Program Basics

• • Warrington College of Business Administration
  • University of Florida
  • 100 Bryan Hall
  • PO Box 117160
  • Gainesville, Florida
  • 32611
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://warrington.ufl.edu
  • Program e-mail address: undergraduate.business@ufl.edu
  • Program phone number: 352-273-0165
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1926
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Two Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 2,064
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 1,567
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 0
  • Distance undergraduate business: 497
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 96 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 64 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 85 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting
  • Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  • Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $5,700.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $27,936.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $1,650.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $135.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $843.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $8,800.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,070.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 42 %
  • International: 1 %

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

  • Mean: 20
  • Median: 20

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 92 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 5 %

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

  • Mean: 1291
  • Median: 1300

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

  • From: 1230
  • To: 1360

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

  • Mean: 29
  • Median: 29

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 28
  • To: 31

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 97 %
  • Canada: 1 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 1 %
  • Unknown Citizenship: 1 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 6 %
  • Asian American: 9 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 18 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 61 %
  • Chose not to report: 3 %
  • Other: 3 %

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

  • Northeast: 0 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 1 %
  • South: 99 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • Midwest: 0 %
  • West: 0 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT
  • ACT
• • Interviews are: Not required

• Application deadlines:

  • Summer 2013 4/1/2012
  • Fall 2012 7/1/2012
  • Spring 2013 11/1/2012
• • Additional application requirements: In order to fully qualify as a business major, students must complete seven lower-division preprofessional courses with a GPA of at least 3.0. A list of these courses, along with other requirements, can be found at warrington.ufl.edu/sb/admissions.
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 27,295
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 43 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 55 %
• • International applicants: 5 %
• • Female applicants: 42 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

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

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Business Program

• • Undergrad business program admissions are managed by: The business program office
  • Total undergraduate business applicants: 3,357
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 43 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 55 %
• • 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?: No
  • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? No
  • Additional application requirements for freshman admits: Freshmen are not admitted, but are pre-business until the end of their Sophomore year when they will be evaluated based on their performance in seven lower-division preprofessional courses. A list of these courses, along with other requirements, can be found at warrington.ufl.edu/sb/admissions.

• Internal transfers:

  • Method for handling internal transfers: Declare business major
  • Minimum college GPA for internal transfers to the business program: 3.0
  • Additional application requirements, including course/grade requirements: In order to fully qualify as a business major, students must complete seven lower-division preprofessional courses with a GPA of at least 3.0.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Student Finance Group
  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Florida Business Leadership Society
  • American Marketing Association
• • 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:

  • BSAC 120
  • BABA 120
  • BSBA 120

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • Specific degree requirements can be found at warrington.ufl.edu/sb/programs and warrington.ufl.edu/fsoa/programs/bsac.

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 33
  • Business electives: 23
  • Non-business electives: 48

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 11 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 85 %
  • With more than 50 students: 4 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 75 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 0 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 3
  • New electives: Globalization & Competitive Advantage
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2010
  • Total business faculty: 105
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 33 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Mark J. Flannery
  • Jay Ritter
  • Bart Weitz

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Management Information Systems
• • Special programs: Our academic advising and career coaching staff, trained as Global Career Development Facilitators, and a peer career coaching staff, assist students in finding internships, writing resumes, and interview skills. The School's career and leadership programming offers opportunities to enhance skills in the areas of ethics, communication, leadership, and career development. The college's programs can be found at warrington.ufl.edu/sb/advising/ & warrington.ufl.edu/sb/leadership/.
• • Work study: The college encourages students to participate in a variety of work related experiences. Beginning in the Fall of 2009, all business students are required to do either an internship or study abroad experience as part of their degree requirements.
• • Study abroad programs: Warrington has outstanding international programs for students and approximately 33% of their undergraduates study abroad. Warrington's signature programs, which are offered every fall, spring and summer semester, are located in London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome. The London program includes a professional-level internship. These four program are open to non-UF students. Additionally, Warrington has established exchange partnerships with 30 universities in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Over $80,000 were awarded in scholarships in 2011-11 to specifically support study abroad. Additional information on Warrington's study abroad programs can be found at http://warrington.ufl.edu/sb/intlprograms/uf/.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Community service is emphasized in the College's freshman seminar for pre-business students, which has been a recipient of the City of Gainesville’s Green Business award for service to the City's park system. The college and the university offer a wide-array of volunteer work and community service opportunities. Information on these opportunities can be found at the Center for Leadership and Service at www.leadershipandservice.ufl.edu/.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Florida Leadership Academy
  • Students In Free Enterprise
  • Retail Society
  • Gator Student Investment Fund
  • American Marketing Association
  • Undergraduate Ethics Fellows

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $2,636,373.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $2,567,176.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 41 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 90 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 58 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 42 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $17,057.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 40 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 59 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 41 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 56 %
  • No job offer reported: 42 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 73 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 27 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 881
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 878

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • Bank of America 7
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 5
  • Ernst & Young 4
  • Macy's 3
  • AT&T 3
  • Wells Fargo 2
  • Teach For America 2
  • Target 2
  • Protiviti 2
  • Nielsen 2
  • KPMG 2
  • General Electric 2
  • Deloitte & Touche 2
  • Merrill Lynch 2

