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Students who earn the Loyola degree in business administration have taken positions with businesses, corporations, foundations and other enterprises both in Chicago and nationally.
The Chicago metropolitan area is a center of global commerce, including more than 300 U.S. and 40 foreign bank branches, some of the country's largest venture capital firms, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, 107 corporate headquarters (second only to New York) and 30 Fortune 500 companies. Chicago is North America's largest convention center and the third-largest high-tech center in the United States.
Loyola's business students succeed in finding a job in today's competitive marketplace. In 2004, more than half of all students had a job prior to or shortly after graduation.
Starting salaries for students with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) ranged from $27,000 to $53,000, with an average starting salary of $37,903. Sample employers for which Loyola students have interned and worked include:
- After School Matters
- AON Corporation
- Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust
- Collins Engineers, Inc.
- Delphi
- Harris Associates LP
- IBM, Inc.
- Internal Revenue Service
- KPMG LLP
- Kemper Foundation
- Krex, Inc.
- Marcel Media
- Merrill Lynch
- Morton's the Steakhouse
- Near North National Group
- RPM Advertising
- Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP
- Six Flags Great America
- Target Stores
- Morgan Stanley
- Univeristy of Illinois Chicago
Sample job titles for which Loyola students are hired include:
- Account coordinator
- Accountant
- Account executive
- Accounting clerk
- Associate manager
- Business analyst
- Client associate
- Commercial loan clerk
- Customer programs analyst
- Software sales intern
- Executive team leader
- Human resource representative
- Legal clerk
- Marketing intern
- Marketing assistant
- Medical coder
- Network analyst
- Paralegal
- Premiums customer analyst
- Public relations assistant
- Research assistant
- Residential escrow manager
- Sales intern
- Settlement coordinator
- Staff auditor
- Student trainee
- Tax intern
Internships
Internships, which are available both in the summer and throughout the school year, augment classroom learning and may lead to full-time employment. Full-time junior and senior undergraduate business students may earn academic credit for an internship, as they gain valuable on-the-job experience. Some interns get paid in addition to or instead of receiving college credit. In 2004–2005, paid interns earned between $8 and $22 per hour.
In addition, our undergraduate program fully prepares students for graduate study. For details about Loyola's master's degrees in business administration, visit the Graduate School of Business.
Business Career Center
Loyola's Business Career Center helps SBA students find internships and jobs, learn job search and interviewing skills, and get coaching to make informed and satisfying career decisions. In addition, the Business Career Center helps Chicago companies meet their recruiting needs. For more information, please visit The Business Career Center Website.
