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SALARY COMPARISON STUDY OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GRADUATES WHO HAVE AND HAVE NOT TAKEN SAP R/3 SUPPORTED CLASSES

Central Michigan University signed in 1997 an alliance with SAP becoming one of the first universities to begin educating its students about the SAP R/3 software. CMU offers more than a dozen business courses that integrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) concepts into its business curriculum in finance, accounting, information systems, supply chain management, human resources, and logistics. These SAP R/3 supported courses provide students a better understanding of how technology-enabled companies operate in the real world while enhancing their knowledge, skills, and abilities in the integration of business functions. This study surveyed CMU’s business graduates over the past six years to determine if there was a significant difference in starting salaries for those who had taken one or more SAP R/3 supported classes versus those graduates who had not taken any SAP R/3 supported classes. The results of the study indicate that the graduates with SAP R/3 supported classes received statistically significantly higher starting salaries than those graduates who had not taken any SAP R/3 supported classes. The average starting salary of SAP graduates was $5,000 greater than the non-SAP graduates, and for some majors the differential was as great as $10,000.