Points of Pride - College of Business and Analytics

  • Students get real-life experience managing assets for the SIU Foundation via the Saluki Student Investment Fund and the Graduate Student Investment Fund. Students gain expertise in portfolio research, management and investment and typically outperform about 90 percent of professional managers in terms of assets growth.

  • The college launched an online MBA program in 2009. In 2017, U.S. News and World Report ranked the program at No. 36 among its “Best Online Graduate Business Programs.”

  • The Burnell D. Kraft Trading Floor and the finance program in the College of Business and Analytics feature 12 state-of-the-art Bloomberg terminals, delivering to students a wide array of market quotes, financial analyses and information in equity, fixed-income, money markets, derivatives and foreign exchange markets around the globe.

  • Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International puts the college among the top 5 percent of business schools in the world. The double AACSB accreditation for the college and the accounting program places SIU in a very small, elite group.

  • The college received a "Best for Vets: Business School 2016" designation from Military Times magazine.

  • More than 1,800 employers are registered with the college’s Business Placement Center, and many top companies recruit Salukis.
  • The college offers a completely online business and administration bachelor’s degree completion program.
  • The SIU student chapter of the American Marketing Association has ranked nationally in the commendable category for the past two years in the American Marketing Association Case Competition. This puts our student chapter in the top 47 chapters in the country.
  • Since its creation in 2016, the College of Business and Analytics Career Closet has provided over 1,200 pieces of professional business attire for more than 500 students participating in professional development activities such as career fairs, interviews and professional meetings.
  • Jacob Coddington, a Master of Business Administration alum who graduated in spring 2020, was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar in fall 2019 while still a student in the program.
  • The college is ranked among the top five percent of AACSB-accredited business schools for contributions to elite finance journals, according to an article in “Applied Economics Letter,” a companion journal to “Applied Economics.”
  • Marketing faculty are among the most heavily cited and often-consulted experts in their fields. According to “Social Science Research Network,” SIU’s accountancy faculty’s accounting information systems program’s research productivity is second for a recent six-year period and fourth for a 19-year period.
  • SIU is one of just three public universities in Illinois offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral business degrees.
  • The Business Placement Center offers resume and career search assistance, interview training, networking opportunities, help for students in developing their personal brands and professional images, assistance with internship and externship placements and a partnership with a professional mentor. 
  • Payton Hilton, a senior in management with an emphasis on health care enterprises, received a 2018 Healthcare Organization Management Award from the MidAmerica Healthcare Executives Forum for excelling academically and for her involvement in activities and organizations pertinent to health care management.