STUDENT COMMENTS
Classes are made too easy, work loads too light, and grades are inflated. The professors say that their employment is based on whether or not they get good evaluations from students. If they get poor evaluations they get no bonus or get fired. To keep their jobs, professors do all of the above to keep students happy and get good evaluations. It is very disapointing that students would rather learn less and get high grades, than prepare effectively for life after school and professional exams like the CPA.
A solution to paltry class attendance, some professors have found, is to spice up the material by cracking jokes and playing flashy video clips. These stopgap measures are commendable but accomplish little in the face of boring, and in many instances, intuitive class material. The curriculum, rather than cultivating creativity, stamps individual thought out in favor of multiple-choice tests and the blind application of group projects. Instead of attempting to instill genuine knowledge, classes become a contest of who can cram the most material into approved cheat sheets and decipher tricky multiple-choice questions.
This was an excellent experience for me. The Smith school combines an amazing facility with excellent teachers, and has a great student body. I enjoyed that professors have actual real-world experience and have been involved in much more than academia.
I think the dean undergraduate studies is completely out of tune with the students. She sees the students as the enemy and makes herself incredibly unavailable. In fact, the entire University seems to look at its students with disdain. The career placement for the business school is terrible. They make no effort at all, and schools that are ranked lower have more recruiters. On top of that, the University has no interest in expanding its ties to anywhere besides the D.C. area.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland-College Park is an excellent program. My only real complaint is that they rarely help you in finding a job or internship. There is very little assistance in that area.
There are many opportunities for finance and accounting majors, but not as many for marketing majors who want to go into advertising.
With the PowerPoint slides and exam questions provided for the professors by the book publishers it is unclear as to what function the professors serve.
Not any front-office investment banking jobs from top-tier banks. Poor preparation for interviews. Not many high-caliber consulting firms. Poor prep for case interviews. Poor alumni network.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business has far exceeded my expectations and prepared me very well for my internships, interviews, and now my first full time job.
R.H. Smith School of Business is amazing to its students. It's hard to really understand until you walk into another department on the campus and see how well the business school takes care of us. There are tons of opportunities to be involved. Also the program, though large enough, is also small enough that you can make friends and get to know people within the business school. You're never a number here, you're a student.
The recruiters that usually come to the business school are always seeking accounting and finance majors. As a marketing major, I feel deprived because there is not a large demand for us, as opposed to accounting and finance. Even the recruitment for sales is relatively low.
Overall our business school is very good, but I'm looking to go into the sports marketing industry, and our business school only focuses on finance and accounting-type positions. For those industries, it does extremely well. However, companies rarely come to fill marketing positions.
The Smith School has given students every technological and career opportunity possible. The success of students is self-determined in the use of these opportunities. Some impressive technological opportunities include the netcentricity labs,which provides free Bloomberg certification.
Being involved in extracurricular activities within the business school is a great resource for meeting business professionals and faculty. Through those meetings, students evolve and learn how to appropriately communicate with professionals in a business setting.
My experience at the Smith Business School probably reflects that of a growing business schools. Some of the programs are excellent and provide wonderful opportunties, though it sometimes lacks the infrastructure and backbone network that schools that have been top-ranked for several decades already have. The school is growing into itself and trying to catch up on finding the right way to admit an increasingly large applicant pool. The research empasis in the school's strategic plan is viable, though may impede teaching quality, especially for the undergraduate students.
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Terrible internship program. Does not offer school credit for internships in the spring or fall semesters.
Maryland has been a great school to get my business undergrad degree from. I really like the fact that the Logistics and Operations are offered here, as opposed to many other schools. I think Maryland has really prepared me for the real world.
The new Smith Fellows progam is outstanding. The Fellows program I am a part of is called the Lemma Senbet Fund, which is an undergraduate endowment fund. Ten senior Finance majors were selected to manage money for the university. Eight of us in an equity analyst role, along with two portfolio managers. It is an amazing learning experience.
The schools' emphasis on securing internships and jobs sometimes detracts from the academic experience in the classroom.
The Quest program at the University has been an amazing experience,that I have not seen replicated at any other institution. It is completely unique and teaches valuable lessons in leadership, gives students experience working with professional clients, encourages creative thinking, builds project management skills, develops team skills, and so much more. It has really given me the tools, skills, and knowledge to succeed post-graduation.
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