STUDENT COMMENTS
If it were not for my school and its preparation, its career services, and its people (staff, faculty, and students), I would not have the education as well as the full-time job position that I have now.
We have a very strong undergraduate business program. The teachers are experts in the field, and the students are eager to learn and take the initiative, which is the most important factor in the school's success.
The business program is very flexible. If taken seriously, you can complete many concentrations or complete minors in subjects completely different from your business curriculum. The professors are so smart and so helpful that it makes me proud to come here. So many of our texts come from our professors, and we see the change that they make in the world. It's awesome. The school also does tons of research, which is good for the school and good for the students because we get to participate in it for money.
The education is excellent, but there is a lack of social activity. The workload is also very great. The students in every school on campus seem to work 24/7. However, this is partially due to the university and also due to the personality of the individual student. There is a healthy percentage of students who take at least five or six courses every semester. Moreover, there is more potential for learning better teamwork, cooperation, and leadership skills due to Carnegie Mellon's diversity as people come from all walks of life. Also, I feel that the students in the Tepper School of Business have more of a perfectionist personality, and, therefore, may be overly critical in their assessments of the university.
Sometimes it seems that employers only recruit on campus for hiring diversity (particularly females) for their workplace.
The program is very good if students choose to take full advantage of it. However, there are students that leave the program not prepared for the real world because they choose to do the minimum work to get their desired grade.
I am very satisfied with my experience with the Tepper Undergraduate Program.
Having taken a semester of classes at Wharton, I was able to substantially weigh Tepper against Wharton. Specifically, though Tepper students are undoubtedly quantitatively prepared for their ensuing careers, what is typically lacking is the ability to qualitatively articulate what they've learned in an effective and persuasive manner. This is not an indictment against what I feel is a superb communications program. Rather, I think the issue lies in the caliber of student Tepper has been admitting.
I believe that Tepper's policy of admitting a lot of international students who are quantitatively qualified but have greatly inferior English communication skills takes away from the overall discourse within the Tepper student body. That is, the proportion of this sort of student is far, far too high.
Overall, I'm pleased with the caliber of education that I've received here at Tepper. I feel more than adequately prepared for my impending career. I believe I have people more than class concepts to thank for this. It's the passionate professors and helpful alumni who truly seem to accelerate the momentum that Tepper is carrying forward.
The Undergraduate Business Program has done a great job in recent years in advertising itself and making itself known around the business community. It has a reputation for training very technically savvy and quantitative analysts. The academic quality is excellent but compared with its top peers, I believe it could do better in attracting diverse recruiters. Students, although trained as analysts, could be taught to be more polished.
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