FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n
Monday, December 9, 2019<\/p>\n
STEPHENVILLE, Texas— Tarleton Texans know how to become excellent accountants. Recent Certified Public Accountant exam pass rates prove it.<\/p>\n
Over the past year, Tarleton accounting students have compiled a 55 percent on the CPA exam, leading all but one program in the Texas A&M University System. That rate also puts Tarleton among the top-tier accounting programs in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.<\/p>\n
Last quarter, eight more Tarleton students successfully completed their exams and advanced to Certified Public Accountant status.<\/p>\n
“Our 100th<\/sup> graduate joined the CPA ranks in 2017,” said Keldon Bauer, chair of the Accounting, Finance, and Economics Department. “We’re moving quickly now toward our 200th.”<\/p>\n The Tarleton State University College of Business Administration comprises outstanding faculty from across the globe, serving a diverse population of over 2,800 students in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, and Midlothian, Texas, with flexible, student-centered learning opportunities.<\/p>\n Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today’s scholars into tomorrow’s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Contact: Dr. Charles “Chuck” Thomas<\/p>\n 254-968-9914<\/p>\n cthomas@tarleton.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tarleton Texans know how to become excellent accountants. Recent Certified Public Accountant exam pass rates prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Academics & Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Academics & Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 9, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 9, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:46 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54235,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680\/revisions\/54235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}