Business for a Better World (Fall Webinar Series)

Alright, Good morning everyone. Welcome to the College of business. My name is Mike Utomi. Oh, I am the director of undergraduate programs here in the College of business and I'm here today to talk with you about what we have to offer you as a potential future business student at Colorado State University. To begin with, I would like to just mention that business is an incredible degree. It's an incredible opportunity.

If you are a person who is wanting to make the world a better place, business is one of those things that we used to actually impact our world and so our students are doing amazing things after they graduate. I'll be talking about that throughout the presentation, but they're here because they want to use this business degree to help make their communities better. Stronger places to live and work, and so if that's what you're interested in, this could be a very good fit for you.

Here's the agenda for the next 45 minutes or so. I'll be talking about the admission requirements. We are a competitive major, so I'll talk about what that requires. Will go through the business degree overview, which is basically our curriculum, so all of the classes that you'll be required to complete to earn your degree in business administration with whatever concentrations you choose.

I'll also talk about the various concentrations that we have offered. These are the areas of expertise that you can declare an become certified or credentialed in.

And then we'll also talk about student opportunities, an support, and then I'll answer questions throughout the presentation, but also at the end. So if you do have questions, please post those in chat and I will try to answer them as they come in. And then if I don't capture all of them as we're coming in, I'll answer them at the end.

So the first thing that we want to talk about is admission. And so, as I mentioned earlier, the College of business is a competitive program and that means that we have higher admission requirements than what it takes to get into Colorado State University. And so the scenarios that you see before you are examples of students who would be strong candidates for directed mission.

So starting with your high school GPA, you'd be looking at between a 3.0 Anna 4.0 GPA.

With a 24 to a 28 on the AC T or an 1152, A 1290 on the math and verbal portion of the essay T.

Now I want to talk about each one of these three areas in a little more detail. So starting with G PA, we will actually accept whatever GPA your School Report. So if you are at an institution where you have grades that are being waited, we will happily accept your weighted GPA.

Alright, so it's a 3.0 two a 4.0 GPA.

With regard to AC, T and S80, these exams are now optional at Colorado State University, so if you do not have an AC T or an essay T score, that's absolutely fine. We will still look at you and consider you for admission just like anyone else. If you do have an AC T or an essay T score, then that will go into the equation to help us determine if your admissible or not. If you do not have an AC T or an S80, what we do is we look a little bit deeper into the courses that you completed in high school.

Anne, what grades you earn an? So what we're going to be looking for our AP IB courses honors classes. If your school offered business courses, did you take any business courses? What were they? What kind of grades did you get?

So it's not going to hurt you if you don't have an AC T or an S80. It's also not going to help you anymore if you do have an AC T or an essay T score, so it's not flush situation, so we will happily accept the acts that will help us to determine if your admissible or not. But if you don't have it, we will look at other variables that will help us to determine that. And by determining admission, what we're doing is we're looking for students who have a good chance of success.

In our program also, we're looking for students who have already started developing the skills that are going to be required from employers and graduate schools, and so we're looking for a record of leadership, teamwork, appreciation and value for the concept of team and then also students have started developing cultural competency skills so companies they need people with leadership skills. They definitely need people who understand and appreciate what team means.

And how to work within teams? Because everything is team managed today in industry.

And then companies today also recognized the value of having a diverse workforce. So if all of their workforce looks the same sounds the same access same, they're not going to have as diverse of ideas. Which means, then, that they're not going to be able to be as profitable. So companies today want people who know how to interact with and work with people who are different than themselves and have different ways of thinking. Different ideas, different perspectives. So we're all about diversity. So we're looking for people who started exposing themselves to those types of situations.

Now if you meet this combination an you have leadership teamwork, an cultural competency, experiences, then you will be a strong candidate for direct admission.

Let's say for example though that you do not get directly admitted as an incoming freshman or first year student. It's not the end of the world. We have a program that you can go into at Colorado State University called undeclared business interest. This is basically a pre business program that allows you to come into the College of business as an internal transfer student.

This would also apply undeclared business interest would also apply for students who maybe start off at CSU in a different major and then change their mind and want to go into business or undeclared. Business interest is also a possibility for students who are transferring in from an external institution, so to transfer into the College of business, either from an external institution or from an internal major or undeclared business interest at CSU. Here are the requirements that you would need to fulfill.

