Weatherhead School of Management

-Going to Case Western Reserve University was one of the greatest experiences of my educational career. The professors are outstanding and the resources are plentiful. I feel that it provided me the tools to handle anything that business has to throw at me, and I will always be thankful.

-It was an "experience" not just an education. The way your education is structured is such that you really get an in-depth look into business as it relates to your education.

-It was really pretty great. It balanced a very tough framework with an understanding of a need for flexibility in the part time program. Bottom tier of students could be a little weak, but overall, the general body provided an adequate challenge.

-The adjunct professors, due to the location of the school and the access to the many businesses in the Cleveland area, were experts in their fields, and the full time faculty members had extensive real world experience, and were on the cutting edge of their field.

-I think that overall the faculty and staff were very responsive and tried to accommodate the part-time students. I was impressed that full tenured professors would make a point of having evening office hours and even sometimes giving out their home phone numbers to be available to all of us. Professors often had us use examples from our current job during classes, which made us feel that our experience and work was valued and also benefited the full-time students who didn't have that vantage point. Overall, I was impressed with the program and learned a lot.

-The school should bring in more business cases that involve real life entrepreneurs and business people, especially from local areas. Harvard Business cases are good, but what competitive advantage do students gain by studying something that almost every business student in the country studies?

-CWRU is far too expensive for the education provided. I do not think it would be worth the cost of attendance for my career.

-CWRU is far too expensive for the education provided. I do not think it would be worth the cost of attendance for my career.

-I think Case provides good education, however, I think this program could be more valuable if you entered without a lot of work experience. I had 5 years of investment banking experience and felt like I already knew a lot of what was taught.

-I had a hard time scheduling classes half way through the program. A lot of them overlapped, or specialty classes/specialization classes were offered during the day, which eliminated me as a part-time student.

-The methods used in the program are suited perfectly to those who are currently employed, i.e., no unnecessary busy work, but all relevant to real-world/work scenarios. I could have taken what I learned that week and used it in the workplace immediately.

-In my opinion, the place where improvement would be most useful for part-time students is in how group projects are facilitated. Full time students have all day to meet in person on campus, but meeting and even teleconferences are difficult for part-time students due to being scattered around the city. This turns a wonderful learning experience into a frustrating communication nightmare. This is a problem for all part-time programs, and solving or improving this somehow would be beneficial to learning.

-It seemed like Case was more interested in quantity of students rather than quality. There were international student in my class fresh out of undergraduate. This student had no work experience, no exposure to US work environment and yet they were in the MBA program. They drastically reduced the quality of education in the class. MBA for me is not just reading books like an undergrad course and trying to A's the class. MBA is in class learning with real life examples and live discussion in class with your classmate. With no or very little work experience this fresh undergrad student had very little if any input.