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Overview: Private, coeducational college offering bachelors and masters degrees in all areas of business.

Founded: 1886
Location: Located in beautiful Pike Creek Valley, a suburb of Wilmington, Delaware, with easy access to Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and other major east coast cities.  The city of Wilmington is a major industrial center in the Mid-Atlantic region and home of many Fortune 500 companies (e.g. DuPont and Bank of America.
About Campus: Twenty-four acres, consisting of four apartment-style residence halls, Fulmer Center (home to the academics and administration), The Joseph West Jones Center (housing the library, gymnasium, fitness center, cantina, chapel, and bookstore), and athletics fields.
Degrees:  Associate, Bachelor, or Masters Degrees.  Degrees offered in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Computer Information Systems, International Business, and Management Information Systems, to name a few.
Athletics: NCAA Division II
Demographics:  1600 students representing 28 states and 60 nations.
Costs: Goldey-Beacom College believes cost should never be a barrier to education, and makes every effort to make quality private education accessible to all qualified students. Ask about our need-based and merit-based scholarship program, and other types of available financial aid programs.
Effective
Summer, 2008:
Undergraduate tuition rate - $556 per credit hour
Graduate tuition rate - $747 per credit hour
Housing - $4,782 - Fall/Spring
Accreditation: Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs
International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education
Faculty: 100% of full-time faculty have the highest degree in their field.  Faculty with strong ties to business and real-life work experience.
Careers: For over a decade, alumni have reported a placement rate typically over 90% within months of graduation  -- and a high job satisfaction rate!
Features: Small size, individualized attention.  Apartment-style residence halls on an extremely safe suburban campus.  Campus-wide wireless network, on-line library access, personal email accounts, modern computer labs updated annually.  Curriculum focused only on business, active internship-for credit program, and strong placement rate for graduates.

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