Program Basics

• • A.J. Palumbo School of Business
  • Duquesne University
  • 600 Forbes Avenue
  • 706 Rockwell Hall
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 15282
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.duq.edu/business
  • Program e-mail address: business@duq.edu
  • Program phone number: 412.396.6238
  • Status: Private
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1913
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 5,751
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 1,284
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 16
  • Distance undergraduate business: 1
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 87 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 68 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 76 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BSBA

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $26,413.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $2,258.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $225.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $9,806.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,000.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 35 %
  • International: 5 %

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

  • Mean: 19
  • Median: 18

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • Top 10% of high school class: 16 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 40 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 27 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 15 %

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

  • Mean: 1103
  • Median: 1090

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

  • From: 1030
  • To: 1170

• 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: 26

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 99 %
  • Canada: 0 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 0 %
  • Dual Citizenship: 0%
  • Unknown Citizenship: 0 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 5 %
  • Asian American: 1 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 2 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 0 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 92 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 9 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 80 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 1 %
  • Midwest: 7 %
  • West: 1 %
  • Possessions and territories: 1 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT
  • ACT
• • Minimum SAT score on 1600 scale (if applicable) required for admission: 1000, 1000
  • Minimum ACT Score (if applicable) required for admission: 22, 22
  • Minimum High School GPA (if applicable) required for admission: 3.00, 3.00
  • Interviews are: Recommended

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 7/1/12
  • Winter 2012-13 12/1/12
  • Summer 2013 5/1/13
  • Fall 2013 7/1/13
• • Additional application requirements: Music audition required for music applicants. 40 hours shadowing for PT students. Transfer form for Transfer students.
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 6,528
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 70 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 29 %
• • Female applicants: 35 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Considered
  • Talent/ability: Not Considered
  • Interview: Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Considered
  • Volunteer work: Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Considered
  • Application essay: Very Important
  • Work experience: Considered
  • SAT/ACT scores: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Very 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: 1,331
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 74 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 39 %

• Admission requirement for admission to the undergraduate business program

  • Minimum SAT: 1000, 1000
  • Minimum ACT: 22, 22
  • Minimum high school GPA: 3.00, 3.00
• • Entrance exam other than the SAT/ACT required for admission to the undergraduate business program?: No
• • Admissions interviews for the undergraduate business program are: Recommended

• Freshman admission:

  • Does the business program admit freshmen?: Yes
  • Percentage of business program admits in most recent entering class who were freshman: 85 %
  • 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: Separate application
  • Minimum college GPA for internal transfers to the business program: 2.5
  • Additional application requirements, including course/grade requirements: Math 100/110 Calc grade need to be a C or better

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • AMA
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Duquesne Association for Information Technology
  • Student Accounting Association
  • Beta Alpha Psi
• • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: Yes
  • 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:

  • BSBA 122

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • Complete Professional Development Program

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 33
  • Business electives: 21

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 26 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 71 %
  • With more than 50 students: 3 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 70 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 85 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 60
  • New electives: Advanced Excel Modeling
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2009
  • Total business faculty: 104
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 42 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Alan Miciak
  • James Weber
  • Robert Sroufe

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Management Information Systems
    • Sports Business
  • Other leading area of study: Supply Chain Management
• • Special programs: Professional Development Program
• • Study abroad programs: Semester and year-long programs around world short-term (3 week) programs in Europe
• • Volunteer opportunities: Duquesne University Volunteers (DUV), Service Learning

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • American Marketing Association
  • Association of Operations Management
  • Beta Alpha Psi
  • Beta Gamma Sigma
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Sports Marketing Association
  • Duquesne Association for Information Tecchnology
  • Duquesne Entrepreneurial Alliance

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $12,639,413.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $13,890,131.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 100 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 0.3
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 12 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 88 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: Yes
  • Maximum amount a student can borrow per year regardless of nationality?: $6,500.00
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $26,121.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 40 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 80 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 20 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 50 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 7 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation: 4 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 39 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 79
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 449

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • PNC Financial Services 11
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 4
  • Ernst & Young 4
  • Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. 3
  • Deloitte LLP 3
  • US Steel 3
  • KPMG 2
  • Mylan 2
  • Bank of New York Mellon 2
  • Westinghouse 2
  • Alcoa 1
  • Aldi 1
  • DelMonte 1
  • HJ Heinz 1
  • Management Sciences Associates 1

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $43,886.00
  • Median base salary : $45,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $4,469.00
  • Median signing bonus: $4,000.00

