Facts and Rankings
Enrollment
- 3,369 – Undergraduate
(Source: UD’s Office of Institutional Research Facts & Figures) - 651 – Graduate
Faculty
- 140 tenured and tenure-track faculty
Academics
- 5 departments
- 15 undergraduate majors
- 16 undergraduate minors
- 10 master’s programs
- 3 doctoral programs
Location
- One-hour drive to Philadelphia and Baltimore
- Two hour-drive to NYC and Washington DC
After Graduation
96% 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.
- $55,000 – Average undergraduate salary (2016)
- $90,291 – Average graduate and MBA salary (2016)
Top Employers
- Aramark
- Bloomberg
- Christiana Care
- Deloitte
- Ernst & Young
- KPMG
- Morgan Stanley
- PwC
- Vanguard
- Bank of America
- Capital One
- Citi
- DuPont
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Marriott International
- Protiviti
- Sallie Mae
- Yelp
Rankings
Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics
- #12 – Poets & Quants Top 25 Online MBA Programs, 2018
- #78 of 494 – Best Undergraduate Business Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2018
- #11 of 100 – Best Business Schools: The A-List, CollegeAtlas.org, 2017
- #22 of 282 – Best Online Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2018
- #22 in global online MBA rankings and MBA program ranked in the top tier of North American programs, 2017 Global MBA Rankings (PDF)
- #66 of 100 – The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, University of Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management, 2017
- Best value, Best Value Online MBA Degrees, DiscoverBusiness, 2018
Lerner College Departments
- #16 of 30 – The 30 Best Hospitality Programs in the United States, The Best Schools, 2017
- #7 – Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education ranked Lerner’s Hospitality Business Management department 7th among top U.S. institutions
- #17 of 25 – 2018 Top Accredited Online Master’s in Healthcare Administration Programs, SR Education Group’s Guide to Online Schools
- #23 – The Public Accounting Report, Undergraduate Rankings for large Accounting Programs (22+ full-time accounting faculty)
University of Delaware
- #33 – U.S. News Top Public Schools, 2018
- #39 – Kiplinger’s 100 Best Values in Public Colleges, 2016
- One of 200 Colleges that Pay You Back, Princeton Review, 2017