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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BS
Hours: 128
Degree: BS
Hours: 128
Degree: BS
Hours: 136

Other degree requirements:
Completion of Business Professions Program

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
24

Average class size in business electives:
25


Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 18  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 82  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 0  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
72  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
57

Electives added in current academic year:

Eco 380 International Political Economy
INB 365 International Trade Operations

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2004

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

General Management

International Business

Marketing


Special programs for business students:
Business Professions Program

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

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Work study opportunities description:
Various work study opportunities are available through on campus departments and with corporate sponsors.

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
TCNJ offers many opportunities to study abroad. In addition to utilizing consortia such as NJSCIS, ISA, and CIEE, TCNJ students have the opportunity to study abroad at an institution with which TCNJ has an individual relationship.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
All TCNJ students must satisfy a "community engaged learning" (CEL) requirement. Students most commonly do this by participating in specific service-learning seminar classes that are offered in the Fall semester, or in one of the many issue-based CEL Days that are scheduled throughout the year. On these days, students gather with others from their residential floor to learn and serve together, as well as reflect upon their experiences and find out how they can sustain their involvement. Students are encouraged to continue their volunteer work at one of the 15 Bonner Center partner sites.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Beta Alpha Psi
Delta Sigma Pi
Entrepreneur Club
Financial Mgmt Assoc & Honor Society
Inst of Mgmt Accountants Student Chapter
Natl Assoc of Black Accountants
Phi Beta Lambda
Collegiate Chamber of Commerce

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Institute of Management Accountants Student Chapter
Delta Sigma Pi
Phi Beta Lambda/Future Business Leaders of America
Beta Alpha Psi
Pi Sigma Epsilon

  Freshmen are required to live on campus:
No

  Business students are grouped in learning communities:
Yes

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FACULTY
Faculty:

Full-time faculty : 37
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 19
Permanent/tenured professors: 37
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 49
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 6
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 11
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 16

Prominent faculty:

H Buddy Mayo
Hossein Nouri
Donald Vandegrift

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
8,086

Total living alumni:
7,770

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
7  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  164

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  50

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


Prominent alumni:

Name: Mark Iorio
Title: CEO/theMegaGroup
Name: Rebecca Machinga
Title: Partner/Withum, Smith + Brown
Name: Darren Baer
Title: 1st VP/Mellon Financial Corp

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
89  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 91  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 9  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
53

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
230

Career services provided for business majors:
Fall Career & Internship Day, Spring Business & Industry Fair, Dining Out In Professional Style (Business Etiquette Program), Senior Survey Results, Job Search & Career Exploration Workshops, Mock Interviews, Recruitment Interview Evaluation Reviews, On Campus Recruitment Program, Resume Critique Service.

Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 63  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 6  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 3  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 28  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 39  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 12  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 5  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 44  %

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Top hiring firms:



Merrill Lynch
  

PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
Johnson & Johnson
  
Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  
KPMG LLP
  
Ernst & Young
  
Target Corp.
  
Schering Plough
  
UBS
  


Other Hiring Firms:

Amper, Politzner & Mattia
Withum, Smith + Brown
News America Marketing
International Planning Alliance
EMC
Reynolds and Reynolds


Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  46,782
Median base salary: $  50,000
Mean signing bonus: $  5,185
Median signing bonus: $  5,000

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Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Consulting: 0  %
Finance/Accounting: 68  %
General Management: 10  %
Human Resources: 1  %
Management Information Systems: 0  %
Marketing/Sales: 9  %
Operations/Production: 4  %
Logistics/Transportation: 0  %
Other: 8  %

Grads accepted jobs in following industries:

Accounting: 40  %
Consumer Products/Retail: 4  %
Consulting Services: 0  %
Financial Services: 25  %
Government/Education: 1  %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 8  %
Other: 22  %

Percentage of job acceptances, US and Canada:

US: 100  %
Canada: 0  %

Grads accepted jobs in the following US regions:

Northeast: 93  %
Mid-Atlantic: 6  %
Midwest: 0  %
South: 1  %
Southwest: 0  %
West: 0  %
US Possessions/Territories: 0  %