Hello and welcome to our Udi at learner virtual major information session this evening focusing on management information system, business analytics, and accounting majors. My name is Alex Huey and I'm an alum and visit experience coordinator for the Lerner College of Business, and I'm so excited to welcome you this evening. They matter where you may be joining us from. I believe we have students in attendance with us this evening all the way from Mumbai, India and then some as close as New York, Delaware. So our, you know, our span is truly global seething, which is just fantastic to see. And of course we also have several of you visiting and joining us from places such as the Jersey, new York, Massachusetts, and everywhere in between. And so it really is exciting to have you all joining us this evening for our virtual events. On before we get going this evening, I do want to go through a couple housekeeping items. Just to reminder, our session this evening is expected to last about an hour. We'll start with a brief overview of the Lerner College of Business and we'll briefly talk about the Management Information Systems major, business analytics, major, accounting major, before finally turning it over to Iris students for a brief introduction from them and the opportunity to have your questions answered during our Q and a session. Our session this evening is a Zoom webinar, which means that you can see us, that we're unfortunately unable to see you. While that may be the case, that doesn't mean that we don't want to hear from you. So we ask that you please use the Q&A feature within Zoom to ask any questions that you may have over the course of our events of this evening. So at this point, I'd like to turn it over to our code for the evening. Dr. ever. I'm Dr. ever. Thank you, Alex. Good evening, everyone. And again, thank you for everyone who is joining us this evening. A rod and I'm the Associate Dean for undergraduate programs at Lerner College and a professor of Management Information Systems. And as Alex mentioned, I will be your host for this evening. Joining me today is Dr. Edward her tonal and Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems. And he also serves as the faculty advisor for management information systems and business analytics students. Also, I am joined by Steven Roberts and academic advisor and the new dream program coordinator, as well as Dr. George, to promise an Associate Professor of Accounting and the faculty advisor for accounting students. Thank you all for joining me this evening. I'd like to remind you, as Alex just mentioned, that although we can't see you, but you can see us, we definitely want to hear from you. And please do not hesitate to put questions in the Q and a function. Next slightly, that looks okay. There are five things that we like to mention that really contribute to what we call the learner, you the advantage. First and foremost, UD is a great place to be an undergraduate student. We have about 17 thousand undergraduate students and 4000 graduate students. From those numbers, you can see that our primary focus is on our undergraduate education and making sure that we provide our students with the best undergraduate experience possible. And we do this by offering so many opportunities to our students, including student clubs, social events, student life, sports, internships. The list really does go on and on. And we'll be hearing from our students who will also let you know about many of these opportunities. And of course, I'd be remiss to not mention that on top of all that, we of course, offer an outstanding academic experience. Second, learner has very high-quality programs and faculty. We are AACSB accredited, which is the gold standard. Think of it as the good housekeeping seal of approval. And we are highly ranked in the top 100. Considering that there are over 2000 programs you didn't really is among the best. And if I may provide you with just a small piece of advice as you look at different colleges and find the right fit for you. One thing to make sure is that the college you choose is AACSB accredited? Learners also large enough to offer you many choices of majors, minors, internships and other experiential learning opportunities. We have 17 majors and many minors from which you can choose. The idea behind reminder is that it offers you the ability to concentrate on an area that you find interesting without the commitment of majoring in that discipline. About a third of our students have at least one minor. And minors are a great way to customize your degree and broaden your education. Some popular minders include professional selling and sales, trust management, management information systems, and even Event Management. While the Business School offers many minor students can also minor outside of the business school. Several of our students also double-major if that is something that you're interested in. And by working with our advisors, most students who double-major are still able to graduate within four years were large enough for all of that, but we're also small enough to be a very personal place with relatively small class sizes, one-on-one advising, tutoring, and career services to make sure that you are successful. I'd like to mention here that learner has its own dedicated career services center. And as a learner student, you have access to dedicated learner Career Services. We offer many standard services at all. Career centers do resume, job internship, search, interviewing, salary negotiation, so forth. And on another slide I will talk more extensively, extensively about some of our specialized programs that we offer, flu, the Career Services Center. Finally, New York is a small college town close to the major urban hubs of Wilmington, Philadelphia, and New York and DC. So you really do get that small town college healing with easy access to urban centers. And for someone who grew up in a large city outside of this country, I think they knew the offers the best of both worlds. These five key differentiators are part of what allows our students to achieve success. We know your education is an investment, which is really why we're very proud. The University of Delaware is consistently ranked among top colleges and universities for return on investment length cycles. So many of our students ask about study abroad, and I'm not sure how many of you know that in 923, so nearly 100 years ago, UD founded what is considered to be the first study abroad program by a US institution. And today, UV offers over 100 programs in about 40 countries. About a third of our students undergraduate population study abroad at least once. You can choose from