Program Basics

• • Mays Business School
  • Mays Business School
  • 4113 TAMU
  • 440 Wehner Bldg
  • College Station, Texas
  • 77843
  • United States
  • Program Web site: http://mays.tamu.edu/
  • Program e-mail address: upo@tamu.edu
  • Program phone number: 979.862.3850
  • Status: Public (state-operated)
• • AACSB accredited: Yes
• • Year in which the undergraduate business program was founded: 1953
• • Institution: Four Year
• • Business Program: Four Year

SCHOOL BASICS

• Enrollment:

  • Total undergraduate: 39,867
  • Full-time undergraduate business: 4,160
• • College or university freshman retention rate: 92 %

• Percentage of students who graduate from the business program:

  • Within four years of admission to the university: 55 %
  • Within six years of admission to the university: 80 %

• Undergraduate Business Degrees Offered:

  • BBA Accounting
  • BBA Business Honors
  • BBA Finance
  • BBA Management Information Systems
  • BBA Supply Chain Management
  • BBA Management
  • BBA Marketing

PROGRAM COSTS

• • Annual Tuition (Resident): $9,244.00
• • Annual Tuition (Non-Resident): $24,620.00
• • Annual Room and Board: $8,200.00
• • Annual Cost of Books: $1,340.00

CLASS PROFILE

• Students in newest entering class that are:

  • Female: 50 %
  • 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: 71 %
  • Top 25% of high school class: 97 %

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

  • Mean: 1217
  • Median: 1260

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

  • From: 1160
  • To: 1340

• Citizenship breakdown for newest entering class:

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

• U.S. citizens in newest entering class:

  • African American: 3 %
  • Asian American: 6 %
  • Hispanic or Latino American: 13 %
  • Multiethnic/Multiracial: 1 %
  • White (Non-Hispanic): 76 %

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

  • Southwest: 99 %

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Institution

• Standardized tests required of all applicants:

  • SAT or ACT
• • Interviews are: Not offered

• Application deadlines:

  • 1/15/2012
  • Fall 2012 1/15/2013
• • Additional application requirements: none
• • Total undergraduate applicants, all programs: 25,989
• • Percentage of applicants admitted: 63 %
• • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 50 %
• • International applicants: 3 %
• • Female applicants: 50 %

• Relative Importance of Application Elements

  • Secondary school record: Considered
  • Class rank: Very Important
  • Talent/ability: Important
  • Interview: Not Considered
  • Extracurricular activities: Considered
  • Volunteer work: Considered
  • Character/personal abilities: Considered
  • Application essay: Considered
  • Work experience: Considered
  • SAT/ACT scores: Important
  • Recommendations: Considered
  • High school GPA: Considered

ADMISSIONS - Getting Into the Business Program

• • Undergrad business program admissions are managed by: The university admissions office
  • Total undergraduate business applicants: 2,740
  • Percentage of applicants admitted: 50 %
  • Percentage of admitted applicants who enrolled: 53 %
• • 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: 60 %
  • 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: 3.0

CAMPUS LIFE

• Five largest on-campus organizations for business students:

  • Business Student Council
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • Phi Beta Lambda
  • Aggie Global Interaction
  • PREP
• • 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:

  • BBA 120

ACADEMICS

• Average class size:

  • Required business classes: 102
  • Business electives: 30

• Percentage of business classes:

  • With 20 or fewer students: 30 %
  • With 21 to 50 students: 55 %
  • With more than 50 students: 15 %

CURRICULUM

• Electives:

  • Available business electives: 74
• • Last curriculum overhaul: 2009
  • Total business faculty: 148
  • Percentage of the total faculty that is tenured or tenure track: 61 %

• Most prominent faculty:

  • Leonard Berry
  • Michael Hitt
  • Ricky Griffin

• Business program's leading areas of study:

  • • Accounting
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • General Management
    • Management Information Systems
• • Special programs: Study Abroad, Freshman Learning Community, Mays Fellows, Aggies on Wall Street, Honors Major, Certificates in specialty areas
• • Study abroad programs: India, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, Europe, Singapore, Panama, & others. Exchange programs with partnerships in Austria, China, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, England, Ecuador, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Switzerland.
• • Volunteer opportunities: 800 student organizations, most of which provide community service.

• Extra-curricular activities:

  • Business Student Council
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • African-American Business Society
  • Financial Management Association
  • Hispanic Business Student Association
  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
  • Students in Free Enterprise

FINANCIAL AID

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

• Scholarships

  • Scholarship money distributed to business students last year: $6,384,111.00
  • Expected scholarship distribution to business students this year: $6,833,080.00
  • Scholarships are awarded to business students based on: a combination of need and merit
  • Students receiving institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 38 %
  • Students receiving full-tuition institutional scholarships in the current academic year: 7 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on need: 50 %
  • Institutional scholarship money distributed to undergraduate business students based on merit: 50 %

• Loans

  • Does the school offer a guaranteed loan to all business students, regardless of nationality?: No
• • Mean outstanding debt, most recent graduating class: $22,409.00

CAREER SERVICES

• Employment Information

  • Percentage of most recent business graduates who supplied information regarding employment: 88 %
  • Percentage seeking full-time professional employment in business: 58 %
  • Percentage not seeking full-time professional employment in business: 42 %

