Program Basics

• • Hankamer School of Business
  • Hankamer School of Business
  • Baylor University
  • One Bear Place #98000
  • Waco, Texas
  • 76798
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.baylor.edu/business
  • Program e-mail address: hsbundergraduateprograms@baylor.edu
  • Program phone number: 2547101611
  • Status: Private
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1923
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 12,575
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 2,689
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 39
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 84 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BBA

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $28,720.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $28,720.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $2,938.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $1,197.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $1,197.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $8,984.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,390.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 43 %
  • International: 3 %

• Mean and median age of full-time business students in the newest entering class:

  • Mean: 18
  • Median: 18

• SAT scores (1600 scale) for the newest entering class of full-time undergraduate business students:

  • Mean: 1219
  • Median: 1220

• Middle 50% range of SAT scores (1600 scale):

  • From: 1130
  • To: 1290

• ACT scores for the newest entering class of full-time undergraduate business students:

  • Mean: 27
  • Median: 27

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 24
  • To: 29

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 97 %
  • Canada: 0 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 3 %
  • Dual Citizenship: 0%
  • Unknown Citizenship: 0 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 4 %
  • Asian American: 7 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 10 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 5 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 74 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 0 %

• Regional breakdown of U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • Northeast: 1 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
  • South: 6 %
  • Southwest: 77 %
  • Midwest: 7 %
  • West: 7 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT or ACT
• • Interviews are: Not required

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 2/1/2012
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 38,960
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 40 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 20 %
• • International applicants: 5 %
• • Female applicants: 43 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Very Important
  • Talent/ability: Considered
  • Interview: Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Considered
  • Volunteer work: Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Considered
  • Application essay: Considered
  • Work experience: Not Considered
  • SAT/ACT scores: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Considered
  • High school GPA: Important

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Business Program

• • Undergrad business program admissions are managed by: The business program office
• • Entrance exam other than the SAT/ACT required for admission to the undergraduate business program?: No
• • Admissions interviews for the undergraduate business program are: Not required

• Freshman admission:

  • Does the business program admit freshmen?: Yes
  • Percentage of business program admits in most recent entering class who were freshman: 8 %
  • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? Yes
  • Process for freshmen admission?: Complete an application, apart from the university application
  • Additional application requirements for freshman admits: Admission to Baylor Business Fellows is competitive and subsequent to admission to the University. Admission is based on SAT scores, class rank, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a desire to excel in business studies. The applicants must apply in writing to the Director of the program.

• Internal transfers:

  • Method for handling internal transfers: Declare business major
  • Minimum college GPA for internal transfers to the business program: 2.5
  • Additional application requirements, including course/grade requirements: All business school admission decisions are made at the point where students reach 60 credit hours. At that time, an applicant must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5, a "C" or better in all lower business core classes, and credit for two freshman English writing classes and calculus.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • American Marketing Association
  • Baylor Business Women
  • BU Investments Society
  • Uproar/The Industry
  • Delta Sigma Pi
• • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: Yes
  • Are business students grouped together in 'learning communities' in housing and other facilities?: Yes

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum number of credit hours required to receive an undergraduate business degree:

  • BBA 124

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 34
  • Business electives: 17

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 43 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 56 %
  • With more than 50 students: 1 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 172
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 1998
  • Total business faculty: 147
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 56 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Dorothy E. Leidner, Ph.D.
  • William R. Reichenstein, Ph. D.
  • J. William Petty, Ph.D.

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • General Management
• • Special programs: Baylor Business Fellows; Sports Sponsorship and Sales; Southwest Securities Market Center: Practicum in Portfolio Management; Music and Entertainment Marketing; Distribution Management and Technology; Business, Excellence, Scholarship, and Team Program; Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Center; Business Spanish (BBA); Business French (BBA); Business German (BBA); Business Russian (BBA); Nonprofit and Development; Social Entrepreneurship
• • Study abroad programs: Baylor University offers many study abroad opportunities throughout its undergraduate curriculum. The Baylor Business School offers several study abroad options taught by Baylor business faculty. These include Baylor in Great Britain (summer), the European Business Seminar (summer), Social Entrepreneurship in Africa, Baylor in Maastricht, and the Immersion into International Interdisciplinary Innovation Program (Shanghai). In non-Baylor faculty programs, students can study abroad at a large number of partner universities.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Baylor University specializes in service learning throughout its undergraduate curriculum.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • American Marketing Association
  • Baylor Business Women
  • Financial Management Association
  • S3 (Sports Sponsorship and Sales) Club
  • Association of Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Students
  • BU Investments Society
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Collegiate Entrepreneurs

FINANCIAL AID

• • Who manages financial aid for the business program?: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Financial aid web site: http://www.baylor.edu/sfs/

• Scholarships

  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 92 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 84 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 16 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 54 %
  • No job offer reported: 46 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 47 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 53 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 207
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 897

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • KPMG 11
  • Ernst & Young 8
  • Hewlett-Packard 7
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 6
  • Allstate 4
  • JP Morgan 3
  • ISNetworld 3
  • Fidelity 3
  • Exxon Mobil 3
  • AXA Advisors 3
  • Teach for America 3
  • Oracle 2
  • Accenture 2
  • Wells Fargo 2
  • Sogeti 2