You would need to earn a grade of C minus or higher in calculus at Colorado State University. The calculus course that we prefer is math 141. It's a business based calculus, however we will accept any higher level calculus course. However, no matter what the level of that course is, the grade requirement remains AC minus or higher.

We also require microeconomics. Economics is the foundation of business, and so we want to see that you understand those basic concepts of Economics. So Econ 202 or a wreck 202, which is an agricultural and resource economics course, you need one of those with a grade of B minus or higher.

And then you also need to establish a 3.0 cumulative GPA at CSU, and that's on a minimum of 15 graded credits or a minimum 3.0 GPA at your institution, whatever that other institution is, and that too has to be on a minimum of 15 graded credits. So if you're coming into Colorado State University or wanting to come into the College of business internally, you need to have a 3.0 GPA and complete calculus with a C minus or higher. An microeconomics with a grade of B minus or higher.

If you're already at Colorado State University and you meet this requirement in its entire T, then you're guaranteed admission into the College of business. If you're an external transfer student, as long as you meet all of the other University admission requirements. If you meet the requirement that you see me for you and its entire T, then you are guaranteed admission into the College of business.

So there are a lot of variables involved with admission. If you have questions you can reach out to me individually or ask questions through the chat feature.

So let's move on to the curriculum now. I didn't mention this earlier. I apologize by participating in this event. All of you have received an electronic document that has all of the documents that I'm going to be talking about today, so you can open that up and you can go into much greater detail. You can read all the information about it. I'm just kind of skimming over the most important features of each of the documents.

So with regard to curriculum, you should have in your packet a check sheet which identifies all of the courses that are required for a business student to graduate and earn their degree. It's basically divided into 4 sections. The first section is called the All University core curriculum. These are the classes and categories that are required for all students at Colorado State University. They are intended to make you a well rounded, well educated person. Now we have woven some of our business requirements into this all University core curriculum.

So you'll notice that our calculus requirement, statistics, microeconomics and macroeconomics requirements are all listed as part of the All University core curriculum. So wherever possible we have tried to make horses double count, which then affords you more electives to do with what you want to do, and I'll talk about electives more here in a moment.

And then on the second page of that curriculum sheet you will see the different categories for AUC, C and so on. Each one of those categories is the list of courses that you'll be allowed to choose from to fulfill that particular cattle.

You don't see the course on that list. It won't fulfill that particular category.

The second section is the business core. Now the business core are those classes that are required for all business majors, regardless of which concentration or sub major you choose to go into, and so business is a very diverse industry and so the business core is going to give you a solid foundation is going to teach you a little bit about all of the different areas of business that a person practicing business should know. So you're going to be taking a little bit of accounting, finance, marketing, management, technology.

You're going to have ethics. You're going to have sustainable business. So the business core gives you that solid foundation, and those classes begin your very first semester and they'll go all the way through till your very last semester with your capstone. One of the very first courses that will have you take in the business core as an incoming first year student or freshman is introduction to business BUS 100.

This is a great course because what it does is it helps you to make an informed decision about which concentration or concentrations you want to declare, and so in that class we will bring in experts, CEO, CFO's, hiring authorities, faculty, alumni from each of the 10 disciplines that we offer. An you'll learn about the day in the life of an accountant and the day in the life of a market here. And the course will help you to figure out which concentration you want to go into based upon your values your professional.

And your personal life goals. Everything that's going to be important to you will be part of that decision.

The third section are the business concentrations and we have 10 concentrations. They all range between 21 and 24 credits and no matter what your degree will equal 120 credits, and so I'm going to go through each of the concentrations here in just a moment. But before I do that, let's finish up with the actual check sheet here. And so the 4th section are the electives. The great thing about the number of electives that students get is that most minors at C issue.

Are only 21 credits so you could easily get a business degree and a minor all within your 120 credit package. You could also do a second concentration about 16 to 18% of our business students due to concentrations.

Some of the reasons for that is some of them. They go well together and maybe you have a dream job in mind that actually would merge a couple of these different concentrations and some of them. Students have two areas of interest and they may want one as a backup option. If they can't get their dream job in the first concentration. So there are a variety of reasons why students would do that, but we also offer certificate programs in the College of business. These are official certifications. We also have an incredible.

