Millikin University Tabor School of Business: Imparting Quality Education To Prepare Students For Professional Success
RJ Podeschi, Dean Tabor School of Business
While business education has become the holy grail for students to sustain and succeed in the present competitive industry scenario, the US has emerged as a holy sanctum for numerous national and international students. US is home to some of the leading universities of the world and most of them are known for their academic excellence, world-class curriculum, and outstanding faculties. Standing ahead of the queue, Millikin University has been successful in arresting the attention of students and educationists alike.
Established in 1901, with the entrepreneurial vision of James Millikin for a novel kind of higher education experience, Millikin University has been playing a tremendous role in amalgamating the practical and theoretical, the personal and public, science and the arts to serve students and citizens from every sphere. With the conviction that these values are still needed, and with our founder’s vision in mind, Tabor School of Business – a unique wing of Millikin University, has carved its identity as one of the most coveted destinations for business studies across the US.
Millikin University is home to approx. 1,600-student population amongst whom more than 100 students have an international background. Cooperating on team projects and simultaneously learning about each other’s culture, international students take a variety of business and non-business courses alongside domestic students. Generally, Tabor freshmen are engaged in building business plans as a part of Business Creation, which is an exclusive experience for firstyear students. Enabling them to acquire the entrepreneurial mindset, this strategy helps the students to understand all of the functional areas of business, and effectively collaborate in teams.
With numerous alumni who are performing impeccably and competing in the real world, Tabor School of Business boasts of an exclusive environment that encourages the students to engage with faculties who are fiercely committed to teaching. Through an innovative concept called Performance Learning, the Tabor School of Business has a rich history of integrating theory and practice, which ultimately enables the students to build their resumes while they are in school and leave the university prepared to lead.
Taking Lead with Industry-centric Curriculums
The courses offered by the institution involve real-world projects where students work on client consulting projects for local businesses, non-profit organizations, or even international companies and their performances are evaluated not just by the professors, but also the client, as well as the third party. The first semester in the Tabor School of Business culminates with a Business Plan Competition and is evaluated by judges from the community, where students get the chance to win a voucher that will offset the cost of international or domestic university- sponsored travel.
“Millikin University is a home to approx. 1,600-student population amongst whom more than 100 students have an international background”
Management Information Systems students are engaged in client consulting work and last fall, students promoted a web application that dynamically displays the university organizational chart and employee directory. However, one of the newest and most popular concentrations within numerous MBA programs that Tabor School of Business offers is Data Analytics. Through courses like visualizations, data mining, and business forecasting, students not only gain a strategic perspective on business but also learn how to use and apply those methods for analyzing data to make better decisions both at a personal and professional level.
Jaclyn Cantwell, Interim Director, MBA Program
“Our students in an international business course have helped the government of Ecuador on local economic policy. In a human resources course, our students have built a performance management system for a dry cleaning and restoration company and for an information systems course, they have built a database application for recording and reporting the demographics of the homeless population to the federal government. In addition, students across various disciplines run their own tech consulting company in MU Performance Consulting, via which students primarily develop, design, and host websites for local organizations”, quotes RJ Podeschi, Dean, Tabor School of Business.
Nurturing An Everlasting Bond with The Students
The Tabor School of Business has a dedicated internship coordinator who works in coordination with the students to identify placement opportunities and assist them accordingly. It is necessary for all undergraduate students to have an internship to graduate, and each internship has learning outcomes as well as career readiness programs built-in with the course.
Apart from that, the institution also has an award for students to compensate their cost of travel and lodging expenses associated with internships, if they need to accommodate someplace else instead of their campus or their home. Students can apply for this opportunity after securing an internship. Assisting the students in every aspect, the faculties of Tabor School of Business mentor and teach students individually, advise them on their career plans, connect them with our vast alumni network, and maintain those connections after graduation.
