Big 4 Accounting Firms Advice

[Life Long Learning]

The best advice I can give you is to enroll in a traditional, AACSB-accredited accounting program at a school where the Big-4 recruits heavily.  Almost all of the Big-4's entry-level recruiting and hiring is through selected schools. In my experience, new hires from schools they don't formally recruit at are uncommon. They result from "knowing somebody," or the applicant has a very unusual skill outside of accounting that they have a big need for at the time.

I 100% agree.  I just met a guy who works for one of the Big 4 (EY).  He is a former Navy Nuc Officer and Rutgers Business School MBA graduate.  They pay well and can draw from the best business schools.  This guy also does EY corporate branding.  Branding is the new in fashion focus now in upper business schools.  In my Mini-MBA program at Rutgers, he spent four hours teaching us about personal branding.  LinkedIn is big in his World.  Staying off social media to argue is also huge.   

I think on this OP's case so would a brand name college.  I love the Big 3 but they would be 10,000 to 1 shot unless you already work for them.

Go to LinkedIn and google the Big 4 and read about their employees!  Where did they get their degrees from?  That will tell you the real truth.