semester-long programs in the fall and spring to shorter programs during the winter and summer sessions. And really while abroad, you'll take a full load of academic credits, can choose to engage in internships or community service. You can sharpening their language or intercultural skills. Those of you who may also not be aware, University of Delaware has an extensive winter term, so it's a five-week winter term. We break in December around mid-December, and typically our spring semester starts the first or the second week of February. And so many of our students take advantage of that five weeks in January to study abroad. For those of you who may be interested in finding what the University of Delaware calls freshmen friendly study abroad programs. Since it is possible as a freshman to engage in study abroad, we will be putting in a link for the Center for Global phase, which is one of our centers here at University of Delaware. And again, just look for the freshmen friendly study abroad programs which are available to incoming students. Next slide, please. So in order to prepare our students to really excel and to gain the skills and the expertise that they will need to be successful. We offer several programs. I will go mainly in depth with the class, Business Administration, 110. But we have a lot of other specialized programs that allow students to really figure out what it is that they want to do. I know that this evening we're concentrating on accounting management information and information systems view the business analytics. But there are some program, some majors that we consider much more to be Discovery majors and management information systems and business analytics are two of them. But you may be interested in those and realize after you take this course, Business Administration 110, that you also have other interests. And so in the Business Administration 110 class, we offer Weekly an overview of every single major that we offer in learner. And that really gives the students a very good perspective on everything that the College of Business offers. And oftentimes somebody will come in saying that they know that they want to be an accounting major. And after they go through Business Administration, they may, they may suddenly decide that they're going to double major with marketing or finance or maybe within a management degree in business administration. The BYD 110 class is really kind of very eye-opening for a lot of our students. You can see also from this slide to the learner career services we offer career Smith's estimates, the career leader and pathway you, which really are just ways for students who may not be a 100 percent sure what they want to do with the rest of their lives to really provide them some guidance. Another program that we're very proud of. And here I'm going to ask Steven Roberts to join me is the dream program. Steven, could you give us a little bit of an insight as to what that is? Yes. Good evening, guys. Hello everyone. Thank you for being so you dream is, which stands for you to develop resources for excellence and management. As a learner specific, exclusive academic support service for freshmen, sophomore students come in and we provide students with a coach, someone of the academic coaches along with my partner, David Schultz. And basically what we do is we work with freshmen and to determine some of those skill sets, are they going to need an ID for semesters? So we work awesome short-term and long-term goals. We help students manage their time more effectively. And we develop, develop some organizational skills. All those skills that are needed to transition from high school to college, which can be a rough 18 times. So we also help with enhances some study skills. We partner with a number of resources then offices on campus, workshops, courses to develop those skills. Okay? And the best part about the program is that we monitor that individual student's success. Or if it's not successful, we try to find ways to help improve. Okay? So we provide support services to different referrals on campus, whether it be mental health, whether it be additional tutoring. We also set students up with peer mentors. So in older, older student can assist students along the way, helping them out with different deadline dates and things of that nature. So they can have a smoother transition. Okay, So, so you need to learner, but it's also very supportive environment to help students manage alone their freshman year. Next slag. Hey, thank you so much. You're welcome. On this slide, as I mentioned, we have a dedicated learner Career Services Center. As I mentioned, we offered many of the standard services, resume and job internship, search and whatnot. But we also offer these specialized programs through that office. So the learner careers on Wall Street is really a little bit more focused on finance, but this is an elite program to help bridge the gap between University of Delaware and finance in New York City. So we have many alum we're living and working in New York City who want to help our students. Again, internships and students accepted into this program are provided with mentoring, internship referrals, career coaching, technical interview training, alumni, networking, and many other opportunities. And what you'll see as the common thread with the other programs that I'm going to talk about is the involvement of our alumni. And so oftentimes it's the alumni actually who reach out to learner and say, you know, I'm in New York City or I'm in New Jersey around somewhere else. And what can I do to help you disturb the students? Succeed? So for example, the career experts panel, this one was started about two years ago. And it was really because we heard from so many alumni and mentors who wanted to give back when the pandemic started. And through this program we offer virtual expert panels so we're able to engage alumni from all over and talk about topics such as interviewing imposter syndrome, marketing analytics, job and internship searches. And the good thing about this program, and we learned this during the pandemic. We recorded all of these sessions. And so if a student misses one, they can still access it and then gain the knowledge from the mentors and alumni. The other program which has been around for a lot longer than a couple of years is our executive mentoring program. And any learner student who wants a mentor gets one. We do is we pair learner students one-on-one with an executive mentor who has at least ten years of progressive business experience. So not only do our mentors help students with their job search, but they're really in positions to also open doors for them. And