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UCI Accounting Bulletin
Undergraduate Program The Paul Merage School of Business welcomed its fifteenth class to the B.A. in Business Administration program in Fall 2021. Demand for the major continues to be extraordinary, with over 14,000 applications for students entering last fall. Incoming freshmen have a mean GPA of 4.15 and was the most diverse in history, with over 39% of domestic freshmen students coming from under-represented minority groups. Total enrollment is now over 1,100 students. Business Administration is the third-most requested major at the freshman level and is the first at the transfer level. Our business majors are broadly trained, with nearly half of their coursework from areas outside of the business school. Students select a minimum of one of six emphases in accounting, finance, operations and decision technologies, information systems, marketing, or organization and management. Nearly 35 percent of majors specify accounting as one of their areas of emphasis. The program ranks 30th Undergraduate Business program nationally by US News & World Report.
The Merage School offers a distinctive B.S. in Business Information Management (a joint degree with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences) as well as three minor programs in accounting, innovation and entrepreneurship, and management, designed to complement any of the university’s 80+ majors. Fall 2021 numbers:
40%
of incoming freshmen are firstgeneration college students
39%
of incoming freshmen are underrepresented minorities
BA Business Administration Major Class of 2021 Employment Statistics BA Class Profile Total Degrees Awarded Women Underrepresented Groups* First-generation**: International Average First-Year Incoming GPA Admit Rate***
379 53% 15 40% 9% 4.08 22%
*Percentage based on U.S. domestic student population **Percentage based on incoming admissions student data ***Percentage based on admitted freshman only (not transfers)
Employment Results: Accepted Offer by Graduation Accepted Offer by 6 Months after Graduation:
56.0% 95.4%
*83.4% knowledge rate of class career outcomes. ** Both full-time employment and part-time employment are included. 4% of seeking students accepted part time positions.
