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In October 1896 Mrs. Bradley was introduced to Dr. William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago. He soon convinced her to move ahead with her plans and establish the school during her lifetime.

About BradleyLydia Moss Bradley

Bradley University, an independent, privately endowed, coeducational institution, was founded in 1897 as Bradley Polytechnic Institute by Lydia Moss Bradley as a memorial to her children and husband, Tobias. It became a four-year college in 1920 and in 1946 became a university and began offering graduate programs. It is fully accredited.

Administration

Joanne K. Glasser, Esq.
President

Dr. Robert Bolla
Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Mr. Gary Anna
Vice President for Business Affairs

Dr. Alan Galsky
Vice President for Student Affairs

Mr. Pat Vickerman
Vice President for Advancement

Mr. Shelley Epstein
Associate Vice President for University Communications

Dr. Michael Cross
Director of Athletics

Undergraduate Studies

Bradley offers its undergraduate students more than 100 programs among five colleges: Foster College of Business Administration; Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts; College of Education and Health Sciences; College of Engineering and Technology; and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Graduate Studies

Nearly 800 graduate students

More than 30 graduate programs including an AACSB-accredited MBA program, an Executive MBA, and a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.

Enrollment, Fall 2009

2009 Freshmen

The academic portrait of the class of 2013 at Bradley is exceptionally strong. The average ACT of the 1,106 entering freshmen is 25, and nearly one third graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class. This quality - defined not only by grade point average and ACT, but also by diversity of backgrounds and experiences - continues to keep Bradley in the forefront of colleges and universities nationwide.

Faculty

Bradley's highest priority is excellent teaching supported by research, scholarship, and creative activities. Faculty not only provide personalized attention in learning and academic advising, but also serve as mentors and professional guides to their students. Bradley's full-time faculty number more than 300. As teachers and scholars, many are national authorities in their fields. The average class contains fewer than 25 students.

Placement

The nationally-recognized Smith Career Center provides comprehensive career services to students and alumni and state-of-the-art recruitment assistance to employers. More than 70 percent of our students have taken advantage of career-related work experiences during their time at Bradley and most have collaborated on class or senior projects. More than 550 employers visit campus annually to attend job fairs and conduct campus interviews. The five year average for raduates who started a career, graduate school, or other postgraduate experience within six months of graduation is 94%.

University Institutes, Centers, and Special Programs


Business Technology Incubator
Business and Industry Data Center
C.C. Wheeler Institute for the Holistic Study of Family Well-Being
Center for Business and Economic Research
Center for Economic Education
Center for Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure
Center for Executive and Professional Development

Center for Learning Assistance
Center for Orientation, Testing and Advisement
Center for Residential Living and Leadership

Center for Student Development and Health Services

Center for Student Involvement

Center for Student Support Services
Division of Continuing Education and Professional Development
EHS Center for Research and Service

Global Innovation Network Institute
Heartland Illinois Technology Enterprise Center (HITEC)
Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center
Industrial Assessment Center

Institute for Principled Leadership and Public Service
Institute for Gifted and Talented Youth
International Trade Center/NAFTA Opportunity Center
Leadership Development Center
Lewis J. Burger Center for Student Leadership and Public Service

Marjorie and Bill Springer Center for Excellence in Internships

Osher Lifeline Learning Institute

Pre-Law Center
Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
Smith Career Center
Turner Center for Entrepreneurship

Theresa S. Falson EMBA Program
Virginius S. Chase Special Collections Center
William T. Kemper Foundation-Commerce Bank Trustee Professional Development Schools Project

Campus and Physical Facilities

The University's 44 buildings are located on an 85-acre campus in the historic West Bluff residential neighborhood one mile from downtown Peoria. Peoria is the largest metropolitan area in downstate Illinois with a metropolitan population of more than 370,000.

The Peoria  metropolitan area was recently rated the 33rd best metro area in the country by the Milken Institute in its 2009 Best Performing Cities Index.

The ranking was among the 200 largest metropolitan areas - those with populations 235,000 and over - in the country.