oftentimes, the relationship really last so much longer than just the, the time that the student is at learner. But I will hear of, you know, pretty much lifelong opportunities with these, with these mentors. We also, since we have several students who come to University of Delaware from our neighboring states, and sometimes it's difficult for the parents to make it to an event. And oftentimes we'll see one of these executive mentors really fill in as, as the parents of the students. And so that, that relationship becomes a very, very close when the learner edge program, this one again, is based on something where alumni and advisory board members came to us. So I'm a learner. We have three main boards. There's the advisory board, there's the Alumni Board, and there's the New York City deans counsel. And while these boards and the board members provide great advice to our dean about the initiatives within learner. They came to us and asked how he, how they can get worn bulk helping directly with the students. And so that's why we agree. We created the learner and program where students are provided a list of board of volunteers to set up, again, one on one meetings to discuss their resume and interview skills. And these volunteer experts have helped hundreds of students since we created this program just one year ago. Next cycles, we always get lots and lots and lots of questions about will my student, will I get an internship if I come to University of Delaware? And the short answer is yes, there are lots of internship opportunities for our students. Last year, there were about 7 thousand business specific internships that were posted in our handshake database, about 90 percent of them were paid. Some are paid very well. And over a quarter of them were actually for internships in New York, New Jersey area. And I highlight on this number because we have a lot of students from that area. And as I stated before, Ninety percent of our student graduates with some sort of experiential experience. Next lattice. So I'm now going to pass it over to Dr. Edward. Hard to know who is going to take it from here and tell you about both the Management Information Systems major, as well as the business analytics. Neither. Edward. Thank you, Andrea. Good evening, everyone. So chmod, I just wanted to give you an overview of MIS and Business Analytics program. And so what is MIS? Mis itself stands for management information systems. It is an academic discipline who focuses on using computer-based technology. Like the hardware, the software, the database, the network, the internet to solve business problems and to create new opportunities like how to sell more products, how to reduce operation costs, how to train the employees, how to develop new products and new services. In the past, many asked me, what is the difference between MIS and computer science? Mis professionals apply technology to solve business problems, while computer scientists to create the technology itself. And so it's just like the Internet. So who created the Internet? Computer scientist who use the Internet to help businesses sell their products, MIS professionals. And so the goal of computer scientists is to make the technology better, to make a better hardware, better software, better database, better network. But the goal of MIS professionals is to make the business better by using technology. To sell more products. Using technology, to lower operation cost, using technology to do better bookkeeping using technology. And now let's switch to business analytics. What is business analytics? It is a discipline that focuses on using various data-driven technology or techniques like data visualization, machine learning, data mining, text mining, pattern recognition, tax analytics. To derive useful information from business data to help businesses operate more efficiently and serve their staffs and customers better. An example of business analytics in real world is social media analytics. Nowadays, many companies have huge amount of social media commentary in Facebook and Twitter and other social media platforms. And so they collect and analyze these comments to find out what products people like the most and the least, what features of the products people like the most and the list and so on and so forth. And so this insights help them improve their products and their marketing plans. Now to give you a better idea of what MIS and business analytics are, let's hear the experiences of some of our students. So the reason why I chose MIS is because I started off as an engineering major at Udi and I was able to take a computer coding class for engineered specifically. So that's why it was introduced with Python. But I realize I wanted to do more data analysis unless programming specifically my favorite classes, MSI 330, database design and implementation. Because I like working with SQL, which allows me to work with big data sets with other people to find interesting information that has practical business implications. Of that. A few different internships, all very different. One, supply chain management. What was actually in the energy field, the automotive consulting role and knowledge I had just from my general MSU class has really helped me. Those it will use formulas and functions to look at data differently and get a better knowledge of what the company was actually looking for. I think the cool thing about MIS is the projects we get to do. One of them includes using Kaggle datasets, which can be, which has just a ton of data sets that people put online. So they can be anything about diabetes, demographics in the United States to election poll results. And we get to use all these different platforms like Python and HTML add c plus, c plus and everything just to analyze these data sets. And I think it's really cool how the MIS program allows us to have real life experiences, an app that helps us prepare for the future. My favorite experience with my internship this past summer with AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals, I use the interview skills that I hope you got my coursework in order to learn my intention. What's I landed my internship, I use my teamwork experience to complete a project with other terms that we presented to the rest of the company. I also met some VV alumni draw, my time is on. And now let's look at a sample of freshman year schedule for MIS and business analytics. So here you can see the classes the freshman year students are taking. So the first semester classes include economics 101, micro economics, and then Math. 221, Calculus 1, BOD 110, MIS 160. That's the first MIS class. And then in the second semester, students usually take English. 