Dear Friends,

Welcome to the College of Business Administration where we are celebrating our 90th year as a premier and highly regarded business college. Our rich College heritage is an integral component of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, chartered in 1869, as an educational institution of international stature. Nebraska is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a Doctoral/Research Extensive university and was invited to join the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) in1909. Founded in 1900, AAU is an association of 62 leading public and private research institutions in the United States and Canada.

The College of Business Administration is a founding member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which is the premier accrediting association for business and accounting schools. Both the College and the School of Accountancy have been continually accredited. The College was also a founding member of the MBA Roundtable, dedicated to advancing best practices in the design and delivery of graduate business programs.

Today, the college offers a both sound academic experience and valuable real world experiences for its students. The quality of our academic training is reflected in the most recent scores from the national assessment test for graduating seniors from over 500 institutions, which showed that 80% of our students scored above the 50th percentile and 20% of our students scored at or above the 90th percentile. In the most recent ranking of business programs by BusinessWeek magazine, the college ranked in the top ten of three of the twelve academic specialty areas: macroeconomics, business law, and quantitative methods.

Enhancing the academic experience, more than 20% of current business students take advantage of a study abroad program and 36% participate in an internship. Students also gain valuable leadership experience by participation in our nineteen student organizations and clubs. They are also introduced to inevitable difficult ethical dilemmas facing business people today through an innovative curriculum that incorporates ethical challenges and their resolution in more than 90% of our classes.

When College of Business Administration students graduate, they are well prepared for the future In fact, 84% of our students say that in their exit interviews. More importantly, it is our hope that they are equipped to make important contributions to society, enriching their own lives as well as those of others.

John Anderson