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FINANCIAL AID
  Financial aid handled by:
Central financial aid office at the university

Financial aid web site
http://bingfa.binghamton.edu

Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students in previous academic year:
$  148,150

Institutional scholarship money to be distributed to undergraduate business students in current academic year:
$  134,777

Scholarships awarded to students in the business program based on:
A combination of need and merit

Other scholarship considerations:
Some scholarships are tied to ethnic origin and/or career interest and/or performance in certain coursework, etc.

Undergraduate business students receiving institutional scholarships for 2009-10 academic year:
9  %

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Undergraduate business students with full-tuition scholarships 2009-10:
3  %

Percentage of institutional scholarship money distributed to business students based on merit, 2009-10 year:
27  %

Percentage of institutional scholarship money distributed to business students based on need, 2009-10:
73  %

  Scholarship consideration process:
As part of the admissions application

  School offers guaranteed loans:
No

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PROGRAM BASICS
Institutional freshman retention rate:
90  %

Business students who graduate within four years:
81  %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:
86  %

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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BS
Hours: 130

Other degree requirements:
Completion of all SOM (School of Management) core requirements and elective coursework with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and a cumulative GPA of 2.0 for all coursework taken/attempted. With respect to constituent courses in the curriculum, the university has various general education requirements, and these apply to students in the School of Management,as well. For SOM students, courses in calculus, statistics, micro and macro-economics, and a freshman course featuring significant coverage in the use of EXCEL spreadsheets are required. Students must complete a business core comprised of introductory courses in all of the basic disciplines and functional areas of management.

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ACADEMICS
Average class size in required business courses:
56

Average class size in business electives:
23

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:
N.A.

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 15  %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 65  %
Classes with more than 50 students: 20  %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:
85  %

Required business courses that had waiting lists, 2008-09:
15  %

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CURRICULUM
Number of elective courses available in business program:
36

Electives added in current academic year:

Financial Statement Analysis
Accounting Information Systems

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:
2008

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

Leadership

Management Information Systems

Marketing


Special programs for business students:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Scholars Program Option

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

Work study opportunities description:
Spring semester co-ops with major accounting firms for a limited number of accounting students

  Business program offers study abroad opportunities:
Yes

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Study abroad program description:
SOM students have available to them over 300 study abroad programs offered by Binghamton and/or other SUNY campuses, including many at AACSB accredited business programs

  Volunteer work and community service opportunities:
Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:
The university (and the School of Management) often are approached by local not-for-profit organizations, governmental bodies, and even small and medium-sized businesses who seek interns (oten, but not always these represent for-credit opportunities). In a few cases, business courses feature such an experience aw part of the learning objectives embodied in the syllabus. Students who are part of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Scholars Program also complete a community service group project as part of their requirements. The campus student government and many of the social clubs, fraternities and sororities,including those not affiliated with SOM, also undertake volunteer projects and participate in fund drives for local charities.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Delta Sigma Pi -- Professional Business Fraternity
Beta Alpha Psi -- Professional Business Honor Society
Beta Gamma Sigma -- Professional Business Honor Society
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) Chapter
Finance Marketing and Human Resources student clubs
Aplpha Kappa Psi -- Professional Business Fraternity
BERt Mitchell Minority Management Student Organization
ASCEND -- Latino Management and Accounting Student Club

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CAMPUS LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:


Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity
Beta Alpha Psi Professional Business Honor Society
Beta Gamma Sigma Professional Business Honor Society
Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise Chapter)

  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 : 39
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 18
Permanent/tenured professors: 21
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 13
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 0
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 2
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 0

Prominent faculty:

Francis Yammarino
Kristian Rydqvist
Subimal Chatterjee

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COMMENTS
The School of Management is a non-departmentalized school, and students freely move between the respective degree programs in "accounting" and "management." Thus,complete separation of data between students studying accounting and pursuing concentrations in other areas of management (i.e. "business" students)is not completely possible. Nevertheless, where possible, we have done our best to make that separation in providing data. It is also the case that some data requested is your survey simply is not kept or available. Some questions therefore remain blank and a few represent "best guesses." A large amount of the data is supplied from the campus Office of Institutional Research and other campus offices.