The college is home to more than 20 active and well-respected student business organizations, including nationally recognized chapters
such as Pi Sigma Epsilon, Society for Human Resources Management, Beta Alpha Psi, American Marketing Association, among many others.
Full-time trained academic and internship counselors advise NIU's College of Business students on course selection, academic progression, internship and professional opportunities, and career planning.
Offered in each of our academic departments, our career courses equip our students with interviewing strategies and skills to help them readily step into their desired fields. Academic counselors with extensive business experience teach the courses.
The college's Academic and Career Planner is an online resource that provides a listing of academic and career preparation activities and services that are available to College of Business students.
The college provides a business careers community for its undergraduate students in the university's Lincoln Hall Dormitory. With the help of faculty advisors, 250 of the college's students govern and live in five floors of the D wing of Lincoln Hall. The students -- in collaboration with the faculty advisors and the Dean -- also plan programs and events related to careers and career development in business.
The College of Business is included on a growing number of firms' "short list" of top schools from which to recruit graduates. Collectively, 400 human resource recruiters meet with College of Business graduates every year at the biggest university job fair in the country and at the college's college-wide job fairs.
Historically, the top employers of students with College of Business bachelor's degrees have been: