Carey School of Business

In such a large university, the business program at ASU still allows for a lot of personal interaction. Additionally, we are able to apply our skills before we enter the workforce, which is a huge strong point.

The program would be stronger if it aligned more with actual business and provided for students to work more hands on with these businesses. Currently, much of our material is learned through analyzing case studies in a theoretical manner.

I feel that W.P Carey School of business helps you prepare for the job market. I believe that the program does not solely focus on academics, but it rather emerges our academic studies with observations in the market, which helps us as students learn better.

Better advising. My advisor neither knows me nor cares about how I am doing. Students should get more attention from advising services so career and academic advisors in the business school really get to know the students.

The W. P. Carey School of Business offers a wide variety of business degrees and offers strong support by both professors and other faculty members. However, what makes W. P. Carey unique is difficult to put into words, but can be seen in the classrooms and hallways of the school. Students and faculty regularly engage in discussion in and out of the classroom on a variety of subjects that help prepare one for the ever-changing working world that we will eventually enter.

Some core general business courses are currently still too large as lecture-based courses. These could be made more interactive and personal in order to ensure that students are retaining and thoroughly understanding the information, rather than just trying to get a good grade in the course, resulting in short-term retention.

ASU's acceptance rate is through the roof, but only the best students make it to the top and are trained exceptionally well for what is ahead.

I would like to see even more class offerings. I understand that ASU is one of the country's largest universities and no doubt that class sizes are going to be large. However, I see many opportunities for W. P. Carey to expand to its offerings to ASU's 3 satellite campuses.

The business program is very focused on getting graduates to find jobs. The academics are sometimes average at best, but the career advancement, advising/coaching, and the firm partnerships are outstanding.

The school should make it easier for students with busy schedules to meet with career counselors. For example, my counselor does not meet after 4, or on Fridays, which makes it very difficult to meet with her.

With such a large campus and variety of students, you work with a much better representation of the real world. As weird as it may sound, I'm better prepared working with a few slackers in a group as well as the overachievers. Everybody is still bright enough and wants good grades. Some just want it more and that seems very much like any job.

I believe that there needs to be a bigger focus in sales for all business students. We should all be required to take a sales course, based on the fact that we interact with sales on a regular day basis. Even if one does not want to pursue sales as a career you still need to know how to sell yourself in order to get the job you want.

The teachers all have amazing real-world experience that really makes the material interesting, and makes you feel as if you are being trained for jobs as opposed to being educated from the world of academia.