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Tuesday, September 26, 2000
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Schools preparing KU students
Here are brief profiles of the five largest professional schools at the University of Kansas.
1. School of Engineering
1. School of Engineering
The School of Engineering offers degrees in aerospace, architectural, chemical/petroleum, civil, environmental, computer, electrical, mechanical, and engineering physics.
Engineering is a five-year program that students enter as freshmen. Students must have an ACT score of 22 and be in the top 50 percent of their high school classes to enter the school.
Ann Bakerink, director of academic services in engineering, said computer science and computer engineering were popular majors.
With the Internet and the World Wide Web, there is a strong demand for graduates in these fields, Bakerink said. Enrollment in the School of Engineering is higher than it has been for 10 years.
There was an enrollment of 1288 in 1993. Bakerink says that since
computer science came in the fall of 1994. enrollment has increased about 1.5 to 2 percent every year.
Graduates with a bachelor's degree in
ond year in engineering, Burton already had two interviews for internships for the summer of 2001. And Burton already has a good idea of what she wants to do when she graduates in four years.
The school had 1,675 students in 1999. 8.8 percent of the undergraduate students, and awarded 257 degrees.
"I would like to be out there working on a software developer."
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
engineering do well in the job market, too. A survey of 1999 University of Kansas engineering graduates showed that recent graduates with degrees in computer science accepted job offers averaging $43,193 and received an average signing bonus of $3650.
"With industrial design, you get a broad base of knowledge," he said. "The problem-solving skills can be applied to anything. The
SCHOOL OF EMPLOYMENT
Enrollment: 1,365 in 1999
Admission rate: This year, 1,139
applied for 774 spots, for an admissions rate of 68 percent.
Requirements: Vary by program.
The School of Fine Arts includes the departments of art and design, music and dance. Of all the students in School of Fine Arts, 72 percent are in art/design. The music department has 24 percent and four percent are in the dance program.
"Engineers, in general, I don't think will have a problem getting a job," she said. "The demand for engineers is pretty high."
Marina Burton, Topeka sophmore in computer engineering, said the engineering school was very competitive.
"Your GPA has to be there before you come to KU," she said. The competitiveness of engineering pays off in the end when the job market beckons.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
2. School of Fine Arts
Even before beginning her sec
Art department includes painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
Cooper Priess, Saint Charles, Mo., third year industrial design major, said that students obtained a good education, at least in his field.
Enrollment: 1,675 in 1999
Degrees awarded: 257 in
1990/2000
Requirements; Students must have an ACT score of 22 and be in the top 50 percent of their high school class.
and art education. In addition to music performance in an instrument and voice, the music department includes music education and music therapy.
The design department includes industrial design, interior design, graphic design, metals, ceramics, textiles, theater design, illustration.
Theater and film is in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but theater design is in fine arts.
In the art/design program, first-year students have to complete basic studies course like design and drawing. After that, about three fourths of them go into the design school, and the remaining one-fourth go into art.
Rita Riley, director of undergraduate studies, said that space at times was an issue in allowing people into the school. Music professors who teach an instrument can only teach a limited number of students.
whole thinking process is dynamic."
dynamite.
Last year,
there were 1365
students in the
school, 7.2 percent
of all
undergraduates.
In Fall
2000, there were 1,139 applications. with 774 students accepted, a 68 percent admission rate.
Students wanting to major in music or dance will have an interview and an audition.
3. School of Business
The School of Business includes accounting, business administration, business administration/accounting and business administration coupled with another degree, such as economics.
For admission into the School of Business, students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA in total credit hours and professional credit hours in business and economics classes. Students accepted into the program have an average GPA of
don't enter the School of Business until completing 60 credit hours in the CLAS.
3. 3. Students
The full-time
s t a r t i n g
salaries
for
1999 business
School of Business. "People want to be executives."
Fuchs said the school had become increasingly competitive during the last three years. She attributes this to the expansion of the Internet and Web-based services.
Epstein said he was confident of his job prospects once he was ready for the job market.
Jason Epstein knows why a business degree is so popular.
"With a business background, there are so many options," he said.
Epstein, an Omaha, Neb., graduate student, got his undergraduate degree in accounting in May and now is in the business graduate school at the University.
"The economy is doing so well that there are tons of opportunities for business students," he said.
He said that the business school career service center was very helpful, and he planned to use their help.
"They do a really good job bringing the companies in to interview," he said.
In 1999, the School of Business had 788 students, or 4.2 percent of all undergraduates. For the 1999- 2000 school year, 390 degrees were granted.
Last school year, there were 750 applications, with 461 students admitted to the program.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Enrollment: 788 students
■ Enrollment: 788 students
■ Degrees awarded: 390 in
1990/2000
Requirements: 60 hours in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a minimum 2.5 GPA.
graduates averaged $35,210. The average undergraduate salary for business students in internships was $11.36 an hour.Top recruiting and employing companies for business undergraduates were Sprint, State Street, Anderson Consulting, Arthur Anderson, and CDW.
"Business is popular," said Donna Fuchs, coordinator for Admissions and records in the
that's a 61
percent ad mission
rate. There is
a limit to
school capacity,
around 800
students maxi-
m u m (ju i n o r s
seniors and
5th year seniors).
4. School of Education
4. School of Education
Students must have a minimum
2.5 overall GPA and a minimum
2.75 in a core of prescribed classes to enter the School of Education.
Core classes include English,
behavioral sciences, psychology,
math, natural sciences, social sciences,
arts and the humanities.
See SCHOOLS on next page
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