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lutions to complex issues and debating
         their cases on a national stage. MUN
         students represent countries and non-
         governmental organisations, tackling
         topics such as climate change, public
         health  threats,  global  conflicts  and
         international trade. MUN is a  truly
         international  student  organisation;
         it currently welcomes students from
         several countries, including India, the
         US, Russia, Germany, South Korea,
         Greece, Morocco, Tunisia among oth-
         ers. I invite interested Indian schools
         and  students  to  connect  with  us,”
         says Dr. Jeff Abernathy, an alum
         of Longwood College, Virginia Com-
         monwealth and Florida universities
         with career experience in Augustana
         College and Virginia Wesleyan Col-  UDM's Donald Taylor: nationwide CPA reputation
         lege, appointed President in 2010.
         Currently,  Alma College  has  1,245   the high quality of its Certified Public   from 54 countries (including 57 from
         students from 21 countries (including   Accountant (CPA) degree programme   India) mentored by 216 full-time fac-
         three from India) mentored by 103   is the University of Detroit Mer-  ulty on its muster rolls.
                                                                             UDM’s four-year Bachelor of Sci-
         highly qualified faculty on its musters.   cy (UDM, estb.1877), a “Catholic   ence in Business Administration with
         A         N INDIAN SCHOOL which   traditions”. “We provide excellent   a major in accounting and MBA pro-
                                          university in the Jesuit and Mercy
                   is highly impressed with
                                          student-centred undergraduate and
                                                                           gramme which integrates CPA is likely
                   the MUN programme of
                                          text. A Detroit Mercy education seeks
                   Alma College is the EW   graduate education in an urban con-  to be of great interest to school-leavers
                                                                           in India. “In 2022,  University HQ
         Top 10 ranked Shiv Nadar School,   to integrate the intellectual, spiritual,   ranked UDM one of the nation’s best
         Noida. For the school’s MUN con-  ethical and social development of our   accounting colleges, as well as one
         ference, they partnered with Alma   students,” says Dr. Donald B. Tay-  with the Best MBA Programs for ac-
         College which “arguably has the best   lor, an alum of University of Mem-  counting, while College Factual ranks
         MUN team in the world”. Under the   phis and former president of Cabrini   UDM #1 for Value for Business in the
         partnership students from Alma   University, who helms this highly re-  state of Michigan and in the United
         “spent over a month teaching our   spected university with 5,360 students   States. This suggests that students
         students from grade VII-XI the ba-  Aquinas sports director Ambrose (right)   who aspire to practice as accountants
         sics of MUN procedure and ran them                                — and especially CPAs — would do
         through many interesting simula-                                  well to enrol in Detroit Mercy’s Ac-
         tions,” says Col. (Retd.) Gopal Ka-                               counting program because the prob-
         runakaran, CEO of the Shiv Nadar                                  ability of success is exceptionally high.
         School (estb.2012) in an online blog.                             Most of our students don’t need to re-
         “While exposing students to several                               take the CPA exam multiple times —
         agendas of global importance, MUN                                 having earned a UDM degree, they are
         builds skills of effective and sponta-                            well-prepared for licensure exams and
         neous  public  speaking, and  being  a                            positions as accountants,” says Taylor.
         completely students-led initiative, it                              Likewise, while providing 36 arts,
         also develops leadership skills,” added                           science and commerce majors and
         Karunakaran.                                                      several  innovative  minors,  another
           Another MCA member university                                   MCA member institution — Aquinas
         which  offers  more  than  100  under-                            College — has acquired a national
         grad study programmes spanning                                    reputation for its degree programme
         the gamut of arts, science, business,                             in sports management. “The distin-
         biology, dentistry among others, but                              guishing feature of Aquinas College
         has acquired a national reputation for                            education is that we maintain a low

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