Opinion on Raikes School/formerly JD Edwards Honors

noo1776
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:40:28 +0000

I am currently a Student in the Raikes School and I thought I would weigh in. For your information, I’m a freshman so this is literally my first week here. I love it. First of all, this place is the envy of the campus. It far and away has the best facilities - class rooms, breakout rooms, dorms, anywhere on campus and anywhere else that I was looking at going to school.

Everyone is very interested in making sure you succeed in the program and for God’s sake, Jeff Raikes sat on the corporate advisory board for years, acted as President for some, and then gave a bunch of money and got the program named after him as a result. (Jeff Raikes being the CFO at Microsoft). The Raikes.UNL.edu website has a lot of links to companies who have hired JDE/JSRS students including Google, Garmin, CERNER, Microsoft (both campuses), etc. MS Fargo has been developing Microsoft Dynamics largely in cooperation with the design studio of the Raikes School.

The joke is that the souls are in containers in the basement actually. I don’t know. I’ve always been high performance and I live on stress. So far, this should be run of the mill for me. I’ve got the class syllabuses, I’ve gotten to know the professor. I’m taking 17 hours, and I expect to be able to handle it, very well within my comfort zone.

As for the retention rates, most students leave because they don’t like it here, it isn’t what they thought, they were addicted to WoW (no I’m not saying this jokingly, it has been the reason more than once), or because they didn’t bother bringing notes to class, or felt they didn’t need to study. If you want to stay here, you like Business and Computer Science, then it appears to be a good place to stay. (BTW, I’m a CE major and I will automatically get Computer Science and Business minors just from being in the Raikes School).

Anyway, I’m happy to be here. Hope this helps add to the discussion.

ps, Bigredmed, are you here in Kauffman as well?