110, another economics class, one or three macro economics. Another math class, math to 30. Now, throughout the rest of the program, because MIS is an intersection between technology and business. Therefore, most of the classes will be related to technology, like programming database, network, business application. And the rest of the classes are business, little bit classes like accounting, finance, marketing, operations, economics for the business and lakes because it is an intersection between statistical methods, technology and business. And so in addition to technology and business classes, students will take classes related to statistical methods. Next slide, Alex. And so our goal in this college is not only to provide education to our students, but also help them find employment after they graduate. And so far, 92% of our MIS graduates were either employed or pursuing further education, like going to a graduate school. And the average salary of our MIS graduates was around $62 thousand. And who hired our MIS graduates? Here you can see a list of multinational firms like BlackRock, Deloitte, EY, Fidelity investment, and so on. And what positions are taken by our MIS graduates. Here we can see the job titles of our recent MIS graduates, the encode IT analyst, technology consultant, IT advisory associate, data analysts, and so on. And so I hope that you gain better understanding of our MIS and Business Analytics program. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact any of us in this presentation. So I want you to turn it back over to Professor average graduate. And I am going to pass this off to dark. Dark gives me two subunits. Alu is going to tell you all about it. Hello everyone. What is accounting? I'll just I'll be brief about this in a nutshell, accounting is the process of recording financial transactions relating to a business. Primarily, I think when a lot of people think of accounting, they think of financial accounting which is recording those transactions, summarizing them, analyzing them, and then ultimately presenting to them, presenting that information to interested users of that information like investors or lenders, government agencies, for example. But accounting can also involve recording financial transactions relating to an individual. So you can have, for example, tax accountants. And tax accountant might be doing accounting work for an individual or potentially an organization like a corporation. Things along those lines in terms of the accounting functions and what you can do with an accounting degree. We'll talk a little bit more specifically in a later slide about what some of our, some of our specific employers are and where many of our graduates end up, but most of our graduates end up in professional services or public accounting firms. However, the remainder of those graduates and accounting will end up in Fortune 500 companies. They'll end up and medium-sized companies as well as government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, and the CIA. The accounting degree opens up a lot of professional doors and it is a very versatile degree, one that provides people with a very solid knowledge base to understand the inner workings of an organization or the tax code, if that's what you end up doing. And it is a very, very rewarding career with a lot of opportunities. We could move on. Let's take a look and hear from some accounting students. And then I'll mention a few more things and we'll jump into what some typical courses might look like in your freshman year. My favorite accounting class is definitely my accounting to a seven class, which is actually the first accounting class you take. It's a basic review of anything financial accounting and really touches the surface level of all things. And that major, I really enjoyed it because it confirmed my belief of wanting to be an accounting major and really got me excited for the rest of my classes, has given me a lot of opportunities. My favorite has been the chance to connect with one of the big four is since freshman year and go into programs to eventually get an internship this summer of my sophomore year. Thank you for that because Judy allowed me to meet a firm that I believe I feel comfortable working with for a long time. The reason the academy meters so you need, is just the professors who they are all very much. In fact, it's such a special Bhagwati that they will help you achieve whatever goal is. And I always there to help. Yeah. So long-term, I plan on taking good into internal audit on my major helped me through that because I love my degree. I would have to plug the two pi out. I'm going to do in this room. Accounting is helping me achieve my professional goals. During the summer up my freshman year, I was able to be in leadership programs across the United States. As simply a freshman. I didn't even know anything about accounting, but I got a lot. Not only about as well. Okay. Before I get into the sample freshmen, your schedule and I won't spend much time on that. I just want to mention a couple of other things very briefly about the Department of Accounting and unbiased. In the learner colleges, the Department of Accounting and MIS, we have a committed group of faculty, were experienced teachers, were experienced researchers. We also possess a very balanced blend of practical experience that we bring to the table. Another thing I think is important to mention is that our department also has an advisory board which is made up of representatives from the world's largest professional services and accounting firms, as well as several Fortune 500 companies. And the purpose of the advisory board is to advise the department on various recruiting, an academic curriculum initiatives. Now, with regard to the accounting curriculum, we do offer a relevant set of courses for the future accounting professional, including recent high profile, current course additions related to business analytics as Edward discussed. And we also have a new course on the profession, which is a one credit course accounting to a one where you will hear from speakers every week from different careers within the accounting profession. And that has proved to be a big success and a big hit with students because it's helping them really figure out what they want to do with their accounting major. And also, I think I noticed a question on there with regard to the CPA exam. If you get an accounting degree here at the University of Delaware, you will be eligible to sit for the CPA exam, to take the CPA exam. However, in order to be certified in order to be licensed as a Certified Public Accountant, you are going to need 150 credits. And most of our students do have that goal in mind for that is for studying for the CPA exam. And they get to that 150 credits typically by doing a double major. Some of them will also. Add a one-year master's program. However, these double majors and these masters programs can often be completed in four years or thereabouts. With regard to the freshman year schedule, as you can see here. Very similar, actually almost identical to what Edward walked you through for MIS with one key difference in the second semester, you'll notice that there's accounting to 07 Accounting 1. If you declare accounting as your major, you will be allowed to take accounting to 07 in the second semester of your freshman year. Only freshmen who have declared their majors accounting, are allowed to do that. Other than that, the first year is virtually identical to what the MIS students are going to be doing. In terms of the job placements, you can see some of the top employers in the top right of the screen. A lot of those are professional services firms, accounting firms like Deloitte and Touche, EY Grant Thornton, also other non accounting businesses such as consulting firm productivity, JP Morgan, Chase. You notice that 97 percent of our accounting graduates do find employment or are pursuing further education before graduation. And the average salaries they're approaching 60 thousand. Job titles ranged from staff accountants to consultants to internal audit analyst. They really was a wide range of titles there and a lot of students and internship was mentioned earlier. A lot of students will do a second semester, sophomore internship. And around 90% of those students, maybe a little more, actually end up with a job offer. After that sophomore second semester internship. You have any questions about that? You can bring those to us and we'd be happy to answer them. Thank you. Great. Thank you all for for all that information. We now get to what do we consider kind of the real information session? This is probably who you want to really hear from, and that is our students. So with us this evening we have three students. The first one is Ursula. And Ursula, can I ask you to unmute and put your video on and introduce yourself to us. Thank you, Andrea. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for coming here. Being here, my name is Ursula. I am a senior accounting and finance double-major. I'm from right here in Newark, Delaware. And some of the things I really enjoy about UD or how I've been an accounting tutor, Proctor, and TA for some accounting classes. I was a resident assistant for some of the freshman dorms, which was really fun. And I am an active member of the St. Thomas More Oratory, which is a great community. And I was also the vice president of relations for the woman and finance club, which is just one of many, over 300 clubs that we have here at UT. I'm also an EY Campus Ambassador through my internship. And I'm also a big fan of our gym here. The little bob, the group fitness classes and all of the interviewer will we have hey, thank you, Ursula. And then our next student is Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn put you on mute and introduce yourself. Hi everyone. My name is Kaitlyn. I am happened information systems, which have double major. I'm a senior who set out in New York for study abroad was past when I've stated by the Hawaii for a class, which was the best thing that I had ever gone. On some days I'm involved with on campus is I'm a member of the pilot it by themselves or sorority. For tuition. I'm a lead investor and the senior class, yeah. Then for one of my previous visi classes, I actually teaches I'm a greater vary because I loved that class. I don't. I'm also a teaching assistant for entrepreneurship 350, which is introduction to entrepreneurship. Great. Thank you and thank you for being such a great, greater and LaFree. We have grace. You unmute and introduce yourself. Hi everyone. I'm Grace saying I'm from Wilmington, Delaware and I'm currently a senior majoring in finance management, information systems and marketing with a minor in French. On campus, I'm involved in the Honors Program. Us was serving as the Executive Vice President for a woman in business. That's a organization actually specifically tailored for females who are looking to find jobs within the business world and we get them in touch with different recruiters. Muscle Depressor, Asian awareness and perspective, connections magazine, which is a magazine that details the experiences of Asian Americans on campus, as well as involved in Delta Sigma Pi, which is a business fraternity on campus. And lastly, I'm also a TA for beauty 110, which is the class that which we spoke about before. The intraclass, all freshmen have to take break before they figure out what majors they want. Hey, thank you so much Grace. I think. Point. Thank you, Alex. I'm just going to zoom in. We can take those slides off so we can see all of us here. And I do see race some some questions in the chat in the Q and a, please. Can we keep those coming before I get to those that any of you come in as undeclared isn't a perfect cube. First of all, tell us at what stage do you figure out? How did you how did you decide what you what you wanted to do? That though, I came in well advised to Delaware because when I came to a decision day that we pulled in the spring and I've done the entrepreneurship major and new-ish it I want to it It's a bunch of elements and she was just like the one I've created a building and I just fell in love with it. I knew that that's where I would want to spend my next four years. So I applied science publishing major right away. After that, I knew I wanted to double major, but I wasn't sure with what I was trying to keep finance just because I've taken my husband useful. So I ended that nature, I think the end of my freshman year. And then I took one file class and I realized they needed it, so I drop that right. Like I'm not doing finance anymore. And then after taking a couple of missing classes, I realized I really didn't know it was kind of good at it. My first class was missing 116 with Professor persona. And I just continued to take more than I loved it. So I decided to add as my major. And I'm a little mad. Yes, and I finish it. I love it because I think it's a really unique combination. One very technical and very creative and innovative. So yeah, Great. Thank you. Grace or Ursula, you come in as as undeclared? I did not. But I came in just as one major like you talked about, the BU 8110 class really brought in my range and allowed me to get more interested. And the finance major, which also really helps me for seeking