“Graduates have the same employment rate on the arts and sciences side as business, about 99 percent. Our average salary post-graduation is actually a little higher. And in the last class, 18 percent went on to graduate school. In terms of the number of faculty, we’re a little bigger today, but that’s mostly because of the general education requirements, that all student are required to take as part of their core curriculum, and there are more sections of arts and sciences. But in terms of student majors, business is approximately 78 percent of majors, while we’re about 22 percent of majors. We’re coming up, but not as fast as we originally intended. We have around 800 students now with arts and science majors at Bryant. We think we’ll reach critical mass when we have about 1,000.”
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BRYANT COLLEGE BECAME
BRYANT UNIVERSITY In August 2004, Bryant College became Bryant University, composed of two colleges: the College of Business and the new College of Arts and Sciences. The change in identity was part of Bryant’s strategic plan, Vision 2010. It was intended to advance Bryant as an institution providing students with the best integration of a business and a liberal arts education and to make it a more internationally attractive school. All students with a business major are required to complete a liberal arts minor, and all students majoring in liberal arts are required to complete a business minor.