Program Basics

• • Ohio University College of Business
  • Ohio University
  • Copeland Hall
  • Athens, Ohio
  • 45701
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.cob.ohio.edu
  • Program e-mail address: bila@ohio.edu
  • Program phone number: 740-593-2000
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1893
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 31,580
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 2,252
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 86 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 61 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 81 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BA Business Administration

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $8,613.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $17,577.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $1,257.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $273.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $568.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $10,704.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $885.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 26 %
  • International: 11 %

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

  • Mean: 17
  • Median: 18

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • Top 10% of high school class: 18 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 37 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 18 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 20 %

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

  • Mean: 1096
  • Median: 1100

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

  • From: 1020
  • To: 1160

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

  • Mean: 25
  • Median: 24

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 23
  • To: 27

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 89 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 11 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 4 %
  • Asian American: 1 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 2 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 3 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 89 %
  • Chose not to report: 0 %
  • Other: 1 %

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

  • Northeast: 1 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • Midwest: 93 %
  • West: 0 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • ACT or SAT
• • Minimum SAT score on 1600 scale (if applicable) required for admission: 670
  • Minimum ACT Score (if applicable) required for admission: 15
  • Minimum High School GPA (if applicable) required for admission: 2.3
  • Interviews are: Not required

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 2/1/2012
  • Winter 2012-13 12/1/2012
  • Summer 2013 2/1/2013
  • Fall 2013 2/1/2013
• • Additional application requirements: Fee, application supplement if required, high school transcript, English proficiency exam
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 16,538
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 85 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 34 %
• • International applicants: 2 %
• • Female applicants: 26 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Important
  • Talent/ability: Considered
  • Interview: Not Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Considered
  • Volunteer work: Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Not Considered
  • Work experience: Not 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: 1,468
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 84 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 28 %

• Admission requirement for admission to the undergraduate business program

  • Minimum SAT: 670
  • Minimum ACT: 15
  • Minimum high school GPA: 2.3
• • 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
  • Percentage of business program admits in most recent entering class who were freshman: 80 %
  • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? Yes
  • Process for freshmen admission?: Indicate interest on university application

• Internal transfers:

  • Minimum college GPA for internal transfers to the business program: 2.75
  • Additional application requirements, including course/grade requirements: Completion of Econ 103, Econ 104, Math 163A, Eng 151 or 151A. plus other courses. TOEFL score.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Accounting Club
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Phi Gamma Nu
  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • American Marketing Association
• • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: Yes
  • 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:

  • BBA 192

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 33
  • Business electives: 36

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 14 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 82 %
  • With more than 50 students: 4 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 14 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 7 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 15
  • New electives: Entrepreneurial Leadership
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2011
  • Total business faculty: 70
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 70 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Faizul Huq
  • Wayne Huang
  • Raymond Frost

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Finance
    • Marketing
    • General Management
    • Management Information Systems
    • Leadership
  • Other leading area of study: Sales
• • Special programs: The Sales Centre, Select Leadership Development Program, COB Connect, Center for Professional Communication, Center for International Business Education & Development
• • Study abroad programs: The Global Consulting Program prepares students for the global business community that they will enter upon graduation. At each GCP location, students partner with their peers at our foreign partner schools to research and propose solutions for real companies, learning integrated business techniques and gaining consulting experience that reaches across cultures. The program is open to all College of Business majors sophomore and above in good academic standing.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Through student clubs and organizations.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Accounting club
  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • Black Student Business Caucus
  • Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • COB Connect
  • Beta Gamma Sigma
  • American Marketing Association

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $2,702,259.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $2,700,679.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 36 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 2 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 14 %
  • 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?: $1,000.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 40 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 90 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 10 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 60 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 82 %
  • No job offer reported: 8 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 60 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 82 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 8 %

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $44,199.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $3,194.00

