Foster School of Business

We are a large public university. Yet classes are able to feel small and specialized. We have some of the best faculty from the country that have great real-world experience. As they say, it's all about location, location, location. Seattle is a great place to be to jump start your career. Our business program is cutting edge by recently adding Supply-Chain Management as a concentration.

I have somewhat of a bittersweet sentiment towards the growing presence of the business school's Career Center only noticeable during my Senior year. Prior to Senior year, I frankly had never heard about it and it seems to be just now growing into a very helpful resource. If I had the business school's career center's guidance as far back as freshman year, I feel that my career search would have improved tremendously.

We have a brand new business school, just recently built with state of the art technology. Additionally, the quality of the students and professors is outstanding and are constantly pushing everyone to improve themselves.

The only thing that could make the business program stronger is to make the grading curve more balanced. There should be a point at which it no longer applies. I have gotten numerous 90+ on exams just to find out that the median is the same score as what I have. Therefore my grade is reduced to a 3.2. It is not that the test is easy, it is just difficult to beat the curve when everyone studies very hard in order to beat the curve. A 2-3 point difference should not mean the difference between a 3.2 and a 3.7. Due to the tough curve I couldn't make certain companies (ex: Deloitte Consulting) GPA cut which I would have been very qualified for apart from a satisfactory GPA.

Our business program has outstanding credentials. The Professors are accomplished and make themselves available for the students. The students are also of a high caliber which contributes to the learning environment. The resources are incredible to say the least. The school's building is brand new and gorgeous as well as conducive to learning.

The program would be much stronger if it 1) Made class sizes smaller by being more selective in student admission into the business school. 2) UW has a strong reputation in Accounting and Finance(somewhat). The school should focus more on strengthening other business majors such as marketing, IS, etc.

I think our business school has amazing access to alumni and company resources throughout the greater Seattle area. The city itself is very innovative and full of creative successful companies/people and our business school definitely fosters that same idea and benefits from being near all these great people and companies.

I would like to see an even wider array of classes offered. Since I would like to get into advertising, there are only a handful of classes that are directly applicable to the industry (ever since the advertising concentration was eliminated).

It is a program that has everything. Amazing faculty, brilliant students, diversity, competitiveness, some of the best companies recruiting out of our school. Its just the best.

Geographically the school is in bad location. Deans should do a better job of promoting the school to more companies.

As UW is a research school, many of the professors have conducted extensive research in their respective topics, therefore I feel like the information I am learning in the Business School is extremely relevant and helpful for working in the real world.

From a personal point, I feel the business school has exceeded my expectations. But, I feel that by reducing the class size on the upper level business courses, it might help new students entering the business school.

I think the network that the Foster School of Business has with local companies, as well as the big names is a great asset that we have. From the social events to career nights and info sessions, there is always a way for students to get connected to the firms they are interested in.