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $47,711.00
  • Median base salary : $48,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $3,225.00
  • Median signing bonus: $2,000.00

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following functional areas:

  • Consulting: 5 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 38 %
  • General Management: 9 %
  • Human Resources: 2 %
  • Management Information Systems: 9 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 16 %
  • Operations/Production: 11 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 1 %
  • Other: 9 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 21 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 4 %
  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 23 %
  • Government/Education: 5 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 2 %
  • Manufacturing: 6 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 4 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 5 %
  • Real Estate: 2 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 3 %
  • Technology/Science: 14 %
  • Non-Profit: 0 %
  • Transportation: 3 %
  • Utilities: 0 %
  • Other: 5 %

• Job offers accepted by most recent graduates in North America:

  • US: 100 %
  • Canada: 0 %

• Percentage of 2009-10 academic year graduates who accepted jobs in regions of US:

  • Northeast: 2 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 1 %
  • Midwest: 4 %
  • South: 3 %
  • Southwest: 88 %
  • West: 2 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Career services offered: Resume critique, on-campus interview program, on-line resources, mock interviews, job fairs, professional development workshops, one-on-one career coaching, corporate speakers, employer presentations, mentor network, employer directory, internships, college-career transition and first job seminars, career assessment tools.

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 31,224
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 28,889

• Alumni gifts

  • Did the business program receive a gift of $10 million or more in the last academic year? No

• Prominent alums of the undergrad business program

  • Gary W. Keller Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Keller Williams Realty
  • Bob R. Simpson Chairman and Founder, XTO Energy, Inc.
  • Drayton McLane Jr. Chairman, McLane Group

• • -The professors and students all work really well together, and the professors are willing to change their projects based on the class in order to ensure the students get the most out of them.
    
    -I would like to see more connections for undergraduates with our alumni base. I do know that the Baylor Business Network is active and strong, so it would be great to to connect with those folks earlier on during undergraduate.
    
    -Baylor teaches not just the major, but the entire basis of business. In order to begin your major courses, you have to understand and be able to complete numerous other business classes, like Accounting, Management, Economics. Students also have to take classes like Operations Management, Finance, and Business Law in order to graduate.
    
    -Something that could be done to make our business program stronger is providing better job recruiting resources and opportunities for every major. The Baylor Hankamer School of Business does an excellent job in providing internships and jobs for their accounting and information systems majors, however, all of the other majors don't get the same amount of attention and focus.
    
    -Since Baylor is a Christian university, I think the business school here puts a much larger emphasis on ethics in the business world than other universities do. In most of my classes, we've talked about ethics or morality almost on a daily basis. The classes are also fairly small, the average size being between 10 and 20 students to a class. The only lecture hall class I've had in the business school was the initial Business 1301 class that all freshmen business students have to take.
    
    -Currently, there are a decent number of firms that attend Baylor University. The strongest firms are accounting firms. However, the university needs to make an effort to get investment banks to take an interest in the school.
    
    -The classes are never larger than 28 students. this enables students to have one on one access with professors. Also, the professors share a closer relationship, which makes the learning experience much more enjoyable.
    
    -The finance program needs to make strategic hires. The current staff is unmotivated and lacking in real-world experience. We are also lacking an M&A and valuation class. That being said, the availability of real-world practical experience does seem to be unmatched by ANY other school.
    
    -Baylor Hankamer School of Business is an outstanding program in the fact that it offers a wide array of classes, unique opportunities, and exciting ventures. The best part about it is the size. Most of my classes average 15-20 kids, and the professors are extremely personable. I feel like I can go into any of my professor's office and talk about school, life, and faith. I also think the Baptist traditions are great at Baylor. I have gone to Uganda Africa 3 times with the accounting program, and have created a Christian business student organization within the business school.
    
    -I think the expectations of some professor should be higher. The teaching style should go away from ''reading the slides'' to more practical teaching where students need to show creativity and develop ideas. If I am forced to sleep in class because my teacher couldn't get my attention than nobody is being productive.
    
    -Our accounting program brings in the best firms to recruit the students. Also, our courses prepare us extremely well to take the CPA exam; I have already passed one section without much trouble. In addition, our professors love to help us with our studies in a one on one setting, and they care about our life outside of class.
    
    -While I do feel prepared for any job, I struggled a little with finding the career that is best for me. Most of this could have been fixed by exposure a little earlier on in my college career.
    
    -The alumni connections and professor relations are outstanding. Professors truly desire you to learn and to succeed in your education and future career--they will do anything to ensure your success. Relationships with faculty are strong and personal as compared to other schools.
    
    -I wish there were more workshops and speakers to go to, or maybe just do a better job of advertising them. I felt like I wasn't made aware of some opportunities until the day of.
    
    -The Baylor Business Fellows is a unique program offered to students that maintain a high GPA and did well on SAT's in high school. It allows those students to attain more than one major within the same 4-year period and to explore more classes outside the business school than a normal business major would be able to.