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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
60

Electives added in current academic year:

Sales Management
Project Management

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2007

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Sports Business


Special programs for business students:
Professional Development Certificate (PDC) program, Honors Program

  Business program offers work study or co-op opportunities:
Yes

Work study opportunities description:
computer lab assistants, administrative assistants

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
Semester and Year-long programs around the world, Short-term (3-week) programs in Europe and Asia

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

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Volunteer opportunities description:
Duquesne University Volunteers (DUV), Service Learning

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Phi Beta Lambda
Duquesne Asset Management Group
Project Management Association
Duquesne Entrepreneurial Alliance
Duquesne Supply Chain Council
Sports Marketing Association
Deloitte Consulting Challenge

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


AMA – American Marketing Association
Duquesne Association for Information Technology
Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting)
Student Accounting Association
Delta Sigma Pi (Business)

  Freshmen are required to live on campus:
Yes

  Business students are grouped in learning communities:
No

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FACULTY
Faculty:

Full-time faculty : 57
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 34
Permanent/tenured professors: 30
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 20
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 0

Prominent faculty:

James Weber
Robert Sroufe
Thomas Nist

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
16,080

Total living alumni:
12,888

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
9  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  626

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  100

  Single donation in excess of $10 million in 2008-09?
No


Prominent alumni:

Name: Joseph Fortunato
Title: CEO, GNC Corporation
Name: Daniel Rooney
Title: Chairman, Pittsburgh Steelers Sports Inc. and US Ambassador to Ireland
Name: Daniel Sullivan
Title: VP, CFO and COO, Heineken USA Inc

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
32  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 33  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 67  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
86

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
545

Career services provided for business majors:
Job fairs, networking sessions, on-campus interviews, workshops, career prep, counseling

Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Accepted first job offer by graduation: 46  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 21  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 33  %

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Top hiring firms:



KPMG LLP
  

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
PricewaterhouseCoopers
  


Other Hiring Firms:

Bank of New York Mellon
PNC Bank
American Eagle Outfitters
Schneider Downs
Bayer
SR Snodgrass
SagePoint Financial
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Parente Beard
Westinghouse
US Dept of Interior
AXA Advisors


Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  40,381
Median base salary: $  42,500
Mean signing bonus: $  2,150
Median signing bonus: $  1,250

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Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Consulting: 1  %
Finance/Accounting: 46  %
General Management: 5  %
Human Resources: 0  %
Management Information Systems: 6  %
Marketing/Sales: 13  %
Operations/Production: 5  %
Logistics/Transportation: 4  %
Other: 20  %

Grads accepted jobs in following industries:

Accounting: 28  %
Consumer Products/Retail: 9  %
Consulting Services: 4  %
Financial Services: 17  %
Government/Education: 5  %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 10  %
Manufacturing: 2  %
Media/Entertainment: 6  %
Petroleum/Energy: 0  %
Real Estate: 1  %
Sports/Leisure: 2  %
Technology/Science: 4  %
Non-Profit: 0  %
Transportation: 0  %
Utilities: 1  %
Other: 11  %

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Percentage of job acceptances, US and Canada:

US: 100  %
Canada: 0  %

Grads accepted jobs in the following US regions:

Northeast: 2  %
Mid-Atlantic: 83  %
Midwest: 4  %
South: 5  %
Southwest: 0  %
West: 0  %
US Possessions/Territories: 0  %

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INTERNSHIPS
Number of companies recruiting interns on-campus, 2008-09 academic year:
72

Companies posting internships on job boards, previous academic year:
267

Top internship recruiters, 2008-09:



PricewaterhouseCoopers
  

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
KPMG LLP
  
Ernst & Young
  


Other Internship Recruiters:
Pittsburgh Penguins 4 Pittsburgh Pirates 4 PNC Financial Services 3 Bank of New York Mellon 2 American Eagle 2 Dick's Sporting Goods 2 UPMC 2 Schneider Downs 2 Bayer 2 Valspar 2 Del Monte Foods 2

Percentage of internships that were paid, previous academic year
54  %

Mean internship compensation per week:
$  365

Median internship compensation per week:
$  312

Average internship, in weeks:
15