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This is an opportune time to explore the world of business - revolutionizing technology, a global marketplace, and a bold spirit of entrepreneurship are challenging and exciting opportunities if you are preparing to be a future business leader.

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The College of Business is highly respected for developing professionals with the personal dedication and ethics. Find a program to prepare you to be succeed professionally and serve society.

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Beyond the Classroom

The opportunities for faculty and students to interact with business and industry. Partnerships with our alumni and many business organizations are the key to our success in building our students' futures.

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Points of Pride

  • $60K

    median starting salary of College of Business graduates

  • 23:1

    student to faculty ratio in 300-level courses

  • 100%

    All classes are taught by full-time faculty and industry professionals

  • 80%

    of faculty hold terminal degrees

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A sculpture student sculpts with polymer clay.
A drawing student draws with charcoal.
A ceramics student works on a throwing wheel.
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A lithography student prepares a print.

News and Events

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Siblings become youngest Redbirds to establish COB endowed scholarship

The Waller family’s deep roots at Illinois State University stretch across three generations. The University has meant so much to the family that siblings Justin and Sara Waller have established the Waller Family Endowed Scholarship—the youngest Redbirds to do so for the College of Business.  

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Career fairs bring jobs, internships, employers directly to Redbirds
Aaron Pitluck smiling in a blue sweater next to Sandeep Jagani smiling in a grey suit.

Pitluck and Jagani named inaugural Adaptive Edge Institute faculty fellows
Self-portrait painting in purple, blue, black, and white of three versions of one's head and a fourth peering above the three.

Perception: Seeing the self in layers
Jan16

Conversations Café

1/16/26 at 12:00 PMOffice of International Engagement Lobby, Fell Hall, Second Floor
Jan21

International Student Career Series: Strategies for Finding a Job in the U.S. and GoinGlobal

1/21/26 at 12:30 PMFell Hall
Jan27

Headshot Photos

1/27/26 at 12:30 PMBone Student Center

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