Senior Accounting Major Found Her Career Path at Muhlenberg
Erica Borbi ’25, who’s also a student-athlete on the track team, will start a full-time role with the Big Four firm EY after graduation.By: Evan Schlotterbeck ’25 Tuesday, April 22, 2025 10:56 AM
Erica Borbi ’25. Photo by Charlotte Keefe ’27Erica Borbi ’25 arrived at Muhlenberg eager to discover a potential career path. Unsure where that path would lead, she found something that stuck — accounting — through embracing different types of classes in her early semesters.
“I'd say I'm particularly proud of my accounting journey,” says Borbi, who took Financial Accounting with Associate Professor of Accounting Ellen Rackas as a sophomore. “After having taken the course, Ellen was really encouraging me to declare as an accounting major. She saw some potential in me that I didn't really necessarily see in myself.”
“[Associate Professor of Accounting] Ellen [Rackas] was really encouraging me to declare as an accounting major. She saw some potential in me that I didn't really necessarily see in myself.”
—Erica Borbi ’25
Her journey took her abroad — she spent a semester studying at Maastricht University in the Netherlands — and, after graduation, it will bring her to the Big Four firm EY for a role as a risk consultant. Here, as Borbi wraps up her final semester at Muhlenberg and her final season of track and field — she holds the school record in the weight throw — she reflects on her four years at Muhlenberg:
How did your position at EY come about?
“During the summer before my junior year, I interned at an insurance company, and it was a great experience, and I was feeling really comfortable there. I talked to Ellen Rackas again, and she was really pushing me to apply for an internship with one of the Big Four accounting firms during the summer before senior year, and I love encouragement like this from the accounting department. So I just took a shot, applied to all of them, and landed an interview with EY. It went well, and I got the internship offer a couple of weeks later, and from that, I accepted the return job offer that came after the internship had ended.”
How has your time as a Muhlenberg student-athlete enriched your time on campus?
“I feel like this has been coming up a lot for me this year. Coming into this year, I was like, ‘What’s this year going to be about?’ And one word that just keeps coming back is ‘community.’ And one place I’m really seeing that is on the track and field team. They’re my best friends, my roommates, and study buddies all in one. To find such an enriching community is a rare experience.”
What else has stood out about your college experience?
“The first place my mind goes to is studying abroad. That was a big risk, stepping out of my comfort zone, but I had such a great time getting the opportunity to travel and meet new people, to take really cool classes. … One thing about Muhlenberg that has been valuable to me is how I’m constantly uplifted. If there’s something I want to do on this campus, there’s somebody out there who’s going to look me in the eye and say, ‘Yes, you can do this, and this is how I’m going to support you.’”
“One thing about Muhlenberg that has been valuable to me is how I’m constantly uplifted. If there’s something I want to do on this campus, there’s somebody out there who’s going to look me in the eye and say, ‘Yes, you can do this, and this is how I’m going to support you.’”
—Erica Borbi ’25
