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William Paterson University Named Among Top Schools for Financial Planners by “Financial Planning Magazine” for Third Consecutive Year

Chasing the close: WPU Hosts 7th National Sales Challenge

A group of people in suits and ties crowd around a conference table, studying live footage of nervous students in small rooms just down the hallway.  The pressure and high stakes are real, but the undergraduates battling nerves to smile, nod and exude confidence were in the middle of a competition, and the group in the conference room was their judges. read more

William Paterson's Unique Sales Degree Program Highlighted By National Contest

Anyone who has ever worked in sales knows you have to have certain skills: You have to know your product or service. You have to know your audience, and you've got to be able to close.

Sales student Juliana Cruz pitches herself to an event judge during the 2013 Russ Berrie Institute Sales Triathlon at William Paterson University.

All that is traditionally learned on the job, costing employers hundreds of thousands of dollars in new hire training.

William Paterson University is trying to change that. read more