Internship program and you can use some of those elective credits for internship or for education abroad. So if you would like to spend a semester living in another country taking a full time load of courses, some of those classes could be used with your elective credits as well.

Now it looks like Caroline has a question. Do you transfer students? Take the AUC Sian business core. So good question Carolyn. So the curriculum that you see on that check sheet is required for everybody, regardless of how they got to the College of business. So for incoming first year freshman, that entire AUC C and business courses required an transfer students. It is also required. Now keep in mind though, that some of your courses that you are taking at another institution will transfer in an may fulfill some of these categories. So it's not like you're starting from scratch.

As a transfer student, most universities, especially in business, have a similar setup. So if you go to another University for a semester or two and then come to see issue, chances are you were taking some of the same types of courses that we require within our University core, and you may also taken some of the business courses that would count within our concentration or business core as well. Good question.

Next thing I want to do is go into the 10 different concentrations that we offer. Again, these are the areas that you will specialize in. Whichever one or two or three you choose will most likely be the industry that you will seek your first career in after you graduate, and I say first career because we know realistically that your generation. Most of you are going to probably end up having two or three different careers in your lifetime, and so that's a concept that you need to start getting your head wrapped around so it's not realistic anymore that you'll graduate from college.

And get a great job with the company and then 40 years later retired from that same company in that same position. That just doesn't happen anymore and so most likely you'll bounce around two or three times between careers and possibly even industries.

I'm at near has a question, is a major minor the same as a double major? Nope, it's not, and so that's a great question. So the highest credential would be the business degree. The next highest credential would be a minor, the next highest after that would be an Interdisciplinary Studies program, and the next highest credential after that would be a certificate. So the level of credential is based upon the number of credits that you complete within that program. So obviously you're going to take the most.

Horses with your business major with your degree and so, for example, a certificate is only going to be about 9 credits or three courses, so you just have a smidge, a smattering of knowledge in that area is not enough. That's going to, you know, change your entire career path, but it gives you enough information and knowledge that an employer may say, wow, this person really has this great degree, but they've also got this little bit of interest in this other area. How might we be able to utilize that, and how might this be a win win situation for you as an employee?

And for us as a company so great question there.

It looks like in also has a question. If you earn an AA in business through Front Range Community College or any Community College in Colorado, are you guaranteed that you can get your bachelors degree in 60 credits at CSU? That's a great question, and so there is a guaranteed transfer agreement between all of the community colleges in Colorado and Colorado State University's College of business. So if you complete the Associate of Arts in business at any Colorado Community College.

And you meet the admission requirements when you apply to Colorado State University's College of business, then yes, you are guaranteed to be able to graduate in 60 more credit. And so again, it all depends upon if you meet those admission requirements. So you have a 3.0 and the C minus or higher in calculus and the B minus or higher in microeconomics.

So great question in all, I'm assuming you are at Front Range Community College and so, if so make sure you're talking to your counselor your advisor at Front Range and they know that your intention is to come to Colorado State University and that way. Then they can make sure that you're following all of the procedures and everything that you need to so that it's a smooth transition for you so we look forward to seeing you in the near future.

So accounting, so let's talk briefly about accounting. Accounting is an excellent program. Accounting is designed to work with folks and prepare them to sit for the CPA license. So if you want to become a certified public accountant in Colorado, an in most states the minimum requirements to qualify to sit for the CPA licensure exam is 150 credits or a Masters degree. So depending upon.

Whether or not a student wants to become a CPA, you may end up deciding to delay graduation at the undergraduate level. Add a second or third concentration and graduate in five years with 150 credits so you can qualify to sit for the CPA exam. Or you may decide to go directly after you complete your undergraduate degree into a Masters program, and so we do have a Masters of accountancy program at Colorado State University. It is very competitive, but that program also.

Repairs you fully to sit for the CPA license and not all of our students want to become cpas and so our program is designed for folks who don't have any interest in becoming a CPA as well. So incredible average starting salaries, job placement rates, internship opportunities and then the list of types of positions that are listed here. This is a very small brief list you can go to our CSU website and visit the College of business and you can see a much more exhaustive list of companies and.

Types of positions that you would qualify for.

