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PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
95  %

Business students who graduate within four years:
91  %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:
95  %

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BS
Hours: 115

Other degree requirements:
All students must complete the university's core curriculum, a program of study based in the liberal arts, natural and social sciences; a management core; at least one concentration in a management discipline. Foreign language proficiency is also required

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
36

Average class size in business electives:
35


Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 20  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 70  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 10  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
65

Electives added in current academic year:

Financial Crisis of 08-09
Business Creation
Law Visual Art and Ethics

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2009

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Economics

Finance

Management Information Systems

Marketing


Special programs for business students:
There is an Honors Program. The top 5% of the entering class is invited

  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:
Business students have full access to the university's complement of study abroad opportunities. In addition, management faculty sometimes offer courses in international settings during the summer

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
In addition to the many service opportunities available to the general BC community, the business students have their own opportunities. There are three student groups that do business-related service: Students in Free Enterprise, Management Consulting Club, and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. There is also a service-learning to some business classes including but not limited to sections of Managerial Accounting, Principles of Marketing, and Accounting Info Systems.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Accounting Academy
Finance Academy
Marketing Academy
Management Consulting Club
AHANA Management Academy
Women in Business
Entrepreneur Society
Information Systems Academy

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Finance Academy
Accounting Academy
Marketing Academy
Women in Business
Management Consulting Club

  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 : 75
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 57
Permanent/tenured professors: 41
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 42
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 0
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: --
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: --

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

Total living alumni:
25,203

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

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  2,544

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  100

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

Prominent alumni:
N/A

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
50  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 74  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 26  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
204

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
732

Career services provided for business majors:
Individual Career Counseling; Workshops about Networking, Interviewing, Case Interviews, Negotiating Offer, Resume and Cover Letter writing; Resume Critiques; Peer Advisor Appointments; Counselor assigned 3/5 of time exclusively to CSOM students; Career Center staff co-present programs with faculty; provide Employer-in-Residence opportunities for students and employers to meet and discuss career-related issues, provide opportunities to meet alumni; Career Fairs; Career Launch Program; Career Exploration Tours in Boston and other major cities; Federal Jobs Information Events

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Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 74  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 9  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 1  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 16  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 73  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 8  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 2  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 17  %

Top hiring firms:



PricewaterhouseCoopers
  

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
Ernst & Young
  
Bank of America Corp.
  
Goldman Sachs Group
  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  
KPMG LLP
  
Citigroup Inc.
  
Bain & Company
  
Exxon Mobil Corp.
  
General Electric
  
Target Corp.
  
TD Financial