Recent graduates from Wesleyan's Class of 2007 are putting the business major to great use! Business and economics were two of the Top 5 majors for 2007. Overall, more 2007 Wesleyan graduates will pursue business-related professions than any other field. They are well prepared with BA degrees and majors in business administration, economics, and international relations and with BSBA degrees.
Many Wesleyan graduates enter the workforce with unique qualifications and have combined major and minor programs in ways that separate them from other job-seeking candidates. Some double major combinations of Wesleyan's 2007 business graduates included economics with international relations, economics with advertising & marketing communication, and even economics with chemistry.
Wesleyan students taking the business ETS exit exam in 2006 ranked in the 95th percentile, nation-wide, in overall performance. This appears the highest among all colleges in the Macon area.
This year Wesleyan advanced several students, majoring in economics and business, to prestigious graduate school programs. These students will be attending some of the most competitive graduate programs in the nation and around the world; they include London School of Economics for both Economic Development and Public Policy programs, Carnegie Mellon University for Public Policy and Finance, Max Planck Institute for Bio-Chemistry, University of Indiana at Urbana-Campaign for Finance, University of Washington and Georgia State University for graduate programs in Economics and Accounting.
In the past, Wesleyan grads have been accepted to Yale, Harvard, and Northwestern University for law programs, and Universidad de Zaragoza/MIT for MBA. Wesleyan business students have also been accepted to internships such as Georgia State University’s Andrew Young Public Policy Center, Branch Properties Real Estate internship through the GSCPAs in Atlanta, Fickling & Co. in Macon, and Merck & Co.; they have won scholarships to attend Duke University’s summer minority scholarship program in economics, Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants scholarship for graduate program, the American Women’s Society of CPAs scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi national graduate fellowship, and first prize in national essay competition (Association of Private Enterprise Education).
Among those top notch 2007 business graduates going to grad schools, Yuliya Ivanova ‘07 has been accepted to one of the most prestigious and competitive master in finance programs at Carnegie Mellon. She is also the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi national graduate fellowship. This international student from Bulgaria was a 4.0 summa cum laude graduating senior and majored in economics and business administration and minored in math and finance.
Also, "Lois" Huei-Yu Chen ’07, summa cum laude, double-majored in economics and international relations (with a French minor) and has been accepted to master’s programs in public policy at the most prestigious universities in that field: London School of Economics and Carnegie Mellon. She has decided to pursue her graduate studies in LSE. This Chinese honors student (3.9 GPA) participated in Model UN and did an outstanding senior seminar project on the public choice perspective of school reform in Taiwan. Read her story!
Anne Kathrin Witt ‘07 (double major in chemistry and economics) recently spent a week or more in Munich “interviewing and presenting” as part of the competitive process for acceptance to the Max-Planck Institute of Research in Munich (many call it “the Harvard of Germany”). Approximately 50 candidates were finalists for entrance into the Ph.D. program there – only 2 were accepted with a BA degree from this field and only 18 with a master’s degree. Witt was one of those two BA candidates accepted to this prestigious research university in Munich. Read her story!
Sarah Bragg ‘07, business administration major with accounting concentration, has been accepted into the Master of Taxation program at Georgia State University. She has also just learned that she successfully applied for and received a Georgia Society of CPAs (GSCPA) scholarship for financial support of her graduate studies.
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