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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BSBA
Hours: 121

Other degree requirements:
364 Units, 2.0 GPA, Minor OR Track OR Additional Major (364 Units = 121 Credits)

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
54

Average class size in business electives:
29


Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 18  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 52  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 30  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
99  %

Required business courses that had waiting lists, 2008-09:
1  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
42

Electives added in current academic year:

Social Economic & Information Network
Customer Management Using Probability Models

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2008

Leading areas of study:

Consulting

Entrepreneurship

Finance

International Business

Marketing


Special programs for business students:
Heinz College Accelerated Masters, MBA 3/2 Program, Wednesday Night Insight Career Series, W.L. Mellon Speaker Series, Honors Thesis, Professional Service Project, Internal & External Case Competitions, Computational Finance, Conferences, Global Study Abroad, Study at CMU Qatar Campus.

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

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Work study opportunities description:
Teaching assistants, graders, department assistants & financial aid eligible work study.

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
Exchange agreements with five leading business schools worldwide and undergraduate campus in Qatar.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
Students in Free Enterprise

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Students in Free Enterprise
Business Opportunities Conference (student-run job fair)
Undergraduate Finance Association
Undergraduate Investment Club
Undergraduate Marketing Organization
Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association
Carnegie Mellon Business Association
Consulting Club; Case Competitions

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


SIFE - Students in Free Enterprise
UMO - Undergraduate Marketing Organization
UIC - Undergraduate Investment Club
CMBA - Carnegie Mellon Business Association
BOC - Business Opportunities Conference

  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 : 45
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 25
Permanent/tenured professors: 12
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 0
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 0
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 0

Prominent faculty:

Finn Kydland The Richard P Simmons Distinguished Professorship; University Professor of Economics Nobel Laureate (2004)
Allan Meltzer The Allan H Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy
Chester Spatt Pamela R and Kenneth B Dunn Professor of Finance; Director Center for Financial Markets

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
4,454






Prominent alumni:

Name: David Coulter
Title: Managing Director & Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus LLC, former VP at JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Name: Larry Kurzweil
Title: President & Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios Hollywood
Name: Tod Johnson
Title: Chief Executive Officer, The NPD Group, Inc.

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
92  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 75  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 25  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
92

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
1,266

Career services provided for business majors:
The Office offers one-on-one consultations, mock interviews, in-class presentations and a yearly workshop calendar, as well as access to local and national networking events. Other events include Futures in Finance interviews and site visits at the Carnegie Mellon New York City campus. Additionally, the Wednesday Night Insight series features panels of alumni, recruiters and other corporate representatives who educate and expose students to various career paths.

Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Accepted first job offer by graduation: 80  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 5  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 12  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 3  %

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Top hiring firms:





Citigroup Inc.
  
Booz Allen Hamilton
  
PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
Barclays Bank PLC
  
Goldman Sachs Group
  


Other Hiring Firms:

Freddie Mac
PNC
CGI
Accenture
Alcoa
American Eagle Outfitters
Lockheed Martin
Microsoft


Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  57,109
Median base salary: $  60,000
Mean signing bonus: $  7,160
Median signing bonus: $  5,000

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Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Consulting: 16  %
Finance/Accounting: 41  %
General Management: 8  %
Human Resources: 0  %
Management Information Systems: 7  %
Marketing/Sales: 12  %
Operations/Production: 8  %
Logistics/Transportation: 0  %
Other: 9  %

Grads accepted jobs in following industries:

Accounting: 0  %
Consumer Products/Retail: 6  %
Consulting Services: 13  %
Financial Services: 50  %
Government/Education: 4  %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 0  %
Manufacturing: 6  %
Media/Entertainment: 1  %
Petroleum/Energy: 0  %
Real Estate: 0  %
Sports/Leisure: 0  %
Technology/Science: 9  %
Non-Profit: 2  %
Transportation: 0  %
Utilities: 0  %
Other: 9  %