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Students Say
What students walk away with will depend on their own focus and drive, since the “quality of professors is highly volatile and you can’t be sure how well they will teach or lecture.” However, when the professors are good, the classroom experience is very worthwhile. Business students are glad that “professors with long work experience are common.” For example, one student boasts, “The two courses in my last semester consisted of a senior director and a CEO from Qualcomm (a Fortune 500) and biotech firm, respectively.” That “large depth of experience and knowledge” these educators share with their students suggests “professors promote critical thinking in class, as opposed to just lecturing. More emphasis is placed on in-depth analysis than on test taking.” One student without a strong background in business was glad to note, “This school made my transition from a non-business background to a business program very smooth.”
Such experience extends to the students. “Fifty percent of people have their own business in my classes,” one student notes. Even for those without a wealth of previous business experience, SDSU offers a “consistently [top] ranked” entrepreneurship program and a Sports MBA program that boasts “access to many higher-ups in the sports industry in the San Diego and Southern California area.” It also takes part in a Venture Capital Investment Competition that gains big exposure for participants. Some students worry that “ridiculous budget cuts” will mar the MBA program, but for others the future looks bright. Current administrators are “transforming the program,” and the school is “integrating lecturers into the courses,” all of which indicates a program that is sometimes “flying by the seat of its pants” but is generally on the upswing.
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Entrepreneurship
Finance
Information Systems/Information Technology
International Business
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Job Function
Job Function | % of Grads Seeking Employment Who Accept Jobs w/in 3 Months |
Median Salary | Mean Salary | Low Base Salary | High Base Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Finance / Accounting | 31% | ||||
Marketing / Sales | 25% | ||||
Information Technology | 19% | ||||
Operations / Logistics | 13% | ||||
Other | 13% |
Industries
Industries | % of Grads Seeking Employment Who Accept Jobs w/in 3 Months |
Median Salary | Mean Salary | Low Base Salary | High Base Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Technology | 33% | ||||
Financial Services | 20% | ||||
Petroleum / Energy | 13% | ||||
Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology / Healthcare | 13% | ||||
Manufacturing | 7% | ||||
Consulting | 7% | ||||
Media / Entertainment | 7% |
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Like the surrounding city itself, students here are “very outgoing and easy to interact and work with,” a group of “high achievers with a strong competitive drive and interest in furthering their careers.” SDSU keeps students “very busy with work,” while the city offers ample opportunities for entertainment. Whether full-time students who are “hard-working, motivated individuals who want to improve their future career possibil- ities” or part-time students who are “busy, working professionals, mostly young in their careers,” students here tend to be “diverse, friendly, knowledgeable, and very helpful.”
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Director, Graduate Business Programs
San Diego, CA 92182-8228
United States