In BusinessWeek's 2009 rankings of top undergraduate business schools, DePaul's Marketing program ranked 11th among the more than 100 schools and thousands of business majors surveyed. The Department of Marketing provides a curriculum of interrelated courses and learning experiences that focus on dealing with complex and ill-defined management issues across functional business areas. The rigors of uncertainty and ambiguity in contemporary global organizations require that students exhibit a high degree of skill in analysis, synthesis and conceptual ability.