STUDENT COMMENTS
The Kelley School of Business is constantly getting better. With full-time recruitment, companies come to our campus realizing that we are trained, well rounded professionals. Whether it is Chicago or New York, people within multiple industries tell me they are trying to get as many Indiana graduates to join full time, based on the fact that we have the most exposure to real-life course work and group projects.
I work in the career services office. It does a truly outstanding job. Today we find that more companies are hoping to obtain interview slots at Kelley than space allows. Many of these companies provide excellent opportunities for which students are prepared. This is achieved through the implementation of an effective and informative Web site, two classes that deal specifically with the job search, and a variety of fair and useful services in the career services office such as career coaches.
At the beginning of my senior year you could have asked me if I felt truly prepared for the real world. I would have told you no, but then I watched an interview of Mark Cuban (an IU alumni, by the way). He said something to the effect of: "College taught me how to learn." After I heard that I thought to myself about my time at IU and couldn’t have agreed more. I can confidently say that college has prepared me for the real world.
Possibly the best part to the business school is the job placement. Many different companies recruit at the Kelley School of Business because the school prepares us for work.
I feel the most important resource of the Kelley School of Business is the Undergraduate Career Services Office (USCO). Annually, the UCSO attracts hundreds of companies to on-campus recruiting, including career fairs, internship information sessions, presentations, etc. The UCSO goes above and beyond to ensure that all Kelley Students have the opportunity to get a great job.
My undergraduate business experience at Kelley is exceptional. Never regret I chose this school.
IU has been a great school. For the price, it can't be beat. Bloomington is a great college town.
The quality of teaching and materials taught is outstanding. However, the intelligence and motivation of the average student is somewhat lacking.
I was able to apply my knowledge from the classroom into various real-life settings though my education at the Kelley School. Through the Integrated Core (I-Core), Kelley students were asked to create an actually startup business plan and present that to venture capitalists using knowledge from our finance, marketing, operations and strategy courses. Additionally, in my corporate finance courses, I was asked to do actual valuations of Fortune 500 companies and receive feedback from professors. We had a case where we valued a midsize medical company and then presented that to the actual CEO of the company to verify our analytics and assumptions. Additionally, corporate finance practitioners regularly visit campus to speak of investment strategies and capital structures.
At Kelley the student has endless opportunites to develop their professional and social skills. As with any college, it is the student's responsibility to take advantage of the opportunities provided.
The majority of faculty is rude and are not available for help. Facilities are horrible, the business is very dated. Faculty who teach 200 and 300 level classes don't have doctorates.
The Business Honors program provides an Ivy-caliber education with all of the opportunities and resources of a large state school. Every year, more and more Kelley grads are being hired by bulge-bracket investment banks, thanks to the Investment Banking and Capital Markets Workshop, led by Professor David Haeberle and Professor Bob Jennings. More and more prestigious investment banks, who in the past would only target East Coast and Ivy League schools, now list Kelley as a target school for recruiting.
I am going to have around five job offers by January.
First two years felt like a number, the support was there, but with so much pressure just wanted to get through with it all. After that, and following classes in concentrations, became much more personalized and really created an environment to excel as a professional.
The dorms and on-campus food services are the worst. Being overweight is a big problem with students who live in the dorms.
The Kelley School of Business has an outstanding job placement office. I have found that Kelley is doing many things in my undergraduate education that many students don't experience until graduate school. The Kelley school constantly reinforces the importance of teamwork and real-life simulation. The faculty at Kelley truly care about their students and constantly are looking for ways to improve and advance out university.
Our career services office is an excellent resource and provides a strong variety of firms with which to interview. However, the undergraduate program requires students to take two career perspective classes (X220 and X420) during their time here. These classes are a disappointment and overly simplified. They, in my opinion, are not beneficial and create nothing more than a burden on students. Though some students may gain knowledge from taking them, the horrible scheduling (they meet during evenings and have numerous random sessions) and the extreme time commitment required are a waste.
Any reputation that Indiana University may have as being a party school or a school where students never study is fueled in large part by classes of freshmen and sophomores, many of whom will not see their degrees through to completion. The Kelley School is particularly affected by these concerns and the campus-wide reputation of the business school is sometimes hampered because of this.
I feel the biggest downfall of the business program at IU is the advising department. Many advisers don't seem to care about the students and are not as knowledgable as I would have liked. In addition, it is often difficult to get the opportunity to speak with an adviser when you really need to (signing up for new classes). On a positive note, I feel overly prepared for my senior job hunt and for that I am grateful.
The career services office at Indiana University has to be one of the best in the country. I had between 15 and 20 interviews this semester, all with companies that I would want to work for. The companies that recruit at IU are of the highest caliber.
Through the Kelley School's incredible placement office and participation in the Investment Banking Workshop, I was able to land an internship in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division in NYC. Through the skills learned in the classroom, I performed extremely well during the summer and will be returning to Morgan Stanley in the summer. Kelley should place between 70 and 80 kids on Wall Street this year and this speaks volumes to the caliber of a state school in the Midwest.
The facilities are pretty bad, the physical structure and classrooms are outdated and kind of a joke. The Business Library also leaves much to be desired. In 3.5 years here I, like most of my fellow classmates, have never bothered to venture in there. However, the Main Library on campus provides a much more inviting and useful studying environment, with excellent resources and space.
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