The Mendoza College of Business was created in 1917 when Notre Dame became the first school to offer a four-year degree in foreign commerce. The school is named after donors Kathy and Tom Mendoza -- Tom Mendoza is a '73 Notre Dame graduate and chairman at the data storage company NetApp. Mendoza offers concentrations in consulting, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, accounting, leadership and investments. Notre Dame offers international immersions in Beijing/Shanghai, Santiago/Buenos Aires, and Kingston, Jamaica. The Interterm Intensives program allows students to spend one-week putting their problem-solving skills to use before executives from companies such as Adidas, Boeing, GE, Nestle, Hewlett Packard, McDonald's and Starbucks. Mendoza also hosts that Ten Years Hence speaker series which looks at how certain issues will affect business over the next decade.

The Mendoza School of Business has a total of 658 MBA students -- 328 are full-time and 179 are getting their Executive MBA degree. 22% of students are female, 20% are international students and 21% of students are married. The average Mendoza student is 27 years and has 59 months of work experience. According to Bloomberg Business Week, 77% of Mendoza graduates received a job offer by graduation day. Top recruiters at Mendoza include IBM, GE, Bank of America, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AT&T, KPMG, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Whirlpool, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. Most students, 31%, work in financial services followed by consulting (18%) and technology (13%). The average base salary for the most recently employed Mendoza graduates was $93,175.