Pamplin College of Business

The Pamplin College of Business is heavily invested in its students' futures. There are many opportunities to network with prospective employers through career fairs, special company days at the College, conferences, case competitions, company panels, and much more. The professors want to see their students succeed and put in the effort to help students that want to succeed. There are unique organizations that allow students to put into practice what they are learning, such as SEED, BASIS, and PRISM.

I wish we had more international students in the business school. To my knowledge, the only four international classmates I've ever had were only studying abroad at VT for a semester, and were from France, Denmark, New Zealand, and Germany.

Regardless of your business major, the business program at Virginia Tech makes you well rounded in all areas of business so that you have a good understanding of the different specialties. I also think that the business program gives us the necessary knowledge needed to create a business from scratch.

My only recommendation to make the business program stronger is to eliminate TAs teaching classes. I understand that for introduction level classes TAs allow professors to concentrate on their upper level classes or research but for important classes such as accounting, a TA might know how to do the work but may not be good at explaining it to others.

Virginia Tech has a sense of community like no other school. Almost anyone is willing to help a fellow Hokie in need. Every teacher and student engages in their best ability to provide thoughts and feedback.

The classroom portion of the learning experience could be a little stronger. More real world examples and experiences. It feels sometimes that we are learning straight out of a book or straight off of PowerPoint.

I have had an amazing experience here at Virginia Tech. I have had the honor of doing so many wonderful activities like being on the commencement committee, a student representative on the Business award's committee, a Pamplin Ambassador, in both honor societies for both of my degrees and much more. I have developed amazing relationships with my advisers, the Dean of Advising as well as the Assistant Dean of the Business School. I have a variety of class from large lecture courses to small extremely interactive courses. I have been given an education that gives me a base of all business aspects as well as an immersion within all of my classes on business ethics, leadership, management and more. I would advise any prospective business to SERIOUSLY consider Pamplin College of Business.

Advising needs work. On a department-by-department basis, it's fine, but when you start getting other departments involved adding courses can get a bit complicated. Every department tries to add students in its major first (understandably), but every student needs to take core classes in that department. Additionally, economics often feels like the red-headed stepchild of Pamplin. It may be a smaller major compared to, say, Marketing, but it comes across as being on a lower tier than the other major business programs.

Classes seem to be taught with less emphasis on theory, and more emphasis on practical application of concepts in the workplace.

Some of the business prerequisites could be rethought to be more engaging. They could also be tied into other majors, like marketing, better. I haven't thought once about accounting, for example, since finishing those classes.

We have a unique community (HokieNation) that has really strong deep roots. Pamplin (College of Business) does an excellent job in bringing many firms to campus and actively recruit. Virginia Tech has strong ties stretching all across this region and a name that stands strong.

Smaller class sizes in some of the large business school wide classes would be helpful. In addition, it would be a stronger program if advisers were willing and able to help those individuals who are trying to transfer into the program and need direction.

Virginia Tech's business school is full of brilliant students who have worked diligently to find a full-time position upon graduation. The professors and advisers have done a wonderful job of helping the students achieve their goals.