Program Basics

• • Erivan K. Haub School of Business
  • Erivan K. Haub School of Business
  • 5600 City Avenue
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 19131
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://www.sju.edu/academics/hsb/
  • Program e-mail address: admit@sju.edu
  • Program phone number: 6106601300
  • Status: Private
• • AACSB accredited: Yes

• Accreditation other than AACSB:

  • Middle States Commission on Higher Education
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1927
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 9,011
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 2,299
  • Part-time undergraduate business: 240
  • Distance undergraduate business: 0
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 89 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 71 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 76 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BS
  • BBA

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $36,480.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $36,480.00
• • Annual Required Fees: $160.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $12,206.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,500.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 36 %
  • International: 1 %

• 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: 15 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 41 %
  • GPA of 3.75 or higher: 28 %
  • GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 20 %

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

  • Mean: 1115
  • Median: 1120

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

  • From: 1040
  • To: 1180

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

  • Mean: 24
  • Median: 24

• Middle 50% range of ACT scores:

  • From: 21
  • To: 26

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

  • US: 99 %
  • Canada: 1 %
  • Other Non-US Citizens: 1 %

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

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

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

  • Northeast: 50 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 45 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 1 %
  • Midwest: 2 %
  • West: 1 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT or ACT
• • Interviews are: Not required

• Application deadlines:

  • Fall 2012 02-01-2012
  • Spring 2013 11-01-2012
• • Additional application requirements: Official high school transcript, letter of recommendation(s), essay, official SAT/ACT scores, and completed application. For international and transfer admission requirements, contact the admissions office or visit http://www.sju.edu/admissions/.
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 7,401
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 78 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 20 %
• • International applicants: 1 %
• • Female applicants: 36 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Very Important
  • Class rank: Considered
  • Talent/ability: Considered
  • Interview: Not Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Considered
  • Volunteer work: Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Important
  • Application essay: Important
  • Work experience: Considered
  • SAT/ACT scores: Considered
  • Recommendations: Important
  • 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: 2,810
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 78 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 26 %
• • 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: 97 %
  • Are freshman business admits required to complete or obtain minimum GPAs in pre-business courses before taking upper-level courses? No
  • Process for freshmen admission?: Indicate interest on university application

• Internal transfers:

  • Method for handling internal transfers: Declare business major

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Food Marketing Association
  • American Marketing Association
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Accounting Society
  • Finance Society
• • 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:

  • BS 120
  • BBA 120

• Other requirements for the undergraduate business degree

  • Accounting requires 42 courses, or 126 credits.

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 28
  • Business electives: 26

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 18 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 82 %

• Course enrollment:

  • Percentage of required business courses reaching maximum enrollment by the first day of class: 59 %
  • Percentage of required business courses with waiting lists: 1 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 48
  • New electives: Family Business
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2011
  • Total business faculty: 166
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 41 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Dr. Michael Solomon
  • Dr. Jean Heck
  • Dr. Karen Hogan

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • General Management
  • Other leading area of study: Food Marketing
• • Special programs: Family Business/Entrepreneurship, Business Intelligence, Sports Marketing, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Marketing, Food Marketing, Human Capital, Leadership, Risk Management and Insurance
• • Work study: SJU has internships and Coop Experiences that suit the needs of our students. Our 4 year Coop track allows students to experience 12 months of work experience and still graduate in 4 years. We also offer a 5 year Coop for our Food Marketing majors. Internships can be for credit, not for credit, paid or unpaid. This adds tremendous flexibility to our students ability to gain solid work experience.
• • Study abroad programs: Saint Joseph's University's commitment to promoting international knowledge is fundamental to the institution's overarching Jesuit mission of service to all people regardless of nationality or other life circumstance and to advocate for the service of faith and promotion of justice. Cross-border efforts will continue to be directed both toward offering and developing excellent opportunities for our students and faculty to study, teach and research outside of the United States in semester, summer and short term programs. Our goal is to offer these opportunities on every continent. We also want to have an increasing number of students engaged in these programs across all academic disciplines and regardless of financial circumstances.
• • Volunteer opportunities: Service-Learning is a form of experience-based education where students engage in service as part of their academic course work. We believe that doing service work can help students better understand the abstract concepts presented in their classes. Likewise, the ideas learned in class can help students make sense of the human and social problems they encounter through their service work.A Service-Learning class combines academics with experience and reflection. Lectures, texts, and tests are enhanced by weekly service engaging schools and non-profit agencies that are making a difference in the Philadelphia area. Topics such as poverty, AIDS, violence, mental illness, and racism are explored both in the classroom and in the community.In addition to the service learning opportunities, many of our students volunteer through their fraternities, sororities and business clubs and organizations.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Business Leadership Council
  • Accounting Society
  • Hawk Women
  • American Marketing Association
  • Food Marketing Association
  • Finance Society
  • Pharmaceutical Leaders of Tomorrow
  • 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://www.sju.edu/resources/finaid/

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $25,670,069.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $29,710,600.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 94 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 1 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 62 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 38 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 56 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 54 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 25 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation : 21 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 54 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 25 %
  • More than 3 months after graduation: 21 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 269
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 797

