Student review [#18046] for Business Administration
at University of Groningen - RUG

I took part in the Business Administration program and studied at the University for 4 years, graduating with a MSc degree. I would not do the same program again at this University. The program is heavily focused on research, practical exercises are far away from anything that can be expected in real-world settings. Grading of practical exercises is almost always outsourced to students who are not qualified to do this job. Hence, the feedback on exercises is useless and the grading is inconsistent to say the least. The use of unqualified personnel to grade and evaluate papers and exercises points towards a flaw in management. Money is saved at places where it negatively impacts the quality of teaching.

The University does not make use of industry standard programs during the courses and exercises. Instead, programs are used that no company uses. A proclaimed top 100 University fails to deliver adequate skill development. The professor supervising my Master’s thesis provided feedback extremely sparsely and the quality of feedback made me think that the professor never fully read my thesis.

All in all I conclude the University could improve the quality of teaching immensely by using more qualified teaching personnel to grade and evaluate papers and practical exercises, as well as using industry standard programs to facilitate acceptable skill development.