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Internship opportunities - The main source of internship opportunities come from
local area businesses in Lubbock, Texas where Texas Tech is located. I
completed
an internship while I was there. The internships are treated as a source of
cheap labor by the local employers. They get projects worked on for cheap, then
never rarely ever higher any graduates. If they do higher anyone after
graduation it is for 50-60% of the State average salary for whatever it is you
do. I personally know two M.B.A. students who went to work in Lubbock for
$26,000 salaries AFTER they had already completed internships with the highering
organizations.
Campus recruiting - Having attended UT Austin I can say that even
when the economy is booming, there are not enough employers coming to Tech to
absorb all the business school graduates. The career fairs are very small. The
number of regular employers is few. The most common types of jobs for business
majors that recruiters want to fill would include entry-level accounting,
insurance and financial planner salespeople, and maybe a few fast-food
establishment management opportunities.
The only reason employers go to Tech is to get engineering majors. They don't
go there to find business students unless the economy is red-hot. Even then the
only reason they come to Tech is because graduates from other schools have 4 or
5
good offers BEFORE they graduate to choose from, whereas Tech business students
are lucky if they even get an interview before graduation.
Prestige with employers - Employers seem to not really care about
Tech. The problem with this is not really Tech students. It comes down to
marketing their product. UT
and TAMU do it successfully.
There are never any employers there that I would want to work for,
nor are any of the job titles related to an MBA education.
Career Placement Resources - Tech has no career placement resources for
business graduate students. Employers only recruit for undergraduate business
students in sales and accounting, not graduate students.
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