UNDERGRADUATE Profiles Publish Date 2/26/09

DePaul University

Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

Getting In

PROGRAM BASICS

College of Commerce Undergraduate Program

1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Suite 8500
Chicago , Illinois 60604

Private Institution

Web site

http://commerce.depaul.edu/undergrad

Program e-mail address:

cupo@depaul.edu

Program telephone number:

(312) 362-5358

AACSB accredited:

Yes

Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded:

1912

Length of entire institution:

Four Year

Business program length:

Four Year

Degrees offered:

Degree/Program Name:
BSC/Bachelor of Science in Commerce
BAGB/Bachelor of Arts in General Business

PROGRAM COSTS

Annual Tuition (Resident):

$ 25,490

Annual Tuition (Non-Resident)

$ 25,490

Cost per academic credit (resident)

$ 460

Cost per academic credit (non-resident)

$ 460

Required fees

$ 577

Books:

$ 900

Room and board:

$ 10,240

ENROLLMENT

Full-time undergraduate business student enrollment:

4,247

Part-time undergraduate business student enrollment:

472

Distance undergraduate business student enrollment:

Total College enrollment for 2008-09:

24,352

ADMISSIONS

Interviews for entire college:

Not required

Additional application requirements for entire college:

TOFEL required for international students. College transcripts, high school transcripts, statement of good standing from prior institution(s), minimum gpa of 2.5 from high school, and a minimum cumulative gpa of 2.5 from any colleges attended for transfer students. High school transcripts are required for incoming, first-time freshmen students.

Upcoming application deadlines for entire college:

Semester: Fall Quarter
Deadline: 02-01-2009
Semester: Winter Quarter
Deadline: 11-01-2009
Semester: Spring Quarter
Deadline: 03-01-2010
Semester: Summer Quarter
Deadline: 05-01-2010

Freshmen admitted into business program:

Yes

Percentage of business students admitted as freshmen:

73 %

Are the freshman admits to the business program required to complete pre-business courses before beginning upper-lever courses in the junior year?

Yes

Freshmen admitted by:

Indicate interest on university application

Internal transfers handled by:

Declare business major

Minimum requirements for business program:

Entrance exam requirement other than SAT/ACT for business program:

Interview to enter business program:

Not required

Additional application requirements for freshman admits:

N/A

Minimum college GPA for internal business program transfers:

2.0

Additional requirements for internal transfers:

Students must have completed at least 12 quarter hours.

Total number of full-time applications for entire college:

n/a

International applicants, entire college, 2008-09:

2 %

Female applicants, entire college, 2008-09:

46 %

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:

Important

Application Essay:

Important

Work Experience:

Important

SAT/ACT Scores:

Important

Recommendations:

Important

High School GPA:

Important

Admissions program managed by:

The university admissions office

Total undergraduate business program applicants, 2008-09:

4,258

Applicants enrolled in undergrad business program 2008-2009:

44 %

Applicants admitted to undergraduate business program, 2008-09:

66 %

CLASS PROFILE

Class Profile:

Female: 48 %
International : .9 %

Entering students by age:

Mean: 18.14
Median: 18.0

Citizenship of Entering Students

U.S.: 99 %
Other countries: .9 %

Percentage of US citizens in entering class who are:

African American: 4.4 %
Asian American: 14 %
Hispanic or Latino American: 15 %
Multiethnic/Multiracial : .3 %
Native American: .5 %
White (Non-Hispanic): 57 %
Chose not to report: 9 %

Entering students from the following region:

Northeast: 2.5 %
Mid-Atlantic: 1.3 %
South: 2.4 %
Southwest: 2.1 %
Midwest : 90 %
West: 1.7 %
Possessions and territories: .1 %

SAT Scores for full-time entering business students on 1600 scale:

Mean: 1109
Median: 1110

SAT middle 50% range on 1600 scale:

From: 1,020
To: 1,200

ACT Scores for full-time entering business students:

Mean: 25
Median: 24

ACT middle 50% range:

From: 22
To: 27

Percent of Students Who Were In:

Top 10% of high school class

20 %

Top 25% of high school class:

28 %

HS GPA of 3.75 or higher

29 %

HS GPA of 3.5 to 3.74:

20 %

FINANCIAL AID

Financial aid handled by:

Central financial aid office at the university

Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students in previous academic year:

$ 18,330,356

Institutional scholarship money to be distributed to undergraduate business students in current academic year:

