Facts and Rankings

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
- #32 of 295 –Best Online MBA Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2021
- #34 of 47 – Best Online MBA Programs, Poets&Quants, 2021
- #38 of 78 – Best Online MBA Programs for Veterans, U.S. News & World Report, 2021
- #43 of 46 – QS Distance Online MBA Rankings, 2020
- #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
- #44 of 50 – Best Online MBA Programs, The Best Schools, 2020
- #53 of 93 – Best Undergraduate Business Schools, Poets & Quants, 2021
- #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