At Temple University’s Fox School of Business, every student that walks through the doors are prepared for leadership.
This year, the B-School placed 92nd in the 2023 rankings. Regarding the three methodological categories, they placed 88th in Academic Experience, and 92nd in both Admissions and Career Outcomes.
CURRICULUM
Throughout their first year at the Fox School, students will take part in activities to earn points that strengthen competencies that companies and recruiters look for in potential employees. As part of the FLDP, students at Fox can kick off their community engagement efforts at the school by attending a school fair where they learn more about the available majors and minors.
The school offers a wide variety of majors, from the traditional accounting, marketing, economics, finance, financial planning, business management, human resource management, economics, and real estate, to the less common majors like entrepreneurship and innovation management, legal studies in business, risk, insurance and healthcare management, actuarial science, healthcare risk management, supply chain management, international business administration, management information systems, and statistical science & data analytics.
SCHOOL BOASTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Under the leadership of Porat, students at the Fox School begin working on their personal and professional development with the FDLP from the get-go. By engaging in human resource workshops, healthcare workshops, university career fairs, or attending the new student networking night, they jump into learning how to meet new people and talk about the value they bring to businesses.
As students progress through the program and move into higher-level activities, they can choose to attend conferences, join a case competition, take on an ongoing internship, or report a job offer.
At Temple University, all students can gain real-world experience through the Fox School of Business Entrepreneurship Internship Program. However, only Fox School students have access to the International Business Internship Program.
At the core of the Entrepreneurial Internship Program is a 100-hour onsite internship that is usually unpaid. The course is required of all entrepreneurship majors but can also be taken as a business or free elective for other majors throughout Temple. They may also choose to take it more than once. The course is designed for the student to work on a project for a partner company that can be completed within 10 to 15 weeks.
PHILADELPHIA IS AN EMERGING TECH HUB AND HOME TO 14 FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
The Fox School has its own small business development center where entrepreneurs can sign up to receive consulting on how to start or bring their businesses to the next level. The incubator also organizes events that teach people how to market to government agencies and understand the process of acquiring contracts and seminars on exporting and importing to expand your business internationally.
Besides the startup and tech potential, being at Temple University is already to be in the midst of opportunities. Greater Philadelphia is home to 14 Fortune 500 companies, including real estate company Toll Brothers, AmerisourceBergen, Comcast, DuPont, and Campbell Soup. What’s more, Philadelphia’s location between New York City and Washington, D.C., allows students at the Fox School to easily travel to meet with alums and potential employers.
Choosing Temple University doesn’t have to be all about the business when you’re living in a city with one of the nation’s top ten public transportation systems. The Alliance for Biking and Walking also ranked Philadelphia seventh in the country among large American cities whose populations walk or bike to work. Living off campus won’t cost students an arm and a leg either, with a relatively low cost of living. However, that may be set to change as it was recently ranked third best metro for the Amazon’s new headquarters.
