STUDENT COMMENTS
The career services are great. The general business knowledge gained in my coursework is extremely useful. The marketing program is excellent. In regards to employers interviewing through our career center, it feels like there is too much competition for too few jobs.
It's trying to be improved day by day.
Every department in Wisconsin business is outstanding, especially real estate. Nearly all faculty members/lecturers are professionals outside of teaching which gives them good perspective. You won't really find an easy class in the business school, but everything is very fair and very focused on long-term results.
I am in the accounting program at UW-Madison. In this program you are guaranteed a paid internship at an accounting firm. This is going to be a great experience for me.
As a student, I have had many opportunities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Although I am a Finance Major receiving my BBA, I am also majoring in Physics, and have been involved in both the business school and the college letters and science. The past four years I have been most involved in the school of business and the Greek system, most notably serving as the undergraduate representative to an ad hoc committee charged by the Dean to extensively reevaluate the S.O.B. Undergraduate Program. To see the constant dedication to improve the undergraduate program, and to take part in it, was an awesome experience, especially because I feel many other institutions focus on their MBA programs with their undergraduate programs as an afterthought.
Our Business Career Services is outstanding. They go out of their way to assist us in preparing for the recruitment process, internships, full-time positions, and assimilating into these new environments. These services come at no additional cost to us and for the service they provide, I would be willing to pay a reasonable amount to receive their help if it wasn't free.
The real estate program at Madison is outstanding. When competing against other schools Madison is by far No. 1! The real estate program at Madison prepares you more for real life then any other program in the nation, bar none.
Career Center offers great programs to help prepare for job placement, as well as accessibility to recruiters from many different places.
Upon entering the UW-Madison business program, I felt as if I had been accepted into a very exclusive and elite community. When you tell people you made it into the business school, it really is known to be a honorable accomplishment. Although some say that UW-Madison is too big, ever since I have entered my business classes, I have felt an incredible amount of personal attention. You get to know your classmates so well, and they become your best friends. Teachers really get to know you too, and I really feel like our professors are some of the absolute best in the nation. To have people like Professor Larry Rittenberg, chairman of COSO, and Professor Jerry Weygandt, an esteemed accounting textbook author, both supervising and teaching in the business school program is quite an experience.
The career sevices in our business program really helped me fine-tune my interviewing skills, and prepare me for my job hunt. I know that I would not have received my internships without the support I received from the career center. They really stressed the importance of internships, which proved to be very helpful because my internship led to a full-time position.
The Actuarial Science program is terrific. Great Professors that teach towards the Actuarial Exams.
Madison has an incredibly underrated business school.
The only negative comment I would make about the Wisconsin School of Business is the poor quality of the advising staff. I, along with many of my peers, were given incorrect information from the advisers. They don't fully understand programs. Also, administration at the university is difficult to deal with, which should be expected in a school of over 40,000 students.
The only criticism I can think of is that most of the companies that came to campus were recruiting for the Wisconsin area or Midwest. It would have been nice to see more recruiting for the East Coast as well.
I have been very impressed with the caliber of instruction in my business courses. Professors here are very well-informed of current business and world events and have rich work experience that one can glean from in their lectures and discussions. The career center offers more opportunities to find jobs that one could possibly exhaust, bringing nearly 200 employers in to the fall career fair. I have enjoyed my business studies here at Wisconsin-Madison.
I am currently on a study abroad program set up through the Business School in Madison. We have partnerships with some of the best foreign business schools, such as the one I am currently attending (ESCP-EAP). Students are highly encouraged to participate in these programs (and are required to do so for the International Business major). We get a lot of support from our school to participate in this opportunity.
I feel the career services are outstanding in all aspects at UW-Madison and every effort was made to make the process as easy as possible. Career services should be a true selling point for the business school.
Overall, I feel the UW-Madison business school has an underlying concern of adapting its students into a business setting. The school itself looks very professional and each project I have completed in class has been expected to be similar to a real-life work report. The business school is responsible for my amazing internship where I have applied a lot of what I've learned in class to my job, and I
Libraries are outstanding, classrooms are good, and the bookstores are poor.
The international programs offered through the business school are very rewarding. I studied in Monterrey, Mexico, and I had an amazing experience, as I know other students have had in other countries.
The information systems program at the UW-Madison is working proactively with businesses in order to prepare students effectively. The IS program's teaching methods rely on application, which is why they are practical and worthwhile for me to participate in.
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