Leavey School of Business

The business program has a holistic curriculum. You are not just taking classes pertinent to your major, you are also provided insight into the bigger picture of business as a whole. I am an economics major, yet, I am exposed to marketing and management information systems courses. Furthermore, the school emphasizes corporate social responsibility. The Leavey School of Business offers a global fellowship program that allows students to work abroad with non-profit organizations in Central America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The school really tries to mold its students into socially responsible citizens rather than corporate cogs.

Although our teachers are amazing towards their students, the general faculty and staff in the department are rude to students. I wish to earn more respect from these faculty members.

It is a business program full of renowned, well-known professors from reputable corporations and years of experience in the field they're teaching. Also, the small niche of people and students makes our business program more like a family, and somewhat like a small community working together, just like we would in a company.

Bring more jobs on campus. Loosen required classes so there is more time for extracurricular activities such as building start-ups, investing clubs, etc. More preparation for employment in other fields other than accounting.

The teachers are very helpful and normally offer a very diverse background. They never use teaching assistants so you always get one-on-one interaction with the professors.

The OMIS (Operations Management Information Systems) department is subpar. There are only a handful of teachers worth taking. Also, I believe that the school needs to offer more non-profit business classes. As someone who intends to work with non-profits, I do not feel like I have been exposed to the principles I might need to work in that area.

Located in the Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University has a great advantage to several business schools across the country. Companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. are all located within 20 minutes of the University and all recruit on our campus. Being so close to these companies, the business school also conducts trips for freshmen and sophomores who are interested in visiting companies in the area. In addition, entrepreneurship is another strong point of the business school. Recently added as a new minor, students are able to not only take classes on entrepreneurship, but also be placed in internships in the Silicon Valley. Lastly, having an average class size of 25 students is an enormous advantage. Having the ability to closely interact with professors in class is a great way to not only do well in class, but also to network and create relationships that can help students in the real world.

Many of the lower-division classes are kind of a joke. These classes are based fairly heavily in theory and concepts, which are of course important. However, a shocking number of my peers don't feel compelled to keep track of even rudimentary market occurrences which I think partially stems from the lack of focus on real-world events. A more practical, case-based analysis of modern businesses would be more helpful in a lot of these cases.

I believe that the professors make Santa Clara's business program unique. I have taken classes with many professors who do not need to teach for a living, but instead enjoy helping students to grow and understand the working world. Overall, my connections with professors has been the most unique experience for me in regards to the business school.

The business program caters to accounting students in helping them find internships after their senior year. It would be great if all majors within the Leavey School of Business could receive the same treatment.

Small class sizes allow for professors to foster relationships with the students and for students to be able to ask questions (rather than sitting in a stadium full of other students). The small class size also helps build accountability (a teacher will notice if you are absent, which compels many students to attend classes).

Although I appreciate the business core that makes us take the basic classes for each area of business, I think that some of these classes could definitely be improved. Students and teachers seem to care a little less due to the fact that the classes are core requirements and I think that definitely detracts from the course.

Our location is a very unique characteristic of the Leavey School of Business. My business school takes advantage of its location in the Silicon Valley in many ways. Our curriculum is geared to introduce students to topics affecting many firms in the Silicon Valley. Students emerge from the Leavey School of Business with a strong education in business as well as knowledge about the Silicon Valley.

Make it easier to get the classes you need, the business school is too pretentious.

People + Planet + Profits. They do a great job of emphasizing the ethical component to decisions we make everyday, which I think lots of business programs fail to cover. So we leave SCU more compassionate, conscience, and competent individuals.