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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BBA
Hours: 120
Degree: BS
Hours: 120
Degree: BA
Hours: 120

Other degree requirements:
General Education - 41 credit hours BBA Core - 45 credit hours Major - 24 credit hours Electives - 10 credit hours

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
38

Average class size in business electives:
23

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:
44

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 18  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 67  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 15  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
100  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
42

Electives added in current academic year:

COB 295 - Special Studies in Business Adminstration
BLAW 494 - White Collar Crime
BLAW 498 - Special Topics in Business Law
FIN 378 - Fixed Income Analysis
FIN 451 - Advanced Risk Management

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

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Human Resource Management

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Other

Quantitative Finance

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Special programs for business students:
Madison Investment Fund - Select students manage university funds; Center for Entrepreneurship - Students serve as consultants to real businesses; Entrepreneur-in-Residence - successful practitioner is available to help students take ideas to reality in the form of new businesses; Business Plan Competition - six student teams are invited to present business plans to venture capitalists, with winners receiving scholarships and possibly funding to start proposed businesses; Business Ethics Competition - winners receive scholarships.

  Business program offers work study or co-op opportunities:
No

Work study opportunities description:
N/A

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

Study abroad program description:
Semester abroad prograns are available in Antwerp, Beijing (summer), Florence, London, and Salamanca. There are numerous short-term programs available in countries located in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. There are several exchange programs with leading universities in Australia, England, Japan, Korea, and Spain, among others. Approximately 11% of business majors study abroad, which is about twice the percentage for JMU overall.

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Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
JMU offers a variety of rich and rewarding opportunities for volunteer work and community service through its Community Service Learning (CS-L). CS-L is a partnership joining JMU students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding communities by identifying and coordinating intentional service opportunities for the explicit purpose of cultivating social responsibility and lifelong learning, thereby fostering a generation of leaders committed to positive change. CS-L coordinates partnerships with more than 75 community service agencies to help meet the needs of the community, and in so doing, to improve the quality of life in the Shenandoah Valley. CS-L is an active member of the community networks, such as Health Community, Hispanic Services Council, Rockingham County Partners for Student Success, and Valley Volunteer Forum.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Professional Business Fraternities: Alpha Kappa Psi Delta Sigma Psi Phi Chi Theta and Pi Sigma Epsilon
Clubs Associated with Majors: Association of Information Technology Professionals (CIS); Delta Epsilon Chi (Marketing); Epsilon Chi Omicron (International Business); Financial Management Association (Finance); Madison Economics Club (Economics);
and Society for Human Resource Management (Management)
General Interest - Students in Free Enterprise; and Environmental Business Club
Beta Gamma Sigma - National Business Honor Society (by invitation only); Beta Alpha Psi - National Accounting Honor Society (by invitation only)

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Kappa Alpha Psi
Delta Sigman Pi
Phi Chi Theta
Pi Sigma Epsilon
Madison Marketing 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 : 120
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 13
Permanent/tenured professors: 87
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 26
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 5.8
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 1
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 1

Prominent faculty:

J Barkley Rosser Jr
Daniel G Gallagher
Timothy J Louwers

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B-SCHOOL ALUMNI
Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:
23,853

Total living alumni:
23,530

Percent of alumni who gave, 2008-09 academic year:
17  %

Mean alumni gift 2008-09:
$  658

Median alumni gift, 2008-09:
$  50

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


Prominent alumni:

Name: Michael Thomas
Title: President - Global Security Solutions; Lockheed Martin
Name: Amy McPherson
Title: President & Managing Director, Europe; Marriott International
Name: Enrico Gaglioti
Title: Partner; Goldman Sachs and Company

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CAREER SERVICES
Percent of 2009 graduates who provided employment information:
63  %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 53  %
Not seeking full-time employment in business: 47  %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:
143

Companies posting full-time job offers on school job boards, previous academic year:
700

Career services provided for business majors:
Career Panels, Career Fairs (Fall and Spring), Internship Fair, Mock Interview Program, Resume Review Programs (including opportunity for employers to review resumes – Fall and Spring), Career Programs (Interviewing, Etiquette, Financial Planning after College, Networking, Job Search Strategies), Individual and Group Counseling Appointments, On-Line Recruiting Management System with Networking Module

Job offer results, 2009 graduates:

Received first job offer by graduation: 42  %
Received first job offer in three months following graduation: 28  %
Received first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 24  %
Did not report having received a job offer: 6  %
Accepted first job offer by graduation: 42  %
Accepted first job offer in three months following graduation: 28  %
Accepted first job offer more than 3 months after graduation: 24  %
Did not report having accepted a job offer: 6  %

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Top hiring firms:



Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
  

KPMG LLP
  
PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
International Bus. Machines
  
Target Corp.
  
Ernst & Young
  
Wells Fargo
  
Other



Other Hiring Firms:

Freddie Mac
Department of the Navy
Northrop Grumman
Beers and Cutler
HPTI
BAE Systems
Cherry, Bekaert, Holland
Computer Science Corporation
Fannie Mae
McBee Associates


Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $  49
Median base salary: $  51
Mean signing bonus: $  3
Median signing bonus: $  3