Pharmacy leads list of starting salaries
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ness administration; this year it's about $60 to $70."
The business placement office keeps track of starting salaries by having students report their salaries when hired.
in your year's average starting salary for a KU graduate with a bachelor's of science in accounting was $24,328. For a bachelor's in business administration it was $22,040. Mass. business administration majors or MBA's, offered an average starting salary of $23,440.
"Usually the bulk of our people, 70 to 75 percent, will take jobs in the Midwest." Madaus said. "This isn't one of the high-rent areas, so while we're close to the national starting salary average, we're usually a little under."
Madaus said the number of recruiters at the Business Placement Office had increased significantly compared with last year.
"It would appear we are 9 to 10 percent above last year in the number of recruiters visiting campus," he said. "This bodies well for KU and what business thinks of KU."
He said several of the companies recruiting this year were new to campus.
*Coca-Cola U.S.A. is now Amoco Oil Company.* This company roughly a five year old cola maker.
Other companies recruiting at XU for the first time this year were Boatmen's Bancs.
nares, Ford Motor Co. U.S. Leasing International Division and Lomas Financial Corporation.
Madaus said the job market for KU master's graduates had been good.
"It hasn't expanded as much as we'd like, but we're taking steps to change that by letting companies know what a major MBA program we have, particularly in the area of finance. Mataus said." "Ford, Hewlett-Packard, and Hudson." All recruited our MBAs hard this year."
Julie Cunningham, director of the Engineering Career Services Center, said her office had also experienced an increase in recruiters.
"We've had a very good year. It appears that the upward trend that started last year is coming to an end."
In 1988, the center had a 30 percent increase in the number of recruiters looking for engineering graduates. Cunningham himself was one of the number of recruiters had increased about 6 percent.
One said the field of chemical engineering had the most job offered this year, continuing a two-year trend. The field also had the highest number of KU engineering graduates, at $33,300.
All three placement directors said the condition of the economy governed whether or not companies would be recruiting at universities.
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