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $48,014.00
  • Median base salary : $48,500.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $5,811.00
  • Median signing bonus: $5,000.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $15,588.00
  • Median other guaranteed compensation: $7,500.00

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

  • Finance/Accounting: 56 %
  • General Management: 10 %
  • Management Information Systems: 1 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 27 %
  • Operations/Production: 3 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 1 %
  • Other: 2 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 24 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 22 %
  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 21 %
  • Government/Education: 4 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 1 %
  • Manufacturing: 0 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 4 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 4 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 0 %
  • Technology/Science: 7 %
  • Non-Profit: 0 %
  • Transportation: 0 %
  • Utilities: 0 %
  • Other: 6 %

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

  • US: 99 %
  • Canada: 1 %
• • Career services offered: Our academic advising and career coaching staff, trained as Global Career Development Facilitators, and a peer career coaching staff, assist students in finding internships, writing resumes, and interview skills. The Career Resource Center offers services including career testing and counseling, mock interviews, resume critiquing, career fairs and information sessions, and access to a large database of employment and internship opportunities through their Gatorlink system.

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 881
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 434

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • Tutoring Zone 9
  • Ernst & Young 8
  • Merrill Lynch 8
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 8
  • KPMG 6
  • Crime Prevention Security Systems 5
  • Harn Museum of Art 5
  • Target 5
  • Bank of America 4
  • Deloitte & Touche 4
  • General Electric 4

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 61 %
  • Mean compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $603.00
  • Median compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $525.00
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 12

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 54,192
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 50,868
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 17 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $936.00
  • Median Gift: $50.00
  • 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

  • Michael Watford CEO/Ultra Petroleum Corp.
  • Robert Carter Executive Vice President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer /FedEx
  • Michelle Ebanks President/Essence Communications, Inc.

• • -All professors, faculty and administrators care about students not only on an academic level but also a personal level. I feel comfortable asking for advice from many of the staff at the Business College because they have taken the time to get to know me and are all very accomplished in their fields. Everyone working for the WCBA wants to see every student succeed in their careers and they put their all into making that vision a reality.
    
    -I think that we should do away with some of the required courses that give us breadth, and not enough depth of learning. For example, EVERY business student is required to take a quantitative methods class, marketing, management, finance, economics, and international business. While this gives every student great exposure to a variety of topics, I would rather see greater depth in any one major than breadth across different fields.
    
    -There are so many opportunities that allow you to become a leader within multiple student organizations. The Warrington College of Business stresses the importance of getting involved and I love that they do. I have become so involved with at least five different organizations and this involvement has prepared me in relation to being able to network with recruiters and communicate effectively.
    
    -In particular, our Finance and Operations Management courses don't seem to be "working". I understand the material is difficult, but the students don't feel like they are learning anything when the class averages on exams are in the 50s and 60s.
    
    -The school focuses intently on entrepreneurship and leadership. There are an unusually numerous amount of study abroad and international internship opportunities.
    
    -Warrington could be stronger if it reduced its class sizes a little bit more. Recently I've noticed that the upper division classes have become smaller but they still need to be reduced a little bit more.
    
    -The online platforms certainly make our program unique. However, I would also say having a solid core of professors who would like to see their students succeed has contributed to a unique program and experience.
    
    -I feel more "required" office hours or group projects would allow students to come together more frequently and learn together, bouncing ideas off of one another.
    
    -It has a highly diverse student body with different ideas. Many people are going into different areas of business (accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, etc.), which adds to the classroom discussion. The classes are hard, but fair. Professors care about the students and helping them find jobs, as well as foster strong ethics and teamwork. There are many different extracurricular programs on campus that add to the diversity.
    
    -The program could help students find their preferred majors a lot sooner. I've switched majors a lot and so have many of my other friends. The program could provide more career help. The program just recently implemented new mentorship programs to help students in their career search so I do believe they are already taking steps to do so. Unfortunately I'm getting ready to graduate so it's too late for me but will be useful to newer students. Also, the program is also extremely heavily focused on corporate business. That's great but the program should also offer some alternative classes for other types of industries like entertainment or nonprofit.
    
    -Our business program is very large. At first glance, this is often viewed as a disadvantage of our college but I believe that it creates a better opportunity for all of its students. Most of the business classes at UF have switched to electronic platform in the last few years. The ease of this transition showed great strength in our faculty but there was some resistance. Now, instead of going to class and listening to your professor from 5 feet away, all students are able to watch their lectures online an infinite number of times. You are still able to go and watch lecture live and ask questions but it is recorded so that thousands of students can take the course regardless of scheduling conflicts. Professors are also still readily available to all students, with open office hours and email communications for those that do not attend live lecture.
    
    -You can't beat the cost. I have taken classes with world-renowned professors who were educated at some of the nation's top universities for a fraction of what most college students pay.
    
    -UF's business college does a great job with the Career and Leadership Programs and advising. I know numerous advisors personally, and through SIFE gotten to know my professor so well I've even been invited to his house for dinner. These programs take a large university and make it a small community. Any time I'm in Bryan Hall I'm bound to run into friends.