DePaul University Academic Life

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The student-faculty ratio at DePaul University is 17:1, and the school has 38.5 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at DePaul University include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs; Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities; Social Sciences; and Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 86.2 percent.

Faculty & Classes

General education/core curriculum required Yes
Coursework required for graduation
Arts/fine arts Foreign languages
Humanities Sciences (biological or physical)
Computer literacy History
Mathematics Social science
English (including composition) Other
Philosophy
Class sizes
Class sizes
Student-faculty ratio 17:1
Full-time faculty gender distribution
Full-time faculty gender distribution
Part-time faculty gender distribution
Part-time faculty gender distribution

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Majors

Five most popular majors for 2011 graduates
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services 34%
Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs 11%
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities 10%
Social Sciences 10%
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services 6%

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Academic Programs & Offerings

Degrees offered Certificate, Bachelor's, Post-bachelor's certificate, Master's, Post-master's certificate, Doctorate - professional practice, Doctorate - research/scholarship
Combined-degree programs BA/MA Business Information Technology; BA/MA English; BA/MA Instructional Technology Systems; BA/MA Journalism; BA/MA Media, Culture, and Society; BA/MA Multicultural or Organization Concentration; BA/MA Sociology; BA/MA Womens and Gender Studies; BA/MA Writing Rhetoric and Discourse; BA/MA or BS/MS Applied Mathematics; BA/MA or BS/MS Applied Statistics; BA/MA or BS/MS Mathematics; BA/MED Secondary Education Anthropology; BA/MED Secondary Education Economics; BA/MED Secondary Education English; BA/MED Secondary Education Geography; BA/MED Secondary Education History; BA/MED Secondary Education Math; BA/MED Secondary Education Physics; BA/MED Secondary Education Political Science; BA/MED Secondary Education Psychology; BA/MED Secondary Education Sociology; BA/MED Secondary Education Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse; BA/MS Applied Technology; BA/MS Economics; BA/MS Industrial/Organizational Psychology; BA/MS Network Engineering and Management; BA/MS Psychology; BA/MS SNL Computing; BS/MA Information Technology; BS/MED Secondary Education Biology; BS/MED Secondary Education Chemistry; BS/MED Secondary Education Environmental Science; BS/MED Secondary Education Math; BS/MS Biology; BS/MS Chemistry; BS/MS Cinema Production; BS/MS Computational Finance; BS/MS Computer Game Development; BS/MS Computer Graphics and Animation; BS/MS Computer Science; BS/MS Computer, Information and Network Security ??; BS/MS Distributed Systems; BS/MS E-Commerce Technology; BS/MS Human-Computer Interaction; BS/MS Information Systems; BS/MS Information Technology Project Management; BS/MS Interactive Media; BS/MS Physics; BS/MS Predictive Analysis; BS/MS Software Engineering; BSC (Accountancy)/Master of Accountancy
Student participation in special academic programs
First-year experiences 100%
Service learning 100%
Senior capstone or culminating academic experience 100%

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Graduation & Retention

Average freshman retention rate 86%
4-year graduation rate 49

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* Academic Life details based on 2011 data

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