If this occurs, then students will acquire the skills necessary to advance their own careers well beyond their first job out of college. Last year, however, we had some difficulty recruiting an information systems faculty member for the business department. The market in this particular field is such that the candidate would need to be committed to what we do in order to accept what we are able to pay. Our salaries for new tenure-track professors is competitive, but certainly not when compared to the private sector. We are still very strong in the sciences and psychology with excellent medical school placement.
Business tends to be very successful placement as well.
There are, however, some smaller departments with strong reputations that may surprise you, however. English, anthropology, sociology, and the performing arts are all quite good, and have an excellent history of placing their students in stellar graduate programs and jobs. We would like to expand what we already offer and tie them more closely to an interdisciplinary international studies programs. It's a virtual certainty that we will establish a computer science major in the near future, and we are increasingly seeing students integrating technology in a wide variety of fields like film, music composition, etc. There are very applicable ways for students to work with faculty together and gain useful experience that will serve them well upon graduation.