Kansas University graduates who were offered jobs by Arthur Andersen are faring well, KU accounting professor Paul Mason said.

Mason said “six or seven students” in KU’s School of Business were offered jobs by the accounting firm before its Enron-related problems came to the surface. He said the students were able to land jobs with KPMG, a major accounting firm that essentially took over several of Andersen’s offices, including the Kansas City, Mo., office where the students work.

“From a KU standpoint, we’re hitting 100 percent,” Mason said.

Mason said two graduates, who were scheduled to work at Andersen’s headquarters in Chicago, were instead offered jobs in the Kansas City office, allowing them to be absorbed by KPMG.

“I have to say that Andersen really went out of their way to make sure these new hires were taken care of,” Mason said. “They didn’t have to, but they did.”