$ 18,500,000

Scholarships awarded to students in the business program based on:

A combination of need and merit

Scholarship consideration process:

As part of the admissions application

Other scholarship considerations:

N/A

Students receiving institutional scholarships for 2008-09 academic year:

55 %

Percentage of institutional scholarship money distributed to business students based on merit, 2008-09 year:

60 %

Percentage of institutional scholarship money distributed to business students based on need, 2008-09:

40 %

School offers guaranteed loans:

Yes

Financial aid web site

http://www.depaul.edu/admission/financialaid/index.asp

Academics & Lifestyle

PROGRAM BASICS

Business students who graduate within four years:

53 %

Business students who graduate within 6 years:

72 %

Freshman retention rate:

85 %

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Credit hours required for graduation:

Degree: BSC
Hours: 192
Degree: BAGB
Hours: 192

Other degree requirements:

N/A

ACADEMICS

Average class size in required business courses:

36.8

Average class size in business electives:

24.8

Average class size in non-business electives required for admission to business program:

26.6

Class size:

Classes with fewer than 20 students: 27 %
Classes with 21 to 50 students: 71 %
Classes with more than 50 students: 1 %

Required business courses that reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class, previous academic year:

90 %

CURRICULUM

Number of elective courses available in business program:

Electives added current year:

Sports Economics
Category Management Social Media Marketing
Strategy for Exploring the External Environment
Marketing Across Cultures: A Global Perspective
Special Topics in Marketing: Wine Education Management Introduction to Hospitality Sustainable Management

Year of the last major change to the business program's core curriculum:

2009

Leading areas of study:

Accounting

Finance

General Management

Marketing

Real Estate

Special programs for business students:

College of Commerce Career Management Program, Alumni Sharing Knowledge Program (ASK), Undergraduate Research Assistantships, Honors curricula in Accounting, Finance and Marketing, and Driehaus Study Tours

Business program offers work study or co-op opportunities:

Yes

On-Campus Employment: In any given school year, more than 3,000 students are employed in various departments and offices all around campus. They are communications assistants,technical writers, clerks, web programmers, and researchers. Many of them are working to help finance their DePaul education. The benefits of on-campus employment, however, extend beyond a paycheck. Coop: DePaul’s Cooperative Education Program creates a partnership among students, the Co-op Program and employers. The program helps place students – for one to three years - in part-time, paid positions related to their academic major, concentration and profession goals. The list of companies participating in the Co-op program include: American Family Insurance, Antares Capital Management, Capital H Group, Ernst & Young, Harris Alternatives, LLC, JPMorgan Chase, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, McCormick Tribune Foundation, PepsiCo, Porsche Enterprises, Inc, Qualtex Corporation, RSM McGladrey, SmithBucklin Corporation, Sudler and Company, TransUnion, and the U.S. Department of State.

Business program offers study abroad opportunities:

Yes

Study abroad program description:

Every year during summer, winter and spring break, DePaul's Driehaus Center for International Business sponsors overseas study seminars for course credit. In the recent past, students have gone to China, Greece, Italy, Japan, France, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Spain, The Czech Republic, and many, many other places on faculty led study tours. International seminars award four hours course credit. They may also be counted toward Experiential Learning for undergraduate students.

Volunteer work and community service opportunities:

Yes

Volunteer opportunities description:

The Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning provides educational opportunities grounded in Vincentian community values to DePaul students. The Center seeks to develop mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships with community organizations in order to develop a sense of social agency in our students through enrollment in CbSL courses, community internships and placements, and community-based student employment. A CBSL course engages students to learn and develop experientially derived knowledge through active participation in organized service. Students have the opportunity to do meaningful service that meets community-defined needs, relating to a particular course's learning objectives. In cooperation with a public benefit or community organization, students will develop and carry out a social action or service project and reflect upon its implications. The service will be coordinated through the cooperation of the university and the community organization.

