SIGNATURE EXPERIENCES
A hallmark of a quality business education is experiential learning – getting outside the classroom to work on real-life business problems, visit companies, and meet with business leaders.
This table shows how many alumni from each school answered “yes” to the following two questions:
- Were you engaged in a “signature experience” (project work, simulations, experiential learning, senior thesis, capstone project, etc.) through the business program that was a key part of your business education?
- Were you engaged in a global immersion, trip, or project of any kind through the business program?
School |
Signature experience |
Immersion or project |
Average |
| University of Michigan (Ross) | 86.15% | 67.69% | 76.92% |
| University of Southern California (Marshall) | 48% | 91.84% | 69.92% |
| Elon University (Love) | 71.43% | 67.86% | 69.65% |
| Indiana University (Kelley) | 70.89% | 68.35% | 69.62% |
| Miami University (Farmer) | 82.46% | 46.90% | 64.68% |
| University of Akron | 100% | 28.57% | 64.29% |
| Syracuse University (Whitman) | 91.07% | 37.50% | 64.29% |
| Hult International Business School | 73.33% | 54.55% | 63.94% |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 55.88% | 70.59% | 63.24% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 75% | 50% | 62.50% |
| Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 76.58% | 46.85% | 61.72% |
| Christopher Newport University (Luter) | 100% | 22.22% | 61.11% |
| Fordham University (Gabelli) | 77.17% | 43.96% | 60.57% |
| University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 57.78% | 63.33% | 60.56% |
| University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 77.42% | 43.55% | 60.49% |
| University of Virginia (McIntire) | 78.26% | 42.22% | 60.24% |
| Villanova University | 85% | 32.50% | 58.75% |
| Marian University (Byrum) | 94.74% | 21.05% | 57.90% |
| University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 52.08% | 62.50% | 57.29% |
| Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 88.57% | 22.86% | 55.72% |
| Providence College | 71.43% | 39.29% | 55.36% |
| University of Illinois (Gies) | 66.29% | 42.70% | 54.50% |
| University of Washington (Foster) | 81.16% | 26.09% | 53.63% |
| American University (Kogod) | 82.86% | 22.86% | 52.86% |
| New York University (Stern) | 46.97% | 57.58% | 52.28% |
| Tulane University (Freeman) | 71.64% | 32.84% | 52.24% |
| University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 67.77% | 36.36% | 52.07% |
| University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 47.95% | 56.16% | 52.06% |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 81.58% | 22.37% | 51.98% |
| Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 76.47% | 25.71% | 51.09% |
| Lipscomb University | 70.59% | 29.41% | 50.00% |
| Ohio University | 76.35% | 23.65% | 50.00% |
| University of Dayton | 74.65% | 25.35% | 50.00% |
| Lehigh University | 58.49% | 40.38% | 49.44% |
| Bucknell University | 55.88% | 42.42% | 49.15% |
| University of Denver (Daniels) | 60.71% | 35.71% | 48.21% |
| Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 69.23% | 26.92% | 48.08% |
| University of Delaware (Lerner) | 65.22% | 30.11% | 47.67% |
| Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 70.77% | 24.24% | 47.51% |
| Georgetown University (McDonough) | 41.86% | 52.27% | 47.07% |
| University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 70% | 23.33% | 46.67% |
| University of Georgia (Terry) | 65.49% | 24.78% | 45.14% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 51.22% | 39.02% | 45.12% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 40.43% | 48.94% | 44.69% |
| University of Oklahoma (Price) | 58.46% | 29.23% | 43.85% |
| University of Evansville (Schroeder) | 87.50% | 0% | 43.75% |
| University of Richmond (Robins) | 46.15% | 41.03% | 43.59% |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 72.73% | 13.64% | 43.19% |
| Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 72.22% | 13.89% | 43.06% |
| University of San Diego (Knauss) | 55.81% | 30.23% | 43.02% |
| Ithaca College | 64.29% | 21.43% | 42.86% |
| College of New Jersey | 65.38% | 19.23% | 42.31% |
| University of Arizona (Eller) | 64.21% | 20% | 42.11% |
| Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 54.17% | 29.17% | 41.67% |
| Emory University (Goizueta) | 51.52% | 30.77% | 41.15% |
| University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 61.54% | 17.95% | 39.75% |
| University of Utah (Eccles) | 43.28% | 35.29% | 39.29% |
| Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 51.85% | 25.93% | 38.89% |
| Michigan State University (Broad) | 53.79% | 23.48% | 38.64% |
| Cornell University (Dyson SC John) | 57.14% | 19.05% | 38.10% |
| Wake Forest University | 46.88% | 28.13% | 37.51% |
| Drexel University (LeBow) | 48% | 26.67% | 37.34% |
| Binghamton University | 65.71% | 8.57% | 37.14% |
| Texas A&M University (Mays) | 43.41% | 30.23% | 36.82% |
| Loyola Marymount University | 53.33% | 20% | 36.67% |
| St. John’s University (Tobin) | 54.17% | 19.15% | 36.66% |
| University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 44.44% | 28.30% | 36.37% |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 44.19% | 28.24% | 36.22% |
| University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 52% | 20.27% | 36.14% |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 42.86% | 28.57% | 35.72% |
| Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 59.52% | 11.90% | 35.71% |
| Hofstra University (Zarb) | 44.74% | 26.32% | 35.53% |
| Purdue University (Daniels) | 45.83% | 25% | 35.42% |
| Oregon State University | 52.94% | 14.71% | 33.83% |
| University of Houston (Bauer) | 57.30% | 8.99% | 33.15% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 57.69% | 7.69% | 32.69% |
| University of Miami (Herbert) | 40.82% | 24.49% | 32.66% |
| Sacred Heart University | 35.29% | 26.47% | 30.88% |
| Northern Illinois University | 61.11% | 0% | 30.56% |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | 50% | 8.82% | 29.41% |
| Seattle University (Albers) | 44.83% | 13.79% | 29.31% |
| Towson University | 53.01% | 4.82% | 28.92% |
| Florida Southern College | 42.11% | 10.53% | 26.32% |
| San Diego State University | 40.63% | 10.75% | 25.69% |
| William & Mary (Mason) | 42.31% | 3.85% | 23.08% |
| University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 30% | 15.79% | 22.90% |
| Florida International University | 27.63% | 14.47% | 21.05% |
| Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 35.91% | 6.04% | 20.98% |
| University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 29.79% | 10.64% | 20.22% |
| Rutgers Business School – Newark | 33.91% | 5.31% | 19.61% |
| University of Texas at Arlington | 0% | 0% | 0.00% |
WOULD YOU RECOMMEND YOUR BUSINESS PROGRAM? (Page 1)
WAS THE DEGREE WORTH THE TIME AND COST? (Page 2)
FACULTY QUALITY & ACCESSIBILITY (Page 3)
ADVISING QUALITY (Page 4)
BUILDING A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK (Page 5)
CLIMBING THE LADDER (Page 6)
CAREER OUTCOMES (Page 7)
SKILL DEVELOPMENT (Page 8)
SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE (Page 9)
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