Program Basics

• • Max M Fisher College of Business, Undergraduate Business Program
  • 210 W. Woodruff Ave.
  • 120 Schoenbaum Hall
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • 43210
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate
  • Program e-mail address: fisherundergrad@fisher.osu.edu
  • Program phone number: (614) 292-2715
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1916
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Two Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 56,867
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 4,405
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 253
  • Distance undergraduate business: 0
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 93 %

• 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: 85 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $9,761.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $25,084.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $1,818.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $403.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $1,045.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $11,429.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,652.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 44 %
  • International: 25 %

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

  • Mean: 19
  • Median: 19

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

  • Mean: 1204
  • Median: 1205

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

  • From: 1130
  • To: 1280

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

  • Mean: 27
  • Median: 27

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 25
  • To: 30

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 75 %
  • Canada: <1
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 25 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 3 %
  • Asian American: 7 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
  • Native American: <1
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 85 %
  • Chose not to report: 1 %

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

  • Northeast: 4 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 3 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 1 %
  • Midwest: 88 %
  • West: 1 %
  • Possessions and territories: 1 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • ACT or SAT
• • Interviews are: Not offered

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 2/1/2012
  • Spring 2013 11/1/2012
• • Additional application requirements: All: Essay; International: TOEFL or Metlab scores, proof of financial support; Transfer: college transcripts and ACT/SAT scores
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 29,247
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 63 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 42 %
• • International applicants: 14 %
• • Female applicants: 44 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Very Important
  • Talent/ability: Considered
  • Interview: Not Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Important
  • Volunteer work: Important
  • Character/personal abilities: Important
  • Application essay: 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: 8,002
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 58 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 41 %
• • 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 offered

• Freshman admission:

  • Does the business program admit freshmen?: Yes
  • Percentage of business program admits in most recent entering class who were freshman: 17 %
  • 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
  • Additional application requirements for freshman admits: Direct admits must be part of the Honors Program, Scholars Program or Global Business Community.

• Internal transfers:

  • Method for handling internal transfers: Separate application
  • Minimum college GPA for internal transfers to the business program: 3.0
  • Additional application requirements, including course/grade requirements: 30 semester hours; C minus or better in English Composition and Calculus.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Undergraduate Accounting Association
  • Fisher Citizenship Program
  • Undergraduate Finance Association
  • American Marketing Association
  • Fisher Forward
• • 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:

  • BSBA 121

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • 2.0 cumulative G.P.A. overall and in major, as well as successful completion of required courses

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 69
  • Business electives: 47
  • Non-business electives: 34

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 2 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 57 %
  • With more than 50 students: 41 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 100 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 100 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 88
  • New electives: BUSADM 505: Industry Cluster Financial Services
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2012
  • Total business faculty: 121
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 70 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • René Stulz
  • Jay Barney
  • Greg Allenby

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Operations Management
    • Transportation
• • Special programs: Interdisciplinary minor in entrepreneurship; Accounting Honors Program; Honors Cohort Program; Honors Contract Program; Fisher Futures; Dedicated Career Services; Dedicated Study Abroad (CIBER) office; Business Scholars; Business Honors Learning Community; Fisher Citizenship Program; Peer Advising Program; Degree with Distinction; Denman UG Research Forum; Fisher Forward, Peer Mentor Program; Alumni mentors; Industry Clusters; Dean’s Leadership Academy; Case Competition Preparation Class
• • Work study: Student Employee positions in Fisher College that are work-study eligible. While not required for degree, Internship & Co-Op opportunities with corporations are available via Fisher College Office of Career Management.
• • Study abroad programs: Students have the opportunity to study at 21 exchange partners or to participate in the Emerging Market Field Study course & visit Panama with their professor. They can also study Green Business practices in Costa Rica & visit that country over spring break. They can intern & take Fisher classes in Australia and Hong Kong during the summer or attend classes at an institution in France. Students may also choose from dozens of programs via the university’s Office of International Affairs.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Students are able to participate at the university level in university programs, ie MLK Day of Service, Buck-I-Serv, week-long service trips, as well as connect with community opportunities.Business Scholars have community service requirement.Honors Cohort students teach Junior Achievement.BHLC students take required leadership course followed by service project.All Fisher student organizations complete service projects, ie “Pancakes for Parkinson,” Blood drives, high school outreach (tutoring, Big Brother/Big Sister, clean ups, etc), Relay for Life, etc.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Student Chapters of National Professional Organizations (AMA, HRA, etc.)
  • National Honoraries (Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma)
  • National Business Fraternal Orgs (Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi)
  • Discipline-based clubs (The UG Finance Assoc., The Accounting Assoc., Buckeye Operations Management Society, etc.)
  • Other Clubs (Hispanic Business Students Assoc., Council of Black Students in Admin., Asian Business Students Assoc. and UG Business Women's Assoc.)
  • Students compete in business case competitions, nationally, regionally and on campus
  • Student organizations offer Fisher Fall Frenzy and Fisher Pride Week events

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $16,573,714.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $16,128,901.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 44 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 4 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 14 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 86 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $18,359.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 77 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 85 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 15 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 89 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 8 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation : 3 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 395
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 619

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • JPMorgan Chase 31
  • Ernst & Young 25
  • Deloitte, Abercrombie & Fitch 19
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 18
  • Key Bank 15
  • Amazon 12
  • KPMG, Cardinal Health 11
  • Citigroup, Limited Brands 10
  • Sears Holdings, PNC 9
  • Dow Chemical 8
  • ArcelorMittal, Nestle, Unilever 7
  • American Greetings, Nationwide, Progressive Insurance 6
  • Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, Exel 5
  • Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Owens Corning 4
  • Capital One, Duff & Phelps, General Mills, Goodyear 3

