Program Basics

• • Moore School of Business
  • Darla Moore School of Business
  • 1705 College Street
  • Columbia, South Carolina
  • 29208
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.mooreschool.sc.edu
  • Program e-mail address: undergrad@moore.sc.edu
  • Program phone number: (803) 777-2191
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes

• Accreditation other than AACSB:

  • SACS-Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1919
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 22,556
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 3,892
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 145
  • Distance undergraduate business: 0
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 87 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 52 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 73 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • Bachelor of Science/Accounting
  • Bachelor of Science/Business Economics
  • Bachelor of Science/Finance
  • Bachelor of Science/Management
  • Bachelor of Science/Management Science
  • Bachelor of Science/Insurance
  • Bachelor of Science/Marketing

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $25,952.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $9,768.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $1,500.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Resident): $407.00
• • Tuition Per Academic Credit (Non-Resident): $1,082.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $6,000.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,250.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 39 %
  • International: 3 %

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

  • Mean: 18
  • Median: 18

• Percentage of newest entering class:

  • Top 10% of high school class: 16 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 37 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 52 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 15 %

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

  • Mean: 1209
  • Median: 1200

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

  • From: 1130
  • To: 1270

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

  • Mean: 27
  • Median: 25

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 24
  • To: 28

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 97 %
  • Canada: 0 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 3 %
  • Dual Citizenship: 0%
  • Unknown Citizenship: 0 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 5 %
  • Asian American: 2 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 3 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 2 %
  • Native American: 0 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 86 %
  • Chose not to report: 2 %
  • Other: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 8 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 19 %
  • South: 64 %
  • Southwest: 2 %
  • Midwest: 6 %
  • West: 1 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT or ACT
• • Interviews are: Not offered

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 12/1/2011
  • Spring 2013 11/1/2012
• • Additional application requirements: Freshmen must submit a University application, a nonrefundable application fee, official high school transcripts, and official SAT or ACT scores sent directly to the testing center.
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 29,541
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 62 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 42 %
• • International applicants: 2 %
• • Female applicants: 39 %

• 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: Considered
  • Application essay: Considered
  • 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 university admissions office
  • Total undergraduate business applicants: 4,930
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 63 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 40 %
• • 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: 89 %
  • 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: Must have a Calculus course completed with a C or better. Must have at least 15 hours in the USC system completed at the time of application.

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • American Marketing Association
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Global Business Council
  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • Carolina Finance Club
• • 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:

  • BSMKT 122
  • BSIB 125
  • BSACT 127

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • 122 hours minimum (except for IB and Accounting); courses divided between business and general education courses; 18 hours in additional directed general education courses required.

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 61
  • Business electives: 38

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 8 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 73 %
  • With more than 50 students: 19 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 0 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 67
  • New electives: ECON 515-Industrial Economics
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2009
  • Total business faculty: 168
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 55 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Dr. Allen Berger
  • Dr. Manoj Malhotra
  • Dr. Kendall Roth

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Marketing
    • Supply Chain Management
    • General Management
    • International Business
  • Other leading area of study: Insurance, Finance, Real Estate, Economics
• • Special programs: Special programs include national and international student conferences, case competitions, courses in Honors College, Emerging Leaders program, Marketing Scholars course, Wachovia Lecture Series, and research opportunities such as Magellan Scholars.
• • Work study: Opportunities available for work study or co-op; many are offered through the University of South Carolina Career Center
• • Study abroad programs: The University Study Abroad Office offers opportunities to study in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The Moore School offers faculty-led study abroad options in areas such as Africa, Europe, and South America. The IBCE program involves a partnership with the Chinese University in Hong Kong which connects Moore School students and students from CUHK in a unique exchange program.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Global and regional service learning opportunities are frequently explored. Moore School students complete service projects through student organizations and through established programs such as Habitat for Humanity. In recent years, Moore School students have completed service projects in areas such as Romania and Costa Rica and also at the Penn Center, located at St. Helena Island.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Alpha Kappa Psi
  • Carolina Finance Club
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Entrepreneurship Club
  • Gamecock Economics Club
  • Global Business Council
  • Women in Business Council

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $4,318,662.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $4,356,816.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 46 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 1 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 3 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 97 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $24,693.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 50 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 83 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 17 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 64 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 25 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation : 10 %
  • No job offer reported: 1 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 58 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 30 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation: 11 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 1 %

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 15
  • Bank of America 5
  • Belk 4
  • Ernst & Young 4
  • Target 4
  • Techtronic Industries 4
  • Vanguard 4
  • Wells Fargo 4
  • Allstate 3
  • AT&T 3
  • BB&T 3
  • Deloitte& Touche 3
  • Fidelity Investments 3
  • Grant Thornton 3
  • Procter & Gamble 3

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $42,201.00
  • Median base salary : $42,500.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $4,549.00
  • Median signing bonus: $4,500.00

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

  • Consulting: 5 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 42 %
  • General Management: 7 %
  • Human Resources: 2 %
  • Management Information Systems: 1 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 18 %
  • Operations/Production: 4 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 3 %
  • Other: 18 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 19 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 14 %
  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Financial Services: 17 %
  • Government/Education: 1 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 5 %
  • Manufacturing: 7 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 1 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 1 %
  • Real Estate: 3 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 2 %
  • Technology/Science: 5 %
  • Non-Profit: 2 %
  • Transportation: 4 %
  • Utilities: 1 %
  • Other: 15 %

