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2007 UNDERGRAD PROFILE

Fordham University

College of Business Administration

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PROGRAM BASICS & REQUIREMENTS

Specializations offered:
Accounting, , , ,

Legal & Ethical Studies

Communications and Media Management

Programs Offered

BS	Business Administration	Full time
BS	Accounting	Full time
BS	Finance	Full time
BS	Marketing	Full time
BS	Management of Information and Communicat	Full time
BS	Accounting Information Systems	Full time
BS	Applied Accounting and Finance	Full time

Core curriculum last revised 2000

Average class size in required business classes	28
Average class size in business electives	24
Average class size in non-business classes (required for admission to the business program

32% of business classes (core and elective) have fewer than 20 students

67% of business classes (core and elective) have 21 to 50 students

  1% of business classes (core and elective) have more than 50 students

46% of required business courses reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2005.

  0% of required business courses had waiting lists for enrollment

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

Minimum of 120 for Bachelor of Science

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

Minimum of 60 for Bachelor of Science

Other requirements to earn undergraduate business degree
Undergraduate business students will complete as part of their 120 credit hour requirement, an arts and science core, a business core, major/concentration courses, and electives. In addition, undergraduate business students will complete a focused freshmen enrichment program that helps them to better connect to and understand the world of business through guided faculty seminars.

77% of business students graduate from the program within four years of admission to the university

80% 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:
Accounting, Finance, International Business, Management Information Systems, Marketing

Number of elective courses (not multiple sessions of same course) available in the past academic year: 9

New electives added in the past academic year:

Media Economics & Controversay

Study Tour in Paris

Entrepreneurial Opp's in Nat'l Capitalis

Seminar in Media Research

Business of Publishing

Business of Sports Media

Sports Management

Management for the MySpace Generation

Marketing Financial Services

What special programs are available to business students?
There are many special programs available to business students. A Combined and accelerated BS/MBA Program and BS/MS Program; Honors Program; Internship Program; Service Learning Program & International Service Learning Program; Summer Research Program at Fordham; a special Investment Research Challenge sponsored by the New York Society of Security Analysts; and our CEO Breakfast Club, which allows students the opportunity to meet with our countries top executives.

Work study or co-op opportunities	Yes
Fordham's business program offers its students a truly vast number of internship opportunities which can be over a semester while students are studying at Fordham or over a summer. Many of these internships are in this nations and the worlds most prestigous corporations in the capital of global commerce, New York City. Top investment houses, accounting firms, marketing agencies, banks, designers, record labels, technology firms, and a vast array of corporations take on our students as interns.
Study abroad opportunities	Yes
Fordham's business program has a truly vast array of study abroad opportunities. Everything from study tours which go to different countries for a two week period to full semesters abroad. Fordham's business program run's its own summer and semester program in London, and has specially designed programs for its students in Dublin, Barcelona, and Beijing. Some Fordham Business students also consider studying for the Junior year at the London School of Economics.
Volunteer and community service opportunities	Yes
Fordham strives to foster and support activities that contribute to the greater good of our local, national, and global community through various volunteer and community service activities including our: Service Learning and International Service Learning Programs, Global Outreach, POTS (Part of the Solution) Soup Kitchen, Big Brothers and Big Sister Organization, just to name a few.
Business clubs and extracurricular activities	Yes
Fordham has a very active student activities office that supports over 80 different student clubs and organizations on campus. Many of these clubs vary from being academically to culturally related. Some of the most popular business clubs are: Beta Alpha Psi (The Financial Services Honor Society), The Finance Society, The Marketing Society, The Information Systems Club, The GLOBE (International Business) Club, The Economics Club,the CBA Business Newspaper, & many finance related activities.

FACULTY

Total full-time undergraduate business faculty	118
Total undergraduate business adjuncts and visiting business faculty	93
Total undergraduate permanent/tenured business professors	52

23% of permanent/tenured business professors are women

  9% 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

  7% of permanent/tenured business professors have owned their own business

Prominent Faculty: Everette Dennis, James Lothian, Paul McNellis, S.J.

STUDENT LIFE

Freshmen are not required to live on campus

73% of all business students live on campus

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

TECHNOLOGY

1400 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:
Licensing of virus and firewall software for all students; Enforcement of minimum security profiles to protect student desktops/laptops; Blackboard upgrade; Pilot program for student service kiosks; Doubled storage and servers for student email; Setup proxy for access to proprietary library databases; Upgrade full service online student registration and other service; Upgrade freshmen placement service; 100% Wireless coverage in university housing units.