the 150 credits that is required to sit for the certification for accountants. And so that was really, really great getting to go to events such as having speakers for entrepreneurs like the crater of dog, there's head and I believe the Insomnia Cookies came to speak to ourselves. Really great. Getting to have those experiences and see what people actually do with their majors here. And Herzl, I'm going to dig a little bit deeper just because we had a question in Q&A that says, you, can you talk a little bit about, a little bit more about the 110 class and of course grades, you're more than welcome and give them all of you can jump in, but you kind of talked about people coming in and talking and having different firms. What else do you do in this class? What are some of the highlights? Absolutely. So as explained before, It's a week-by-week. You get to dive in to each major and you get to really understand what is involved in those majors. And you get to see for real-life examples of how people are using that. They always show us articles related to each. And then you are required to go to several events. And you're actually going to create a case at the end and present that the students. So it's a great way to build your public speaking skills and getting yourself out there. And you also do things such as creating a resume, which is super, super helpful, especially if you're starting to look for a job, even your freshman year, which is definitely possible and highly recommendable. Great. Thank you. Great. Okay. Would you like to add anything about the B we can if somebody is asking, can know more about it. Yeah, I would say. Another really important aspect about beauty, one tendons that you get both a personalized TA and a peer mentor in the class. The TAs mainly focused on your academic enrichment. So when I was a TA, help students who are struggling in the class figure out study schedules, how to better do well in their quizzes, things like that. Sometimes the transition from high school to college, what a bit difficult for some. But the peer mentor is more for college life, so that person helps you with housing. So after freshman year, you might want to choose to live off campus. You're going to need a lot of resources to find the housing and they're there just to be your resource for pretty much anything Student Life related. So I think it's really nice to have both this resources on hand as a freshman coming into college. Great. Thank you, Kevin. I think you covered it, but maybe you want to add something that I think there's like graves did a great job. Perfect. Great. I see Also another question here about how you don't do a lot of people that will major and how difficult this is an end brace. I believe you have three majors and Caitlin and honestly you have two. Can you tell us you don't tell us so much about how did you choose them, but how are you getting through this? We and Steven Roberts, of course, if you want to add something, but there is something about working closely with the advisers and making sure that you are able to graduate in four. So how, how have you managed this? I can start I think a lot of my credits from high school transferred. So I think that was mainly the reason why I decided to have three majors just because I want to have a longer college experience instead of a shorter one. But the nice thing about IUDs that there is a core business curriculum that all business students have to take. So a lot of times the classes do overlap between the different kinds of majors. So even though finance and marketing, they may not seem very similar, they do have a lot of classes that you have to take as the introduction courses and a lot of times the material within the classes you find actually do come up in other classes. So when I'm doing some marketing analytics, things that actually does come up in the tools that I use when I'm looking at big data and management information systems. So it also intertwines. Thank you. Thank you. Ursula Caitlin, you like to add anything? Yeah, absolutely. Grace. Definitely covered. Coming in with AP credits is really, really helpful. And also like double majoring within business doesn't mean that you're doing a full separate 120 credits plus another 120 credits. It just means that you are taking all the requirements for those majors that you want to have. And so exactly what Grace is saying, like they all intertwine very easily. And another great thing about Udi is our summer and winter offerings that has been probably the most helpful. Because the winter session is a full session, so you're able to take two or three classes and that's that really helps you get through all of the requirements. Stephen, can I pass this off to you a little bit because I think somebody but also makes learner someone special is our Advising Center where we have rockstars like you essentially work with her students and make sure that a graduating far? Yes, absolutely. We definitely worked very closely with our freshmen, sophomore students to meet with them multiple times during the semester before after registration. Just to make sure that there aren't point on target to graduate in four years. On average, our students take about 15 credits a semester. And that's even with our double majors. Now some debate as you might need to take a winter or summer session course. But at the end of the day, you graduate with two degrees, right? Two majors. So that's the message very, very important to us. And we care about our students, so we guide them, we meet with them often and then pass them off to the departments. Faculty professionals like George and Edwards today can leave until they matriculate out. Right? Thank you. You're welcome. I see here I think for on kind of credit and graduating. Ursula, we have a question specifically for you about the 150 credits for the CPA, for you. Talk to us about that, how you are managing that? Yes, absolutely. So I know a lot of you are students here, so a lot of this is all knew about all the requirements, even even like the certification itself is. This was a recent thing in the past couple of years to get to the a 150. And so it is very, very doable here at UT to do it. And for years, which is what I'm on the track for. I remember being so intimidated by it when I was sitting in your shoes. The main thing that is helpful is definitely your advisors helping you as well as the winter classes. One of the biggest things that helped me get through was taking classes at my local community college because it is a little bit cheaper and as well as most of them have virtual options, so I'm able to take those classes as well as do my summer job, something like