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • KPMG - tie 12
  • PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS- TIE 12
  • Walmart 10
  • Wawa 5
  • Target 4
  • SEI Investments 3
  • Pepsi 3
  • Kraft Foods 3
  • Hess Corporation 3
  • GRANT THORNTON 3
  • DELOITTE 3
  • PHILADELPHIA INSURANCE CO 2
  • Merrill Lynch 2
  • JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2
  • JP Morgan 2

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $44,800.00
  • Median base salary : $47,500.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $3,300.00
  • Mean other guaranteed compensation: $3,000.00

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

  • Consulting: 3 %
  • Finance/Accounting: 36 %
  • General Management: 14 %
  • Human Resources: 0 %
  • Management Information Systems: 2 %
  • Marketing/Sales: 28 %
  • Operations/Production: 0 %
  • Logistics/Transportation: 0 %
  • Other: 17 %

• Most recent graduates accepted jobs in the following industries:

  • Accounting: 11 %
  • Consumer Products/Retail : 17 %
  • Consulting: 1 %
  • Financial Services: 8 %
  • Government/Education: 10 %
  • Pharma/Biotech/Health: 9 %
  • Manufacturing: 1 %
  • Media/Entertainment: 5 %
  • Petroleum/Energy: 2 %
  • Real Estate: 1 %
  • Sports/Leisure: 3 %
  • Technology/Science: 5 %
  • Non-Profit: 3 %
  • Transportation: 1 %
  • Utilities: 1 %
  • Other: 13 %

• 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: 31 %
  • Mid-Atlantic: 61 %
  • Midwest: 2 %
  • South: 4 %
  • Southwest: 2 %
  • West: 0 %
  • Possessions and territories: 0 %
• • Career services offered: Career Assessments (MBTI, Strong Interest Inventory, Values Inventory); Career Resource Library; Lifelong Career Planning Assistance; Career Counseling Appointments; Drop - In Hours for resumes, cover letters, mock interviews; Assistance with Major Selections, Graduate School Applications; On-Campus Recruiting, Career Fairs, Online Job and Internship Postings; Networking opportunities(Alumni Career Panels, Employer Site Visits, Online Alumni Database)

INTERNSHIPS

• • Companies recruiting business students for internships on campus: 100
  • Companies posting internship offers for business students on school job boards: 582

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 14,459
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 8 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $1,248.00
  • 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

  • Matthew P. Clifton Executive Chairman & CEO, HollyFrontier Corporation
  • Lynn B. McKee Executive V.P. Human Resources, ARAMARK
  • John R. Post Owner & President, Post Precision Castings, Inc.

• • -Our business school provides it's students with the opportunity to apply underlying theory to practice. Classes and exams do not simply cover course material, but also incorporate current events analysis.
    
    -The University does a great job in inviting companies to our on campus career fair that occurs twice a year. The Accounting and the Marketing Programs attract a large number of job recruiters. The University could do a better job in attracting large corporations within the financial services industry. There are many great companies out there, and only a few of those within the financial services industry attend our career fairs. I would like to have been presented with more opportunities to meet on campus with recruiters from more these types of companies.
    
    -Our business program has a varied set of majors and minors that encompass all courses to aid students in preparing for the 'real world'. The fact that our business program has one of the top Food Marketing programs is a considerable advantage as well considering the job after graduation placement rate and quality of the internships attained in this program.
    
    -They could provide more electives like sustainability or entrepreneurship to business school students not in those concentrations. They could be more helpful selecting majors. They could get more recruiters from the finance industry (not just financial services and risk management/insurance).
    
    -Saint Joseph's University is a great school with an excellent business program. All business courses are taught by professionals from their field. All classes are based on class discussion, there is a lot of interaction and group presentations are common in almost all classes. Course work is almost always related to real world situations and current events. As a Jesuit institution, Saint Joseph's upholds the Jesuit teachings on campus and throughout the business school, and ensures that students are able to individually grow and succeed. Students are well prepared to begin their professional careers.
    
    -As I look for a job, I feel like my school's business program doesn't have strong foundation in a job market other than Philadelphia area. I want to get a job either in NJ or NY but the career development center doesn't have any clue to look for a job in NJ or NY areas.
    
    -I think the business program is extremely well rounded. Everything I have ever learned eventually relates to new topics I am learning. The business school, though sometimes hard, has overall given me a great education and preparation for the business world.
    
    -My business school is very structured and that structure is difficult to comply with as I switched to the business school from a psychology major and the advising I received when I changed was sub-par.
    
    -The variety of majors, the core curriculum and the teaching staff all make SJU very unique institution. The final business core class is "Business Policy". This class uses all the skills learned throughout the entire business curriculum and it really shows a student that they are able to accomplish something they once thought was impossible.
    
    -I wish the business program prepared us more for after graduation. Maybe provided us with more real-world experience, rather than simply teaching concepts and giving endless exams to make sure we "remember" it all.
    
    -The classes are challenging but necessary and it is required for business majors to take a class in every subject area, which gives us a better understand of the whole business environment.