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $48,039.00
  • Median base salary : $48,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $4,436.00
  • Median signing bonus: $4,000.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $6,506.00
  • Median other guaranteed compensation: $5,000.00

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

  • Consulting: 5 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 38 %
  • General Management: 6 %
  • Human Resources: 3 %
  • Management Information Systems: 3 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 14 %
  • Operations/Production: 12 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 9 %
  • Other: 10 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 15 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 19 %
  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 22 %
  • Government/Education: 4 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 4 %
  • Manufacturing: 9 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 2 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 1 %
  • Technology/Science: 3 %
  • Non-Profit: 0 %
  • Transportation: 6 %
  • Utilities: 0 %
  • Other: 9 %

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

  • US: 100 %

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

  • Northeast: 1 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 5 %
  • Midwest: 77 %
  • South: 6 %
  • Southwest: 2 %
  • West: 4 %
• • Career services offered: Individual consultation on job searches and resume critiques, students pass mock interview before on-campus interviews, outreach to student organizations, career and internship fairs, host international internships in Dublin and London, a 2-credit hr. course for job search preparation & transition to work-world, special programs for students who want Consulting or Financial Services.

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 150
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 410

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • Ernst & Young 20
  • Deloitte 17
  • Limited Brands 16
  • General Electric, JPMorgan Chase, Marathon Petroleum 14
  • Cardinal Health, State of Ohio 13
  • KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Giant Eagle 9
  • Nationwide, Northwestern Mutual, Scotts Miracle Gro 8
  • Dow Chemical 7
  • Boeing, Honda, Nestle, Target 6
  • Owens Corning, Sherwin-Williams, Time Warner Cable, Exel 5
  • Procter & Gamble, SBC Advertising, Macy's 4
  • Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson 3

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 95 %
  • Mean compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $654.00
  • Median compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $640.00
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 12

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 68,060
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 58,438
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 14 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $355.00
  • Median Gift: $40.00
  • 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

  • Leslie Wexner Chair and CEO, Limited Brands
  • Lionel L. Nowell III Retired Treasurer, PepsiCo Inc.
  • James O'Brien Chair and CEO, Ashland Inc.

• • -I believe that our business program does a great job in preparing students for internship and job searching by providing classes and other workshops to improve resume building and interview skills.
    
    -Not everyone is looking for a huge corporate company. I would like for there to be more diversity in smaller, less corporate companies. I've felt that I've had to look for those on my own time and the school has done nothing to point me in that direction.
    
    -Ohio State does a great job of grouping people together to do projects as opposed to standard lectures from a professor. This extensive hands-on work helps students develop, not only in the subject, but their leadership and teamwork skills to. Professors also go beyond teaching about the subjects and relate them to real world experiences.
    
    -Raise the requirements to get accepted into the program. It is way too overcrowded and way too easy to get into, which decreases the quality of education that students are receiving. Improve the curriculum for specializations like Management Information Systems and Real Estate, where there are fewer students. Stop favoring Accounting and Finance.
    
    -Fisher students come from all over the country and the world, and most business classes incorporate group case studies, which expose students to different cultures while building their network.
    
    -I think that some of the classes are too easy. I would like to be challenged in more of my higher-level classes. There are just some classes that have given me little to no mental stimulation, and I consider that a waste of time.
    
    -Fisher has its share of what I consider to be "traditional" classes, classes that involve very passive learning and don't require higher level thinking. At the same time, there are exceptional quantities of courses that truly stretch the student and examine real-life applications of the curriculum. For example, several of the accounting honors classes I have taken mirror the real world by posing problems surrounded in ambiguity and uncertainty, rather than regurgitate some antiquated formulas. Fisher truly is focused on action-based learning, and not just theory.
    
    -The business program at Ohio State is already very strong and it is definitely growing in numbers. The only recommendation I have would be to expand the college to accommodate more of the talented students who aspire to be in the business college. I have seen many smart students get turned away because the academic requirements have increased dramatically over the past few years. The current growth in the business college will cap off eventually and I feel with such a successful program, it should be made available to more students every year.
    
    -Our faculty makes The Ohio State University's business program unique. They always keep an open dialogue with employers to update the business curriculum to better prepare us for the work force after graduation.
    
    -Most of what we learn is theory-based, which I understand the reasoning for, but it would be nice to see a little more real world applications. I think it makes the theory seem less abstract and, therefore, more relevant and interesting when it can be applied.
    
    -The opportunities are immense, but the small and specialized feel is still there. The wealth of resources that this school provides it's students allow for the freedom to start your own student organization, as I did my Junior year.
    
    -Fisher pulls a lot of its teachers from other businesses. It's great to have their experience, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will be a great teacher. I wish I knew my educators better and that the classroom felt more like an experience rather than a set of PowerPoint slides.
    
    -I chose Ohio State because of their Accounting Honors program and Fisher College of Business' reputation in general. I have only one quarter left until I graduate, and it has been a lot of work, but well worth it since I have the opportunity to work in my dream job. I think the undergraduate program has given me a unique academic experience that I couldn't have otherwise achieved.
    
    -Make it more selective. There are quite a few people who seem to put the bare minimum on the table and don't work hard. This cheapens the Fisher Brand in my mind and is holding us at B status. Our best are fully capable of going toe to toe with the Wharton's and Ross's of the world.
    
    -The effort the school puts into helping students transition from Undergrad into either the work force or grad school through various services (FPS, Fisher Connect, Fall Career Fair, Spring Internship Invitational, etc., Ask an Alum) and classes ("BA 501.01-Job Search Preparation and Transition to Work for Business Students" comes to mind.)