Hello, my name is Bob Albright. I'm the Chair of the Management department at the University of New Haven's Pompea School of Business. I would like to chat with you about our International Business Management degree. I believe it's a very valuable degree. It's designed to provide in-depth expertise in the discipline of Business Management, while it concurrently explores the international context in which most of our businesses operate today.
If you study Business Management as a discipline, you learn how to lead, organize and direct all the assets of the firm, human financial capital assets, everything you make business decisions, which most of our large businesses today have to consider the global context, your supply chain, where your markets are, who's gonna be able to buy your product. And most companies think about that globally, instead of locally in these things. We've really become a global society as most of you, I'm sure, would agree. We want our students to be able to evaluate how the cultural and legal differences between countries can impact important business decisions.
I believe we have a rigorous education at least to an attractive degree and multiple job offers. We have our learning goals focused on business principles, analytical and technical knowledge, and we always take a strategic global perspective and integrated business perspective if you would. We're now currently hot on teaching social responsibility and ethical awareness. And you will hear about those principles and every class should take kindly we want all of our students to be able to communicate, collaborate, and continually self-improve no matter where they go for their ultimate job.
Our degrees are full of experiential education. We might call that "discovery-based education." In your very first freshman year when it comes to the Pompea School of Business, you and a group of teammates will be assigned to create a business plan or a business opportunity. Your business plan by the end of the semester will be evaluated by real business professionals. With the top business plan in this particular competition, ends up getting seed money to try to put their business forward and make it a reality. We encourage business planning competitions like the one I just described, we have SLiCE projects by the end of your four years or three years at the University of New Haven.
"SLiCE" stands for Shared Live Client Experiences, you'd be matched with the real company or regional company in the area probably via one of our alumni to solve a real problem or an opportunity for those companies are currently facing. They will want your input you will act as a consultant towards them in your senior year at the University of New Haven. So we work to strive we strive to put in many of these experiential ed opportunities into your program exists standard is not something you can dodge, you have to do that. You're not going to just take basic learning from a textbook listening to professors but the PowerPoints, you're going to actually learn by doing.
If you get an International Business degree, you will have 27 different electives in the regular Business Management degree. If you strive for an International Business Management degree, you will not have 27 you will have 14. We want you to study abroad. If it's at all possible, as an International Business major, we want you to gain fluency in at least two languages if indeed you're going to be an International Business Management major. And again, you will have to engage in these active learning activities, many different competitions, many different opportunities to work with real companies either on consulting projects or as an intern for them. And again, you earn credits by doing this.
I do want to mention the fact that the University of New Haven actually has a campus in Prato, Italy. It's magnificent, every student that's ever gone there that I end up talking to as loved their study abroad experience. And this study abroad experience is special, every college can say they have a study abroad experience that most of them have just partnered with a foreign college if you would and send their students back and forth. And those students oftentimes have to pay extra. Their financial aid doesn't travel with them. If they have financial aid, and their registration, the transfer of the courses might be difficult. Because it's our campus over in Prato, all those issues are solved. Again, every student that I've ever had go there ends up raving about the study abroad experience. If you're an International Business management major, we would like you to have a study abroad experience. Again, if at all possible, we'll try to make that happen.
Let me chat about a few more things. We encourage internships, most all of our students end up doing an internship somewhere. Oftentimes, these internships lead to the gaining of real work experience, a real understanding of the business context that they wouldn't get if they weren't immersed to working for a real organization on real business opportunities or problems. And I believe firmly that internships quite often open the door to real full-time jobs. We had a student last year, intern at three different places and he ended up picking to take the job that was offered to them at the third business institution. He had his pick of three job offers, all of which he had had time to experience before he even graduated.
Our students move on and work for great employers. Almost all of them have an international market international supply chain. So you the International Business degree is attractive to those employers. I'm sure you would recognize some of the names on here. I don't know how you couldn't... General Electric, Verizon, Coca Cola, Apple, Nestle. All of them have shown the value of a New Haven International Business degree.
I'm sure this presentation has been too brief. It hasn't answered all of your questions, please contact me at the University of New Haven. If I can answer any more for you come to one of our open houses. If you end up coming to one of them and you meet our current students and listen to what the curriculum is like what the experiences are like here at the University of New Haven. I bet you end up deciding this is the place you want to go. Thank you for listening. I hope to see you soon.