Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business can be found at the top of Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of best undergraduate business programs for the second year in a row. One factor in this year’s listing was the international opportunities available to students. Mendoza gives its students study-abroad options with encouragement to complete a business-related research project while away. From Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Indiana, nearly half the college’s students opt to study abroad in countries such as Haiti, Egypt, and South Africa.
While an international focus is currently trending, Notre Dame was doing it before it was “in.” In fact, the beginning of the University’s business college began in 1917 when it began offering a degree in foreign commerce, the first of its kind in the US. In 1921, the College of Foreign and Domestic Commerce was officially founded. As a Catholic university, Notre Dame’s first business-school dean was a Father O’Hara, who decried selfishness, believing and teaching that “the primary function of commerce is service to mankind.” After two more name changes, the college became the Mendoza College of Business with a generous contribution from Tom Mendoza, vice chairman at data storage giant NetApp Inc.
Mendoza’s undergraduate programs include degrees in the following areas:
Accountancy- Finance
- Marketing
- Management, with these options for majors:
- Consulting
- Entrepreneurship
- Information Technology Management
In 2010, 1759 of Mendoza’s 2437 students were undergraduates. Incoming freshmen ranked higher than the national average, with 87% of them in top 10% of their graduating high school classes, and 96% in the top 25%. On average, their Math and Critical Reading scores were between 1350 and 1480, and they scored 31-34 on the ACT.
Admissions to Notre Dame is quite competitive, with only 4,177 of the 14,520 applicants admitted in 2010; of those, only 2,071 enrolled. But those who did not enroll probably can’t cite finances as the reason, considering this quote from the University’s website: “Notre Dame guarantees that we’ll meet 100 percent of every student’s demonstrated need.” For the 2009-2010 school year, that meant that 3 out of 4 students received financial aid, and just under half of first-year students received gift aid from the University.
Post-graduate studies include custom programs, as well as these specific degrees:
- 1- and 2-year MBAs
- Executive MBA
- Executive Education
- MS in Accountancy
- Master of Nonprofit Administration
- Nonprofit Professional Development
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