STUDENT COMMENTS
I didn't decide until my sophomore year that I wanted to be a business major, and the switch was painless. The school was very helpful and willing to help me succeed. I have had excellent professors who treat me like an adult, not like a student.
Felt that the school's career center was poor. Receiving e-mails saying we had to beg some businesses to interview here is never a good sign. Depressing atmosphere in the business program at times. Many students bash the department regularly.
Professor are great. They need better quality students.
I found that this program promised a lot of things when I was a freshman: the ability to double major, the ability to design my own minor, personal relationships with the professors, and I was disappointed on all counts. My minor design proposal was rejected after it was passed around the department for three months. I took much criticism for double-majoring in a nonbusiness degree, and many of the professors that I knew from earlier in my college career have since left the university.
Knowing people at other universities that annually rank higher than Case, I've come to realize that Case's program is one of the best in the country (in particular, its accounting program). Yet it goes unrecognized because of issues far removed from the educational quality that is provided and due to student frustration that is driven by the weather and/or not being pampered as top students become used to in high school and small towns. The opportunities available to a student at Case are immense and the level of education and preparation for the business world far exceeds that of many other top-tier schools. The accounting program, in particular, has some of the brightest, most well-connected, and genuinely caring faculty of any school or organization I have had the privilege to deal with, know someone at, or attend.
I would go out of my way to tell anyone that Case Western Reserve University is a horrible university. If I had the chance to come here for free I still wouldn't attend.
Case's business school (Weatherhead) is very good and I have been mostly pleased with the quality of instruction, but its liberal arts classes (College of Arts & Sciences) are weak, with highly variable professor quality and limited resources and attention. The administration and support services are unresponsive. The campus is dead, socially speaking.
The accounting department hosts a Meet the Accountants Breakfast every fall to build networking skills and learn about companies. The department also works with the Career Center to build a résumé book, which is sent out to multiple companies. This is how I got my interviews and ultimately my job offer.
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