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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average While no-one out West has heard of B-W, being in medicine, it's really the medical school itself and the residency which determines your standing with other medical professionals. B-W's education was just about right for me. Later, in medical school at the University of Cincinnati, we had 8 Harvard undergraduates, two of which were at the top of our medical school class, and 2 of which were at the very bottom. The rest were scattered about. I was somewhere in the upper half. I was very prepared but I attribute much of my medical school success to my intervening graduate classes. Probably the most important thing to realize prior to making a decision about where to attend college, is that you can get a quality education anywhere. Working hard and distinguishing yourself will lead to success no matter where you end up. Lots of people commenting on this website appear to place blame on the school for perceived shortcomings, which are multi-factorial, not the least of which is the attitude of the student. At B-W, I never had a graduate assistant teach my class. The professors took a genuine interest in me, and were largely responsible for my developing a love of learning, which is still a large part of my life. Starting Job: Chemical technologist- Cuyahoga County Coroner's office, Preparedness: B+, Reputation: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) May 26 2008 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=47872&uid=1033'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright If you are considering attending B-W, I would highly recommend exploring the alternatives first. During my time here, I got the feeling that B-W was a school struggling to stay financially stable during a time when the local economy had bottomed out. Therefore, partly because small private liberal arts institutions are so numerous in this geographic region, it felt that B-W's strongest focus was on retaining students, not providing the most premium education. Perhaps the biggest example of this could be found in the drastically inflated grading curves found in most every class. At least in the business programs, it was not uncommon to be in a class that inflated final grades by as much as 15%. Maybe this would not be as big of a deal if students felt they were learning adequately, but more often than not, this wasn't the case, which is a perfect segway into the second problem: poor hiring policies for professors. At least three times that I know of, professors were either hired or given tenure despite ATROCIOUS student eval ratings. This is not even including the current "lame duck" professors that already have tenure and are just coasting to retirement, despite the very same consistent poor ratings given by students. To compensate for this, many professors are either EXTREMELY easy or use the absurd aforementioned grading curve to try to win the favor of students, and unfortunately, since so many are only concerned with GPAs vice learning, it often works. 8/10 B-W business grads have GPAs well over 3.0... For now, stay well-clear of the finance and be wary of the accounting programs as there are only a few strong instructors. As an aside, not a SINGLE course in the finance and accounting program here requires an HP financial calculator. Have fun trying to get a STRONG entry level finance position when you haven't even looked at a tool that most sophomore level finance majors from other schools are using, and by their senior years have mastered. I have also heard that the math and computer science programs here are also a joke and many of the "advanced" courses are either dated or poorly taught. But then again, why are you considering coming to a small liberal arts school to study technology anyways? If you are still considering attending here, I would only recommend coming for the programs that the school is considered strong in: Education, Business (Management, Business Administration, and Entrepreneurship), and the Conservatory. In the future, I can only hope that my alma mater abandons its practices of attracting students by lowering thier admissions standards; retaining those students with lax grading policies; and saving money by hiring sub-standard and inadequate amounts of professors. Faculty Accessibility: A, Innovation: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 03 2007 4th Year Male -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=35249&uid=1033'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Finance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average "Education with a personal touch." While I found B-W did live up to their slogan,(faculty was accessible and involved) I found that the school's majors were mostly old fasioned and a little too catering. Many of their majors have not been "updated" in years. One example of this is at B-W, the only difference between a marketing major and a finance major is 5 classes, or 15 credit hours. This can be attributed to the school being a slave to the liberal arts "business core" that all business majors must take, thus B-W lags behind more concentrated majors at other colleges. Moreover, finance and accounting majors are not even required to take basic calculus as part of their major. Anyone who understands how competitive top level graduate schools are in these majors will realize what a detriment this can be as most high level grad students from major universities have an extensive math background. I understand that B-W is trying to keep their retention rate high and integrating calculus into some of their business programs would make many students drop like birds on an electrical conductor, but perhaps those students would be more suited for a general business or business administration degree instead. This school is not doing finance, accounting, or economics majors any favors by withholding advanced courses. I would also like to see a few more "progressive" programs introduced into the curriculum; perhaps Actuarial Science, Nano-tech, or E-Commerce....I believe programs like this in Northern Ohio would really set B-W apart in this college condensed area...... On the positive side, most of the courses B-W has are taught quite well and the professors are very passionate and engaging, with solid backgrounds. The school would be best suited for someone that would like to stay in the region with a very basic entry level job after graduation. Collaboration/Competitive: A, Social Life: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 19 2006 3rd Year Male -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! 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