Cullom-Davis Library

Open to the public, the Cullom-Davis Library houses more than 1.2 million items including a variety of audiovisual resources, manuscripts, and archival materials. The library provides an online catalog of library collections throughout Illinois, as well as access to CD-ROM databases and network access to research libraries throughout the world. Annually, more than 450,000 patrons visit the Cullom-Davis Library, checking out over 70,000 items. Bradley's Virginius H. Chase Special Collections Center assists more than 1,800 patrons each year and serves as a repository for items of local or historical significance, as well as other special collections.

National Recognition

Bradley University has been ranked 6th among Midwestern comprehensive universities in the 2010 edition of "America's Best Colleges," published by U.S. News & World Report. In addition, Bradley's Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology was ranked number three in that special discipline.

Bradley University has been ranked 24th on the list of "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses" and "Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Campuses" in the nation by The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine.

The University was ranked among the 50 best values in private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Ranking are based on excellent academics while keeping costs to a minimum and other factors including faculty-study ratios and SAT scores. The only other schools in the top 50 from Illinois are Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

The International Trade Center in Bradley's Foster College of Business received the prestigious 2009 Presidential "E" Award for U.S. Exporters . Only 21 awards are being given nationally and the Bradley ITC is the only trade center in the country to be recognized. The President's "E" Award was created by Executive Order by President John F. Kennedy on December 5, 1961, to recognize persons, firms, or organizations which contribute significantly in the effort to increase United States exports. It is the highest U.S. Government recognition any U.S. entity may receive for supporting export activity.

The Foster College of Business Administration received the 2009 Three Palmes Award for the second consecutive year. This award recognizes Bradley as having one of the top international business programs in the world due to our excellent accreditation, high ranking, our international awareness, and recommendations by the International Scientific Committee. The award is determined by a panel of nine international judges.

Bradley students and faculty continue to be awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad.

Bradley founder Lydia Moss Bradley was selected for induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1998.

In 2001, the Foster College of Business Administration at Bradley received its third reaffirmation of full accreditation from AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business - for both business and accounting programs.  As only 466 of all business schools in the world have achieved business accreditation, and only 163 have achieved both accounting and business accreditation, this puts Bradley in an elite groups of schools.

Bradley's Executive MBA program has received the Innovation in Leadership of Business Education Award from the AACSB International. The award is given by the Mid-Continent East Division of AACSB. The Foster College was one of three schools to receive the award.

Entrepreneurship magazine ranked the Foster College's entrepreneurship program among the top 10 programs in the nation.

Bradley's Doctor of Physical Therapy program was ranked among the top 100 progams in the nation by U.S. News and World Report's 2010 issue of "America's Best Graduate Schools."

Tami Lane '96 became the first Bradley alum to win an Oscar; ice skater, Matt Savoie '02, became Bradley's first Winter Olympian, and photographer, Rene Byer '80, is Bradley's first Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Athletics

Known as the Bradley Braves, men's and women's athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division I level. Bradley's rich athletic tradition includes seven Missouri Valley Conference championships and four NIT championships in men's basketball; six Missouri Valley Conference championships in baseball and two appearances in the collegiate world series; Missouri Valley Conference titles in soccer, women's cross country and golf in 1999, 2002 and 2003; plus numerous all-Americans and conference and national leaders in both men's and women's sports.

University Finances

Bradley has consistently maintained a balanced budget for two decades because of long-term planning and careful management of resources. The operating budget for fiscal 2009-10 is more than $148 million. The endowment is more than $186.7 million as of June 1, 2009.

Bradley raises more than $10 million annually from private sources. Faculty were awarded more than $5.2 million in outside funding through research grants and externally sponsored programs during the 2008-09 fiscal year.

Tuition and Fees

$24,224 for 2009-10.

Alumni

Alumni total more than 60,000 worldwide. Bradley alumni serve as leaders in their organizations, professions, and communities. Many have achieved national prominence: Ray LaHood '71, U.S. Secretary of Transportation; General John Shalikashvili '58, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Congressman Robert H. Michel '48, retired Congressman and longest serving Republican Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives; Lillian Glass '74, noted speech pathologist and speech communication author and speaker; Rene C. Byer '80, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, senior photographer, Sacramento Bee; David Horowitz '59, consumer advocate; Tom Wagner '60, retired vice president for customer communication and satisfaction at Ford Motor Co.; Kary Mcllwain '81, President and CEO Young & Rubicam Chicago; Aaron Schock '02, youngest congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois,18th District; Tami Lane '96, winner of an Academy Award, prosthetic make-up artist; The Honorable Joe Billy McDade, '59, '60, United States District Court Federal Judge; Richard Teerlink '61, retired chairman of Harley-Davidson, Inc.; and so on . . .

