Graduate Schools, Careers, & Alumni Achievements

Accounting and Management

 

The following list illustrates the diversity of career choices:

• President, Sony Corp.



• Partner and leader of global assurance and business advisory services, PricewaterhouseCoopers.



• Director, banking group technology, Merrill Lynch.



• President and CEO, Lord & Taylor Company.



• Assistant vice president, Smith Barney.



• Vice president, Wachovia Securities.



• Founder, Lending Tree.com.



• Director of marketing, Royal Bank of Scotland.



• Senior vice president, sales, Hershey Foods.

Careers and Graduate Schools

• Bucknell accounting graduates do well on the CPA exam, and are actively recruited and hired by "Big Four" public accounting firms.



• Each year, about 160 management and accounting graduates compete successfully in the job market. Over the past three years, 95 percent of Bucknell management and accounting majors were employed full time within eight months after graduation. Recent employers include American Express, Accenture, BASF, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Fidelity, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG Peat Marwick, Legg Mason, Lord & Taylor, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, Nabisco, Norwest Financial, Paine Webber, Philadelphia Phillies, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Prudential, UBS and Vanguard Group.



• Graduates attend top-ranked graduate schools, such as Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, and Virginia. Management graduates also complete other graduate degrees, including doctoral and law degrees.