Looks like email has a follow up question, but can I still apply as a freshman if I got the EA through dual enrollment during high school to qualify for freshman scholarships? So that would be a really good question that you would need to reach out to the office of admissions for. I believe that yes, you can still apply as an incoming freshman and so even though you will already have about 60 credits completed, you would still be considered a freshman.

From an admission perspective and then also for some scholarships. Not all scholarships, but for some scholarships. In business we would not consider you for freshman scholarships, but you would be looked at for junior scholarship. So within the major, the higher up you go, the scholarships become larger quantities in amount. So it would be to your advantage from the business perspective to be looked at as a junior for scholarships.

But then from the University perspective, it will be your advantage to be looked at as a freshman. So yes, that would be the case. But you should also reach out to admissions just to get more confirmation and clarification on that.

No computer information systems is another concentration that we offer. This one is confusing for some folks because computer information systems is the business side of technology on. This is different than computer science, so computer science is going to be heavy duty programming where you're sitting at a computer all day long. Designing and creating. Now business majors with computer information systems concentrations have to know how to program in design, but they also are on the business side of it so.

These are folks who are possibly going to be training people on how to use technology. They may sell the technology they may install, train, and support the technology. They may come in and repair the technology so it's the business side of technology and so there are incredible opportunities within computer information systems. Technology is evolving at a very rapid rate and so if you are adept with technology and this can be a fantastic opportunity.

Great starting salaries. Incredible job opportunities. So something to think about.

Now within finance we have four different areas that we offer. So in finance we offer corporate investment analysis and real estate. So corporate finance is going to be large. Corporation finance is working with companies that maybe have 30 forty 50,000 employees worldwide working with them on their financial ventures and helping them to deal with any kind of financial aspect of that company. Investment analysis.

Is going to be learning how to work with in the investment industry, so learning how to buy and sell stocks and bonds and how to help other people understand the investment process. Looking at data, learning how to utilize data, data analytics, determine what is a good stock to buy, when is a good, when is it a good time to buy that stock or when is it a good time to sell that particular stock?

And then real estate finance is the financial aspect of a real estate venture, so this would be a very different than our real estate concentration, which I'll talk about more here in a little bit finance with a real estate option would be. For example, let's say that you want to buy a home and you need to get a loan mortgage, and so it would be all of the financial aspect of buying that home. That's the type of work that you'll be doing if you went into finance with the real estate option.

The 4th area in finances, financial planning. Now a lot of people want to become certified financial planners and to do that to help people plan their financial futures. You do have to be licensed and so this program fully prepares you to sit for the CFP license exam, upang graduation and this would be where you want to work with people on a daily basis, helping them plan their financial future. So investing, but also retirement planning, buying, insurance all of the different things that people need.

As they plan for their futures.

We also offer human resource management, which is a great concentration, particularly if you really like working with people. This would be the person who would do the hiring and deal with the firing, helping employees with their benefits. They may be a recruiter, they may go out and recruit people to come in an interview for positions within the company.

We also offer international business. This is a newer concentration in our college. International business is a very popular concentration because businesses global today almost everything that we do in industry has some kind of international connection or is somehow going to impact the world internationally and so international business is different from the other nine concentrations that we offer and that all of the other nine can be standalone concentration. So you can choose to just.

Earned that one concentration an graduate.

International business is different in that it can only be paired with another concentration. It has to be a second concentration. So if you want to do international business, which is fantastic, you would do this as a second so you would identify one of the other nine is your first and international business Azure 2nd.

The other great thing about international business is part of the curriculum for this program allows for you to pursue an continue pursuing a second language or to have an international internship which could be somewhere around the world in another country. But you could also secure an international internship right here in the US, even in Fort Collins, Co, which is where Colorado State University is homed or and. Or you could have a study abroad experience.

To fulfill part of the curriculum requirement for this program. So this is a great program because it allows you to get some real life hands-on experience as you're completing the degree.

Marketing is a very popular major concentration within our college. The marketing that we teach is marketing research. It's research based marketing. It is not so much the creative artistic designing type of marketing that a lot of people think of that type of marketing. That type of work where you're creating the advertisements, the artwork for advertisements would be more graphic design and so marketeers.

