STUDENT COMMENTS
Very challenging courses, combined with an extremely bright group of students in all of my classes, make it very difficult to get A's in my business school classes.
Compared to finance or accounting, marketing majors are a minority. Sometimes I felt that we were a bit neglected in job/internship recruitments.
I really have loved my time at Rutgers. The Rutgers Business School has developed my skills for the business world. Classes encourage group projects and vital skills necessary to compete in the job market. Although not all of the teachers are excellent, you have the ability to change your schedule to choose who you want to be with for the most part. We also have the ability to choose most of our electives, so we can pick the ones that interest us the most.
Professor Ben Sporanzetti has truly made my business school experience memorable. Excellent professor.
There are a lot more opportunities for accounting and finance majors. Marketing and management do not have as many opportunities. Most job fairs are recruiting for accounting and finance. Most of the guest lecturers are from financial firms. There needs to be more opportunities for marketing majors. Our program is not as strong as the other ones because our teachers seem to only last a year. The only ones that stay are not that good and teach the same material for different classes. It is very frustrating.
I believe Rutgers could do much better with providing more options for the nontraditional student (students with full-time jobs )such as myself. This can be accomplished by offering more Saturday and evening courses.
Rutgers does a really good job of helping students find jobs. Most students in the business school will find good jobs quickly. However, one weakness of the business school is the administration: Deans, secretaries, etc. make no personal contact with the students. When students require personal help, it is often not given. If students follow the school's advice and do as they are told, they will almost definitely find a decent job, but if students decide to carve their own path, they are given little assistance.
The best part about Rutgers Business School is how much they prepare you for getting a job. They teach excellent interview and résumé techniques as well as business/professional writing skills. They also hold separate career fairs for only business majors and strongly encourage business school students to seek internships and co-ops junior year.
We need a better internship program. Students learn much more in a real-world environment. Yet our business school only gives a half-credit.
I think Rutgers Business School needs reform. They need better professors like John Longo, Mark Schemtob, and Michael Sklar. I believe Rutgers can be a better school if it provided classes that pertained more to real-life scenarios.
Rutgers Business School program really helped me learn and grow intellectually, and so be confident in the business world. I moved to U.S. eight years ago, and now I'm a senior, I speak English, I have job offers, two of which are from Big Four accounting firms,and I have a career plan!
Overall, he quality of students isn't the best but you can find a lot of talented and smart people in the business school. The business school and the campus that the school is in is an eyesore. The Livingston campus should be torn down and be rebuilt and the business school building looks really ugly. It does not provide the best learning environment. The business school has limited resources. It seems like all the money goes to the Newark school insead of the New Brunswick school.
My preparation to enter the business world is mostly due to hard work in preparing for exams and such. It is not really a result of high-quality teachers (even though there certainly are some).
As a transfer student from Drexel University, I am satisfied with the transition I made to Rutgers Business School. I have two great finance professors that have helped with my intellectual growth and development of skills to succeed in the real world. The location of Rutgers is important because major financial firms from Wall Street recruit on campus. As a senior in my fall semester, I have a job lined up at Deutsche Bank in their global banking division and am very grateful to Rutgers for this opportunity.
I think the Rutgers Business School does a great job! Despite the low funding, being that Rutgers is a state school now enduring millions of dollars worth of budget cuts, RBS has managed to keep a great curriculum and very knowledgeable professors. Perhaps the most inspiring thing about the program is the caliber of the students. Everyone is on the same page in regards to dedication, enthusiasm, and motivation to succeed.
I feel like the university's state budget cut has had a large impact on the effectiveness of the undergraduate business program. Without proper funding, it is very difficult for a business program to offer resources to its full potential and advance itself in a positive direction.
Very little help with finding an internship in my area (Philadelphia).
At Rutgers there are many budget issues, so a lot of times our classes or other things are affected by budget cuts. Although not budget-related, the MSIS major does not have enough applicants after 2007 to continue. Because of the low turnout for MSIS the business school administration does not pay great attention to us. We had to petition to get our last three electives scheduled because they did not have any classes for us to finish our major.
The school is in a wonderful location allowing professionals from New York City and New Jersey to visit the school for interviews and presentations. There are tremendous opportunities to get a job in Rutgers compared to most of schools.
The business school very much caters towards accounting and finance majors, and does not attract enough employers to career fairs and other events looking for marketing and management majors, leaving the management and marketing majors to compete against each other.
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