that. And then during your year, you really, really tend to stay. Most of the other accounting majors tend to stay at 15 credits, which means five classes a semester. But it might be a little bit more and it might be a little bit less depending on how you schedule it. But it is very doable. And even if you don't come in as accounting, you can definitely pick up the pace and fulfill that requirement by four years, even if you don't come in, even if you're not sure if accounting is for you. Great. Thank you. George. I'm going to pass this bring to you please. So we have questions about what if, what if math is not my strong suit? It's going to be a struggle or can I be an accountant? So can you I think you can be an accountant absolutely. An Ursula. You can speak to this after me. And then if you want to, if you want to jump in and Edward can speak them IS of course, for those of you thinking the same thing about MIS, but accounting, mathematics, or mathematics related to accounting is not very high level. I mean, it's, there's I think the bulk of what you're going to need to know you learned in elementary school, you know, arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. There are a lot of rules and accounting. And there's a certain way to do things, but do not be intimidated. If you feel like you're weak. And Matthew didn't do on calculus or something like that because, you know, you're not going to need it. So that's my $0.02 on the map. I've Ursula agrees or disagrees, feel free to jump in, but that's just a quick flick assessment. Quick answer. I think I muted so you want to be or you could do with George. And we have set up and send it off admitting students, save you get admitted. Then we trust that you have enough brain power and all the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the program. So don't hesitate to apply to try. Great. Ursula, you just agree? Yes, I completely agree. And that the professors here are very, very open and kind and understanding. The way that they, a lot of professors structure courses is they give you outlines with all the information you need to know. A clear as day. They have office hours and we also have free tutoring for the introductory accounting classes, especially because that's not offered at a lot of high schools. So if this is your first taste of counting, it might be a little bit intimidating at first, but there are many, many resources SVT has to help you, so great. And I think one of the resources is our tutoring program. And again, I'm going to pass on a geek like me, you're involved with that too? Yes. So for those two classes and even beyond that, your professor will have it posted and you can go almost every day of the week if you need to. And it's great. We can work one-on-one through problems or any homework problems or test problems you might have. And I know that we have it throughout the university for other classes as well. So if you're struggling with finance or even the required lab science class that you'd have to take if you're finding it's major that there's tutoring for all of those things. Some are paid, some are free. Great. Thank you. Now I'm giving the A3 sheet as a heads up because I am going to ask you about your internships because you all have very different one and I'm very kind of interesting ones. While you're thinking about that, I would just like to kind of tell our audience this evening that if there's anything about business that you are interested in, then we urge you to apply to the business school even as undeclared. So there are a lot of our students who come into the business school as undeclared, so they know you're interested in business, they're just not sure yet what their major is going to be. But once you are in, admitted into the business school, you are then part of learner. There's also something called undecided, which is that the university level. If you if you apply to that and get in, then at a later date, you are going to have to apply to get into the business school. So unlike some of our competitors, we are one of the schools where you can be a freshman, even undeclared, but still within the business school. And so that's something of interest to you. Make sure you apply to do the business school. I hope that was enough. I'm kind of lead time for all of you to be thinking about here. Your internships. Caitlin, I'm going to pass through from an AKI verse, and so on for the past few years, I've been an attorney out of her financials, which is a financial planning company. I got this internship through my parents. It's actually their financial planner. So they're kind of family friends, which was great. I learned so much about running business as a whole. Although financials is a huge company, it's only a field office. So their actual company is very, very small. Maybe like only like 56 employees. So I've learned a lot about every single aspect of business. What are the financial planning? I realize I didn't really like that at all. But sometimes it's like, well the calls a successful internship when learning and trying something out and realizing that it might not be for you and moving not something that you think you might like that. So it's a great experience. Definitely taught me a lot. Blick as a financial planner is not exactly perfect. And that's the sign of a, of a successful internship, right? The internships are there to give you a little bit of a taste of this is what it would be like. And if it's something that you would not enjoy them, it's a good thing that you learned to now and not when you, when you graduate. Ursula, I'd read yours was with Ernst and Young. If you want to tell us a bit about that. Absolutely. I'd love to. So I believe my first contact with my employer now was just walking down the hallway of one of our classroom buildings. And they graciously had a table out with some fun things to some free stuff like pens are. And I think that they, they might have had some food and goodies, which is always fun for a college student. And that, that is the best way I got to experience that was more of a personable way, just walking up to them and they ask you what you're interested in and all of that. And then applying for internships. It's very easy here at UT. We have a website where you can easily search and click on everything that you need to do in order to apply and upload your resume right away. And so for a lot of accounting and finance students, this process all happens sophomore year for your what will be your junior year internship. And then there's also a lot of internships available after your sophomore year in the summer to two. And then my internship was in Philadelphia over