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2007 UNDERGRAD PROFILE

Wake Forest (Calloway)

Calloway School of Business and Accountancy

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PROGRAM BASICS & REQUIREMENTS

Specializations offered:
Accounting, ,

Mathematical Business

Programs Offered

BS	Accountancy	Full time
BS	Business/General Management	Full time
BS	Finance	Full time
BS	Mathematical Business	Full time

Core curriculum last revised Prior to 2000

Average class size in required business classes	26.4
Average class size in business electives	15.25
Average class size in non-business classes (required for admission to the business program	30.51

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

85% of business classes (core and elective) have 21 to 50 students

  0% of business classes (core and elective) have more than 50 students

100% of required business courses reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2005.

100% 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 43 for Bachelor of Science

Other requirements to earn undergraduate business degree
Introduction to Business Communications Introductory Financial Accounting Introductory Mangement Accounting Quantitative Analysis I Quantitative Analysis II Organizational Theory and Behavior Principles of Marketing Principles of Finance Production and Operations Management Management Information Systems Legal Environment of Business Stategic Mangement 3 Business Electives

73% of business students graduate from the program within four years of admission to the university

98% 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, General Management

Number of elective courses (not multiple sessions of same course) available in the past academic year: 17

New electives added in the past academic year:

What special programs are available to business students?
Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Minor Enterprise Risk Management Global Trade and Commerce Studies Minor

Work study or co-op opportunities	No
Study abroad opportunities	Yes
Wake Forest provides extensive opportunities and support for foreign study programs, including scholarships. The university owns residential study centers in Venice, London and Vienna. More than 50 percent of all undergraduates, including Calloway School students, study abroad. "Open Doors 2006," a publication produced by the Institute of International Education, ranked Wake Forest fourth in the nation among doctoral institutions in the estimated undergraduate participation in study abroad.
Volunteer and community service opportunities	Yes
Wake Forest's Office of Volunteer Services provides information and services for all students, campus organizations, faculty, and administrators with an interest in volunteerism. Over half of the undergraduate students at Wake Forest, including those in the Calloway School, make volunteerism a part of their campus experience. Many of these dedicated students make service a priority by volunteering on a weekly basis in one of fifty local service agencies.
Business clubs and extracurricular activities	Yes
Beta Gamma Sigma Advertising Club Accounting Society E society (Entrepreneurship Club for students) Finance Club

FACULTY

Total full-time undergraduate business faculty	27
Total undergraduate business adjuncts and visiting business faculty	10
Total undergraduate permanent/tenured business professors	19

16% of permanent/tenured business professors are women

  0% of permanent/tenured business professors are underrepresented minorities (African American, Hispanic American or Native American)

  5% of permanent/tenured business professors are members of company boards of directors or boards of advisors

10% of permanent/tenured business professors have owned their own business

Prominent Faculty: Robert R. Bliss, Jonathan E. Duchac, Elizabeth J. Gatewood

STUDENT LIFE

Freshmen are required to live on campus

NA % of all business students live on campus

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

TECHNOLOGY

398 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:
Wake Forest provides notebook computers to all undergraduates including Calloway students. A high-speed, secure, wireless network enables mobile computing for the entire campus and facilitates pilot programs like MobileU, in which students use Pocket PC phones to access information anywhere, anytime. Calloway classrooms have a/v systems that include a presentation computer, document cameras, ceiling-mounted LCD projectors, and centralized control for presentation and lighting functions.