Quinlan School of Business

-I had a thoroughly positive experience at Loyola. I found the quality of the education and the professors to be high. I enjoyed, and placed a high value on, the number of professors who were not full-time academics, but heavily involved in the current business world. For those who need to work (many of my peers), this program makes perfect sense.

-I did not feel the program offered sufficient networking opportunities and the career services is lacking at best. I was able to find a job through one of my professors with whom I happened to be doing research with. Career services did not do a good job with recruiting.

-Loyola is a great university and my experience has been amazing. I especially loved the study abroad opportunities. I went to Southeast Asia for 2 weeks and it was incredible.

-The program provided even more than I expected in certain ways; eg. the value of relationships and interactions with other working professionals was even more beneficial than I expected. My only disappointment was that the program needed to move along so quickly that there wasn't time to discuss the level of detail I would have preferred on some subjects.

-Loyola's business school offers a very collaborative, collegial environment among students and faculty. I also found the courses to be very well-integrated with each other, and representative of a very consistent approach to analysis and decision-making in business.

-The building was in pretty bad shape and needs replacing or remodeling ASAP. Too many adjunct faculty that had no ties to the university and were not very compelling teachers, they didn't seem very committed to us as students and didn't provide much continuity from course to course. Some of the full time professors felt removed and going through the motions although many others were very good and did seem to care about helping students out.

-The course work was rigorous, but interesting. The students in class came from various walks of life and it made group projects and class a really good experience. Having a diverse student body in the Graduate School of Business allowed me to gain various perspectives on how to look at a problem.

-The number of undergraduates/ new grads admitted to the MBA program has significantly diluted the networking/ work experience. Perhaps that is the case at every program with the economy in the state it's in.

-I had a great experience at Loyola. The majority of my professors were great- very passionate and knowledgeable in their subject matters. I also enjoyed the diversity among the student body, everyone had different levels of experience in different areas, which the professors and school as a whole were very understanding of. I also really enjoyed having the option to switch easily between being a full and part time student since all classes were offered in the evenings. A few other programs I looked at did not make this switch as easy.

-Schedule was supplied at the beginning of the program so that we knew exactly what classes were being held when. It would have been helpful to have the books at the beginning as well. I also would have liked more emphasis on strategy, human resource issues and consolidation of some of the economics classes considering the short time we had in the program (18 months).

-The courses were designed with working professionals in mind. Every class had group work to not only help manage the work load of projects, but also give a real world experience since most projects within companies require employees to work together. The group work help to establish accountability, foster teamwork and leadership, as well as provide an opportunity to network with classmates. I enjoyed being able to immediately take concepts, discussed in class, and try to use them the next day at work, which you can't typically do if you attend a full time program.

-Administration needs to have more oversight with the some of the teachers. Several times I felt that the class was at the effect of teacher's lives outside of the classroom.

-Loyola offers a great educational experience at a very reasonable cost. The faculty is excellent and classes typically have 50 students or less, which allows for the opportunity to get to know the professors and build relationships within the school.

-I think the school should start a full-time program. Most of the classes were always full, so they could easily have enough students for a morning full-time program. Also, there was not much variety of finance classes to choose from. Every class had some group project and sometimes it was hard to because of this being a part-time program where students only came to attend classes and went away their own way.

-The size of our MBA program was perfect and the evening classes worked well with my schedule. While in school I found that Loyola's Jesuit teaching and how it should impact the way we conduct ourselves in the work world to be one of the main reasons why I would choose my program again.