Bradley's Partnership with Peoria and Central Illinois

Economic Impact

Bradley University is among the county's largest non-manufacturing employer.

Nearly 4,500 participants enrolled in one of the 123 non-credit courses, workshops, conferences, and 44 campus or on-site credit courses offered by the Division of Continuing Education and the Foster College of Business Administration.

The Illinois Manufacturing Extension sub-center based at Bradley serves the approximately 5200 manufacturing firms in the central part of Illinois. This sub-center maintains a database of more than 100 consultants with expertise in a variety of manufacturing and business areas. Bradley facilities include a technology center, new rapid prototyping laboratory, energy analysis and diagnostic center, and extensive CIM, CAD, robotics, coordinate measuring, and extrusion molding facilities. It is one of three regional sub-centers of the newly created Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center (IMEC) that will provide small and medium-sized manufacturers with services to enhance productivity, technological performance, and global competitiveness.

The Small Business Development Center provides business training, and technical assistance to start-up and existing businesses through its counseling and training programs. Assistance often includes work on business plans, marketing strategies and financial projections. Since its creation in 1984, the SBDC annually receives over 400 requests for assistance and information. Each year the center assists in the creation of several new businesses, an average of 40, new jobs and the retention of over 40 existing jobs.

Since 1972, Bradley's Foster College of Business Administration has been utilizing teams of senior-level business students to work on projects with central Illinois businesses and organizations as part of their curriculum requirements. This program has completed more than 1500 projects. Participants for these projects are selected by the SBDC.

The Technology Center, which was created in 1986, assists individuals and businesses in the development of new products and the utilization of new technology through access to the technology resources of the College of Engineering and Technology. Some of the more than 150 new products developed are marketed nationally and internationally.

Created in 1989, the International Trade Center (ITC) provides export assistance and information to more than 500 businesses each year. Export sales of these client companies account for $20 million in additional revenues. In 1994, the ITC was designated by the governor as a NAFTA Opportunity Center to provide specialized assistance for businesses exporting to Mexico and Canada. Together, these centers present export training programs, assist businesses in developing export programs, do international marketing research, and are part of an international network of export assistance providers.

Every semester more than 750 students in the College of Education and Health Sciences are placed in practicum and internship opportunities with education and health care agencies.

Intellectual and Cultural Impact

Bradley invests more than $1 million annually in the fine and performing arts.

The Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, started in 1950 and now held biennially, is one of the best-known and longest-running national juried print and drawing exhibitions. The 31st Bradley National was held in the spring of 2007.

Art galleries located in the Heuser Art Center and the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts host exhibitions of student and professional work. More than 20,000 people visit the galleries annually.

Dingeldine Music Center is the site for more than 80 solo and ensemble recitals of faculty, students, and guest artists and concerts by the university's bands and choirs and community groups. The Bradley Chorale, Madrigal Singers, Women's Choir, Symphonic Winds, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Basketball Band give many performances annually for the enjoyment of the community.

Many weekends during the academic year there is a university performance given either on the main stage or in the lab theatre. In addition to those attending theatre or dance performances, more than 26,000 people come to the Hartmann Center annually to enjoy art, exhibitions, lectures, meetings, receptions and performances by community groups.

Bradley's endowed lectureships in theatre, music, business management, and communication bring professionals to campus to work with students and present public lectures.

The Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee brings renowned national and international lecturers and performers to campus to engage the Bradley and Peoria communities. Maya Angelou, Susan Sontag, David Halberstam, the National Theater of the Deaf, John Updike, and Stephen J. Gould are among those who have appeared on campus.

Bradley University attracted to campus public radio station WCBU-FM, which serves all of central Illinois.

Engineering has a long history at Bradley. The Engineering Club was one of the first student organizations, formed in February 1898, and the 1911 yearbook shows students surveying campus. The first four-year engineering degree program began in 1939.

The Bradley men's basketball team, long a favorite of enthusiastic Peoria fans, has played in Carver Arena in downtown Peoria ever since winning their fourth NIT in 1982.