Business clubs and extracurricular activities:

Accounting Club/Alpha Kappa Psi/Beta Alpha Psi
Beta Gamma Sigma - Delta of Illinois Chapter
CEO DePaul Chapter/Golden Key International Honour Society
DePaul Computational Finance Group/DePaul Investment Club
DePaul Marketing Association/Financial Management Association
DePaul's Student Chapter of the American Advertising Federation (Ad Club)
Midwest Assoc of Hispanic Accountants (MAHA)/National Assoc of Black Accountants (NABA)
Real Estate Organization- REO/Students for Entrepreneurs

FACULTY

Faculty:

Full-time faculty : 155
Adjuncts and visiting faculty: 226
Permanent/tenured professors: 91
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are women: 28
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are underrepresented minorities: 10
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are also members of company boards of directors or of advisors: 20
Percentage of permanent/tenured professors who are business owners: 59

Prominent faculty:

Werner DeBondt
Patricia Werhane
Belverd Needles

STUDENT LIFE

Largest on-campus organizations for business students:

Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO)
Real Estate Organization (REO)
Alpha Kappa Psi
Delta Sigma Pi
Midwest Association of Hispanic Accountants (MAHA)

Freshmen are required to live on campus:

Business students are grouped in learning communities:

TECHNOLOGY

Wireless network available:

Yes

Technological improvements made in the last three years:

Virtual Electronic Trading Room (Data services include Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Advisor, Bloomberg, Bara, Thompson Financial, Capital IQ and Aspen Graphics. Additionally DePaul has HDX Videoconferencing,Collage Website Content Management System, Office 2007 upgrade, Blackboard 8 upgrade, Wimba, Tunes U, Ooyala video streaming, iClickers, EndNote, Trumba web based calendar, University wide website renovation, University wide online course evaluations, and University wide PeopleSoft upgrade.

Trading laboratory available:

Yes

Alumni Affairs & Careers

ALUMNI

Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception:

32,590

Total living alumni:

29,359

Percent of alumni who gave, 2007-08 academic year:

6 %

Mean alumni gift 2007-08:

$ 1,000

Median alumni gift, 2007-08:

$ 100

Single donation in excess of $10 million in 2007-08?

Prominent alumni:

Name: Jim Jenness, BSC '69 Marketing, MBA '71 Marketing
Title: Chairman, Kellogg Co.
Name: Jack Greenberg, BSC '64 Accoountancy, JD '68 Law
Title: Former CEO of McDonalds
Name: Dan Ustain, BSC '73 Accountancy
Title: Chairman, President, & CEO of Navistar

CAREER SERVICES

Percent of 2008 graduates who provided employment information:

74 %

Seeking full-time employment in business: 25 %
Not Seeking full-time employment in business: 75 %

Number of companies recruiting undergraduate students on campus in previous academic year:

255

Companies that posted full-time job offers/positions on school job boards, previous academic year:

1,398

Other activities and services provided for business majors:

Services include: Specialist Career Advising, Peer Career Advising, Career assessments, Job & Internship Fairs including two general fairs a year, Communication, Marketing & Sales, Non Profit, Hire Big 10+, etc., On Campus Recruitment, Company Presentations, Employer Office Hours, Networking events, e.g. Futures in Finance & Accounting, Careers in Advertising, Marketing & Sales, Diversity on LaSalle, Career Development Workshops both face to face and by teleconference, e.g. resumes & cover letters, networking, interviewing, negotiating, how to work a job fair, job search strategies, Resume review programs, Job search walk ins, Alumni Mentoring Program, Practice Interviews, Job Shadowing, Credit based Internships, College of Commerce Career Management Passport encourages students to engage in career related events for additional credit, a Blog , and Instant messaging.

Job offer results, 2008 graduates:

Top hiring firms:

Deloitte Touche Tomatsu
Target Corp.
Ernst & Young
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KPMG LLP
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Bank of America Corp.
General Electric
Kraft
Morgan Stanley
Sears Holdings
State Farm
UBS

Northern Trust Bank
Equity Residential
Huron Consulting
Walgreens Corp.
Jackson National Asset Management
DePaul University
Grant Thorton
RSM McGladrey
True Partners Consulting
Career Builder
Ch Robinson

Graduate compensation:

Mean base salary: $ 47,376
Median base salary: $ 48,500
Mean signing bonus: $ 1,451
Median signing bonus: $ 0

Grads accepted jobs in following functional areas:

Consulting: 2.8 %
Finance/Accounting: 43 %
General Management: 14 %
Human Resources: 2.7 %
Management Information Systems: 3.1 %
Marketing/Sales: 17 %
Operations/Production: 9.4 %
Logistics/Transportation: 1.2 %
Other: 5.6 %

Grads accepted jobs in following industries:

