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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BSBA
Hours: 120

Other degree requirements:
All university general education requirements.

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
23

Average class size in business electives:
19

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:
22

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 48  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 52  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 0  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
95  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
39

Electives added in current academic year:

Deal Structure and Valuation
Cross Cultural Management
Markets and Exchanges
Strategic Product Development
GLobal Business in a Digital World

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

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Economics

Finance

International Business

Marketing

General Management

Special programs for business students:
Entrepreneurship; CFA; Federal Reserve Challenge; Student Managed Investment Fund; Business Pitch Competition.

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

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Work study opportunities description:
Faculty assistants and faculty research assistants; Faculty supervision of internship credit received.

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
The majority of students study abroad during their junior year for one semester. We have cooperative relationships with 46 international partner schools in 24 different countries throughout the world.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
Habitat for Fumanity; United Way; Child Tutoring; Inner City Clean UP.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

American Marketing Association
American Management Association
Alpha Phi Omega
Omicron Delta Kappa
Finance Society
Virginia CPA
Alpha Kappa Psi
Entrpreneurship Club

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Beta Gamma Sigma
Finance Society
American marketing Association - Student
Accounting Society
Omicron Delta Epsilon

  Freshmen are required to live on campus:
No

  Business students are grouped in learning communities:
No

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FACULTY
Faculty:

Full-time faculty : 54
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 14
Permanent/tenured professors: 38
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 16
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 5.3
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 3
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 3

Prominent faculty:

Joe Ben Hoyle
Dean Croushore
KimMarie McGoldrick

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
8,691

Total living alumni:
8,241

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
28  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  1,157

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  100

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


Prominent alumni:

Name: Melanie Healey
Title: Group President, North America, Proctor and Gamble
Name: Ryan FitzSimons
Title: Vice-President for Capital Introduction, Goldman Sachs
Name: Josh Abramson
Title: President, Connected Ventures, LLC and co-founder Collegehumor.com

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
65  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 71  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 29  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
59

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
564

Career services provided for business majors:
Faculty Meetings; Class Visits; Outreach to Student Organizations; Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) Visit to New York City; Finance Alumni Reception (New York City); Spiders on Wall Street (Junior Finance Industry visit); Spiders in Media / January Communications/Media NYC trip; Richmond Career & Internship Fair; Non-Profit Expo (DC); Metro Link DC & NY; Mass Communications Expo

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Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 93  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 7  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 0  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 93  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 7  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 0  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 0  %

Top hiring firms:



KPMG LLP
  

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
Ernst & Young
  
Barclays Bank PLC
  
Bain & Company
  
Citigroup Inc.
  
Morgan Stanley
  
PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  


Other Hiring Firms:

FBI
General Services Administration
Beers & Cutler
Accenture
Genworth
Maximus Consulting

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Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  49,288
Median base salary: $  52,000
Mean signing bonus: $  4,848
Median signing bonus: $  4,000

Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Consulting: 18  %
Finance/Accounting: 53  %
General Management: 5  %
Human Resources: 0  %
Management Information Systems: 0  %
Marketing/Sales: 13  %
Operations/Production: 8  %
Logistics/Transportation: 0  %
Other: 3  %