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Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Accepted first job offer by graduation: 57  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 19  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 11  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 13  %

Top hiring firms:





Ernst & Young
  
Barclays Bank PLC
  
Johnson & Johnson
  
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
Wells Fargo

KPMG LLP
  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  
Sony
  
Sony

PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
Merrill Lynch
  
L'Oreal

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Other Hiring Firms:

Prudential
Turnstyle Ticketing
Hennion & Walsh
NJNets
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Sportslink
Enterprise
Novartis
Toys R Us
BlackRock, Inc.
IRS
Brown-Forman
Becton Dickinson & Company
Juicy Couture
Panasonic


Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  47,585
Median base salary: $  47,500
Mean signing bonus: $  5,818
Median signing bonus: $  5,000
Mean other guaranteed compensation: $  0
Median other guaranteed compensation: $  0

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Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Finance/Accounting: 52  %
General Management: 13  %
Management Information Systems: 1  %
Marketing/Sales: 27  %
Operations/Production: 3  %
Other: 4  %

Grads accepted jobs in following industries:

Accounting: 16  %
Consumer Products/Retail: 21  %
Financial Services: 24  %
Government/Education: 5  %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 8  %
Media/Entertainment: 1  %
Real Estate: 2  %
Sports/Leisure: 11  %
Technology/Science: 2  %
Transportation: 3  %
Other: 7  %

Percentage of job acceptances, US and Canada:

US: 100  %
Canada: 0  %

Grads accepted jobs in the following US regions:

Mid-Atlantic: 98  %
Midwest: 2  %

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INTERNSHIPS
Number of companies recruiting interns on-campus, 2008-09 academic year:
85

Companies posting internships on job boards, previous academic year:
320

Top internship recruiters, 2008-09:



Merrill Lynch
  

KPMG LLP
  
Citigroup Inc.
  

Johnson & Johnson
  
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
Goldman Sachs Group
  
UBS
  
Sony

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Other Internship Recruiters:
New Jersey Nets 6 Positive Impact Partners 6 Prudential 5 NJ Jackals 4 Liz Claiborne 4 NY Titans 3 Colotraq 3 ESPN 2 Pepsico 2 NY Mets 2 Escada 2 IRS 2 Gucci 2 PricewaterhouseCoopers 2 Novartis 2

Percentage of internships that were paid, previous academic year
40  %

Mean internship compensation per week:
$  590

Median internship compensation per week:
$  560

Average internship, in weeks:
12

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Because Seton Hall is a small, value-centric university there is a prevailing atmosphere of service and community that permeates throughout the school from the administration down to the faculty, career services, and ultimately to the students. Everyone is willing to go above and beyond to help, and the system of support is the best I have ever experienced. Everyone has a vested interest in your success and seems to view your successes as their own. Every opportunity I have had is the result of having no less than a small army of support behind me every step of the way.

Because of the small class sizes we are always interacting with the professors and our peers. Most schools have larger class sizes and the students are unable to gain the same one on one advantage that we have. Seton Hall also places a high importance on areas that are often overlooked such as teamwork, leadership, ethics, and effective communication. The school has a unique focus on these attributes while also providing several high end resources that a larger school might provide its students.

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The segregation on campus and within the business school is disheartening. Ethnic backgrounds hardly ever blend and when the topic of race is brought up in class discussions, the outcome is hardly ever positive.

Our Sport Management program is what makes the program unique. It is one of the finest in the country within a business school and with its location near New York, ideal for internships and jobs.

Seton Hall's vicinity to New York corporate employers, New Jersey corporate employers, and New Jersey employers allow students a wide array of employers to gain exposure.

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There are some great teachers who have experience in the real world that is very beneficially for students' knowledge. However, some teachers and courses are extremely poor in qualities of course material, objectives, and teaching style.

Seton Hall is a close knit community. Class sizes are small and students are able to gain individual attention from professors. The resources of the school, particularly the center for securities trading and analysis (trading room) and the sports polling center are top notch. In addition, Seton Hall is located in close proximity to New York City, which allows students to take advantage of the many opportunities the city offers.

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The overall business program is poor. The accounting program is rigorous with the expectation that it is preparing students to sit for the CPA exam. The accounting department puts much effort into ensuring accounting students are employed after graduation.

The school offers students the chance to shape their experience on campus, rather than falling victim to being a number. Each student has the ability to work with the school to create a club, plan an event or install a new policy. The business program is unique because it builds honest leaders, students who believe in academic honesty that translates into honesty in the workforce. Not to mention that we probably are one of only a handful of schools where the Dean knows most of the students on a first-name basis.

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I believe that Seton Hall's business program is good for students going into finance or accounting. The marketing program is extremely lacking. While all the professors are respectable the classes are dry, lacking in creativity and all very similar. As an economics minor, I'm sad to say that there are only two econ electives each semester. This is a substantially smaller number than all the other business majors.