STUDENT COMMENTS
I'm a senior this year, and I can say that the changes that I have seen take place over my four years here is amazing. I can't speak for the rest of George Washington, but in our business school, I have seen it take leaps and bounds forward. There is such a larger support network available than my freshman year, and the quality of the classes and facilities has gotten better each year. Honestly, I think it's even going to get much better for freshman this year and in the years to come.
It is a great program, which still hasn't gained the respect that it deserves on Wall Street.
I could not be happier with my experience at GW and the business school. The new building has dramatically increased the quality of learning.
The GW Business Program has improved greatly within the last year. Our newly constructed building has helped centralize and enhance our business program in many levels. We have an excellent and proactive Business School Career Center that helps both the undergraduate and graduate students prepare for their professinal future. The business school is also very selective and not large, which makes the Business School deans and faculty more accessible. Our marketing, international business, tourism, and hospitality programs deserve the recognition and ranking we currently have, as our professors, students, and staff are all very bright, dedicated, and passionate experts in the field.
I started The George Washington Women In Business Organization and the business school has been extremely supportive.
Invaluable resources to career; location is paramount, surrounded and immersed in everything, recruiters active on campus, quality of learning is very high.
I've always been very happy with my decision to come to GW and I'm sure I'll look back on my time here fondly.
It is a good school. We just opened our new building, but some of the kids don't try as hard as they should.
Housing is very nice, but far too expensive. Dining options are terrible and GW is not responsive to the student body in this respect. GW business professors put too much focus on group projects that account for large portions of your grade. Cheating in the business school is rampant, and there should be a much stronger focus on enforcing the code of academic integrity. More than once I've been told by professors that GW deans would rather look the other way than properly deal with students who cheat, and frequently drop the charges professors bring to their attention.
I do not feel that the business school puts much effort into on campus recruiting. When they do, it is only for finance majors. Also, every concentration in the business school does not have a listserv of internships and job postings. I believe that only the hospitality concentration has a listserv. I feel that if I were not a hospitality student as well, I would not have any job contacts. I probably would have been looking for jobs on my own.
The Business School has made tremendous efforts to improve their job placement assistance and has started to offer services such as the Vault and the Business School's own job site. They also have behavioral tests and a career center for people to utilize.
Expensive.
I feel that with every school there are many pros and cons. In an overall business school, such as the one at GWU, I found that there was not a lot of availabilty to expand in certain concentrations due to the required courses that the business school has. However, if I did not take those courses I feel I would not have had such a well-rounded education. I believe that GWU offers a great program and it continues to improve every year and will continue to succeed.
I have received a lot of help from the faculty in the accounting department, specifically with career counseling. As a member of Delta Sigma Pi, I have been able to access a great deal of help and be very active in our Business School. It has helped me develop my leadership skills, and I can't wait to test them out in the business world!
The recruiting for business related jobs does not correlate to the price nor reputation of the school.
GWU's business school is great. Brand new buildings and professors are easily accessible. However, only the professors in the upper-level classes. The ridiculous price of tuition plus the nauseating administration takes away from the overall quality of the school. Very well put together, great career center and career path options, but lots of red tape and nickel and diming.
I am simply not impressed with the quality of the teachers here at GWU. Many spend too much time stressing over theories that have been disproven or small details. We are not taught to think for ourselves, but rather how to answer a specific question. I have only had two professors who attempted to get us (the students) to think about a problem and apply our own judgment, within the confines of the problem, to arrive at a solution. I am also disappointed by some professors who grade too harshly on projects. They put too much weight on details that have little bearing on the actual point of the project, like format of the paper, for example, or the order in which the points are presented. In general, I feel that students learn better by doing rather than being shown, and we are all being shown in this school.
The lack of diversity of on-campus recruiting is a big deterrent against coming here. If you are not majoring in finance or management information systems, you will not likely be interested in the companies recruiting on campus.
I find here that the quality of each course depends largely on the professor. For almost every course there is an amazing one and an abysmally awful one. The one thing I would want to change about the business school is to have those amazing professors teaching every section. GWSB does an excellent job of giving us practice working in teams and presenting orally.
One of the greatest aspects of my undergraduate business experience was the flexibility of the business program. As an accounting major, I have very specific class requirements to fulfill, but I still was able to complete my chemistry minor within three years. It has been an amazing experience to take courses aside from just the required business ones.
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