STUDENT COMMENTS
Georgetown places its students at a disadvantage by postponing the availability of finance classes until their junior year. Interviews for internships come around the same time, so it would be wise to let students take finance classes earlier. The focus is placed early on in accounting, which is good, but if that is all you take until you're a junior, accounting is all you'll know. I entered Georgetown as a finance major but am relatively green compared to my peers in other colleges because we started the finance track so late.
I was signed with an employer prior to my senior year and will be making over $150,000 straight out of college.
Georgetown's business program is highly focused on getting students to Wall Street. Those of us who want to go elsewhere after graduation often feel abandoned in our job search efforts.
No buy-side opportunities at this university. We have a blind focus on investment banking that is appalling and dangerous to the future health of the business school.
I transferred from American University because I was not challenged enough. At Georgetown not only am I challenged, I work hard to earn my grades, and I have many more opportunities available through the career center and advisers on campus.
Strongest component of my undergraduate education has been my involvement with the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, the nation's largest completely student-run financial institution. Here I was able to apply things learned in the classroom to real-world experiences while also gaining essential leadership, management, and problem-solving skills. In addition, the network of individuals that I met through the Credit Union is truly amazing.
Finance professors are outstanding! Specifically, Sandeep Dahiya, Jim Angel, Gary Blemaster, George Comer, and Patricia Fairfield.
The school is much stronger in finance and accounting then any other fields.
I can't stress enough how Georgetown's program requirements prepare us not only as businessmen and women, but also as good human beings. The culture that pervades Georgetown and its Business School centers on personal growth and reaching our potential. Producing well-rounded, competitive individuals in the workforce is a convenient byproduct of the University's efforts in this area.
I expect to earn $100,000-plus during my first year at my investment banking position at Morgan Stanley, taking into account base salary, signing bonus, and yearend bonus. I think most, if not all, of my friends from Georgetown's business program who are going into investment banking expect to receive similar compensation during their first year.
Georgetown has done its job in terms of my education. I was able to get an internship with one of the largest investment banks last year. Of the interns, I was the one to go to when they had any business-related questions. I am returning there next year. Bottom line: I learned a lot, worked hard but not too hard, have a job, and had a great time in college.
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