Who work in industry often are the folks who are supervising graphic designers, but a lot of our students at CSU really are passionate about the research side of marketing, but also the artistic side. And so a lot of our students in marketing will do a double major in marketing and graphic design.

It looks like it all has another question. How do you complete an international internship locali? So it's it's about what is the work that you're doing and so as you can imagine, you know people all over the United States are working internationally and they may never leave the United States. And the reason why that is is they're working with companies all around the world and so they do meetings. They had give presentations through slate like we're doing now or through teams. Microsoft Teams.

Or other platforms so businesses global, you're going to be working with people from all around the world and so internships can be international in focus while you are remaining here within the United States. Great question.

Organization and Innovation Management. This is a concentration that is very diverse. This is where our leadership program resides. This is also where are entrepreneurship program reside. So this would be a great concentration. If you want to manage people. If you want to supervise people. If you want to motivate people, it's also a great concentration. If you want to manage a company or a Department, maybe start your own company and manage your own company. So organization and Innovation Management.

We also offer real estate and so real estate is going to prepare you to work both in the commercial as well as residential real estate market. Our students go into a variety of different types of positions, but you are prepared to sit for a brokers license. When you complete this program.

And again, this would be very different than the finance concentration with the real estate option, because this is not going to focus solely on the financial aspect of a real estate experience.

And then the last one is supply chain management. This is a very hot part of business. Supply chain management is the process and the concept of giving a product, let's say from an assembly line in China into a store in our local community and all of the decisions that are made along the way to get that product here is supply chain management and so you may have to decide to send that product to the United States from China by air or by C. And so one is going to be.

Faster and more expensive, but not as much of the product can fit on the plane, whereas bye see you can get a lot more product, but it's a lot slower.

But it's also a lot cheaper, and so those decisions that are made along the way will determine how much you have to charge for that product so that your company can make a profit. But along the way you also have to figure out canned. The people in the community that you're trying to sell that product afford that product at the price that you would need to sell based upon the decisions that you make. So supply chain management is a really interesting area of business. You're going to be working internationally, most likely.

You're going to be working people from all over the world. You do work with Analytics a lot so you look at data. You crunch the numbers a lot and you're also working with people from all kinds of disciplines, so it's a very diverse type of major.

Matthew is the question can you get a major in marketing with a minor in supply chain management so we don't have a minor in supply chain management. So what you're talking about would be a double concentration and so that is extremely doable within your 120 credit requirement to graduate. And as I said earlier, about 16 to 18% of all of our business students do exactly what you're talking about Matthew. They are pairing more than one of our concentrations together and earning a degree with a double concentration. So yes, that's very doable.

And that's a great question.

Alright, so let's talk a little bit more about the College of business. So we are a relatively small college where the largest major at the issue, and that's because we only have one official major business administration. But numbers of people were the second to the smallest college, so we're very tight knit community. You're going to get to know your faculty and they're going to get to know you very well. You're going to get to know your classmates are very well. They'll become your friends and colleagues for the rest of your life, so it's a really nice.

Tight knit community with a very inclusive environment and culture.

About 24 to 25% of our students identify as racially or ethnically diverse. This is very important to us in the College of business because industry is looking for and hiring a diverse workforce. So not only are we looking for a diverse folks to come to Colorado State University in the College of business, but we also fill it some incumbent upon us to teach all of our students how to work with each other. Whether you come from the same background on facial appearance or whether you come from very different backgrounds.

So we are. We provide a lot of training, a lot of workshops, alot of webinars to folks that will allow you to learn how to interact with and work with people who look sound and work very differently than you May.

We also have about 18% of our student population being first generation. This means that neither of your parents have earned a bachelors degree or any higher level degree. This if you are first generation student, I just want to say congratulations. I was a first generation undergraduate student myself. It had a massive impact on my life but also on my family's life. And because I took that first step, an earned that degree.

And I was the first person in my entire family ever to go to college. I was able to then mentor and support and help other members of my family after me to go to college. And so it can have a massive impact on you and your family. And so congratulations if you are going to be a first generation student. We do also provide a lot of resources and support services and training to 1st generation students. And that's important because it generally means that you may not have parents who understand higher education as well and maybe don't know.

What are the answers to what you may think or a lot of people may think are very simple questions and so we do provide a lot of support. For our first generation student.

