Experiential Learning
Executive-in-Residence Program (EIRP)
The Executive-in-Residence Program (EIRP) offers graduate students hands-on consulting experiences, partnering directly with real businesses and nonprofit organizations to solve real-world challenges.
Venture & Innovation Center (VIC)
The Startup Incubator Program guides graduate student founders through a year of applied entrepreneurship experiences, from ideation and business planning to venture development within St. John’s innovation ecosystem. Participants access pitch events, mentorship, and resources, with highly engaged teams advancing to the Venture & Innovation Center’s Startup BootCamp, the program’s summer capstone.
James & Eileen Christmas Business Plan Competition (BPC)
Dream, Design, Pitch and Prosper! BPC is an annual competition open to all St. John’s University students where individuals or teams develop a proposal and pitch the idea to industry leaders. Whether you're a participating entrepreneur or a spectator of the proposals, this process is inspirational.
Student Managed Investment Fund
Designed to give the students a hands-on experience at performing investment research, investing money and managing a portfolio.
The Applied Finance Institute
The mission of the Applied Finance Institute is to promote the activities related to the practice of finance for the benefit of our finance students - providing a focal point, encouraging an applied and experiential learning environment, relevant to the practice of finance, in order to prepare Tobin finance students for successful careers.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
The Department of Accountancy's premier academic service-learning opportunity for Tobin students is the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program preparing income tax returns for clients that have generated refunds of more than $22 million, which results in hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact and significant savings in tax preparation fees.
Lesley and William Collins Business Analytics Lab
The Lesley and William Collins Business Analytics Lab boasts state-of-the-art learning tools including 40 computer workstations. Every computer is equipped with the latest FactSet financial workstation software and 17 computers are also Bloomberg terminals. These state-of-the-art software tools and databases provide access to financial markets information, financial statement data, news, and worldwide economics indicators to enrich every student’s understanding of the business world. Classes can monitor and discuss the latest financial news and information with DirecTV Channels including Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business News, and the other cable news channels.
The Tools
- The Business Analytics Lab offers state-of-the-art software systems and databases to support hands-on, real-world student learning as well as faculty research.
- Its core application is FactSet, an extremely flexible set of applications which processes accounting data, securities prices and performance, portfolio analysis, earnings estimates, expansive economics data series, fixed income, and information on mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and private placements.
- Seventeen of the computer stations are also equipped with the Bloomberg terminal system.
- Thirty stations offer the Stata statistical analysis software.
- The Business Analytics Lab is equipped with Certiport which the Department of Accountancy uses for students to earn certification on Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Associate and Expert certification in Excel. The Lab is a certified testing center for MOS.
Audio/Visual Features
- 3 digital display screens, which can serve to show the instructor’s screens during class instruction, or one of the news channels available on the DirectTV subscription, or include the “audience” that is participating via teleconferencing software.
- Audio piped through speakers in the ceiling.
Competitive Advantage
Building on our traditions of producing business practitioners who recognize opportunities and use these to competitive advantage, the College is moving in a direction that will further build visibility for programs in all of our major areas of study.
- Students have easy access to downloadable versions of firms’ financial statements.
- Risk management students can simulate scenarios using multiple variables to determine the best risk coverage formula.
- Finance and economics students have access to real-time business data and news from around the world aggregated to make the soundest investment and portfolio management decisions.
- SMIF students use FactSet and Bloomberg to analyze stock recommendations and build their research reports.
- Business Analytics students can utilize the lab to draw from databases and databanks around the world in making decisions within or across business disciplines.
- Students of organizations and organizational behavior use the lab to derive the most contemporary business cases for use in strategic and operational analyses.
- Marketing students use the lab for research and planning relative to new products and services for consumers, or to evaluate the implications of a marketing plan.
- EIRP students perform research in support of strategic business plans.