Facts & Figures

Undergraduate Enrollment

The W. P. Carey School of Business has attracted a large and stellar group of first-year undergraduate students for the fall 2011 semester.

The average SAT score of freshmen Bachelor of Science students is 1,200, while the average ACT score is 26.3.

• Total undergraduate enrollment: 8,390
• First-time freshman enrollment: 2,036
• New transfer student enrollment: 598
• Business Honors students (included in total number): 693
• 2011 undergraduate business degrees awarded: 2,129 (Fall 2010; Spring and Summer 2011)

Undergraduate Employment Placement

• Median salary: $49,287, based on the May, August and December 2010 graduating classes.
• 1,300 recruiter visits and job postings targeted W. P. Carey students over the past year.
• Over 90% of our Investment Banking Industry Scholars have achieved job placement at top banks and investment firms in the past three years.
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek named the W. P. Carey School of Business among the Top 20 business schools in the country for "Return on Investment."  The study found that undergraduate students from the W. P. Carey School average an impressive $6.54 for every dollar spent on annual tuition.
• Arizona State University was recently ranked No. 5 in the nation for recruiter preference, according to a survey in the Wall Street Journal of top corporate recruiters whose companies hired 43,000 new ASU graduates over last year.

Alumni

• 62,362 undergraduate

Faculty

• 250+

Rankings and Reputation

The W. P. Carey school is internationally recognized for its leadership in business education and is highly regarded for its renowned faculty and their research productivity, making us one of the top-ranked business schools in the country.

Undergraduate Degrees

Faculty Achievement

• Edward C. Prescott, the W. P. Carey Chair and ASU Regents' Professor of Economics, 2004 Nobel Prize in economics
  
• V. Kerry Smith, ASU Regents' Professor of Economics
  
• Huizingh Honors Teacher of the Year -- Marketing Clinical Faculty John Eaton
  
• Huizingh Outstanding Undergraduate Professor -- Marketing Professor Lonnie Ostrom
  
• Huizingh Award for Classroom Innovation -- Information Systems Senior Lecturer Matt McCarthy
  
• Teets Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award -- Supply Chain Management Senior Lecturer Eddie Davila
  
• Teets Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award -- Supply Chain Management Senior Lecturer Steven Brown
  
• Teets Graduate Teaching Assistant Award -- Accounting TA Mark DiMaggio
  
• MBA and Master's Teaching Awards -- Management Associate Professor Don Lange, Marketing Associate Professor Andrea Morales and Supply Chain Management Clinical Associate Professor Michele Pfund
  
• Doctoral Programs Outstanding Professor -- Finance Assistant Professor Yuri Tserlukevich
  
• Faculty Research Award -- Lonnie Ostrom Chair in Business Marketing Rajiv Sinha
  
• Hall of Fame Inductee -- Barbara Keats
  
• Faculty Service Award -- Pat Tilllman Foundation Distinguished Professor of Marketing Michael Mokwa
  

Research and Service Centers

The W. P. Carey School of Business houses 11 research and service centers:

• Center for Competitiveness and Prosperity Research
• JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center
• The Spirit of Enterprise Center
• CABIT: Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology
• Center for Services Leadership
• Center for Executive and Professional Development
• CAPS: Center for Strategic Supply Research
• CaSN: Center for Supply Networks
• Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency
• Center for Environmental Economics & Sustainability Policy

Publications and Editorial Positions

• Strategic Management Journal -- Robert Hoskisson, associate editor
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis -- Jeffrey Coles, associate editor
• Journal of Management Research -- Luis Gomez-Meija, editor
• Journal of High Technology Management Research -- Luis Gomez-Meija, editor
• Accounting Review -- Michael Mikhail, editorial board
• Academy of Management Review -- Amy Hillman, editor

Accreditations

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

• W. P Carey School of Business, accredited 1962
• W. P. Carey MBA, accredited 1964
• School of Accountancy, accredited 1987