Also, about 72% of our students are Colorado residents whereas 23% are non resident, so they're from all of the rest of the United States and about 5% of our students are international students and this is really important to us as well, because we want all of our students to know how to work with people from all around the world. So by having a strong international population in our college, our domestic students are able to interact with people from all over the world and our domestic or international sensor able to work with domestic students.

And learn about US culture and how we do things. And so it's a great learning experience within the class.

So when you're at Colorado State University, it's important to remember that it's good to be a really strong student academically, but you really need to develop a well balanced resume. A well balanced resume is what's going to help you get that dream job or get into the graduate program that you're hoping to get into, and so being a strong student academically, having a good GPA is really important, but you also need to continue to showcase on your resume.

That you do have leadership skills and you do understand and appreciate the value in concept of teamwork and that you are comfortable working with people who are different than yourself and you have taken opportune iti's to expose yourself and be trained in those different types of environments. And so your extracurricular involvement involvement while you're a student are very important, and so it's important to know that there over 500 different clubs and organizations at CSU for students to get involved with.

We have about 30 within the College of business there all posted on our College of business website. I've got a few listed here, so the Global Business Network is a great student organization and club for international students and for domestic students who are hoping to work internationally after they graduate. We also have the business diversity and Leadership Alliance. This is a great student club for students who are passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion.

And how that is relevant to and how it relates to business. We also have the lat next Business Association which is particularly for Latin identifying students. So Mexican, Chicano, Hispanic, Latino. But this is also for any students who are interested in learning more about Latin culture.

We also have collegiate DECA, an calija FBLA, so if you are in those organizations now and want to continue to compete at the collegiate level, we do have those available. We also have the rock solid steward program. This is our student ambassador program within the College of business. We have a peer to peer mentoring program, so as an incoming first year freshman we could pair you with a junior or senior business student or a one year commitment and it's to develop a relationship. But it's also for the mentor to guide you and help you to maybe avoid some of the potholes that exist.

In higher education and then we also have our go abroad program and so we send more students abroad than any other major at C issue and so we can help you get to almost any place within the world as long as it's identified as federally safe. So the federal government.

Keeps track of countries and we have a list of countries that are safe to go to or considered safe to go to. We also have semester at sea. We also have shorter term programs that take place over winter break or summer over the summer so great opportunities. Don't assume that you can't afford to go abroad because we have some programs that the semester that you're abroad will be actually less expensive than if you were here at CSU for that particular semester.

And then yes, there are some programs that are very expensive, but don't assume that you can't afford it. If you're interested in possibly having an experience, let us know as soon as you get admitted to the College of business and we can start talking about that in more detail.

So let's talk a little bit more about student support, so we have incredible programs available to students in the College of business. Actually, we hold off 1 second. It looks like another student has a question. Does study abroad have substantially higher costs? Like I just said, there are some programs that can be very expensive, but there are some programs that are less expensive where the full cost of everything for that semester. Then it would be for you to be at CSU for that semester so we can help you find.

Very cost effective programs as well. Good question.

So one of the great support services that we offer in the College of business is academic advising. And so we do advising a little bit differently in the College of business. Our faculty do not advise students are faculty are here to teach and to mentor and guide you on your industry, which is probably their passion area and instead we have a full time professional team of Advisors. And so these folks are here to help you with.

Guidance on your curriculum. They may help you with developing some skill sets that are necessary for you to succeed at CSU. They're here to help prepare you for graduation, and so you will be assigned to advisors within the College of business if you join us as an incoming first year student, all of our freshmen, sophomores and juniors have an assigned advisor, and you'll work with that person for your first three years and then your senior year. You'll be assigned to a senior advisor.

And so the senior advisor is going to look at your curriculum and everything that you have completed from a different perspective. There are going to be, you know, dotting all the I's, crossing all the T's, making sure that everything is good to go, so that when you do graduate, you actually have a diploma coming as well. So our advisors are here to work with you on just about anything. And so.

Even though you know we're in academic unit, we're here to talk with you about personal life issues, any kind of problems that you may be having an if we can't help you with those, we will know who to refer you to either on campus or within the Greater Fort Collins community. So this is an incredible resource. It's up to you to decide if you want to develop a relationship with your advisor, but we strongly encourage you to, because your advisor can also be an incredible resource, and they can also write incredible letters of recommendation and be great references.

