Rutgers Business School

-Our school's diversity is the number one differentiating factor. As a result, students are exposed to a wide range of ideas and decision-making processes, making for an expanded learning experience.

-Focus on improving career services/recruiting companies on campus. The office of career management for MBA students is in need of an overall because the current staff seem to be not motivated and indifferent to helping students achieve their career goals. The staff focuses too much on simply achieving job statistic goals.

-Rutgers Business School stands out because of its Pharmaceutical Management Program. I chose this program because I knew it would provide access to the best training and greatest opportunities to work in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry. New Jersey is a mecca for pharma - 15 of the world's 25 largest pharmaceutical companies have major facilities in New Jersey. With an entire community of successful alumni working in the industry, as well as professors and classmates committed to studying issues that impact the industry, it is not difficult to see why Rutgers consistently places well at national Pharmaceutical/Biotech case competitions (such as Kellogg and Wake Forest).

-I'd like to see a more diverse base of employers for on-campus recruitment. Probably 80% of the companies recruiting on-campus or jobs posted on the school's career website were either pharmaceutical or financial leaving students with other career interests and specializations largely on their own for finding suitable positions.

-The combination of a strong curriculum, the vast network of industry contacts and relations of many of the educators and the strong relations the school has with many of the regional and national employers combine to give tremendous value for the education and experience. (I never felt a professor or faculty member treat us with any more leniency just because we were not an Ivy league or prestigious university program. They always demanded our best.)

-The Office of Career Management, which is in charge of job placement, should consider the unique needs of the students with less work experience. It seems that sometimes, as in all programs, schools are more concerned with finding a student a job, rather than finding them their ideal job.

-Supply Chain Program has the best professors from academics and industry. They are very helpful and provide us opportunities to learn from the their real world experience. They also do their best to bring in the industry leaders to share experience with us and gives us networking opportunities.

-Though older, the Finance and Marketing departments are not as well integrated with nearby Wall Street and Madison Ave. as they are with local health care product makers. Also, the Supply Chain Mgmt department has not yet leveraged its proximity to many of the leading global logistics firms operating in the NY / NJ / Philadelphia area (e.g. Maersk). Further, given the prevalence of quality-focused health care product makers in NJ, I believe that it would be mutually beneficial for students to receive Six Sigma exposure, not just in the classroom as it is today, but also through Client Consulting Projects for Department Sponsor firms. This would be a great way to cultivate a unique point-of-difference in Quality Mgmt, which is highly desirable to many local employers. For now, these remain areas of untapped local opportunity. Myself and other students have expressed these opinions to the school and department administrations, and I believe many of these suggestions are / will be pursued.

-Rutgers Business School has very valuable professors that are genuinely willing to connect with students and do all they can to help them succeed, whether it be in their courses, in extracurricular activities such as case competitions, or networking and setting up connections for jobs.

-I think our career opportunities in the Finance domain could use a considerable boost. RBS is situated next to some of the most prominent financial institutions in the world. There is no reason for us not to leverage that. In the past, RBS has focused more on corporate finance - not a bad thing, but I know many of my peers ware hoping to become big time Investment Bankers!

-We have tremendous student diversity, and good international class trips (for credit) and exchange programs. We have highly ranked supply chain management and pharmaceutical management programs, which many Ivy Leagues don't even have.