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I am absolutely pleased with Drexel University's undergraduate business program. They offer their students so many opportunities to network with different people in many different areas of business. Every project that is assigned is based on real-life companies and situations. This allows every student to gain a hands-on experience rather than straight book work. Also, every project done is a group project so we may learn how to work in groups and in different teams. I am graduating from Drexel's program in June, and I feel very confident that I have the knowledge to and skills to succeed in the business world!
The business college has been rapidly improving its facilities and curriculum. This past yea, LeBow College of Business rolled out a new curriculum and has built a new virtual trading floor/lab. There are plans to raze the oldest b-school building and replace it with a larger, more modern building within the next few years. Drexel as a whole has also been rapidly expanding both in academic offerings and in facilities. Drexel opened a law school (the building is still in progress), and this has increased opportunities for business students to pursue more legal studies such as entrpreneurial law. The b-school is also successfully increasing Wall Street recruiting, and more students are successfully finding positions in prominent firms independent of Drexel's/LeBow's assistance.
The college is coming up. The advantage of the school is the location, co-op program, and top faculty. Student selection should be improved and some of the programs should be more rigrous quantitatively. But definitely the college has improved. Faculty is always there to help the students in this college, and the administration is very receptive to our ideas.
The school's red tape and lack of student input will be the death of it. The institutions advising department is horrid.
Drexel University excels at preparing students for the real-life work world. I've had plenty of opportunity to enrich myself in many ways unavailable to the common university student. Drexel operates in a unique manner, and is actually not that good at teaching students academically. Things learned at Drexel are far more practical and work-focused, which may be a plus or a minus depending on viewpoint.
The curriculum is great, but dealing with the administration is a perpetual tragedy. The staff has little to no desire to help at all, consistently tries to pass problems off to other people, doesn't understand their own red tape, and has a turnover rate so high that you'll never see the same person twice. Drexel has paid lip-service to fixing these issues, but in my experience, this has been lip service only. I have had the unfortunate experience of encountering most of this red tape and bureaucratic nonsense, and it has done much to dampen my college experience as a whole.
Drexel is a great school with a horrible administration.
Key business courses, especially those within the finance concentration, need to be taught by faculty instead of adjunct professors. Furthermore, the school needs more consistency in what is taught in classes. Too often, material covered by one professor doesn't match up with that covered by another professor teaching the same class.
The program has undergone significant changes in the time I have attended Drexel University. It still has its flaws, those mainly being social and athletics. The only other major flaw is the abundance of irrelevant courses required for the major. Only 13 economics courses out of a required 34 are for the major. Also, a required minor forces an additional 24 credits (6-8 courses) when I would rather take economics courses.
Through the classes offered and the co-op experience I had the opportunity to find a great job even before I graduated.
The co-op program gave me the opportunity to work for the best companies in the field, plus through the career services office I was able to secure a job six months before graduation.
I came to Drexel expecting to be a Computer Science major but changed once I came and saw the business program. I really can't say many bad things about the program because they've exceeded every expectation that I've had for them. Great professors, great administration, great students. I hope to complete my MBA at Drexel after my undergraduate graduation.
The co-op program that Drexel offers truly puts you ahead of the game. I will graduate with over 2.5 years of experience and well over a 100 contacts that I never would have made had it not been for the opportunity to work as a co-op.
The advising staff in the business school was very unreliable. I have had counselors frequently cancel appointments and act rude over the phone. The business school itself was outstanding.
Our campus could probably use some beauty treatment and we lack a bit in the school spirit department, but those factors can be attributed to half the students being away on co-op half the year and also to the fact that we have no football team. Businesswise, our program is amazing, and I absolutely do not regret for one moment that I chose Drexel University to do my undergraduate business education. Through the intense co-op program, the networking events that are put on by the Dean and College, recruiting informational sessions, and guest speakers our instructors bring in to our classes, I have made so many contacts with employers and gained great internships and skills that landed me two great job offers seven months prior to graduation from Drexel, and I'm waiting to hear back from a couple others. It has been a wonderful experience to be in the business program at Drexel University, and I just wish that people would recognize the services and quality of education present at the school.
Drexel University has a very large focus on preparations for students entering the job market. The co-op program, which gives students a total of 18 months of relevant work experience, has really prepared me for entering the job market. Drexel University also offers many seminars on résumé development and interview techniques.
To begin with, the curriculum is needlessly too difficult. The students are pressured into combining majors and taking an excessive amount of credits due to the large amount of credits necessary to graduate. The short semesters leave little time for the student to do anything non-academic, including career search activities, work, on-campus functions, social life, etc. Not to mention the recent shift in the grading system to pluses and minuses.
The tuition is entirely too much money. This affects student life greatly. Many students feel robbed and are unhappy with faculty and the administration's apparent lack of concern for students. The financial aid program leaves students in the dark about benefits and the faculty does not help.
The faculty in the intermediate and advanced level classes have impressive résumés but poor teaching quality. They lack clarity, confidence, and are largely discriminatory on many levels. In one class I had students that were clearly plagiarizing their work were getting better grades than students who were not. The work ethic induced by Drexel is to do as little work as possible to get good grades. This is an ineffective way for students to learn and sickens me to the point of disgust.
It's tough to juggle work and school at the same time. I work full-time for Drexel and take part-time classes. I love it but it is slowly killing me.
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