- Campus Wide Network
- Centers Of Research:
The Main Library of the University is in St. Augustine's Hall, located on the Queens Campus, which hosts a "Graduate Commons" specifically dedicated to our graduate population. Together with the collections of the Loretto Memorial Library on the Staten Island Campus, the Law School Library, the Oakdale Campus Library, and the Rome Campus Library, the total University Libraries collections number 1.7 million volumes and include more than 6,000 periodic subscriptions. These materials support course offerings as well as student cultural and recreational interests. Collections include government documents and audiovisual materials. There is also an extensive collection of indexes, abstracts, and full text databases.
The Financial Information Lab in Marillac Hall enhances the education we deliver through the establishment of a learning environment that brings real-time news, market information, financial data and industry-class analytical tools to our students and faculty.” This type of facility enables our students to learn about and live in the financial markets in business environments and situations throughout the world.
The Tools:
The Financial Information 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.
Computers:
All 33 computers upgraded in 2011 and equipped with dual display, side-by-side monitors.
FactSet (www.factset.com) software, a premium suite of financial analytical tools and databases, installed on all 32 stations on the floor and at the podium.
12 stations equipped with both the Bloomberg system and FactSet.
Two printers with ID swipe control.
Wall-Mounted LCD Screens:
Full screen mode for DirecTV, or
A multi-windowed presentation with DirecTV broadcast in the largest window, stock tickers running along the bottom, and market highlights and St. John's announcements displayed in the side window.
DirecTV Channels:
Bloomberg
CNBC
CNBC World
Court TV
Discovery Health
Fox News Channel
CNN
MSNBC
Headline News
Current TV
Travel Channel
Weather Channel
C-SPAN
C-SPAN2
Audio/Visual Features:
A podium is equipped with a computer, dual monitors, a microphone, laptop connector, and DVD/VCR player, along with a control panel.
The microphone and audio feed through six speakers set into the ceiling.
There are three ceiling projectors...one for each of the PC monitors and the third (nearest to the podium) for either a laptop, DVD or VCR image.
World Clocks:
A digital strip of clocks sits above the main entry/exit door between the FIL and Marillac microlab and displays the time in six different parts of the world, starting with New York and moving east to London, Beirut, New Delhi, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Tracker Board:
The Tracker Board conjures up images of the "big board" at the NYSE. It displays, on a scrolling basis:
The list and current prices of the holdings of The Tobin College of Business undergraduate and graduate Student-Managed Investment Funds (SMIFs).
Values of major domestic and international stock indices.
Futures contract prices.
Currency exchange rates.
Treasury security rates and quotes.
Market prices of major sector ETFs (consumer discretionary, consumer staples, healthcare, utilities, energy, telecommunications, information tech, industrials, materials, financials.)
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.
- International Student Support Groups:
The International Student Office provides special orientation and support services for these students.
- Minority Support Groups:
Various student organizations
- Peer Tutoring Programs
- Research Facilities:
The Main Library of the University is in St. Augustine's Hall, located on the Queens Campus, which hosts a "Graduate Commons" specifically dedicated to our graduate population. Together with the collections of the Loretto Memorial Library on the Staten Island Campus, the Law School Library, the Oakdale Campus Library, and the Rome Campus Library, the total University Libraries collections number 1.7 million volumes and include more than 6,000 periodic subscriptions. These materials support course offerings as well as student cultural and recreational interests. Collections include government documents and audiovisual materials. There is also an extensive collection of indexes, abstracts, and full text databases.
The Financial Information Lab in Marillac Hall enhances the education we deliver through the establishment of a learning environment that brings real-time news, market information, financial data and industry-class analytical tools to our students and faculty.” This type of facility enables our students to learn about and live in the financial markets in business environments and situations throughout the world.
The Tools:
The Financial Information 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.
Computers:
All 33 computers upgraded in 2011 and equipped with dual display, side-by-side monitors.
FactSet (www.factset.com) software, a premium suite of financial analytical tools and databases, installed on all 32 stations on the floor and at the podium.
12 stations equipped with both the Bloomberg system and FactSet.
Two printers with ID swipe control.
Wall-Mounted LCD Screens:
Full screen mode for DirecTV, or
A multi-windowed presentation with DirecTV broadcast in the largest window, stock tickers running along the bottom, and market highlights and St. John's announcements displayed in the side window.
DirecTV Channels:
Bloomberg
CNBC
CNBC World
Court TV
Discovery Health
Fox News Channel
CNN
MSNBC
Headline News
Current TV
Travel Channel
Weather Channel
C-SPAN
C-SPAN2
Audio/Visual Features:
A podium is equipped with a computer, dual monitors, a microphone, laptop connector, and DVD/VCR player, along with a control panel.
The microphone and audio feed through six speakers set into the ceiling.
There are three ceiling projectors...one for each of the PC monitors and the third (nearest to the podium) for either a laptop, DVD or VCR image.
World Clocks:
A digital strip of clocks sits above the main entry/exit door between the FIL and Marillac microlab and displays the time in six different parts of the world, starting with New York and moving east to London, Beirut, New Delhi, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Tracker Board:
The Tracker Board conjures up images of the "big board" at the NYSE. It displays, on a scrolling basis:
The list and current prices of the holdings of The Tobin College of Business undergraduate and graduate Student-Managed Investment Funds (SMIFs).
Values of major domestic and international stock indices.
Futures contract prices.
Currency exchange rates.
Treasury security rates and quotes.
Market prices of major sector ETFs (consumer discretionary, consumer staples, healthcare, utilities, energy, telecommunications, information tech, industrials, materials, financials.)
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.
- Study Abroad:
Rome, Italy
London, United Kingdom
Other countries vary each year