Neeley School of Business

Neeley is personal. The professors care deeply about their students and everyone has the opportunity to make their own way and to utilize resources to their benefit. Also, Neeley teaches social responsibility. New courses in social entrepreneurship are incredibly informative and inspiring. Because of Neeley, I feel that I have the skills and the passion to not only be successful, but also to make the world a better place.

The Neeley School of Business staff continuously hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year for the benefit of the students. They bring in local executives to speak, organize workshops to prepare students to enter the workforce, and shape the core business curriculum to tie different fields together.

The career center only cares about finding internships/jobs for students with a high GPA and a lot of involvement. If you have an average resume, you are basically on your own. I contacted the office and went in the office numerous times to try and find an internship over the last few years and the one internship I did get was due to my father's connections. The Alcon Career Center desperately needs to change. Also, when I was discussing my double major with my advisor, he didn't understand why I had chosen to do both. I have had this plan since freshman year and he tells me this my fall semester senior year.... "

The Neeley School prepares us for the job market. They teach us how to learn and how to set ourselves up for success in our futures. The Neeley School genuinely cares that we are successful upon graduation.

They could do even better at bringing in jobs from across the state and nation. They are improving the business career services program every year, but it still needs to be better. It is hard because horned frog alums aren't as loyal as other universities because of their obsession success. Meaning that they don't feel the need to hire other alums compared to other universities across the state.

The Neeley School cares about individuals, professors know what they teach because they have lived it and experienced it, they have a vision for where they want to take us.

Improve advising. For as small a school as we have, advising is pretty bad. We do group advising, so it doesn't really seem like we ever get advised. I don't even know who my 'advisor' is, and I would be surprised if they know who I am.

The class sizes from freshman year to senior year are small which gives the opportunity to interact with professors. The skills taught are applied to the real world and the students push each other to success.

The job placement efforts should increase because many students graduate without a job offer in certain majors with the business school.

The size is perfect - big enough to offer helpful resources, but small enough to get to know professors and classmates. The Professional Development Center offers coaching for presentations and interviews, as well as a variety of strengths/personality assessments. All undergraduates are required to go through "Interview Day" to be formally admitted to the business school, which means we start preparing for interviews and writing resumes/cover letters as sophomores. This gives us a huge advantage when competing for internships.

The times of classes cause for many problems for people who have internships during the year. For example, I want all of my classes to be in the morning so I can go to my internship every afternoon. Once you get to upper level classes in your major the classes are only offered one time and make it difficult to balance my internship and school. I believe the program would be better if we have at least 2 options for classes to meet people's schedules better.

The relationship between the professors and students is very unique. All of the professors I have taken know me by name and can approach me on and off campus to have a conversation. The professors are able to use their networks to help the students and set up meetings with professionals in the area to help increase our networks, as students.

I think the coursework could be made slightly more challenging. Not more work necessarily but more provocative material sometimes would be interesting.

The small class sizes are very important. There are opportunities to get to know the professors and staff in career services that are able to help you make connections. The small classes also allow for close group work, which I think closely mirrors the work force we will be dealing with in the real world.