the summer, which was great. There's a lot of firms around here locally as well. And it was virtual and I hope to pursue them and I will be working by next year. Great. Thank you. And before I pass, it's OK. You Grace, I kind of noticed the question about where do the internships where they typically located. So we definitely have some that are in Delaware. We have is or if we're just mentioned, those that are more in Philadelphia because we have so many students from the New York, New Jersey area. We have a lot of internships better there. We also have some in DC. By grace. You're going to tell me about one that's a little further afield. Yeah. So actually in my sophomore year I to do an internship in New Jersey. But because of COVID, it actually went virtual. But last summer I interned with Amazon as a business analyst, intern. And That one was actually located hybrid and hybrid location in Seattle. So they allowed me to fly out there and meet some of the people that I was going to be working with and was really cool tossing the other interns. And I will be joining them full-time after graduation. So I'm really excited to move to the West Coast. I've actually been in Delaware all my life, so it'll be a big change, but I'm excited. Nice and big changes sometimes it's really, really good. I think cavemen this answer, this question about it. If you were an entrepreneurship major and then you want to take an MIS minor and then some other kind of supply chain business operations classes. Could you could you do all of this? Sounds a bit like what you do. Yeah. So in terms of the MIS major, I know that there's a oh, I'm blanking on the word. What's the word? We're like You can do it in finance and operations and market a minor concentrations. Concentration, concentration. Not sure if there's one thing in our friendship, but monitoring occupation, it is extremely easy. It's only 15 to 18 credits. So you can obviously do that libertarian winter sessions or something like that. Monitoring and automation, the very easy and also the classes that you would take overlap with a lot of things depending on what kind of message classes you want to take. I'm sweating. Believe it's very doable. Especially if, you know, going in to a freshman, you that that's something you want to do. Make that decision now whether you have plenty of time to get that done, I think. Perfect. And James, just to kind of add onto a little bit of what Caitlin was saying. If you're coming in knowing that this is the type of combination that you're looking at. This is again, why we have the advisors that we do. So you could come in and say, I want to major in this, I'm going to do a minor, maybe I want to do a concentration. I also want to take some classes over in operations. And these are the exactly the right types of questions that you would go to somebody in our advising office and essentially say, how do we make this happen? Steve and I see you come live. So I think you want to ask something. I suggest that if you're, if you're serious and motivated to be viewership and take the various classes as indicated, that motivates you or your advisor will be searched, will be, will be as motivated to ensure that you get the classes that you need in order to get those miners complex survey. Thank you. I see there's one final question about a business class sizes. I'm going to pass it off to the students. I can answer it from my end. I teach an upper level information tissue class is usually about 35 students. Now, usually more than a few years. It's been a little bit left from that. But Ursula, what do you in terms of average class size is? Yes. I think the average class size is around 40 to 50, something like that. And that is absolutely accurate. Your freshman year, like maybe you'll have some more bigger classes, some of your electives will be bigger, which is also kind of nice sometimes if you don't want to be always at the center of attention, are ready to participate on a whim. But you're, the important very technical classes are always small and always said that the professor can always make eye contact with you and he can. And you can always be seen and spoken for. And if you have questions, there's always room for that, which is great. And some of the, some of the classes are more of a lecture style, some are more interactive, which is also really helpful to get both sides. Great. So if you are looking for very, very large classes, this is not the place for you. We know most of our students, we denote them by name. So you got, you can get lost in a, in a, in a huge lecture hall because we really don't have huge lecture halls here at, here at UT. I am looking at the time and going to be respectful of it. So Alex, I think I'm going to ask you to re-sharing. And of course, if you have any other questions, you can always reach out to us. My email is there. If I can't get you the right answer, I will definitely direct you to the right person. There were a lot of questions this evening. We thank you for your engagement and your interests. But again, if we didn't answer something as thoroughly as you would have liked to or if you have additional questions. There are some emails right here on the screen. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We are here to make sure that all of your questions are answered. And then the last slide, I believe Warlocks, I'm going to pass it off to you. Thank you very much, Dr. ever I so I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us this evening as part of our learner virtual major discovery sessions. I'm, this was the last session in our series of sessions, so thank you for, you know, we've saved the best for last or, Sir, if you haven't visited us in person, yeah. We definitely encourage you to take some time and come visit us on campus. There are still two opportunities to do so for decision day, Research Campus, Open House that bed on Saturday, April 9th and Saturday, April 23rd. So you can go right to that link on your screen right now that'll bring you ever, it should be the registration portal for over all of our events as well as ever. So we hope to see you on campus soon and thank you very much again for joining us and we were in person. I'd ask you for I'll ask you to help you. Thank all of our panelists and our staff and took some time out of their evening to join us. And of course, when we thank you for joining us this evening as well. Thank you so much and have a nice evening.
Lerner Virtual Visit 3.23.2022
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Lerner Virtual Visit - Accounting, Management Information Systems and Business Analytics
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