Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Academic Experience
Past Performance | Probation Policy|Academic Calendar | Graduate Career Data
Past Performance
What Do We Like To Study?
Most Popular Majors
Least Popular Majors- classics
- foreign language/international trade
- Russian
Policies
Probation Policy The minimum GPA required for all students to remain off probation during their entire college tenure is:
Academic Calendar for 2002-03.
Academic Calendar System:
- Semester System (two terms comprise academic year)
Summer Sessions:
- 1 summer session(s)
that consist of 8 weeks.
New student orientation:
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Orientation for new students is held in August, January, and June.
Graduate Career Data
Percentage of graduates who pursue further study:
- 33% continue immediately.
- 33% continue within one year.
42% of our graduates choose careers in business and industry.
72% of our graduates enter into a job market related to their major within two years of graduation.
Firms that most frequently hire our graduates:
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Ernst and Younge, KPMG Peat Marwick, McDonnell Douglas, State Farm
Insurance, Union Pacific Technologies.
Most prominent alumni/ae:
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Donald McHenry, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Kenneth
Pontikes, chairman and president, Comdisco, Inc.; Walter Rodgers,
"ABC Nightly News" correspondent; Dave Stieb, Toronto Blue Jays
pitcher; Robert Lewis Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; James
Belushi, actor; Dick Gregory, author, comedian.
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