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

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 38 %
  • General Management: 4 %
  • Management Information Systems: 18 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 17 %
  • Operations/Production: 2 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 7 %
  • Other: 12 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 18 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 13 %
  • Consulting: 4 %
  • Financial Services: 23 %
  • Government/Education: 6 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 6 %
  • Manufacturing: 7 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Technology/Science: 1 %
  • Transportation: 4 %
  • Other: 14 %

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

  • US: 98 %
  • Canada: 2 %

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

  • Northeast: 2 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 94 %
  • Midwest: 2 %
  • South: 2 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • West: 2 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Career services offered: On-Campus Interview Program, Job listing database, Career Fairs, Internship Program, Career Development workshops & presentations, Career Counseling, Extensive websit and career resource library

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 17
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 263

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 12
  • Pittsburgh Power 7
  • Pittsburgh Steelers 4
  • PNC 3
  • Bank of NY Mellon 2
  • Legend Financial 2
  • Northwestern Mutual Financial Network 2
  • PSSI 2
  • Duquesne University 2
  • ThermoFisher 1
  • Schneider Downs 1
  • Pittsburgh Penguins 1
  • GNC 1
  • UBS 1
  • Curtiss Wright 1

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 42 %
  • Mean compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $294.00
  • Median compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $330.00
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 12

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 16,555
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 12,211
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 8 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $1,138.00
  • Median Gift: $100.00
  • 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

  • Scott Lammie Sr. VP, UPMC Insurance Services/CFP, UPMC Health Plan
  • Floyd "Chip" Ganassi President, Ganassi Racing
  • Anthony Carfang Co-Founder, Partner and Director - Treasury Strategies

• • -The professors establish relationships with all of their students. They offer their time to prepare us for everything from their class material to what we are going to encounter in the workplace. My business program has taught me to look at business from a bigger picture perspective, not just through my specific majors.
    
    -All classes are taught by professors. The individual attention in a large school is hard to accomplish, but Duquesne University has done an excellent job in attaining this. In addition, the business school has challenged all of us from day 1 as freshman to think critically and analytically as a team and as an individual.
    
    -Currently, business majors are not permitted to obtain minors outside of the business school. Since subjects like psychology, mathematics, communication, and computer science would be helpful to many business majors, this policy should change.
    
    -The great thing about the Duquesne business program is that every professor has had ample experience in the field they currently teach. And because the faculty to student ratio is so good, each student is able to create relationships with their professors. These relationships help us not only to gain insight in our field of choice, but also in potential internship/job opportunities that lie ahead.
    
    -The Supply Chain Management program within the business school does so much for their students to find jobs after school. I think the other programs within the business school should follow in their lead to create student organizations, corporation tours, and activities that enhance learning.
    
    -Our schools Supply Chain Management program is outstanding. The professors are extremely talented and involved with their students efforts to further a career.
    
    -I have had 4 academic advisors throughout my college career when my friends have only had one and I heard different things about my major from each one. I would recommend that each advisor has more training and are able to answer questions about majors and programs for students in the same manner.
    
    -Duquesne's business school has a unique approach to business as a whole; Duquesne teaches business from a higher perspective. Ethical concerns are the forefront of each various discipline. Professors use their connections to provide you networking opportunities with business professionals in the Pittsburgh area.
    
    -I believe our advisement can be improved considering many of our advisors constantly switch, meaning one person may have a different advisor year to year. This causes headaches when people need to interact with their advisor for any reason.
    
    -The Economics department is incredibly rigorous - requiring a large amount of quantitative classes and courses which are very math-intensive. The Econ department also requires its majors to write and defend a publishable thesis in fall of senior year.
    
    -Like most undergrad programs, our teachers teach the "theory" more than practical applications. We could all improve our skills with less theory and more hands on activities. Leave theory for the Historians and individuals who will be creating software for financial programs. The majority of students will only need to apply the theories - not figure them out. Just let the students know what the theory is for, and if the student really wants to know how it works, let them talk to the professor after class.
    
    -Duquesne's business school is unique in that the campus is located right next to downtown Pittsburgh which makes it very easy to have internships during the school year and for employers to come to Duquesne to interview candidates or speak at a gathering of a student organization. The second and most important aspect is the teaching quality of the professors at Duquesne. At Duquesne, the classes are small enough to avoid large lecture halls, the professors are the ones teaching and not TAs, and most importantly the professors are great at teaching and take a vested interest in your success. All of this combines in Duquesne having a comparative advantage over other business schools in the area.