Program structure: Unusually strong business-and-liberal-arts pathway; School of Business & Leadership plus the Management Fellows honors program established in 1980
Major options: Students may major in any discipline while completing Management Fellows business core; School of Business & Leadership adds business-focused pathways
Program admission: Separate selective Management Fellows application after DePauw admission: résumé + essay + interview; current page lists Dec. 1 or Feb. 15 rounds
Ecosystem: Management Fellows is the standout structured business pathway: economics/accounting/ethics/statistics coursework, national business speakers, and an immersive business internship. The School of Business & Leadership and McDermond ecosystem add entrepreneurship and management programming.
Resources: Management Fellows + School of Business & Leadership + McDermond entrepreneurship/management ecosystem.
Best entrepreneurship fit: Best fit among the small LAC options for a student who wants a strong corporate/finance/consulting foundation before entrepreneurship.
Model: Management Fellows integrates business fundamentals, speaker/networking series, career programming and an immersive junior-year internship
Internship / co-op: Management Fellows includes a full-time, paid, semester-long, credit-bearing business internship. DePauw reports 100% internship placement for the program. Important nuance: students pay normal tuition during the internship semester; off-campus room/board charges do not apply. A specific preferred employer is not guaranteed.
Distinctive feature: Management Fellows reports 100% internship placement, about $74K approximate starting salary for recent graduates, 100% of recent graduates accepting job offers within six months, and an average of four internships before graduation.
Placement: Management Fellows site reports 100% of graduates in the past three years accepted job offers within six months; university-wide 2024 outcomes: 93% desired outcome
Compensation: Management Fellows: approx. $74K starting salary; university-wide first-destination page: $55K average starting salary
Employment geography: Published top graduate locations include Indianapolis, Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Dallas, Seattle/Redmond, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.
Need / institutional aid: DePauw Promise: designed to meet 100% of calculated need for eligible incoming cohorts; $75M+ institutional scholarships/grants
Merit / major upside: Rector and other merit awards; need package is the principal reason it ranks this high
This discovery materially strengthens DePauw: small college, but with a much more explicit national business-career pipeline than the brief card showed.