<p>From ajc, College of Management just received $25 millions dollar donation today. Also, starting this year, College of Management gives 15 academic scholarship range from $1000 to $7000 per year for undergraduate for students who applied before PSP deadline.</p>
<p>Those are great news. Maybe this will finally put M-Train joke to rest.</p>
<p>Let’s hope so. Many management students are very sharp, with great communication skills and excellent analysis ability. Quite a few took the Calc for engineering courses as well. </p>
<p>Also, if you look at major donors and leadership givers, MGT has incredibly successful graduates–who are also generous!</p>
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<p>I don’t know, how will this money make it harder for students to graduate 
. Not that I’m lecturing you, but the “train” idea is that you don’t get off until you graduate. Engineering could be described more as a mechanical bull that’s actively trying to throw you off (kidding!).</p>
<p>I hope this does do something for the program though. I think any managment school attached to a prominent engineering school should get a leg up over others.</p>
<p>If you want to kill the M-Train (which I think is a real disservice to the Institute), two things need to happen:</p>
<p>(1) Tell MGT majors to stop calling it the M-Train</p>
<p>The most significant reason people make fun of management majors is that they make fun of themselves. MGT majors will joke about how easy MGT classes are, and about the “M-Train”, which causes other majors to make fun of them. Do the students not realize how this is hurting their reputation? If an IE major spends 4 years listening to how “MGT is a joke”, do you think she’s going to come back to Tech to hire MGT majors 10 years later (even if the school is highly ranked)?</p>
<p>I have been in that exact situation - as a hiring manager, I went outside Tech to hire business majors from schools that were lower ranked. The justification? Because “at Tech, MGT majors are the joke of the school.” </p>
<p>(2) MGT needs to not be the “major of last resort”</p>
<p>As we all know, over 2/3rds of MGT graduates started in other majors. As a result, MGT is viewed as the degree you get when you “can’t cut it in engineering”. It’s easy to transfer to MGT - in fact the department facilitates that by actively promoting that first and second year engineering students can transfer into MGT and carry over most of their courses (the Calc, stats, science, english, health, and CS requires transfer directly from engineering and the MGT program has an enormous number of electives). </p>
<p>MGT needs to raise it’s minimum transfer GPA (currently 0.00 for underclassmen and 2.30 for upperclassmen) and needs to require some courses before approving a transfer, much like the engineering schools. Ideally, Tech should have some sort of other “bottom” major. Maybe a university studies degree or an expanded “health and wellness” program.</p>
<p>Will these things ever happen? Probably not. The current paradigm (which is the most appropriate) is to leverage the quality of the engineering rankings to improve the graduate business rankings (via the Management of Technology MBA, the strong focus on technical skills at the MBA level, etc). The undergraduate program isn’t the school’s top priority.</p>
<p>LIkewise, few people actually start in IE compared to the number who end up with ISYE degrees…</p>