Business Council has a few things that make it unique. Firstly, BC is only at the University of Illinois, allowing current BC members and alumni to have extremely strong connections due to similar experiences in school and in BC, which has been so helpful for many. In addition to that, your first semester in BC is your New Member semester, rather than pledge ship.

The overall goal is to help you better understand what it means to be a member of Business Council, as well as for us to get to know you and your experiences. Because of this, we host a combination of professional interviews and social events. In our interviews, we ask all behavioral questions and we want to hear about you and your experiences! We look forward to getting to know you all!

Not at all! Currently, we have members in majors ranging from Mechanical Engineering and Animal Sciences to Psychology and Dance. However, we are firstly a Gies organization and we have many members who take traditional Gies pathways. We provide a holistic experience for all majors and backgrounds!

If you are a freshman or a sophomore that semester, yes! Unfortunately, we do not provide feedback after our interviews as it would affect the standardization and fairness of our recruitment. However, many current members of Business Council applied more than once, and we highly encourage you to continue applying.

Your first semester is filled with Professional, Service, and Social events for you to grow both personally and professionally. We are flexible with outside commitments and prioritize your experiences as a New Member first. From the moment you join Business Council as a New Member, you are also not only given the opportunity but are highly encouraged to get involved by joining committees and planning events.

Business Council is the premier organization of the College of Business and we continuously maintain relations with Gies and its faculty. We support this partnership through events such as IMPACT Day (our college-wide day of service), CBDC (our inter-business fraternity dance competition for charity), Dinner with Gies, our Undergraduate Networking Symposium, and many events with Deans and Professors.