Bryant University

Bryant University
motto	The Character of Success
founding	1863
place	Smithfield , Rhode Island
country	United States
president	Ronald Machtley
Students	3,614 (2013)
Employee	265
Annual budget	$ 148.7 million (2012)
Website	www.bryant.edu

The Bryant University is a private university based in Smithfield in the US state Rhode Iceland . Until 2004 it was known as Bryant College . In 2013 there were over 3,600 students enrolled at the university. There are the degrees Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science and Master's degrees in business, taxation and accounting offered.

history

Bryant University was founded in 1863 as a branch of Bryant & Stratton College , which had teaching posts in several states. In 1916 the campus was sold and merged with the Rhode Island Commercial School . The university was non-profit from 1949 and offered its first master’s program from 1969. In 1971 the university left the Providence city ​​center campus and took its current location into operation. Tupperware founder Earl Silas Tupper made 1.73 square kilometers of land available for this purpose, which until then had housed settler farms. Through this move, the Bryant Archway tradition , which continues to this day, emerged : The archway of the old campus dedicated to Bryant was re-erected on the new campus. The rumor quickly arose that going through the archway before graduating would endanger this degree. Since then, trails have formed on both sides of the arch, which has made it locally famous.

The university experienced a significant boom under the leadership of its current President, Ronald Machtley. He founded new faculties and renewed those that existed until he took office in 1996. In addition, he built the new library, sports center, marketing & IT complex, student residence and an interfaith center. He expanded the sports fields and renovated the important classrooms and the Student Union. The increase in the university's financial resources by $ 169 million to $ 171 million by 2007 is also worth mentioning.

In 2010, the university became known nationwide because 34 students were arrested for possession of marijuana, placing the university in fourth place in the United States, and even in second place last year.

President

• 1863-1916: Theodore Stowell
• 1916-1961: Henry L. Jacobs
• 1961-1970: E. Gardner Jacobs
• 1970-1976: Harry F. Evarts
• 1976-1989: William T. O'Hara
• 1989-1996: William E. Trueheart
• 1996– 0000: Ronald K. Machtley

Departments

Bryant University is divided into two faculties, College of Arts and Science and College of Business , each offering several Bachelor and Master degrees.

College of Arts and Sciences

• Bachelor of Arts
  • Applied Psychology ( Applied Psychology )
  • Chinese ( Chinese )
  • Communication ( communications )
  • Economics ( economics )
  • Global Studies ( Global Studies )
  • History ( History )
  • Literacy and Cultural Studies ( Literature and Cultural Studies )
  • Politics and Law ( Politics and Law )
  • Sociology ( sociology )
  • Spanish ( Spanish )

• Bachelor of Science
  • Actuarial Mathematics ( actuarial )
  • Applied Economics ( Applied Economics )
  • Applied Mathematics and Statistics ( Applied Mathematics and Statistics )
  • Biology ( biology )
  • Environmental Sciences ( Environmental Sciences )

• Master of Arts
  • Communication ( communications )
  • Teaching ( teaching )

• Master of Science
  • Global Environmental Science ( Global Environmental Science )

College of Business

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  • Accounting ( accounting )
  • Accounting Information Systems ( cost information systems )
  • Computer Information Systems ( Computer Information Systems )
  • Entrepreneurship ( entrepreneurship )
  • Finance ( Finance )
  • Financial Services ( Financial Services )
  • Global Supply Chain Management ( global value creation theory )
  • Human Resources Management ( Human Resources )
  • Management ( operational management )
  • Marketing ( Marketing )

• Information Technology

• International business

Graduate School of Business

• Master of Business Administration
  • Global Finance ( Global Finance )
  • Global Supply Chain Management ( global value creation theory )
  • International Business ( International Business beings )

• Master of Professional Accountancy

• Master of Science in Taxation

Institutes

• Advanced Applied Analytics Center
• John H. Chafee Center for International Business
• Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership
• Center for Global and Regional Economic Studies
• Center for Program Innovation
• US-China Institute / Confucius Institute
• Amica Center for Caree Education
• Executive Development Center
• Center for Teaching and Learning

students life

Bryant Bulldogs

The Bryant Bulldogs are the university's sports team and are divided into men's and women's teams. The men lead teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, American football, golf, lacrosse, athletics, tennis, soccer, swimming and diving. The women lead teams in basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, athletics, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball as well as swimming and diving.

links

The first fraternities were formed at Bryant University in 1944. To date, the following nine connections have been made:

• Fraternities: Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Kappa Tau, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon
• Sororities: Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Zeta, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Zeta Phi Beta

Alumni

Bryant University has over 39,000 alumni affiliated to date.

Web links

Commons : Bryant University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of Bryant University (Engl.)
• Homepage of the Bryant Bulldogs (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Druggiest Colleges of The Daily Beast , accessed on February 8, 2014