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

  • US: 100 %
  • Canada: 0 %

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

  • Northeast: 12 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 6 %
  • Midwest: 9 %
  • South: 68 %
  • Southwest: 3 %
  • West: 2 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 24
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 168

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • Boeing Company 4
  • Merrill Lynch 4
  • Wells Fargo 2
  • Eaton 2
  • Sustainable Carolina 2
  • Fluor 2
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers 1
  • Sonoco 1
  • Bank of America 1
  • Kohl's 1
  • International Paper 1
  • Michelin 1
  • Liberty Mutual 1
  • Oppenheimer Funds 1
  • BMW 1

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 87 %
  • Mean compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $528.00
  • Median compensation, per week, for paid internships only: $520.00
  • Average internship length, in weeks: 15

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 31,641
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 29,946
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 2 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $247.00
  • Median Gift: $50.00
  • Did the business program receive a gift of $10 million or more in the last academic year? Yes
  • Donor and Amount: $10,768,053 given by Anonymous donor – donated software.

• Prominent alums of the undergrad business program

  • Andrew Miller President/CEO Polycom Inc.
  • Larry W. Kellner Retired CEO/Chairman, Continental Airlines
  • Emory Wayne Rushton Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group

• • -The business program, and especially the GSCOM (global supply chain and ops management) major emphasize apply the classroom techniques to real world situations during the final 3 semesters of education. This gives students a glimpse into the real world and quantifiable experience to put on his/her resume.
    
    -Having more financial firms recruit at South Carolina would be a plus. Most of the firms that recruit are not in the financial industry. However, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Vanguard, GE Capital, etc. recruit here, but if other middle market players recruited here that would make the program stronger.
    
    -I think the International Business program is simply outstanding. We caliber of the professors and quality of the education is more than I ever expected. It is VERY challenging, too much at times, but that is precisely what keeps me motivated and working hard.
    
    -The Moore School's recruitment of firms to job fairs and expos is mostly geographically limited, meaning most students will not see job placement outside of the South. With the caliber of some of the programs, I would like to see more emphasis placed on job placement with more companies and with a greater geographic reach than NC, SC, GA, FL. Also limited opportunities are made available for international job placement and even international internships.
    
    -I think the quality of Instructors is definitely a plus. The programs offered by the school are definitely a plus, but the instructors give a great view of what thing are actually like outside of a textbook.
    
    -We are a large business school which means that the bottom 20% are much less outstanding than the top 20%, meaning that our average scores may not be representative of the caliber of many of our students. I think this is unfair and rankings should take into account some of the amazing success stories from our school.
    
    -My school's business program provides so many opportunities for students to be successful and develop a career. It has extensive services like the career center and office of career management that they continuously encourage students to used so they can stand during the recruiting and interviewing process. They make sure they do what they have to do to keep long lasting relationships and connections with top companies to recruit from our program. They provide many opportunities for students to get the experience they need for a fulltime job through the availability of internships throughout the year. Overall, they care that suit gets the job that best suits their career goals.
    
    -I think one of the main faults of the program is the advising. I understand that the advisers have a lot on their hands and oversee much of what goes on in the program, however, if this is a problem they need to hire much more staff. I have received incorrect information many times from the advisers at the meetings we are required to go to before registering for class. Each time you go for your meeting, you have to wait a long time to see an adviser and with a full class schedule and job, it's hard to fit time in to wait that long to see an adviser. I also have a very late registration time every semester making it very hard for me to get the classes I need each semester.
    
    -The combination of the Moore School, with the #1 rated International Business program, and the honors college offers a unique chance to get breadth as well as depth. The quality of the professors at USC is on par with any school, and the professors are very knowledgeable.
    
    -While many professors have great experience in their areas, they are also complacent or disengaged. The program as a whole feels very impersonal, even for such a large program. Most students are simply being herded through college.
    
    -There are many highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic professors. It is rare to have a TA teaching a class. Most professors have years of real world experience (not just academic).
    
    -Sometimes testing is unfair. I had 3 GSCOM classes, 1 upper level marketing class and a marketing internship that counted towards class credit this semester. Each of the 4 class I was in all had group projects. It was almost impossible to make all the group meeting because we only have so much time in a day. I think that GSCOM program should communicate better with each other on the scheduling of tests and projects so the students can have a chance to do better.
    
    -The quality of the professors in the Global Supply Chain Management program is unparalleled. Every professor in that department is so dedicated and teach us skills that make us competitive with students who have their Master's degrees from other universities. By the time we graduate from the program, if we are successful, upon graduation we will have our Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification as well as our APICS certification.
    
    -I would like to see more of an effort made by my university to increase its global and domestic presence. We have an excellent, top-ranked International Business program, however, few people are aware of this ranking and more importantly why the program is held in such high esteem.
    
    -Our business school is not only the best school on our campus, but the best business school in the state. It boasts fantastic and overqualified professors from around the world that have experience and skills that relate directly to the courses they teach. I have had more professors with a doctorate degree than professors without one. The business school also sends out emails daily with guest speakers from all over the country, from the vice president of Duke Energy to the CFO of Wells Fargo. Our professors focus on the success of every student. The business school also focuses on long-term success, not for the students, but for the country in terms of sustainability, competitiveness, and globalization.
    
    -The Moore School of Business not only wants us to graduate, but wants us to represent it throughout the whole business world. They accomplish this by providing us with great tools to find jobs, and great skills to get the jobs.