Michigan, Ross School - Students Taking Questions

根据Zeros老大的反馈，原来的帖子太长，不便于大家翻阅，因此我代表Ross的在校学生重开新贴，回答大家有关Ross的问题。另外Ross负责亚洲区的admissions officer - Michele Thompson 也非常愿意通过chasedream提供一些大家关心的信息，另外收集一些大家对Ross的反馈意见。希望我们的努力可以对大家的申请以及职业规划有所帮助！

先给大家update一下你以后有机会使用的Ross new buidling的进展，可惜我没有机会享用了

Regents Approve Design of New Ross School Building

10/24/2005 --

The new 270,000-square-foot facility will support action-based learning at the Ross School.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Board of Regents today approved the schematic design of a major new building to house the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

The building will be tailor-made to support the Ross School's unique action-based learning curriculum and provide an environment that will nurture a cohesive community of faculty and students.

"Our new facility will help us maintain our high standing and create an optimal environment for our distinct, team-based learning that bridges theory and practice," said Ross School Dean Robert J. Dolan. "Classrooms, offices and other spaces will be arranged in a setting conducive to a great deal of collaboration inside the school. Technology designed into the building will foster interaction with firms and organizations around the world."

Dolan noted that more than 80 members of the business school community served on a "community creation committee" convened to share ideas about a building design that meets current and future needs of the school.

The 270,000-square-foot structure, designed by New York City architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, will stand six stories tall at its L-shaped center and three stories high around its perimeter along Tappan and Hill streets. Its exterior will be constructed of terra cotta walls with a sandstone base. Glass walls at the top stories of the building will provide panoramic views of the U-M campus.

The new facility will give the Ross School an architectural presence befitting its position as one of the nation's top business schools, Dolan said. Its main entrance, which will be located at the corner of Tappan and Monroe streets, will provide a gateway to the business school campus in the form of a glassed-in "winter quad"—a bright, airy and highly visible community space containing an informal lounge, study areas and a cafe.

Classrooms and study areas—all equipped with integrated presentation technology and network access—will support interactive learning, team projects and discussions. U-shaped classrooms with tiered seating, flat-floor classrooms and group-study breakout areas will be grouped together to facilitate many styles of teaching and learning, and allow for a seamless transition from formal classwork to team interaction during a single class session.

New faculty offices will be large enough to facilitate meetings with students and be clustered into communities of offices to encourage natural mingling among colleagues. Other components consist of an auditorium, colloquium spaces and areas for outside visitors (recruiters, alumni and special guests) and a clustered "one-stop shopping" location for student services (admissions, financial aid, academic services and career development).

"This new facility will change the face of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business," said U-M President Mary Sue Coleman. "More importantly, it will transform the climate of teaching and research for our students and faculty. The vision of alumnus Stephen Ross and Dean Robert Dolan guarantees a spectacular future for business education at Michigan."

In order to make way for the new structure, Davidson Hall, Paton Accounting Center, Assembly Hall and an electrical switching station will be demolished. Demolition is expected to begin in spring 2006, with construction slated to start in fall 2006. The opening of the new building is scheduled for fall 2008.

It is estimated that the new building will cost $145 million. A lead gift for the building was secured in September 2004 as real estate developer and alumnus Stephen Ross donated $100 million to the school. Seventy-five million dollars of the gift will be directed for costs associated with construction and $25 million will go into the business school's endowment. The remaining $70 million for the project will come from additional fund raising, business school funds and other private sources.

Upon announcing the Ross gift—the largest gift ever to a U.S. business school and the largest donation to the U-M in its 188-year history—the school was renamed in his honor. A 1962 graduate of the Michigan business school, Ross is founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, a fully integrated real estate firm headquartered in New York City.

Ross also co-chairs the University's $2.5-billion The Michigan Difference campaign and currently serves on Coleman's Advisory Group and the Director's Cabinet in the University's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He recently provided the $5 million lead gift for the new Stephen M. Ross Academic Center located on U-M's athletic campus and has previously given $1 million to the business school for an endowed professorship; $50,000 to the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the Henry Pearce Endowed Scholarship; and scholarship support for student-athletes.

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates has designed a variety of award-winning buildings around the world, including facilities for colleges (Wharton, Stanford, Oxford), corporate headquarters (Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Gannett), government offices (The World Bank), retail buildings (Bloomingdale's), museums, airports, hotels, hospitals and more.

I am MBA of 2007, and would like to answer any questions if you have. BTW, I am working as volunteer ambassdor for Ross admission committee, you can send email to me or other ambassdors if you have any questions, and do contact me if you come to school for the visit. Attached is the link of the admission ambassdor website:http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/Tours/Ambassadors.htm.

Good luck to your application.

不知道你想知道哪个方面的信息，我以前大致讲过一些：

中国学生intern 包括台湾，香港的情况是: 一人大陆同学在香港UBS，一人台湾同学在A.T.Kearney Shanghai，两人回intel China（一个来自大陆，一个来自台湾），两个台湾同学回P&G台湾，其余十几人在美国。在美国的人则分散在各个不同行业和方向上，就业情况完全符合Ross diversify的特点，banking, consulting, finance, marketing, business development, and operations一样都不缺。

我也是Ross MBA1，重返CD大家庭。尽自己的力量给大家答疑解惑。

谢谢飞雪版版 和laobob！

前几天刚在上海与UMICH的校友做完面试，感觉校友很NICE，也很乐于助人。让人无形中对UMICH的好感又多了一层。

另外，想了解一下（不知是否有此数据），对于中国大陆去的学生而言，SUMMER INTERN大概多大比率能转化成毕业后在美的工作机会？

另外，不知校方有没有毕业后留美工作的中国大陆学生的PROFILE？

提个小建议：如果校方（或者诸如中国的校友联合会这样的组织）除了提供全部学生的统计资料外，还能够针对各地区的学生做统计的话，相信不仅对于潜在的申请人会有很大的指导，也可以帮助学校更好地MARKETING自己和ATTRACTING更多申请人。

建议想Switch career的同志要考虑清楚，international想switch还是挺困难的，毕竟sponser H1的公司就那些，还不是只open给international，这么多人都在一起抢，你就知道困难程度了。当然也不是没有人成功，去香港banking的同学算是最成功的一个，另外进入consulting的如果算的话，有两个，有一个香港同学进了NY的一个小banking，也算一个，还有一个台湾同学从engineering转做corporate finance。另外有两个通过Ross特有的Marcel Gani program转入了finance。Full time最后能有多少人switch成功还要等到毕业的时候才会知道了。