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Fast Facts

History

  • Founded in 1919
  • Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools
    of Business (AACSB International) in 1920

Enrollment (Fall 2009)

  • 1,765 undergraduate students
    44 percent female, 25 percent minority

  • 82 full-time MBA, 251 iMBA students, and 40 PhD students
    16 percent female, 28 percent minority

Degrees Awarded 2008

  • Baccalaureate 407
  • Master’s 94
  • Doctoral 8

Faculty

  • Whitman has more than 80 full-time faculty

Undergraduate Program Ranking

  • #38 US News & World Report (2010)
  • #49 BusinessWeek (2009)
  • #6 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program
    US News & World Report (2010)
  • #13 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program
    Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review (2009)

Graduate Program Ranking

  • #15 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
    US News & World Report (2009)
  • #12 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
    Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review (2009)
  • Top Ten Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
    Fortune Small Business (2007)

Specialty Programs Ranking

  • #9 Supply Chain Management Program
    AMR Research (2009)
  • Top 15 in Operations
    The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine (2009)
  • #10 Lubin School of Accounting
    The Chronicle of Higher Education (2007)

13 Student Clubs and Organizations, including:

  • The American Marketing Association
  • APICS
  • Beta Alpha Psi
  • Beta Gamma Sigma
  • Delta Sigma Pi
  • The E-Club
  • The Franklin Student Group
  • The Investment Club
  • The MBA Student Association
  • The National Association of Black Accountants
  • The Real Estate Club
  • Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
  • The Whitman Consulting Club

Centers and Institutes

Alumni of Note

  • Martin Whitman '49 BS, founder and co-chief investment officer, Third Avenue Fund
  • Daniel D’Aniello '68 BS, founding partner, The Carlyle Group
  • Honorable Alfonse D’Amato '59 BS, former U.S. Senator (N.Y.)
  • Honorable Craig Benson '78 MBA, former Governor (N.H.) and founder of Cabletron
  • Honorable Warren Rudman '52 BS, former U.S. Senator (N.H)
  • Arthur Rock '48, venture capitalist, principal, Arthur Rock & Company, and founder of Intel
  • Ruth Colvin '59 BS, founder, Literacy Volunteers of America