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PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
83  %

Business students who graduate within four years:
72  %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:
84  %

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BSBA
Hours: 128
Degree: BSE
Hours: 128

Other degree requirements:
2.0 GPA in major, all business courses and overall. Completion of university Liberal Arts core and Business core and major requirements

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
26.6

Average class size in business electives:
18.8

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:
25.1

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 23  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 77  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 0  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
38

Electives added in current academic year:

Design in Marketing

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2007

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

General Management

Marketing

Other

Business Logistics

Special programs for business students:
London Study Abroad and Service Projects

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

Work study opportunities description:
A variety of opportunities are available through our Center for Career Services.

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Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
In the London Study Abroad program 20-30 students spend spring of their sophomore year in London. Also, there are other individual opportunities for students to study in other countries during their junior & senior years.

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
As a Jesuit University, volunteer work & community service is a fundamental part of the mission of our university. Also, the Ginn Institute, housed in the Boler School of Business, provides funding for non-profit business internships.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Accounting Association
Alpha Kappa Psi
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Finance Association
Beta Gamma Sigma
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Student Business Advisory Council (SBAC)
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Alpha Kappa Psi
Finance Association
Students in Free Enterprise
Accounting Association

  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 : 34
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 36
Permanent/tenured professors: 27
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 14
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 3.4

Prominent faculty:

Dr Robert Bloom
Dr Edward Tomlinson
Dr Gerald Weinstein

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COMMENTS
Entering the companies for jobs and internships is very cumbersome. This list should be completely alphabetical rather than having two sorted groups in the list. Putting the names not in the list in the second section is also awkward. There needs to be a more effecient way to either pick from the list or type in the company name

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
8,345

Total living alumni:
8,118

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
13  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  493

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:
75  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 69  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 31  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
136

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
439

Career services provided for business majors:
N/A

Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Accepted first job offer by graduation: 48  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 41  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 11  %