So something for you to think about.

As we're talking about references and looking for that dream job that you may have, we are also very fortunate in the College of business because Colorado State University has a Career Center for all students. But in the College of business we have our own career management center. So we have our own team of full time career counselors. Half of our team are out working with companies, getting them to come to campus to talk to our students and to hire our students and the other half of our career counselors are here on campus working with our students.

Preparing you to interact with the different companies that are interested in talking to our students. And so we will help you with personal branding. Prepping for interviews. You can sign up for mock interviews, an have an actual interview with the real H, our representative, and at the end they give you feedback on what you did well and what you need to work on so that when you actually interview for a real job or an internship, you're much more prepared and much more confident. We also help you with resume writing, cover letter writing. We also provide professional mentoring.

So we can pair you your senior year with an alumni who is out working in the industry that you may be interested in going to work for. So lots of opportunities through their management center.

Looks like Matthew has a question. Are there living learning communities within the dorms or business majors? So right now the College of business does not have a living learning community on campus, but there is a floor in one of the halls where people who are interested in business tend to gravitate toward. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're all business majors, though. Until now, our college and Ardene's really wanted our students to live with and interact with students from.

All disciplines across campus business is perhaps one of the most diverse industries in the world. For career opportunities. And so it's important for our students to learn how to interact with and work with people who are different than themselves. I've been mentioning that a lot throughout this presentation, and so where you live on campus will also allow you to interact with people from various majors across campus, which is a really good skill set to develop. So right now, we really encourage our students to live.

All over campus.

And you know, as I'm just talking about, yes, we do have our own crew center specific for business and we do provide the same resources and services that the Career Center for the University offers, plus a lot more because we're a smaller office. An because were funded by the College of business. We are able to provide resources that the rest of the University is not able to provide. So good question.

And so you'll start working with the crew management center from day one. So as soon as you join us as a business student, you will start working with them and then the great thing about this resources, it is a resource for life. So if you graduate from the College of business, you will be able to access our crew, management center, anarcho counselors for the rest of your life. So as I mentioned earlier, you most likely will be looking at having three or four different careers in your lifetime.

When you're looking for your first career while you're wrapping up your undergraduate experience at CSU, it's a little bit easier because all of those resources are right here at your fingertips. It's not so easy for folks to look for their second and third karere five 1015 years after they graduate. Well, you don't have to do it alone. You can contact us here at CSU in the College of business, and if you graduated from the College of business, we will help you find that second, third, 4th career. Whatever you're needing help with, so that's a great resource.

All of these services that I've been talking about end up helping us to have some incredible retention and graduation rates, so we have the highest retention rate in the University, so we retain 94% of our freshmen to their sophomore year. And overall we retain 89% of all of the students who join us in the College of business. That is also the highest at the University. We also have the highest 4, five and six year graduation rates, so 70% of our students.

Graduate in four years 89% in six years. Now again. A lot of people are wondering why more people do not graduate in four years. As I mentioned earlier, there are some reasons why students choose not to graduate in four years. If you're an accounting major an you want to sit for the CPA exam an you decide to go to 100.

Then you would need to delay graduation and most likely graduate in four and a half or five years and that would be a really good decision to make, because then it qualifies you to sit for the CPA exam. There are other reasons why students will delay graduation. Some students may be want to have a full year study abroad experience rather than a semester abroad. And then unfortunately some of our students have to work a lot of hours to be able to afford to pay for college, and so they may have to take lighter loads.

While they work more hours and that will delay graduation a bit, it's important to know though, that the College of business is very committed to getting our students graduated in four years and we have actually even created a three year program. So if you are interested in graduating in three years, we do have the means for you to be able to do that, and we would be happy to help you set that kind of a program up.

Here is just a small listing of logos for some of the companies who hire our students are students do go to work for a variety of different types of companies from small mom and pop startup entrepreneurial ventures to large corporations. With fifty 60,000 employees worldwide. And so it just depends upon where you want to live after you graduate. What industry you want to go into an what kind of a company you might want to go and work for?

