Program Basics

• • Bryant University, College of Business
  • Bryant University Graduate School of Business
  • 1150 Douglas Pike
  • Smithfield, Rhode Island
  • 02917-1284
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.bryant.edu
  • Program e-mail address: admission@bryant.edu
  • Program phone number: 401-232-6100
  • Status: Private
• • AACSB accredited: Yes

• Accreditation other than AACSB:

  • New England Association of Schools & Colleges
  • Full membership in CUIBE
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1963
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 3,337
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 1,934
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 83
  • Distance undergraduate business: 0
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 86 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 81 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 84 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BSBA: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  • BSIB: Bachelor of Science in International Business
  • BScIT: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $34,288.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $34,288.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $336.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $1,429.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $1,429.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $12,579.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,300.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 33 %
  • International: 9 %

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

  • Mean: 18
  • Median: 18

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • Top 10% of high school class: 20 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 50 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 16 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 16 %

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

  • Mean: 1109
  • Median: 1110

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

  • From: 1040
  • To: 1190

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

  • Mean: 24
  • Median: 24

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 22
  • To: 25

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 88 %
  • Canada: 1 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 8 %
  • Dual Citizenship: 3%
  • Unknown Citizenship: 0 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 6 %
  • Asian American: 3 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 1 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 76 %
  • Chose not to report: 6 %
  • Other: 1 %

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

  • Northeast: 94 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 2 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 1 %
  • Midwest: 1 %
  • West: 1 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • None
• • Interviews are: Not required

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 2/1/2012
• • Additional application requirements: Transfer application deadline is May 15, 2012 for FAll 2012; December 1, 2012 for Spring 2013. International students must submit TOEFL or IELTS.
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 5,592
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 76 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 13 %
• • International applicants: 10 %
• • Female applicants: 33 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Important
  • Talent/ability: Important
  • Interview: Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Important
  • Volunteer work: Important
  • Character/personal abilities: Very Important
  • Application essay: Important
  • Work experience: Important
  • SAT/ACT scores: Important
  • Recommendations: Important
  • High school GPA: Very Important

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Business Program

• • Undergrad business program admissions are managed by: The university admissions office
  • Total undergraduate business applicants: 2,634
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 80 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 24 %
• • 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
  • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? No
  • Process for freshmen admission?: Indicate interest on university application

• Internal transfers:

  • Method for handling internal transfers: Declare business major

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO)
  • Accounting Association
  • Bryant Marketing Association
  • Delta Epsilon Chi (DECA)
  • Finance Association
• • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: No
  • 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:

  • BSBA 122
  • BSIB 122
  • BScIT 122

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • Required Liberal Arts Minor; A minimum 2.0 G.P.A. in three categories: Overall G.P.A. (cumulative), Major/Concentration G.P.A., and Minor G.P.A.

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 31
  • Business electives: 25
  • Non-business electives: 28

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 11 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 89 %
  • With more than 50 students: 0 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 55 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 0 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 50
  • New electives: FIN340: Microfinance
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2004
  • Total business faculty: 116
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 52 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Peter Nigro,Ph.D
  • Charles Cullinan, Ph.D.
  • Michael Roberto, D.B.A.

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • General Management
    • International Business
  • Other leading area of study: Computer Information Systems; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services; Information Technology; Human Resource Management
• • Special programs: Bryant University Archway Fund is a student managed investment fund integrated into a two-course sequence - Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management; Elevator Pitch competition where first-year students present their business plans and are judged by business professionals; Participation in TJX sponsored Sales Competition; Sophomore International Experience (SIE): a 3-credit international study tour for sophomores led by faculty offered in the winter and summer terms.
• • Work study: Federal Work-Study Program - Part-time employment opportunities are made available to students who demonstrate eligibility for federal assistance. Hourly compensation will not be less than the current minimum wage.
• • Study abroad programs: Bryant University study abroad opportunities include semester-long, summer, and full academic year programs of study. Students choose from hundreds of academic institutions in 46 countries. International academic study tours led by Bryant faculty are also available.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Opportunities for service learning and community service for business students include a community service project in the required business core course MGT200: Management Principles and Practice, a Sociology and Service Learning minor, and volunteer activities through campus organizations.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Bryant Marketing Association
  • Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
  • Finance Association
  • International Business Association
  • International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi
  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
  • Accounting Association

FINANCIAL AID

• • Who manages financial aid for the business program?: Central financial aid office at the university
  • Financial aid web site: http://admission.bryant.edu/FinancialAid.aspx

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $30,958,172.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $30,841,526.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 77 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 2 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 60 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 26 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $39,316.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 64 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 92 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 8 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 57 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 22 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation : 18 %
  • No job offer reported: 3 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 57 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 21 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation: 19 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 3 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 128
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 244

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 30
  • Liberty Mututal 14
  • Fidelity Investments 13
  • Schneider Electric/American Power Corporation 9
  • The Hanover Insurance Group 8
  • Target Corporation 7
  • Carousel Industries 7
  • Ernst & Young 6
  • State Street Bank 5
  • EMC Corporation 5
  • FactSet Research Systems 4
  • The Hartford Financial Group 4
  • Raytheon Company 4
  • Northwestern Mutual 4
  • Ross Stores 4

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $48,350.00
  • Median base salary : $51,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $3,500.00
  • Median signing bonus: $2,500.00