• Received first job offer:

  • By graduation: 79 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 4 %
  • No job offer reported: 17 %

• Accepted first job offer:

  • By graduation : 74 %
  • After graduation, but within 3 months: 4 %
  • No job acceptance reported: 22 %
• • Companies recruiting business students on campus: 972
  • Companies posting job offers for business students on school job boards: 130

• Top employers (number of students hired):

  • Lockheed Martin 14
  • Deloitte Consulting 13
  • Hewlett-Packard 13
  • Sewell Automotive 13
  • KPMG 7
  • AT&T 5
  • Macy’s 5
  • Occidental 5
  • Protiviti 4
  • Academy 4
  • BBVA Compass 4
  • Sendero Business Solutions 4
  • Stage Stores 4
  • Wisenbaker Builder Services 4

• Compensation

  • Mean base salary: $50,006.00
  • Median base salary : $50,000.00
  • Mean signing bonus: $5,117.00
  • Median signing bonus: $5,000.00

• 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: 1 %
  • Midwest: 1 %
  • South: 1 %
  • Southwest: 95 %
  • West: 1 %
• • Career services offered: Resumes, mock interviews, consultation

INTERNSHIPS

• Top internship employers (number of students hired):

  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers 250
  • Deloitte 245
  • KPMG 227
  • Ernst & Young 212
  • Grant Thornton 212
  • Sewell 102
  • BKD, LLP 73
  • Weaver & Tidwell, LLP 65
  • UHY Advisors 64
  • McGladrey, Inc. 60

• Internship pay

  • Internships that are paid: 100 %

B-SCHOOL ALUMNI

• • Total number of undergraduate business program graduates since inception: 47,715
  • Total living alumni of the undergraduate business program: 45,762
  • Percentage of living alumni who contributed to the business program or university in the last academic year: 22 %

• Alumni gifts

  • Mean Gift: $1,400.00
  • Median Gift: $150.00
  • Did the business program receive a gift of $10 million or more in the last academic year? No

• • -Mays Business School works very hard to create well-rounded students to make us appealing to firms, rather than solely relying on teaching from the textbook. We know how to work in teams and communicate effectively with others. Mays wants to graduate professionals.
    
    -This program could be made stronger by providing more specific contacts for students in their specific majors. While hosting a career fair is a wonderful opportunity, it would be more valuable and a greater number of students would take advantage of opportunities more tailored to their specific interested.
    
    -Mays Business School doesn't offer any online courses. They offer multiple career fairs a year with hundreds of companies to recruit students. Mays has a very strict grading policy which doesn't allow for teachers to many any course a "blow off course". The networking that Mays Business School provides is top-notch.
    
    -I think that earlier in your college career at A&M you should be exposed to a wider spectrum of business classes to help you decide which direction to go major wise.
    
    -Mays Business School makes an effort to keep class sizes as small as possible, and this really helps for students to have more one-on-one interaction with the professor and classmates. Our business program also hosts a career fair once a semester that hosts a variety of companies; this career fair has helped me to get job offers from 3 companies this semester.
    
    -Smaller classes in the harder basic classes such as finance and accounting. As a person who is not very strong in math/analytical things it's extremely hard to focus in such a large class.
    
    -You are a student to the school, not just a number and not just a way to make money. Everybody wants you to succeed and does not make it a competition.
    
    -The only issue I have had is the amount of preferential treatment that the Business Honors students receive, as opposed to other undergraduate students. I would request that many of the scholarships, trips, and learning opportunities that are only opened to BH students be extended to the rest of the students.
    
    -Mays Business School is incredibly committed to the professional development of its students. Every class features insights into the real world, instead of just rattling off academia what-ifs. We pay a slightly higher tuition than the rest of the university, but in return we receive smaller class sizes (the majority of mine are 15-25), which makes for a more intimate and effective learning environment. The Professional Program in Accounting is particularly stellar. Students in this five-year program receive their B.B.A. in Accounting, an internship with a CPA firm, a Master's degree in any business discipline (marketing, accounting, tax, finance, etc.), a CPA-review course, and almost 100% employment after graduation. Mays as a whole is committed to the long-term success of its students.
    
    -I am a graduating senior, and I was unable to get enrolled in a Speech class this semester. I was one of the first to register, and I needed this class to graduate. I was forced to take a speech class online as a mini-mester through a community college. I feel that there should have been more slots open to seniors that are graduating this May.
    
    -The tradition of the Aggie honor code has been something I believe, especially with the business school professors and administration, business students live by. This prepares us for ethical dilemmas because in a few short words the honor code covers everything.
    
    -Improve the quality of professors and material taught in the Information & Operations Management department. Also provide more of a focus on entrepreneurship, and less of a "Big 4! Big 4!" mentality.
    
    -The business school itself is good, but what really sets it apart is the Center for Management of Information Systems (CMIS). This is specific to Info Systems and Supply Chain majors. The Center is supported by corporate sponsors, and there are weekly meetings through the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). By attending these meetings and participating in CMIS activities, you get to network with the corporate sponsors, who are recruiters from their respective companies (Shell, Anadarko, HP, Dell, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil). Gives excellent opportunities.