good way to network depending upon how active the chapter is in your college.

also, since my coll. is not one of the top ones so I was asking for the state with more job opportunities after CPA-- I know. That's what I was trying to tell you, if you can transfer colleges do that and transfer to the best college you can get into. If not, don't worry about the state right now. Things might change in 2.5 years. As of right now, a lot of international students take the California CPA (I don't have any hard numbers to prove this)

Do we need to have some experience to get CPA licence? Yes, different states have different requirements about this. I would say the average requirement is 1 year of accounting work directly under a CPA (some states require specific auditing hours as well).

So at first you take the exam and then  you need to prove that you have completed the licensing requirements and then you get your license.

Here are some useful websites:

http://www.nasba.org/nasbaweb/NASBAWeb.nsf/wpecusm?openform
http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos001.htm

Hopefully, other people will also add their comments and you will be able to get a different perspective.

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