Jon M. Huntsman School of Business — Attraction in Logan

I have spent four years going to the esteemed Huntsman School of Business. During my time here I have had some fantastic professors who really cared about the content they were teaching and strived to show us how to use a lot of the information that we went over in class to use in the real world. I benefited greatly from these classes and hope to be able to use the material I learned through these classes in my professional life throughout my career. My favorite class was taught by Dr. S and we went into depth on mortgages and the best way to manage personal debt while maximizing your own benefit and minimizing interest payments.

Unfortunately, the college itself is a business focusing more on its reputation and image than on the quality of the content that is taught in the classroom. Many of the classes had material that was poorly prepared and forced students to buy poorly written and subpar quality online textbooks that the professors wrote as a group. For a college that presents itself so professionally, I would have expected that the many spelling and grammatical errors would have been resolved before pushing the material onto students. Many of the questions we were supposed to answer were so vague they could be answered in many different ways, depending on the circumstances, even though there was only one correct answer and no chance of defending your response. The permission to access these textbooks is revoked as soon as we finish the semester, defeating the purpose of purchasing a textbook. The assignments, quizzes, some tests, and other things are ingrained in these virtual textbooks, so students are forced to buy them in order to complete classwork. The professors often would defer to these poorly written textbooks for material in place of teaching during class hours.

The deferential tuition is something that all students here have a hard time with, the vote to increase these extra tuition expenses happened before I enrolled at this university. It is a significant increase in the cost of tuition, enough that the master's degrees through other departments are significantly more affordable than the cost of undergrad tuition through the Huntsman school. This tuition was to go towards hiring more professors, TAs, and new building costs. They are in the process of demolishing a large student housing building in order to build a new business building, despite having numerous classrooms open at any given time. The buildings are very nice, but I strongly feel that there are better ways to use the money (that would be a fraction of the cost of the building) that would have a better long-term effect on the quality of education that is offered.

One of my biggest concerns is with one of the minors the university pushes and advertises quite heavily (at least during the time I was there). The Entrepreneurship Minor is advertised heavily within the college itself and has a variety of activities for the Entrepreneurship Club they have. Many of the activities are quite good, but the classes as well as the activities seem to skip over the most important parts of becoming an entrepreneur. There are four classes within the minor, and they all contain a final project which is a business plan that emphasizes that class’s subject. For example, the finance-oriented class needs more financial details than the marketing class and vice versa. While this is understandable, none of the four classes go over how to legally start a business. Going into this particular program I had hopes of learning some essentials to be a successful business owner and the following list contains items we did NOT cover. These items include workman's compensation, general liability, social security paid from each paycheck, employee compensation and benefits packages, auto insurance, business taxes, types of small businesses and their advantages/disadvantages, business loans, accounting, how to use online media for advertising, and how to identify gaps in the market that...

Classes are great, overall it is a quality institution. The tuition differential is very expensive. I think it's around 500 dollars extra a class for 3000 level and above courses.

If that had been explained to me, I would have no complaints as I either would have found another program I could afford or gone to another school that did not have the surcharge. Instead I got through my 2000 level classes, regularly meeting both in person and via zoom with advisors. When I went to take 3000 level classes my tuition came out to be around 7000 dollars. I pay slightly more than the average student as I have the 1 year alumni scholarship so for most students it probably would look more like 6500. No advisor nor professor ever explained the business school's added cost to me. I also can find very little information regarding the surcharge on the USU website.

I went into the office at the school of business and was assured there was a mistake and to talk to the registrar's office. The registrar's office confirmed the surcharge when I called them.

This feels like a bait and switch to me but I will let the reader decide for themselves. I am now looking to transfer to a school I can afford or perhaps transferring programs. All told this set me back at least a semester. I am concerned by the lack of transparency I have witnessed and don't want others to have the same...

Besides the the mesmerizing view overseeing the Canyon and the abundant up-to-date technology resources the school offers, the Huntsman School focus on excellence, business and finance pragmatism, and well catered curriculum is exceptionally fulfilling.

The Huntsman School and it’s distinguished faculty will mold your from good to great, and from great to excellent. The guidance, support, and academic rigor will challenge your conventional business and finance understanding and prompt you to think outside the box, learning to evaluate economic policy and business decisions through the lenses of prudence and wise decision making.

In short, I highly recommend the school to those eager to pursue a career in business, finance, economics, ...