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Programs Offered

Specializations offered:
Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, General Management, Human Resource Management, International Business, Management Information Systems, Marketing

Core curriculum was last revised in 2001
Average class size in core business classes 72
Average class size in business electives 37
Average class size in non-business classes (required for admission to the business program 30

8.00% of business classes (core and elective) have fewer than 20 students

36.00% of business classes (core and elective) have more than 50 students

37.00% of required business courses reached maximum enrollment by the first day of class from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2005.

N/A% of required business courses had waiting lists for enrollment


  PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Credit hours required for business degree (including university and program requirements)

Minimum of 120 for Bachelor of Business Administration or Bachelor of Accounting
Maximum of N/A for N/A

Credit hours required (in business program) for business degree

Minimum of N/A for N/A
Maximum of N/A for N/A

Other requirements to earn undergraduate business degree
Completion of CLAST and foreign language requirement.

30.00% of business students graduate from the program within four years of admission to the university


 AREAS OF STUDY & ELECTIVES

The school reports that the following are its five leading areas of study:
Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Management Information Systems

Number of elective courses (not multiple sessions of same course) available in the past academic year: 50

New electives added in the past academic year:
Family Owned Business Management Business in Europe Special Topics in International Business N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A


Work study or co-op opportunities No
Study abroad opportunities Yes

 FACULTY
Total full-time undergraduate business faculty 93
Total undergraduate business adjuncts and visiting business faculty 36
Total undergraduate permanent/tenured business professors 51

22.00% of permanent/tenured business professors are women

4.00% of permanent/tenured business professors are underrepresented minorities (African American, Hispanic American or Native American)

14.00% of permanent/tenured business professors are members of company boards of directors or boards of advisors

18.00% of permanent/tenured business professors have owned their own business

Prominent Faculty:
Peter Dickson
Christos Koulamas
Mary Ann Von Glinow


 STUDENT LIFE
Delta Sigma Pi chapter Yes

Freshmen are not required to live on campus

N/A% of all business students live on campus

Business students are not grouped together in "learning communities" in housing or other facilities


 TECHNOLOGY

250 computers available to undergraduate business students (within the program and university as a whole)

Wireless network in main B-school buildings Yes

Technology changes made over the past three years:
Implementation of PeopleSoft, Adoption of Miramar Mail Server, Upgrade of WebCT servers, Adoption of technologies to improve online student advisement and class support, Transfer of main servers to NAP of the Americas for contingency and reliability, Upgrade of multimedia equipment in all classrooms, Adoption of Starboard hardware, Upgrade of 250 lab computers, Increase in student networked storage space, Expansion of WiFi wireless coverage.

 
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