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PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
96  %

Business students who graduate within four years:
89  %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:
93  %

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BSBA
Hours: 120

Other degree requirements:
Completion of liberal arts core, business core, and major requirements

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
45

Average class size in business electives:
45


Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 2  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 98  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 0  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
75  %

Required business courses that had waiting lists, 2008-09:
25  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
32

Electives added in current academic year:

Fixed Income Markets
Entrepreneureal Finance

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2010

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

General Management

International Business

Marketing


Special programs for business students:
Joint BS in Business Administration/MS in Foreign Service program

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

Work study opportunities description:
Student employment office employs students part-time during the academic year and full-time in the summer. Hundreds of work-study jobs are available on campus and off campus in community service organizations. The office also offers an employment referral service for students looking for employment on or off campus but who are not eligible for Federal Work Study funding.

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Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
Partnerships with more than 70 foreign universities in 35 countries, as well as summer programs at Oxford and in Hong Kong that are open only to business students.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
N/A

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Georgetown University Accounting Society
Beta Gamma Sigma
Women in Business
Financial Management Association
Hilltop Consultants
Undergraduate Marketing Association
Georgetown University Student Investment Fund
Georgetown Entrepreneurship Organization (GEO)

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Alumni Mentor Program
Students of Georgetown Inc
Financial Management Association (FMA)
Georgetown Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GUSEC)
Georgetown University Student Investment Fund

  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 : 49
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 23
Permanent/tenured professors: 23
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 16
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 8
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 18
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 18

Prominent faculty:

Reena Aggarwal
Ricardo Ernst
Phillip Swagel

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COMMENTS
Please consider all blank responses to be n/a except for one that the system would not let me enter: Applicaiton Deadline - Fall (early action), 11-1-09; Fall (regular decision), 1-10-10 Alumni giving numbers are for the business school alumni only; if they should be for the entire university, we can provide that information, as well

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
11,927

Total living alumni:
11,539

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
25  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  1,991

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  100

  Single donation in excess of $10 million in 2008-09?
Yes

Donor and amount:
Saad Hariri/Hariri Foundation, $20 million

Prominent alumni:

Name: Robert H. Steers
Title: Chairman & CEO, Cohen and Steers
Name: Michael E. Heisley, Sr.
Title: Chairman & CEO, Heico, Inc.
Name: Joseph V. Amato
Title: CEO, Neuberger Berman

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
62  %

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:
123

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
1,066

Career services provided for business majors:
Career counseling; employment advising; walk-in appointments; mock interviews; Fall Career Fair; Government and Nonprofit Career EXPO; general job search workshops (resume writing, interviewing, on-campus recruiting, etc.); specialized workshops (case interviewing, international job searches, etc.); industry-specific alumni panels; Regent/Senor Networking Event; industry-specific e-mail lists; weekly e-mail newsletter; online career management system; employer information sessions