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PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
97  %

Business students who graduate within four years:
99  %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:
99  %

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: 120
Hours: 120

Other degree requirements:
39 hours of Commerce course work beyond the aforementioned prerequisites. A minimum of 60 credit hours must be completed at the University of Virginia.

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
46

Average class size in business electives:
32

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:
50

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 11  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 81  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 8  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
100  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
54

Electives added in current academic year:

Principles of Advertising
High Performing Organizations
Private Equity
Customer Equity 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

Strategy


Special programs for business students:
Entrepreneurship Track, Real Estate Track, Leadership Minor

  Business program offers work study or co-op opportunities:
No

Work study opportunities description:
N/A

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Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
The McIntire School of Commerce offers a variety of study abroad opportunities, including semester abroad pograms spring semester of a students third-year, and several short January and summer courses.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
The University offers a variety of volunteer opportunities through Madison House.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Advertising and Marketing Association
Consulting Group
Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
McIntire Investment Institute
Sales and Trading Group
Women's Business Forum at McIntire
National Association of Black Accountants
Socially Responsible Investment Organization

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


McIntire Investment Institute
Advertising and Marketing Association
Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
Women's Business Forum at McIntire
Beta Alpha Psi

  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 : 65
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 6
Permanent/tenured professors: 36
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 7
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 1
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 25
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 19

Prominent faculty:

Bill Wilhelm
David Mick
Tom Bateman

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COMMENTS
It would be helpful if this survey were populated with the prior years answers. In that way we could just make changes to what is new rather than filling the whole survey out each year.

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
13,363

Total living alumni:
12,435

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
31  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  2,387

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  200

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


Prominent alumni:

Name: Tiki Barber
Title: NBC Correspondent, Author, Former NY Giants Runningback
Name: John A. Griffin
Title: Founder, Blue Ridge Capital, LP.
Name: Jonathan Mariner
Title: CFO, Major League Baseball

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
100  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 86  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 14  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
325


Career services provided for business majors:
There are 662 undergraduate students at the McIntire School of Commerce and we have three full-time Master’s level career counselors. Through the “Employer-in-Residence Program” (mock interviews, resume reviews and coffee networking sessions), resume and interviewing workshops, student treks, industry focused seminars, a supplemental recruiting program and one-on-one advising appointments, McIntire students are afforded numerous opportunities to have their resume and interview skills fine-tuned in advance of the full-time and internship recruiting process.(To clarify the % of students not seeking full-time employment - 12% are attending graduate school and 2% are not seeking employment)