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2007 UNDERGRAD PROFILE

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PROGRAM BASICS & REQUIREMENTS

Specializations offered:
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Programs Offered

BS

Business Administration

Full time

Core curriculum last revised 2000

Average class size in required business classes	54
Average class size in business electives	29
Average class size in non-business classes (required for admission to the business program	n/a

15% of business classes (core and elective) have fewer than 20 students

53% of business classes (core and elective) have 21 to 50 students

32% of business classes (core and elective) have more than 50 students

99% of required business courses reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2005.

  1% of required business courses had waiting lists for enrollment

Credit hours required for business degree (including university and program requirements)

Minimum of 121 for BS in Business Administration

Minimum number of credit hours in the business program required to receive a business degree

Minimum of 37 for BS in Business Administration

Other requirements to earn undergraduate business degree
Economics - 9 Math/Computing - 20 Liberal Arts - 27 Unrestricted Elective - 11

97% of business students graduate from the program within four years of admission to the university

100% of business students graduate from the program within six years of admission to the university

AREAS OF STUDY & ELECTIVES

The school reports that the following are its five leading areas of study:
Entrepreneurship, Finance, General Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing

Number of elective courses (not multiple sessions of same course) available in the past academic year: 44

New electives added in the past academic year:

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What special programs are available to business students?
MBA - 3.2 application Honors Thesis Computational Finance Undergraduate Degree

Work study or co-op opportunities	Yes
Teaching Assistantships, graders and deparmental assistantships as well as financial aid eligible work-study.
Study abroad opportunities	Yes
Exchange agreements with leading business schools world wide. Undergraduate campus in Qatar
Volunteer and community service opportunities	Yes
Require professional service activities through formal course (70-201)
Business clubs and extracurricular activities	Yes
Eight undergraduate clubs with a high participation of students.

FACULTY

Total full-time undergraduate business faculty	96
Total undergraduate business adjuncts and visiting business faculty	14
Total undergraduate permanent/tenured business professors	47

  9% of permanent/tenured business professors are women

  2% of permanent/tenured business professors are underrepresented minorities (African American, Hispanic American or Native American)

  2% of permanent/tenured business professors are members of company boards of directors or boards of advisors

  2% of permanent/tenured business professors have owned their own business

Prominent Faculty: Finn Kydland, Allan H. Meltzer, Chester Spatt

STUDENT LIFE

Freshmen are required to live on campus

100% of all business students live on campus

Business students are not grouped together in "learning communities" in housing or other facilities

TECHNOLOGY

386 computers are available to undergraduate business students (within the program and university as a whole)

Wireless network is available in main B-school buildings

Technology changes made over the past three years:
Note re: "computers available": 99% of first-year students own a computer. (83% are laptops) Improvements: * Upgraded business school wireless network to 802.11a for improved capacity * Renovated undergraduate business classroom: response system, video conferencing and individual microphones. Parallel to graduate program. * Improved email infrastructure including virus blocking, spam filtering * Improved undergraduate printing system, drastically reducing waste while increasing satisfactio