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

  • Consulting: 4 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 36 %
  • General Management: 7 %
  • Human Resources: 4 %
  • Management Information Systems: 5 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 17 %
  • Operations/Production: 3 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 2 %
  • Other: 22 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 18 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 10 %
  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 27 %
  • Government/Education: 2 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 3 %
  • Manufacturing: 2 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 1 %
  • Technology/Science: 11 %
  • Non-Profit: 1 %
  • Transportation: 1 %
  • Utilities: 0 %
  • Other: 17 %

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

  • US: 98 %
  • Canada: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 93 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
  • Midwest: 1 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • West: 1 %
  • Possessions and territories: 1 %
• • Career services offered: Career Counseling, Career related workshops, Mock interviews, Shadow Program, Site visits to corporations and not-for-profit agencies, Career panels, Career Development Course, Alumni Career Link, Alumni/Student Networking events, Career Fairs, Academic Internship Program, Recruiting Program, and Senior Transition Series.

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 284
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 580

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 40
  • Fidelity Investments 22
  • Travelers Insurance 18
  • Hartford Financial Services 7
  • Target Corporation 7
  • Merrill Lynch 7
  • Amica Insurance 6
  • Hanover Insurance 5
  • American Power Conversion 4
  • Raytheon Company 3
  • Northwestern Mutual Financial Network 3
  • Liberty Mutual 3
  • WPRI-TV 2
  • Sansiveri, Kimball & Co. 2
  • Yarlas, Kaplan & Moran 2

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 58 %
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 14

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 34,986
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 32,152
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 10 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $391.00
  • Median Gift: $75.00
  • 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

  • Kristian P. Moor '81 President and CEO, Chartis Insurance
  • Ian Morris '90 President and CEO, Marketleader, Inc.
  • Joseph Puishys '80 President and CEO, Apogee Enterprises Inc.

• • -Our school is very focused on real-world application rather than memorization. We work in groups constantly to ensure that we have strong team skills for entering the job market. We are also constantly touring and visiting actual facilities, meeting practitioners in the field and conducting independent research. Lastly, our liberal arts minor gives us a second layer to support our business education and give us a well rounded education.
    
    -My only improvement to the program would be slightly less rigidity in the structure of some programs. I understand that some rigid structure is needed to make sure students take globally focused classes (for an International Business Student); however, i feel that there either needs to be more offerings for globally focused classes or there needs to be less rigidity in the program so that students can take some non globally focused classes that they may be more interested in.
    
    -I am in the International Business Program and I honestly love everything about it! There is a global perspective on each of my core business classes, my teachers are all International, and we are required to participate in a semester abroad. I feel as if the International Business Program at Bryant has broadened my horizons and has opened me to experiences I never would have took part in otherwise. Also something interesting and unique about the program is that annually we go on "field trip." One year we went to the UN, last year we went to the New Balance Factory, and we have also been to a couple local companies in Rhode Island to take a look at supply chain management systems and operations.
    
    -The core curriculum for the business program needs to be changed, and it currently undergoing that process. The program would also benefit from the addition of more business electives in various departments, as well as some focus on non-profit business.
    
    -All International Business majors must study abroad which is a huge help to our cultural understanding. Also, they offer an integrated block in our junior year where you literally work together (with your peers) around the clock. During this time, the Business Strategy Game is also played, adding competition and challenges to our daily classes.
    
    -I feel that certain concentrations are much harder than others and that at times the school is too strict with grading. From my experience, an accounting or finance major faces many more challenges than that of a marketing or management major and thus suffers the consequences in the form of lower grades.
    
    -What makes Bryant's business program unique are the professors hands on approach and the small size of students per class. Our professors here are very active in the classroom and always bringing current and relevant cases and scenarios from the real world. This makes classes more tangible and easier to understand the theory while also preparing you for the real world. Also given the small class sizes it is very easy to interact with professors inside and outside the classroom, which makes the classes more effective and meaningful.
    
    -During my sophomore year, Bryant had a pilot program called the Sophomore's Scholar Program. This cohort of class allowed teams to work together for two semesters and integrated 6 of the core business classes together. Although this was a pilot program, and there were kinks to work out, I believe this program helped me tremendously in my interview process and during my internships. I believe that Bryant should offer more classes that are linked together and allow students to work with each other for long periods of time.
    
    -Our program is unique due to the deep desire Professors have for their students to succeed. Classes are never more than 35 students and all programs are designed for students to become the best business men and women they can. From freshman year, students are taught teamwork through group projects, which is a continuing theme through senior year. Furthermore, Professors are almost always available to meet for help or career/life guidance.
    
    -The program should look to force student involvement in the classroom. Some teachers strictly lecture often detracting from the students experience. If more teachers involve students during class time a higher quality of learning could take place.
    
    -I believe that Bryant's business program is unique because the courses prepare you best for the professional world. Many of the professors had or currently have a job in their field and are able to take concepts learned in class and teach students how they apply to real world situations. In addition, many of the students and all of the faculty show great passion for their respective subjects and it makes going to class and learning more enjoyable because students can feed off that passion.
    
    -The quality of the teaching staff could be improved. As I'm sure the case is with most schools, there are several teachers from each department who a) should not be teaching anymore, b) think that instruction can be accomplished by using the prewritten material provided with their free instructors test book, and c) may be extremely intelligent but can't communicate information in a way that a student can understand.
    
    -Bryant's curriculum integrates both a business education as well as a liberal arts education. Business schools are notorious for producing students who know business but are poor at adapting to the inevitable changes of the real world. The integration of a liberal arts education better prepares us for the business world than other business programs do.