Program Basics

• • Rutgers Business School
  • Rutgers Business school - Newark & New Brunswick
  • 94 Rockafeller Road
  • Piscataway, New Jersey
  • 08854
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://business.rutgers.edu
  • Program phone number: 848-445-3600
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1986
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 31,268
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 1,998
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 11
  • Distance undergraduate business: 0

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BS/Accounting
  • BS/Finance
  • BS/Management
  • BS/Marketing
  • BS/Supply Chain Management
  • BS/Business Analytics and Information Technology

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $10,408.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $22,678.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $2,800.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $337.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $734.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $11,700.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,500.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 37 %
  • International: 4 %

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

  • Mean: 20
  • Median: 20

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • Top 10% of high school class: 55 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 85 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 47 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 27 %

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

  • Mean: 1290
  • Median: 1280

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

  • From: 1220
  • To: 1340

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 96 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 4 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 2 %
  • Asian American: 43 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 7 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 3 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 43 %
  • Chose not to report: 2 %

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

  • Northeast: 96 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 1 %
  • South: 1 %
  • West: 1 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT
• • Interviews are: Not offered

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 12/01/2011
  • Fall 2013 12/01/2012
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 49,022
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 55 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 23 %
• • Female applicants: 37 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Very Important
  • Talent/ability: Not Considered
  • Interview: Not Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Not Considered
  • Volunteer work: Not Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Not Considered
  • Application essay: Considered
  • Work experience: Not Considered
  • SAT/ACT scores: Very Important
  • Recommendations: Not Considered
  • 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: 8,665
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 33 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 17 %
• • 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: 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:

  • 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: Students must complete prerequisite courses and a minimum number of credits toward their degree along with a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average which is determined based on the applicant pool.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers
  • Beta Alpha Psi
  • Ascend
  • ALPFA
  • Rutgers Association of Marketing and Strategy
• • Are freshmen required to live on campus?: No
  • Are business students grouped together in 'learning communities' in housing and other facilities?: No

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 44
  • Business electives: 31

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 14 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 67 %
  • With more than 50 students: 19 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 90 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 42
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 1998
  • Total business faculty: 118
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 25 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Farrokh Langdana
  • Ben Sopranzetti
  • Lei Lei

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Supply Chain Management
    • General Management
• • Special programs: RBS Ambassadors, Lunch with the Dean, Lunch with executives
• • Work study: Variety of companies cooperate with RBS. Students work and also take courses toward their degree.
• • Study abroad programs: Programs in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Students attending schools with which we have agreements maintain their registration at RBS while they are studying abroad.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Students work with Embrace Kids Foundation providing support for children, and the families of the children, who undergoing cancer treatment. Rutgers University Business for Youth providing guidance, mentorship and support for inner city students.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Phi Beta Lambda
  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • Delta Sigma Pi

FINANCIAL AID

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

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 77 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 62 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • No job acceptance reported: 38 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 200
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 3,350

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $55,000.00
  • Median base salary : $55,000.00

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

  • Finance/Accounting: 63 %
  • General Management: 2 %
  • Other: 36 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 33 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 2 %
  • Financial Services: 30 %
  • Government/Education: 3 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Technology/Science: 10 %
  • Other: 21 %

• 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: 100 %
• • Career services offered: Dining and Business Ettiquette, exclusive career fairs, mock interviews,resume critiques, internship survival workshop, backpack to briefcase workshop, on campus interviews, recruiter information sessions

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 100
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 2,000

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 50 %
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 14

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 10,500
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 10,000

• Alumni gifts

  • Did the business program receive a gift of $10 million or more in the last academic year? No

• • -The professors are mostly part time lecturers who maintain a profession in the business world. They provide interesting, real accounts to business experiences and relating them to the course material.
    
    -While there are a lot of positives to the program, more could be done to make the business school community feel as a "whole." It is a large school which makes this difficult, but maybe different events, etc. could take place to get students to feel as more of a cohesive unit.
    
    -I feel that the size of Rutgers and its diversity makes it very unique. In many of my classes, there are students from all over the globe who provide input about their cultures, economy, upbringing, etc., which provides other students with a lot of different views about business worldwide. For most business students, it is quite plausible to imagine working overseas and the diversity at Rutgers as well as the expertise of many faculty members provides students with a solid foundation of global business.
    
    -If I had to suggest anything I would recommend a better advising team. During my time here I had different advisors every year. It became difficult to build a relationship with and advisor who might have been able to help me more during my time here. Scheduling becomes challenging at times and having someone who was more available to help would have made me feel more comfortable at times.
    
    -The diversity and the amount of emphasized teamwork placed in all of the core classes really contributes to defining leadership abilities. It's really up to the students to make the most out of the opportunities presented to them, and when they do, wonderful experiences result and friendships among classmates are created.
    
    -The school definitely needs to improve the level of teaching by hiring better professors, and improve quality of courses such as Operations Management, which is absolutely terrible and unacceptable.
    
    -The professors all have had very relevant work experience and take time out of their schedules to help students. Also, given proximity to alumni in the NYC area, it makes it easier for many alumni to return and recruit students at Rutgers.
    
    -RBS has a very strong focus on Accounting and Financing. It would be good if other areas were brought into focus as well, like Marketing and Management. Both these areas are somewhat weak and students don't have much orientation in both these majors.
    
    -Although Rutgers is a very large university, Rutgers Business School becomes a much smaller community. We have great professors that come to us with a lot of great business experience. We learn concepts from the textbook but more so from real life stories and examples. We are challenged all the time in our classes and we all work together to get through it. Rutgers is known for it's diversity and the Business School is no different. I have learned how to work across cultures and have really created such a wonderful network. Although Rutgers wasn't my first choice, economically it was my brat option and I learned so much during my time horror.
    
    -I kind of wish that there was more hand-holding when it came to the job search. While there were plenty of career management events to help, I felt that there was a clique-ish mentality that prevented comparatively inexperienced students like myself from really getting the meat out of these programs. Overall, the people who did attend these events were already season and as such made these events less accessible.
    
    -Our business program may not come from an ivy league, but the professors at the university are very experienced and come from good companies. With locations in New Brunswick and Newark, there is a good amount of diversity. Many international students are at the Newark campus. Our location provides us with a competitive advantage since we are close to Philadelphia and New York City. Our MBA program is rated among one of the top ones.