School of Business

The school is unique because many people are able to work/intern while taking classes. At my time at GW, I was able to intern and work which allowed me to gain valuable life skills. In this economy, I feel gaining real life experience while gaining good grades will make my process a lot easier. Washington D.C. provides a great opportunity to jumpstart a career in any sector of business.

I feel that putting more emphasis on majors such as marketing and international business jobs would make us stronger. While most students double major, over 40% of students major between the two concentrations above. The international business department is somewhat scattered in getting professors. Every semester I have had to wait till the week before classes started in order to know my professor. For marketing, we have a lot of alumni that are in advertising/media/sales jobs yet we never bring them onto campus to help recruit. I feel this would revamp the program and bring it higher in the rankings.

GW's ability to attract some of the world's greatest intellectuals makes the program quite unique. For example, during my time at GW, I took a class taught by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. The ability to engage in a discussion with the most powerful economist in the world was a truly remarkable experience. Furthermore, I have had professors who have worked all over the world at well-known institutions such as the World Bank or various sectors within the government.

I think having more direct partnerships with universities around the world would help globalize not only the business program but the George Washington University. This would also bring about more opportunities for students to study abroad and for the program to hire better professors.

Its location in DC allows students to partake in numerous internships and jobs throughout school, adding to the college experience

The business program needs an advising center that accommodates the student's desires. They should take on a never-say-no policy to the students; their main goal should be to serve the students in any way possible and to never turn down a request that doesn't seem unreasonable to the students. Also the business program career center needs to bring good companies to campus. Top-tier universities have elite companies come to their campus for the student's convenience. At GW, for $55,000 tuition per year, students expect the same quality of service and adequate job preparation.

The location of my program allows for many professors to practice the exact subjects that they are teaching. For example, it was incredible learning about international economics from a World Bank Economist!

I believe that the advising center and the overall administration of the school could be stronger. We have excellent professors and a few good advisers, but there has recently been a lot of turnover in regards to the administration of the school. None of the students are sure why, but I think the fact that we have had three Undergraduate deans in three years isn't the best thing for the school's ability to achieve long term goals and keep up student involvement.

Being in Washington, DC, GW has the ability to highlight the connections between business and public policy; something that is very important to business and something that not a lot of other schools can offer.

I have not had an outstanding experience in terms of finance professors.

The F. David Fowler career center is a wonderful resource that I think is underutilized and intimidating to a large portion of the students. I think the F. David Fowler Career center could be more integrated into the undergraduate experience. I also think it would be helpful to have a career coach/mentor assigned to each student the first day of freshman year as a point of contact for the rest of his/her undergraduate experience.