Thriving in size and repute since the day of its inception, The Tabor School of Business has also increased the number of program offerings over the years. A nationally and internationally awarded as well as acknowledged Centre for Entrepreneurship, Millikin University believes in imparting a cross-campus effort to assist faculty and students in understanding the mindset of entrepreneurship in their disciplines. Apart from learning how to work simultaneously in a business and on a business, Millikin’s hallmark student-run ventures allow students to acquire the skill sets they desire and reap the success they deserve.
Established in 1901, with the entrepreneurial vision of James Millikin for a novel kind of higher education experience, Millikin University has been playing a tremendous role in amalgamating the practical and theoretical, the personal and public, science and the arts to serve students and citizens from every sphere. With the conviction that these values are still needed, and with our founder’s vision in mind, Tabor School of Business – a unique wing of Millikin University, has carved its identity as one of the most coveted destinations for business studies across the US.
Millikin University is home to approx. 1,600-student population amongst whom more than 100 students have an international background. Cooperating on team projects and simultaneously learning about each other’s culture, international students take a variety of business and non-business courses alongside domestic students. Generally, Tabor freshmen are engaged in building business plans as a part of Business Creation, which is an exclusive experience for firstyear students. Enabling them to acquire the entrepreneurial mindset, this strategy helps the students to understand all of the functional areas of business, and effectively collaborate in teams.
With numerous alumni who are performing impeccably and competing in the real world, Tabor School of Business boasts of an exclusive environment that encourages the students to engage with faculties who are fiercely committed to teaching. Through an innovative concept called Performance Learning, the Tabor School of Business has a rich history of integrating theory and practice, which ultimately enables the students to build their resumes while they are in school and leave the university prepared to lead.
Taking Lead with Industry-centric Curriculums
The courses offered by the institution involve real-world projects where students work on client consulting projects for local businesses, non-profit organizations, or even international companies and their performances are evaluated not just by the professors, but also the client, as well as the third party. The first semester in the Tabor School of Business culminates with a Business Plan Competition and is evaluated by judges from the community, where students get the chance to win a voucher that will offset the cost of international or domestic university- sponsored travel.
“Millikin University is a home to approx. 1,600-student population amongst whom more than 100 students have an international background”
Management Information Systems students are engaged in client consulting work and last fall, students promoted a web application that dynamically displays the university organizational chart and employee directory. However, one of the newest and most popular concentrations within numerous MBA programs that Tabor School of Business offers is Data Analytics. Through courses like visualizations, data mining, and business forecasting, students not only gain a strategic perspective on business but also learn how to use and apply those methods for analyzing data to make better decisions both at a personal and professional level.
Jaclyn Cantwell, Interim Director, MBA Program
“Our students in an international business course have helped the government of Ecuador on local economic policy. In a human resources course, our students have built a performance management system for a dry cleaning and restoration company and for an information systems course, they have built a database application for recording and reporting the demographics of the homeless population to the federal government. In addition, students across various disciplines run their own tech consulting company in MU Performance Consulting, via which students primarily develop, design, and host websites for local organizations”, quotes RJ Podeschi, Dean, Tabor School of Business.
Nurturing An Everlasting Bond with The Students
The Tabor School of Business has a dedicated internship coordinator who works in coordination with the students to identify placement opportunities and assist them accordingly. It is necessary for all undergraduate students to have an internship to graduate, and each internship has learning outcomes as well as career readiness programs built-in with the course.
Apart from that, the institution also has an award for students to compensate their cost of travel and lodging expenses associated with internships, if they need to accommodate someplace else instead of their campus or their home. Students can apply for this opportunity after securing an internship. Assisting the students in every aspect, the faculties of Tabor School of Business mentor and teach students individually, advise them on their career plans, connect them with our vast alumni network, and maintain those connections after graduation.
Thriving in size and repute since the day of its inception, The Tabor School of Business has also increased the number of program offerings over the years. A nationally and internationally awarded as well as acknowledged Centre for Entrepreneurship, Millikin University believes in imparting a cross-campus effort to assist faculty and students in understanding the mindset of entrepreneurship in their disciplines. Apart from learning how to work simultaneously in a business and on a business, Millikin’s hallmark student-run ventures allow students to acquire the skill sets they desire and reap the success they deserve.
