Enrollment

• 3,330 – Undergraduate
  (Source: UD’s Office of Institutional Research Facts & Figures)
• 864 – Graduate

Faculty

• 151 tenured and tenure-track faculty

Academics

• 5 departments
• 17 undergraduate majors
• 15 undergraduate minors
• 9 master’s programs
• 4 doctoral programs

Location

• One-hour drive to Philadelphia and Baltimore
• Two-hour drive to New York City and Washington, D.C.

After Graduation

92% of Lerner graduates are employed or pursuing further education. The UD Career Outcomes website shows what students do after graduation; see the employment and continuing education data for Lerner bachelor’s, masters or doctoral graduates.

• $53,747 – Average Starting Undergraduate Salary (2019)
• $88,632 – Average Graduate and MBA Salary (2019)

Top Employers

• Amazon
• Aramark
• Bank of America
• BlackRock
• Bloomberg
• Capital One
• Christiana Care
• Citi
• Deloitte
• EY
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• KPMG
• Marriott International
• Morgan Stanley
• Protiviti
• PwC
• Vanguard
• Yelp

Rankings

Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics

• #11 of 100 – Best Business Schools: The A-List, CollegeAtlas.org, 2018
• #17 of 35 – Best Online MBA Programs, Discover Business, 2020
• #19 of 35 – Top 25 Online MBA Programs, Poets & Quants, 2019
• #44 in global online MBA rankings and an MBA program ranked in the top tier of North American programs, Global MBA Rankings (PDF), CEO Magazine, 2020
• #43 of 46 – QS Distance Online MBA Rankings, 2020
• #44 of 50 – Best Online MBA Programs, The Best Schools, 2020
• #47 of 335 – Best Online MBA Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2020
• #51 of 82 – Best Undergraduate Business Schools, Poets & Quants, 2020
• #66 – publications in top journals, University of Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management, 2017
• #82 of 749 – Most Veteran-Friendly Business Administration Schools (top 15% of all schools in the nation), 2019
• #90 of 504 – Best Undergraduate Business Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2020
• #97 of 272 – Best Part-time MBA Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2021

Lerner College Departments

• #7 – Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education ranked Lerner’s Hospitality Business Management department 7th among top U.S. institutions
• #16 of 30 – The 30 Best Hospitality Programs in the United States, The Best Schools, 2019
• College Factual’s 2020 rankings for the University of Delaware include:
  • #5 of 115 in Hospitality Management
  • #16 of 389 in Finance & Financial Management
  • #25 of 744 in Business Administration & Management
  • #37 of 621 in Accounting
  • #44 of 418 in Economics

University of Delaware

• #38 of 50 – Top Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Programs, The Princeton Review, 2020
• #38 – Kiplinger’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, 2019
• #39 – U.S. News Top Public Schools, 2020
• #58 of 140 – Best Colleges for Veterans, U.S. News & World Report, 2020