The W. A. Franke College of Business by the numbers

We pride ourselves on creating a learning environment where you are not a number, but a student first—greeted in the halls and known in your classrooms. But, for the records, here is The W. A. Franke College of Business by the numbers.

Retention rates for FCB

Note: This data includes the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

Retention rates are presented for all new undergraduate students assigned to a degree-seeking fall cohort. Retention rates for post-baccalaureate students are not included due to the diverse goals of this population.

Cohorts are established using NAU’s official 21-day census population and stringent IPEDS rules. Subsequent retention of each cohort is based on any enrollment—official or unofficial. The program/plan used in cohort reporting and assignments coincides with the census-day major and adheres to IPEDS regulations for cohort reporting.

Fall Semester Undergraduate Cohort Retention Analysis by College

Full-Time Only First Time Freshmen within Original Start College (The W. A. Franke College of Business)

Cohort Year	Headcount	1 Year	2 Year	3 Year	4 Year	5 Year
Fall 2013	581	62.80%	52.00%	46.0%	10.0%	2.4%
Fall 2014	548	62.60%	50.9%	47.8%	8.4%
Fall 2015	650	64.0%	51.4%	43.7%
Fall 2016	649	62.7%	50.1%
Fall 2017	701	60.2%

Demographics

Undergraduate

Gender	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Female	809	910	1,437	1,510	1,477
Male	1,385	1,574	1,827	1,939	1,919
Total	2,194	2,484	3,264	3,449	3,396

Residency	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
AZ resident	1,525	1,599	1,779	1,897	1,894
Non-resident	1,370	1,436	1,485	1,552	1,502
Total	2,895	3,035	3,264	3,449	3,396

Ethnicity	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
American Indian	40	42	56	52	47
Asian	46	57	80	81	68
African American	72	70	82	106	99
Hispanic/Latino	352	434	547	642	697
Native Hawaiian	6	5	7	11	11
Non-resident Alien	265	276	320	299	267
Not specified	20	23	31	30	34
Two or more	114	152	205	233	217
White	1,279	1,425	1,973	2,027	1,983
Total	2,194	2,484	3,301	3,481	3,423

Graduate

Gender	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Female	16	16	16	12	14
Male	27	23	21	20	13
Total	43	39	37	32	27

Residency	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
AZ resident	17	26	26	23	16
Non-resident	15	16	11	9	11
Total	32	42	37	32	27

Graduation rates among undergraduate students

Graduation rates

Scholarships awarded

In 2018-2019

$580,000

awarded in scholarships

In 2018-2019

$2,703

average per-student award

Job placement outcomes by major

Salary data for graduating students (May 2018)

	Accounting	CIS	Economics	Finance	Marketing	Management
Highest	$70,000	$70,000	$56,000	$59,000	$51,000	$60,000
Lowest	$22,860	$30,000	$34,000	$15,000	$12,000	$24,000
Average	$45,497	$49,457	$47,500	$39,046	$35,247	$41,600
Median	$50,000	$52,000	$50,000	$40,000	$36,000	$40,000

*National average based on NACE Reporting. This includes “all” colleges and universities in the U.S. Salaries will vary based on regions throughout the country impacted by cost of living, etc.

Job opportunities and employers by Franke major

The FCB Career Development Office (CDO) has an extensive sampling of job opportunities and companies for each major.

While the CDO’s sampling is extensive, it is not a complete list of all our former students’ employers. For more career information, visit the CDO Pinterest for updated boards on Accounting, Marketing, Management, Finance, Information Systems, and Economics opportunities.

Faculty facts

For academic year 2018–19, The W. A. Franke College of Business offered quality instruction from a broad collection of faculty members.

Note: these statistics do not include the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

full-time business faculty

tenured and tenure-track faculty members

business faculty with terminal degrees

Assessments in business fields

ETS® Major Field Test

The ETS® Major Field Test for the Bachelor’s Degree in Business contains 120 multiple-choice questions designed to measure a student’s subject knowledge and the ability to apply facts, concepts, theories, and analytical methods.

The W. A. Franke College of Business’ most recent ETS® results (spring 2016) show that our students performed above the national average in every category.The W. A. Franke College of Business 158.9 mean ETS® Major Field Test score All participating institutions 150.3 mean ETS® Major Field Test score Peer institutions 156.6 mean ETS® Major Field Test score (among five of our AACSB peers who took the exam and five other similar institutions).