Business Minor at Vandy

Sophie1295
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:59:02 +0000

I’ve completed the old version of the business minor, and I think Vandy’s classes do a good job of balancing traditional liberal arts and more professional courses. In hindsight, I’m happy I didn’t have the option of majoring in business because I am already so focussed on business. Vandy’s liberal arts curriculum did a great job of helping me gain skills and perspectives I wouldn’t have gained from my business classes. Here’s more info about it:

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/undergraduatebusinessminor/

Vandy students have no problem landing great jobs at all the major finance and consulting firms (except BCG which doesn’t recruit on campus). The only problem I have with Vandy is how unhelpful its career center is. I had to put in a lot of work to prepare for the recruiting process by reaching out to other students and doing my own research/interview practice, and I know for a fact that Vandy’s peer schools have a much better equipped career center. Other students and alumni share my views, and we’ve had to find resources elsewhere, such as student-run organizations and business fraternities. It’s ridiculous that our career center does not have case interview live practice, and it makes resources for case prep available in a very convoluted way (for getting access to Management Consulted, you need to email them separately!). I also think that the career center needs to do a better job of getting BCG and even PwC to campus. Ok, rant over! Our career center is making changes, but I didn’t find it as helpful as I wanted it to be.