<p>Can any current Kogod School of Business students share some of the insight of their experience within the school? I am interested in finance and would hopefully want to work in NYC after graduation.</p>
<p>How good are its career services? Are they helpful with finding internships with their students? What about Job Placement after graduation?</p>
<p>What kind of companies recruit at AU? Are they only D.C. companies or do they recruit from other cities?</p>
<p>How experienced are the professors? </p>
<p>Would it be a good place to go If I wanted to be a stockbroker on Wall Street someday?</p>
<p>I came into AU doing the BSBA Business Admin/IR dual degree but switched to only doing SIS. However, some of your questions don’t warrant a business student.</p>
<p>For one, I think you’re asking the wrong questions. If you want to be a stockbroker on Wall Street in NYC, why go to school in DC? Also, why go to a school that cares so deeply about social activism? For example, Kogod just recently started their MA in Sustainability Management… and even our law school hardly anyone goes corporate. Questions to think about…</p>
<p>Kogod’s professors are top notch and they are practitioners. In one of my first year classes I had professors teaching whilst working at Facebook and another professor who worked at the Department of Commerce. Asides from just the Career Center, our business school contains the Kogod Center for Career Development (KCCD) which is also a great hands-on resource. Kogod’s advising is the best in the school – the advisers are continuously priased to be professional development experts. However, the Career Center, KCCD, and Kogod advisers will not spoonfeed you an internship. I often see my business friends working at Deloitte or doing accounting work at law firms, etc. In terms of the Big Four, I would say Deloitte and Ernst & Young are the most prevalent for students (we have a great program with Deloitte). </p>
<p>If you want to actually see “how experienced” the professors are, you know that’s on the website right? You be the judge.</p>
<p>bk4972b, I don’t see why you had to post such an arrogant reply. AU has a business school and offers a Finance major where going into banking would be the number one goal. Maybe you should learn to be more welcoming to prospective students who are thinking about going to AU.</p>
<p>My son just graduated from Kogod–he is doing marketing for a well-funded start up incubated at Harvard Business School, which is exactly in line with what he wanted to do–and note that, yes, these are Harvard grads that are impressed with AU students. He loves getting up and going to work every day. While at Kogod, he had internships every semester and summer after his first semester first year, which both gave him a lot of varied and valuable experience, and helped him figure out what he did, and did not, want to do in his life.</p>
<p>After graduation, he and a large group of his friends went on a cross-country trip to camp in as many national parks as possible. Of that group, one is now at Google; one is at an investment bank in the San Francisco office; one is at Nike; one is at Duke getting a graduate degree in engineering; one is in the training program at Macy’s; one is in a 4 year JD/MBA program (always his goal);one is at DHS; one is with a global finance/banking initiative at the UN; and one is in med school.</p>
<p>First year, he did a UC where the professor was an executive with the World Bank–unbelievable, real world education here. The next year, he and another professor helped my son and some friends set up a special interest group to study microlending.</p>
<p>Kogod can give you a lot of special opportunities. So can a lot of other schools. What’s best? Grapes? Strawberries? Tangerines?</p>
<p>The most important thing is to go somewhere where you will be given an opportunity to figure out yourself, and what you really want, with a broad spectrum of choices available, and not to try to follow a narrow pre-determined track. There is so much out there that high school students don’t even know exists.</p>