A question came in can internships be completed during the semester or are they typically completed during summer? And do you offer Co op opportunities so this is a great question. So most of our internships are going to take place in the summer because a lot of our students want to work full time for the company. However, when the internship takes place is also often depends upon where you're going to be doing that internship. So if you're going to do the internship.

In another state outside of Colorado, then most likely you're going to do it in the summer, but we have a lot of internships in the Fort Collins area, an within what is considered commuting distance and Denver is considered commuting distance, so there are a lot of internship opportunities considered local, and if that's the case then you could do an internship in a fall or spring semester while you're also taking a full time load. Of course, is so a lot of it just depends upon what company you want to go and work for for an internship.

We also actually send students abroad, so you could actually also do an international internship where you go to another country and so we do play students in about 6 different countries right now. So lots of different opportunities and we do not offer a Co op opportunities, so it would just be a summer fall or spring internship program which will require you to work for a minimum of 150 hours with that company. It is a supervised experience both from the company perspective but also from Colorado State University.

So we will have a faculty member who will supervise your experience and make sure that you're getting a legitimate experience and that it is relevant to your concentration. So let's say for example, maybe you're a finance major. You have to be doing a finance internship. You cannot be a Gopher going and getting coffee and Donuts for the executives. You cannot be doing a management internship if you're a finance major, so you would have to do an internship within your specific meat, and so we will help you.

With all of that, we have lots of connections all over the country all over the world, but you could also go out and through your networks, potentially secure an internship, bring it back to us and get approval for credit. Good questioning all.

Now, with that said, that is the formal presentation I do want to answer more questions, so if you have questions, please post those and I will continue answering those an while. You're doing that. I'm just going to go to the final slide just so you can see my contact information, and so if you would like to have a one on one face to face conversation through Microsoft Teams feel free to reach out to me and we can set up a conversation that way.

But if you as you start going through the packet of information that we sent you, if you have questions, just shoot me an email and I will be happy to answer that. You can also see our website here and also I have the email address for the admissions office so you could reach out to them with questions as.

So any questions?

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Thank you Matthew.

I did a pretty good job of answering questions throughout, so there may not be too many questions now. Looks like one person responded that they have no questions, so thank you.

I'll give it another few seconds and then.

Will wrap up.

Another question came in is the business major and program compatible with the Honors College, and so that's a fantastic question. So Colorado State University does have an honors program and the College of business is part of the Honors Program, so we do have a business honor scholar program and so yes, it works fantastic with honors.

And so the way that that works is you will have some courses that are part of your business core. We talked about the business court, the beginning that you will if you go into the honors business program, you will take an honors version of that course rather than a regular version of that course. The difference between honors business class and a non honors business class is typically going to be the format and so a good example would be for example business law. All business students are required to take business law.

The non honors version of business law is going to be a straight lecture course, so you'll come into class. The professor will lecture. You'll take notes, you'll memorize all the information you'll take exams to verify that you know the information.

The honor section of business law is going to be very different format. It's going to be a significantly smaller class. You're most likely going to sit in a circle is going to be discussion oriented, and so it's just a very different concept, and so we would love to be able to offer the honor's style format for all of our students. But unfortunately we just can't do that, so honors courses will be significantly smaller. Ann will be more discussion oriented rather than lecture oriented.

Good question.

Well, it looks like that's all of the questions, so I just want to say thank you all for joining us today. I know choosing a major and choosing a University is not an easy decision. I've been there myself, I've done it myself, but it is a very important thing to think about a lot, and to put some research into. So I'm glad that you joined us today. The reason it's so important is because the University and the major that you choose will become a part of your life for the rest of your life. And so you really want to make sure that it's going to be a good fit for you and that we're going to be able to help you achieve all of the goals that you have.

So I wish you the very best of luck. Take care and hope to see you at Colorado State University and the College of business in the coming future so you take care and have a good one. I see a couple of other questions have command so I'll answer those before I log off. So with regard to the honest program, do you have to take extra courses? So no, there are no extra courses you would still graduate with 120 credits, but some of your elective credits will be designated toward the Honors Program.

So you'll have some honors seminars that you will be taking even if you do want to go into the Honors Program, you would still have enough credits to do a double concentration or do a concentration Anna minor, so no extra courses, but just some different courses. Good questioning all.

Thank you Carolyn. Appreciate it you take care of yourself.

Thanks you all.