The experience I gained through the Retail Studies Program and my internship gave me a excellent background and has helped me progress rapidly in my retail career. Karen Williams '88. Success still calls for creative merchandising, but it calls for a great deal more as well. Santa Clara University's Retail Management Institute is a leader in preparing graduates to meet these new and heightened challenges. Retailing today needs managers who are creative and have strong analytical business skills.
Graduates are qualified to enter the field at the management level, and employers know it.
At a result, institute graduates are actively sought after. With a degree from Santa Clara University, they are not narrow specialists, but are solidly grounded in humanities and business. The Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University was founded in 1980. It brings together senior executives from leading retail companies to exchange ideas, learn what the issues of the day are-and share this with the students. It's a program more other universities ought to have.