Niagara University offers an integrated 154-hour program in which students earn a BBA degree after four years and an MBA degree after the fifth year. The program prepares students for careers in public accounting, and is a New York state CPA 150 licensure-qualifying program for the CPA exam. In the first three years of the program students take a common core of accounting, business and liberal arts courses. Students begin taking up to two MBA courses in the fourth year of the program, and can complete the BBA/MBA program in one additional year comprising the summer, fall and spring semesters. Students are awarded the BBA degree after completing BBA requirements (usually four years), and the MBA degree after completing MBA requirements (one additional year).