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Undergraduate Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Cleveland State University

Nance College of Business Administration

  • Program Basics

  • SCHOOL BASICS

    • Enrollment:

      • Total undergraduate: 17,100
      • Full-time undergraduate business: 3,200
      • Part-time undergraduate business: 560
      • College or university freshman retention rate: 72 %

    • Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

      • Within four years of admission to the university: 23 %
      • Within six years of admission to the university: 38 %

    • Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

      • BBA

  • PROGRAM COSTS

      • Annual Tuition (Resident): $90,000.00
      • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $13,000.00
      • Annual Required Fees: $320.00
      • Annual Room and Board: $12,000.00
      • Annual Cost of Books: $800.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

    • Students in newest entering class that are:

      • Female: 56 %
      • International: 6 %

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

      • Mean: 21
      • Median: 23

    • Percentage of newest entering class:

      • Top 10% of high school class: 1 %
      • Top 25% of high school class: 6 %
      • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 2 %
      • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 5 %

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

      • Mean: 23
      • Median: 21

    • Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

      • US: 95 %

    • U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

      • African American: 9 %
      • Asian American: 1 %
      • Hispanic or Latino American: 2 %

  • ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

    • Standardized tests required of all applicants:

      • ACT
      • SAT
      • Interviews are: Not required

    • Application deadlines:

      • Fall 2012 5/1/2012
      • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 550
      • Female applicants: 56 %

  • ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Business Program

      • Undergrad business program admissions are managed by: The university admissions office
      • Total undergraduate business applicants: 410
      • Percentage of applicants admitted: 70 %

    • Freshman admission:

      • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? No

    • Internal transfers:

      • Method for handling internal transfers: Declare business major

  • CAMPUS LIFE

    • Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

      • American Marketing Assoication
      • Beta Alpha Psi
      • SHRM
      • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: No
      • Are business students grouped together in 'learning communities' in housing and other facilities?: No

  • PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

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

      • BBA 128

  • ACADEMICS

    • Average class size:

      • Required business classes: 35
      • Business electives: 40

  • CURRICULUM

    • Electives:

      • Available business electives: 60
      • Last curriculum overhaul: 2008
      • Total business faculty: 120

    • Business program's leading areas of study:

        • Accounting
        • Finance
        • Marketing
        • Human Resource Management
        • General Management

    • Extra-curricular activities:

      • Monte Ahuja Freshman Sophomore Business Association
      • Ahuja Business Minority Society
      • The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
      • Network Professional Lunch Series
      • Meet the Accountants Night
      • IS Career Fair

  • FINANCIAL AID

  • CAREER SERVICES

    • Employment Information

      • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 15 %
      • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 150
      • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 250

  • INTERNSHIPS

      • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 50
      • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 150

  • B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

    • Prominent alums of the undergrad business program

      • Monte Ahuja Transtar Industries, Inc

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