Accounting: 10 %
Consumer Products/Retail: 12 %
Consulting Services: 4.9 %
Financial Services: 31 %
Government/Education: 3.5 %
Pharma/Biotech/Health: 3.1 %
Manufacturing: 8 %
Media/Entertainment: 6.4 %
Petroleum/Energy: .7 %
Real Estate: 2.4 %
Sports/Leisure: 1.2 %
Technology/Science: 2.6 %
Non-Profit: 4.4 %
Transportation: 3.3 %
Utilities: .7 %
Other: 5.4 %

Percentage of job acceptances, US and Canada:

US: 100 %

Grads accepted jobs in the following US regions:

Northeast: .5 %
Mid-Atlantic: 0 %
Midwest: 96 %
South: .2 %
Southwest: .2 %
West: 2.6 %
US Possessions/Territories: 0 %

Number of companies recruiting interns on-campus, 2007-08 academic year:

138

Internship postings on job boards, previous academic year:

801

Top internship recruiters, 2007-08:

Merrill Lynch
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bank of America Corp.
Target Corp.
UBS
Walgreens
Morgan Stanley

DePaul University
Smith Barney
Abbott Laboratories
AFLAC
City of Chicago
Kellogg Co.
Marketing Werks
Morningstar

Percentage of internships that were paid, previous academic year

71 %

Mean internship compensation per week:

$ 180

Median internship compensation per week:

$ 165

Average internship, in weeks:

Graduate Comments

Diversity is huge at DePaul, as it has been rated as the most diverse school in the nation many of the last few years. This definitely plays a role in my experience here. I've had the opportunity to make many friends of different backgrounds and from different countries, which has helped broaden my perspective and enhance my communication skills.

I feel like DePaul's curriculum is littered with too many needless fill-in classes, and the quality of their professors varies greatly.

The teachers are most part time and therefore do not offer much time to students - this has been the most difficult part of my college experience.

DePaul is not a bad business program, I just think that there are many things they need work on, especially the administrative part of DePaul and advising. There are advisers to meet with but they are not very helpful, I have had to figure things out on my own or compare notes with other classmates to figure things out.

Business school is not what I expected. It seems like a lot of memorization of the language of accounting, a lot of busy work and binge and purge style exams that are difficult to study for and resulting the topics forgotten immediately after. There is too much emphasis on just plowing through the material, memorizing it for grades instead of taking time to discuss and really delve into topics.

I came to DePaul seeking diversity and to network, and that is just what I got. DePaul is a challenging school not meant for slackers, and students looking to easily slide through classes are not going to obtain that at DePaul University.

I think the best thing about DePaul is that grads are not only ready to land good jobs, but they are more than ready to have an immediate impact in the workplace. Professors truly care about our success, and will do anything they can to help us succeed. Emphasis placed on networking and intellectual curiosity by professors in the classroom really inspires students to go out and succeed.

The career center at our university is the hardest working, most reliable career center I could imagine. In comparison to career centers that I have heard about from students at those schools (University of Illinois, Illinois State University, and Iowa to name a few) I feel that DePaul has far exceeded the roles of the career center at those schools.

I am an older student who already has a career; and attending evening classes at De Paul University's Loop Campus in Chicago works well for me. The program is pre-approved by my employer; and all the classes are immediately applicable to my career in the Procurement Dept.

I think that DePaul and its employees are having a difficult time adjusting to the recent influx of students. The school has been growing dramatically every year, but many of the professors seem unsure of how to deal with larger classes. The classes aren't too big in my opinion, but I think many teachers were accustomed to classes having only 10-15 students rather than 25 or so. I feel like some concepts weren't covered because the teacher didn't know how to allocate their time in a larger class.

DePaul is very unique in that its location within the metropolitan Chicago area gives it the ability to work closely with local businesses and corporations in career networking events. The university regularly hosts various employers at job fairs and at other university sponsored events.

The faculty has huge connections with leaders of the business community. In my advertising class last week, my teacher brought in a senior level executive from Leo Burnett to speak to the class.

The location of DePaul is unmatched. Because the business school is in the heart of downtown Chicago, large financial firms recruit us first for internships and post-graduate positions. DePaul does not focus on theoretical academics; rather, the focus is on practical business experience and helping us succeed in the business world.

The professors have a vast amount of real world knowledge, and teach the students practical skills that help them right out of school. Additionally, the school has very dedicated partner programs that offer excellent internship and employment opportunities.

My school's business program is unique because there is a lot of emphasis on networking and there is a diverse student group at DePaul University. The professors have many different business backgrounds and they are able to inform students about different situations they may face in the working environment.