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The Iowa State University Department of Industrial Administration was
established in 1955, with William H. Schrampfer named as Head. The
Department had previously been known as Industrial Economics, a
sub-discipline in the Department of Economics and Sociology. In 1955, the
Department of Industrial Administration included 299 business majors and
eleven faculty. By 1968, when William
H. Thompson was named department head, the department had grown to 715
business students and seventeen faculty. Industrial Administration
continued to grow, and by 1975, it included 1,340 business majors, under
the leadership of department chair Lynn Loudenback.
The
Industrial Administration Department offered undergraduate programs for
those interested in business-oriented positions in industry and
government. Students were required to complete a number of general
business courses, then select a specialty in one of the following areas:
accounting, finance, general business, management, marketing, or
transportation-physical distribution. In 1980 the Department changed its
name to the School of Business Administration, and is currently known as
the College of Business.
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