Preparing You for a Career in Business

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All right, everyone, let’s meet Matthias. He’s studying Economics at SDSU, and he’s gonna talk about the Ness School of Management and Economics. Matthias, take it away my man.

– Thanks, Alex. Growing up on a fourth generation family farm in rural Southwest Minnesota, I was looking for a university that had numerous opportunities to meet my career ambitions. In addition to the countless extracurricular South Dakota State University has to offer, I was also drawn to SDSU because of their strong agricultural programs, small class sizes, and experiential learning courses. Many of my favorite experiential learning courses are offered here in the First Dakota National Bank e-Trading Lab within Harding Hall, home to the Ness School of Management and Economics. The lab houses 11 Bloomberg terminals with capabilities of real time financial data and news. These terminals and the communal environment greatly helps students perform financial research for one of my favorite classes, the Student Managed Investment Fund, where we manage a $460,000 donation. We select, analyze, and make stock pitches for class. These resources have given us the unique opportunity to present our portfolio several times at the Quinnipiac Game Forum, which is the largest competitive student-run financial conference in the world. When the stock market closes, I enjoy being on campus to be a part of the unique campus community and participate in several of the over 250 extracurricular organizations our university has to offer. One of my favorite clubs that I’m involved in is the Country Swing Dance Club. This club welcomes all students to the on-campus Wellness Center to learn how to swing dance from upperclassmen. It’s a great way to learn a new skill and meet new people. Not only has SDSU taught me how to swing dance, but it has also given me a vast amount of knowledge and practical real world experience to apply in my future career in agribusiness. As we Jackrabbits like to say, “go big, go blue, go Jacks!” Now back to you, Alex.

– Thanks for sharing your story Matthias. How about that? The Ness School of Management and Economics is one of the many places at SDSU where you’ll find real life opportunities to grow and learn at State. Very impressive. Thanks again, Matthias.