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Job Placement

2007 CBA Placement Highlights

The career information below was obtained through a survey of CBA's April 2007 graduating class. The survey was complete on September 1, 2007.1

Term Total
Placement Rate 96%
Average Starting Salary< $44,302
Salary Range $25,000–$90,000
Average Starting Salary for Accounting $43,893
Average Starting Salary for Accounting/Finance* $47,875
Average Starting Salary for Finance $46,783
Average Starting Salary for Finance/Marketing* $46,558
Average Starting Salary for Marketing $40,338
Average Starting Salary for General Management $49,500
Average Signing Bonus $3,731

* denotes double major in those areas

1 Response rate was 73 percent of graduates, of 338 total April graduates. 7% of placed students have elected to pursue a graduate program or other educational option.

What CBA Graduates Are Doing

Graph showing where CBA Graduates are working.

Where CBA Graduates Have Located

Graph showing where CBA graduated have located to.

A Sampling of Firms Hiring 2007 CBA Graduates

  • Abercrombie
  • Aflac
  • AIG
  • Alcoa
  • Allegheny Ludlum Corporation
  • Alpern Rosenthal
  • Ameriprise Financial
  • Beard Miller Co., LLC
  • Bloomberg
  • Citigroup
  • Countrywide Financial
  • Credit Suisse
  • Deloitte
  • Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Dick's Sporting Goods
  • Dollar Bank
  • Eaton Corporation
  • Epic Systems Software Corporation
  • Ernst & Young
  • FedEx
  • Fisher Scientific
  • Geico
  • General Electric
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Impact Worldwide
  • ING Financial
  • IPSOS
  • JG Wentworth
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Kearney & Company
  • KPMG
  • Mariners Baseball
  • Mass Mutual
  • McCrory & McDowell
  • Mellon Capital Management
  • National City
  • Nestle
  • New England Financial
  • News America Marketing
  • Northwestern Mutual
  • NVR, Inc.
  • Parente Randolph
  • Pfizer
  • PNC Financial Services Group
  • PPG Industries
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Progressive
  • Protiviti Risk Management
  • Schneider Downs
  • Sherwin Williams
  • Siemens Medical Solutions
  • Target
  • U.S. Treasury, Office of the Comptroller
  • UBS Financial
  • UPMC
  • UPMC Health Plan
  • Vanguard Group
  • Waddell & Reed
  • Walgreens
  • Westinghouse
  • Wolseley North America

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