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

  • Consulting: 2 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 36 %
  • General Management: 2 %
  • Human Resources: 3 %
  • Management Information Systems: 26 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 24 %
  • Operations/Production: 1 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 1 %
  • Other: 5 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 36 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 9 %
  • Consulting: 19 %
  • Financial Services: 11 %
  • Government/Education: 5 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 7 %
  • Manufacturing: 6 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 3 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 0 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 0 %
  • Technology/Science: 5 %
  • Non-Profit: 1 %
  • Transportation: 1 %
  • Utilities: 2 %
  • Other: 11 %

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

  • US: 95 %

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

  • Northeast: 2 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 11 %
  • Midwest: 82 %
  • South: 3 %
  • Southwest: 0 %
  • West: 2 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Career services offered: Fairs, Workshops, Interview Clinics, Interviews with companies

INTERNSHIPS

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 85 %
  • Mean compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $630.00
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 4

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 29,374
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 28,701

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $1,089.00
  • 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

  • Keith Wandell President and CEO, Harley-Davidson, Inc.
  • Robert D. Walter Founder, Chairman and CEO (retired), Cardinal Health
  • James E. Daley Partner & Co-Chairman (retired) Price Waterhouse

• • -OU is a school that embraces students. They are there to guide you, and prep you for what’s to come in the future. Teachers take what they are doing very seriously, and most teachers have your education as their first priority. I have learned so much in my last four years, and whatever success I have in the future, Ohio University has contributed to that in every single way.
    
    -In order to make our business program stronger would be to have more classes available so there aren't as many students crammed into a small classroom.
    
    -Our business program is unique for two reasons. First, we require all business students to take something called the business cluster. This is a requirement before you can begin your major classes. This is a composition of each different element of business (such as marketing, management, information systems, etc.) and studying them all at once with a small group of students. Throughout the quarter you are given fictitious and live clients whom you must research and develop recommendations for their problems, which you present and deliver your findings. Secondly, the accounting program offers an experience of reviewing and auditing work for a company on a yearly basis. This is known as the Business Activity Model. Throughout the accounting curriculum you work in small teams and interview clients with any questions you may have in order to accurately review and audit financial statements and instruments.
    
    -Some of the classes could be stronger. Although there is a lot of overlap in business, there are times where I feel as if I am learning the same information in different classes at the same time.
    
    -We do a lot of group work in our College of Business. This really prepares us well for the real world where we will be constantly working in teams. Also, the teachers create great relationships with the students and truly care about our success in and out of the classroom. They are extremely helpful with landing jobs/internships.
    
    -Either develop the marketing major or drop it completely from the College of Business. There are way to many unqualified students who "squeak by" by being a marketing major. In any group assignment the marketing majors have by far been the poorest performers.
    
    -All business classes are taught by professors and the majority of classes range from 20 to 40 people. The business school does an outstanding job of preparing you for working in a team, real world business experience, and job preparation.
    
    -I believe that, while there is an opportunity for every student to take a finance class, I believe it should be required that not only every student in the College of Business but everyone at the University be required to take a personal finance class.
    
    -I believe the Global Consulting Program which our school does every summer is a great way to learn about international business as well as how to interact in team based situations on a consulting project for a real client. Also The Cluster program i believe is very unique to Ohio University for it is a have team based multi-facet group of projects which focus on the majority of the areas of business, taking into account marketing, finance, information systems, and management.
    
    -I think that if word were spread more about the importance of getting involved early on students would be better prepared by the time they are juniors looking for internships and then seniors looking for jobs.
    
    -We have student portfolio management groups at Ohio University that manage $4 million of the University's Endowment. The two groups are the Fixed Income Management Group and the Equity Management Group.
    
    -It would be nice to see more finance and accounting classes focusing on investment banking, mergers & acquisitions, and in the capital equity/wealth markets.
    
    -Our business program is unique because we have a large majority of students that double major. They promote teamwork within all of the classes and it adequately prepares us for a career after school.