STUDENT COMMENTS
The Notre Dame network is hard to beat. Found an I-banking job and probably got the job based on the fact that an MD is a Notre Dame graduate.
I feel that our business school does all that it can to expose us to the various options we have once we get out of our undergraduate years. It also prepares us as much as possible for what we will most likely be doing when we graduate and helps us get internships to actually experience the jobs we are looking to obtain.
I believe the University of Notre Dame excels in preparing students for their careers, as well as helping them find jobs and internships.
Any student that is willing to put in the effort to succeed at the University of Notre Dame's business school will be extremely successful preparing for and finding a career after graduation. Notre Dame makes it very easy to find a job out of college. We have multiple career fairs throughout the year that attract recruiters from many of the top companies.
One thing that really sets Notre Dame's business program apart is the student body. Compared to students in other top business programs, Notre Dame students are very down to earth and do not have airs about them. Students from other schools like Penn walk around with their noses in the air, but Notre Dame students aren't like that. Our university has taught us the importance of selflessness and service, and we do our best to fulfill our parts as members of society.
The alumni network is unbelievable, especially among business students. Alumni are willing to bend over backward to help us. Alumni have helped me rework my résumé, gotten me exclusive interviews, and the alumni who were very senior management at Morgan Stanley, where I worked last summer, paid special attention to me.
The college does an excellent job of providing the occasion for students to grow intellectually in their discipline, socially through group projects, and spiritually through a focus on ethics and core values.
Basically, Notre Dame educates the entire person. I feel the strength of the business school is extremely enhanced by the strength of the university. The nuturing and challenging enviornment exceeds classroom objectives and creates leaders that are socially aware of others and the world. The availability of the faculty and the extracurricular activities add to the undergraduate experience. I doubt you will find students who love their school and program as much as those who go to Notre Dame.
The business school is wonderful. From the professors I've had, to the advising and career coaching, I have had a completely positive experience. Notre Dame does a wonderful job of helping students balance work and school and has kept me motivated over the past four years.
The companies brought in recruit the Chicago area perhaps too heavily.
It is hard to describe the environment at Notre Dame, but there is something special there.
My experience with the Notre Dame business school has been exceptional. Through community-based learning projects such as the tax assistance program and cost accounting class, I have been give the opportunity as an undergraduate to apply my skills in a real-world business situation. The extracurriculars available are numerous and the career fair brings in multiple employers from a variety of industries. Notre Dame afforded me the opportunity to excel academically and athletically as well as socially.
There are too many weak professors in Mendoza who teach classes that students could have learned solely from opening a textbook or flipping through PowerPoints. We need more professors with applicable real-world experience who can relate with students. We need more professors who will understand that their class is not a significant point in my life.
I believe the Notre Dame business alumni network is incomparable in terms of watching out for recent graduates, looking to provide them with a number of opportunities.
Apart from the high quality of teaching in the business school, the most valuable aspect of the business school is the way it has connected me with potential employers. There are networking opportunities every week, and I know that Notre Dame students are in high demand in the work world. I hear constantly as I meet with companies that Notre Dame business students are highly valued for their preparation and high ethical values.
The only negative is that most of the recruiting that happens on campus is from the Midwest. So if you are not interested in working in Chicago or Cleveland it is much more difficult to find a job. For a national school, they should have national job recruiting efforts.
Notre Dame does a number of things extremely well. We have top-notch faculty in the accounting dept., and when you add that to the resources at the career center and the networking available to Notre Dame students it is easy to understand why students love the experience they have here.
The Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame has prepared all of us for careers in the business world. From numerous team projects to ethics classes, I feel that I have received a well-rounded business education from Notre Dame.
I went to Notre Dame thinking that I wanted to be an environmental engineer, and I had no idea about my passion for business. The Notre Dame business school helped me realize my passion and gave me the resources and excellent mentors that will enable me to succeed.
The most valuable part of the curriculum, I thought, was the variety of business classes taken before declaring a major. In particular, the introductory finance, accounting, and marketing classes are so in-depth that one can definitively decide whether each particular major would be a good course of study.
Notre Dame is unique in its emphasis of the ethics curriculum. My ethics professor is a world renowned ethicist who could easily chair any major university's philosophy department, but instead was nabbed by Mendoza College for our ethics program. Mendoza supports a yearly business ethics conference where students gain an extra perspective on how they can use their business knowledge to affect the world.
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