Sloan School of Management

MIT offers every type of class imaginable, including grad classes - to us undergrads. The professors here are top notch, ranging from Nobel laureates to award-winning economists - I was amazed that they actually teach undergrads and dedicate so much time to answering our questions after class. Compared to other business programs, MIT lets us take classes from any department - the programming and math classes have been immensely helpful for my startup.

Student confidence at MIT in general is rather low because MIT has a very humbling community. I have received a considerable amount of feedback at the Big 3 consulting firms that I have been too tentative during case interviews. The business program for undergraduates could help majors communicate with more sense of authority.

It's MIT. You graduate with the best technical and analytical skills out there.

Make courses less MBA Graduate students-oriented, have more business courses solely for undergraduates who have about the same level of experience, and programs solely for graduates at the same level so both can learn at their own paces

We have world class professors here, some of whom are the originators of the material that they teach. For instance, I took a derivatives course with Professor John Cox, who was a central figure in developing the CIR model and bond pricing models.

The business program itself (rather than the career services center) should focus on really helping business students find job that match with skills and background. At MIT, the majority of "business" job offers are given to non-business major students. Perhaps have special recruiting for business students that other undergraduate business programs do. Improve the academic advising and matching so that it is not random and so that the advisor can serve as a possible mentor in a specific area or can connect the student to outside resources.

All MIT undergraduates, regardless of major, have an opportunity to take grad level business classes at Sloan. The courses are very analytical and well-intertwined with other areas of research at MIT.

I wish there was a class on trading, which is the industry that I'll be working in next year. I feel that all of the financial classes that were available are based more on financial management and banking, while trading is something that I picked up on my own.

Down to earth style with a very analytically-driven/data-driven education, due to the nature of MIT.

I think there should be more tracks to concentrate in to supplement the management program (there are currently 4, but a 5th in entrepreneurship would be a potentially useful addition to the curriculum).