Carlson School of Management

-We have an amazing culture at Carlson - the students in my program are bright, driven and also really collaborative. The Enterprise program is unique and provides invaluable "real-world" experience as part of the curriculum. Carlson's small size offers an opportunity to really step up and take on leadership roles in student government and clubs that have really filled out my experience here.

-While the full time program is smaller than the part time program, I would have appreciated more day time classes. There are limited amount of classes provided during the day- making the full time program less desirable.

-The Enterprise program is something no other business school is able to offer. Having the opportunity to work on a team and do consulting work for fortune 500 companies, providing results and strategic recommendations for their business issues.

-Make it more national or global. Currently it's regional, and only the very regional companies hire from. The school culture is very much Midwest. In order to compete they need to act globally. The technology is obsolete and current technology topics are not integrated to old fashioned b-school curriculum. Professors almost never talked about the day's paper, how are we supposed to make sense of the current happenings if the concepts are not tied live? e-business was NOT integrated to the course work AT ALL, other than a core IT class which was more operational than being about the transformation of e-business.

-The sense of community is priceless. Students root for each other. When we challenge each other in classroom discussion, we do so diplomatically. We genuinely like each other. And we know each other well. The faculty contributes to this sense as well, they are especially accessible and friendly.

-The content covered in our ethics class is only a very narrow slice of the broader environment, and doesn't equip us with an ethical framework we can actually use. While I'm happy with my career placement, I've heard that some international students are having a tough time. Most of the recruiting is from local companies in traditional roles (finance, marketing). Those who want to do something a little different face a tougher path.

-The school's connection and proximity to the Minneapolis/St. Paul business community is a huge asset. It helps in placing students for internships and full-time jobs, in bringing in guest lecturers for real-world perspectives in class and club activities, and grants students with further real-world work experience opportunities while we are in school.

-We need to attract people from outside the Twin Cities a bit more and get the word out about our Enterprises. Not a lot of people, aside from local businesses, understand what they really are and why they give us an edge.

-The small environment, and the school's access to local companies makes Carlson the number one business school in the Twin Cities. A Carlson MBA gives me credibility within the business community in the upper Midwest in a way that few other schools could.