Grades: College of Business

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 12:25 AM

The College of Business includes the following undergraduate degrees: accounting, economics, finance, information systems, international business, management, marketing and supply chain management.

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Grades in the College of Business are in line with expectations for professional schools, Associate Dean Kambiz Raffiee said.

A’s and B’s accounted for about 73 percent of undergraduate grades awarded in the college for the spring semester of the 2008- 09 school year, a slightly lower percentage than other colleges, but still within the average.

Nathan Devlin, a 20-year-old business major, did not find these numbers to be out of the ordinary.

“Because we’re not significantly lower than other colleges, I’m not surprised to find that we are on par with the rest of the university,” he said.

The business school did differ from other colleges in that the number of A’s was significantly lower than that of B’s, making up only 35 percent of the grades.

Raffiee was unwilling to comment specifically on the grade distributions, but he said he thinks that if distributions for lower-division courses were separately identified, they would show fewer A’s and more C’s and B’s.

Raffiee said the school does not have a uniform grading scale and “the faculty has the ultimate authority to assign grades in their own classes.”

The College of Business also houses a number of general core classes, such as math and economics, making it more likely for the school to have lower grades because many students aren’t majors.

Jerri Cuerden can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.