<p>Most of those jobs are in great cities like Chicago, NY, Boston, SF etc etc. All those companies come to UM and the like to recruit. Not many have to stay in Detroit for work. Who recruits at FSU??</p>
<p>A better question would be who doesn’t recruit at FSU, barrons. It is a national university and a state flagship.</p>
<p>I work for a large national concern and we hire from virtually all major and minor schools. We have FSU grads and UMichigan grads. No one cares once you have the job, they only care how you do your job. Most hiring turns out to be regionally oriented anyway, as cost of living and family figures into employee mobility and interest. SF folks tend to try and stay in or migrate back to NoCA, NYC types in NYC; Florida in the SE and so on. All this despite best efforts to increase mobility and a 6-month mandatory remote location training system.</p>
<p>I looked on the FSU site for placement data. The B school does not even have its own placement center–major mistake. The starting salaries reported are very low and outside the accounting firms the big employers are hardly major Fortune 500 firms. Actually it’s pretty sad for a claimed major national university. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.career.fsu.edu/img/pdf/salarydata/placementsalarysurvey2007-2008.pdf[/url]”>http://www.career.fsu.edu/img/pdf/salarydata/placementsalarysurvey2007-2008.pdf</a>
And there was this cryptic note</p>
<p><a href=“http://cob.fsu.edu/press/budget_cuts.cfm[/url]”>http://cob.fsu.edu/press/budget_cuts.cfm</a></p>
<p>No doubt Florida has its funding challenges and FSU likely needs a B school placement center. You can rest assured I will ask about such a facility. I was hired through the [Career</a> Center](<a href=“http://www.career.fsu.edu/]Career”>http://www.career.fsu.edu/) many years ago. It seems to still be intact.</p>
<p>I cant fathom how you can compare an institution that is completely drained of academic resources and has had academic scams one after another to an elite highly respected top ranked institution such as the University of Michigan, which features the best and brightest students and professors from all over the world. FSU is a well-known degree factory and their budget has gone backwards at a time of expanding technologies and the push for a global economy.</p>
<p>U-M graduates get recruited to work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta, and other countries such as Dubai and Japan. I personally worked in Dubai for a year.</p>
<p>While the budget is depleted in Florida, most kids do not even pay for their educations at FSU (Florida Bright Futures pays 75% or 100% for in-state depending on their high school grades) and they have TAs doing the bulk of the classroom work. The grading is ridiculously easy as the instructors are removed if they arent student friendly and receive high rankings on the student evaluations. They have a horrible student to faculty ratio – classes are quickly overcrowded when offered because they cannot offer enough sections due to not having enough money to underpay another teacher. And from their current financial situation, Im not so sure if they can afford to supply their TAs, oops, I mean professors, with toilet paper. They might have to start putting a jar up that reads TIPS in the front of their classrooms.</p>
<p>This article tells it all they are so broke at FSU they want to use money to fix the sidewalks to help fund the underpaid faculty:</p>
<p>[Office</a> of the President - Florida’s Financial Crisis - FAQs](<a href=“http://www.fsu.com/financial_crisis/pages/faq.html]Office”>http://www.fsu.com/financial_crisis/pages/faq.html)</p>
<p>This is a sad situation that the institution has other agendas when the whole backbone is collapsing.</p>
<p>Looks like we’re digressing, just a bit. :(</p>