Kesler University Partnership
Help Students Leave Campus With a CPA Exam Study Plan
Kesler works with universities to scope complete CPA review course access, onboarding, and candidate support around the academic calendar. Your team gets a concrete rollout process instead of a generic course link to distribute at graduation.
This is a Kesler CPA Review sales page for university decision-makers. University pricing, seat minimums, access terms, purchasing, accessibility, data handling, and support responsibilities are set in an institution-specific proposal.
Campus-to-CPA transition
Build the Handoff Before Graduation Arrives
Graduation dates, recruiting timelines, internship schedules, and anticipated exam-prep start windows belong in the first conversation. They determine when students hear about the program, receive access, and learn how to begin.
Define the Student Group
Identify eligible students, the internal program owner, funding approach, academic milestones, and intended launch window.
Scope the Program
Align on cohort access, purchasing, roster handling, student communication, onboarding, accessibility, and support responsibilities.
Launch With Context
Students receive access instructions, a course orientation, and an explanation of how lesson formats, practice, review, and planning work together.
Support the Transition
Students get visible routes for access and study-method questions as they move from coursework into self-directed CPA exam preparation.
Candidate experience
Give Different Study Formats a Clear Job
A student can choose the format that helps a concept click, then confirm it through practice. That flexibility matters during the transition from structured coursework to an independent exam schedule.
Self-Study Mentorship
A guided program helps students start, study, review, and respond to setbacks with the Kesler Method instead of inventing a process alone.
Complete Digital CPA Review Course
Kesler includes Digital Textbook content, 210 Study Notes, 913 Bite-Sized Video Lessons, 210 Audio Notes, 8,000+ MCQs with a Learn N GO MCQ Explanation for each question, 275+ task-based simulations, flashcards, planning tools, and the mobile and desktop web app (PWA). The proposal defines cohort access.
Multiple Study Formats
Digital Textbook content, Study Notes, Bite-Sized Video Lessons, Audio Notes, flashcards, and practice let students match the format to the work in front of them.
Community + Expert Email Support
Kesler Community access and Expert Email Support from Kesler's team of CPA exam experts give students somewhere to take study-method, course-use, and content questions after launch.
Need printed textbooks? Include quantity, supported sections, delivery timing, and accessibility requirements in the proposal. This public university page does not promise a fixed print package.
How candidates study
Stop Guessing What to Do Next. Follow the Kesler Method.
A six-step study loop connects the Digital Textbook content, lesson formats, practice bank, and learning evidence so each Kesler tool has a clear job in a study session.
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Know the Concepts
Use the Digital Textbook content, Study Notes, and Bite-Sized Video Lessons to build a mental map of AICPA Blueprint topics instead of memorizing disconnected facts.
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Engage Best Formats
Determine what helps you grasp each concept fastest: Digital Textbook depth, Bite-Sized Video Lessons, Study Notes, or MCQs with Learn N GO MCQ Explanations. Start with the format that clicks, then confirm it through practice.
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Solve to Strengthen
Build a focused MCQ block with the Quiz Builder and Focus Timer. Work task-based simulations, then open the question-specific Learn N GO MCQ Explanation when an MCQ's reasoning is still unclear.
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Loop Back After a Delay
Return with quizzes, KeslerCards, and Audio playlists. Use the Progress Center to distinguish a fresh result from evidence that held up after time away.
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Eliminate Weak Spots
Use ReadySignal and the Progress Center to choose the next priority, then build a weakness-focused KeslerCards deck when enough mapped study evidence is available.
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Rehearse the Exam Work
Build timed practice blocks with the Focus Timer and MCQs, then rehearse multi-step application with 275+ task-based simulations.
Use all six steps when a topic is new. During review, re-enter the loop where the candidate's practice evidence points. Personalized priorities require enough mapped study activity.
Founder track record
Mentorship Recognized Across the Profession
These links are third-party reporting and recognition, not pass-rate evidence or a guarantee that another candidate will have the same outcome.
Journal of Accountancy · June 2023
Planning With the Candidate Who Passed at 15
The Journal of Accountancy reported on Bryan Kesler's mentorship of Jimmy Chilimigras, including twice-monthly online sessions to plan and strategize during Jimmy's CPA exam preparation.
Read the Journal of Accountancy profileCPA Practice Advisor · February 2024
2023 “20 Under 40” Influencer
CPA Practice Advisor named Bryan Kesler a 2023 “20 Under 40” Influencer and highlighted his work as founder of Kesler CPA Review.
See the CPA Practice Advisor recognitionCandidate accounts
How Three Becker Users Describe Their Kesler Comebacks
These are individual accounts from candidates who said they used Becker and Kesler together. They show how the tools fit into real study sessions; they do not establish typical results.
Passed FAR · used Becker and Kesler
“Immediately after that video, I put it on my calendar to do a Becker SE1 the next day. […] With my results from the Becker, I referred to the Kesler textbook on weak areas AND areas which I thought I was confident in. […] I believe I passed because of the (1) mentorship video, (2) Kesler textbook not reading like a academic accounting textbook, and the (3) CPA Exam Survival game.”
Passed FAR with 79 after 8 attempts
“I used both Becker and Kesler CPA Review, and I went heavy on the Kesler side this time around, constantly reviewing my custom flashcards (I had accumulated around 270 of them), reviewing each questions' ‘gem,’ and circling back to Becker for more diversification with practice MCQs and sims.”
Passed all four CPA exam sections
“It took me a year to pass FAR because I spent the 1st 6 months of that not using Kesler. After finding Kesler, I never watched lectures again. […] The KeslerQs were more straight forward to me than Becker and the explanations provided in the answers were more real world based to me so it was easier for me to understand.”
Testimonials were excerpted for length from the source records in Kesler's approved testimonial file. Individual results vary, and CPA exam results are not guaranteed. Becker is a third-party trademark; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Planning tool
A Suggested Campus-to-CPA Launch Calendar
Use this as a working agenda, then adjust the dates and owners around your semester, graduation, recruiting, and purchasing calendar.
| Program moment | University decision | Student handoff |
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| Early planning | Name the program owner, define eligibility and funding, and identify the intended student group. | Students receive one consistent explanation of who the program serves and when access begins. |
| Before graduation | Set the launch date, communication plan, roster process, and internal route for policy questions. | Students see the study formats and understand what they need to do before launch. |
| Launch week | Confirm invitations, orientation timing, and the contacts responsible for access and program questions. | Students activate access, tour the course, and choose a realistic first study step. |
| First 30 days | Review onboarding questions, student feedback, and recurring access or communication issues. | Students know where to get help and how to adjust their process when a topic stalls them. |
Fit and tradeoffs
Decide What the Institution and the Student Own
A Strong Fit When
- You want a planned cohort handoff around graduation or another academic milestone.
- Students need course content plus a repeatable self-study method.
- Your team can name an internal owner for eligibility, roster, and communication questions.
- You want students to have multiple lesson, practice, and review formats.
Confirm Before Choosing Kesler
- You require academic credit or direct curriculum integration.
- You need a specific campus SSO, LMS, procurement, or student-data integration.
- You require fixed institutional reporting or outcome commitments.
- A student-selected allowance or employer-paid benefit better fits the population.
Another institutional provider, a university-funded allowance, an approved-provider list, or employer-paid CPA review may be a better fit. Students with an employer benefit should confirm that employer's approval process before making a separate purchase.
Supporting employees instead of students? Review the accounting-firm partnership.
Next step
Tell Us What Your Accounting Program Needs
Share your expected student group, academic calendar, timing, purchasing context, and program goals. The Kesler team will follow up to discuss fit and a scoped proposal.
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