Rutgers Business School Announces New Full-Time M.B.A. Curriculum Offering Greater Choice, Depth of Study
Says Rosa Oppenheim, Acting Dean of RBS, Weve designed this new curriculum with input from our students, alumni and corporate employers in mind, and in response to an ever-evolving, increasingly demanding workplace.
She explains, While the total number of credits required for graduation remains at 60, weve reduced the number of required core and foundation credits from 37 to 28. This enables full-time students to take more elective courses in order to further develop in-depth expertise in specific career paths.
She continued, In addition, weve revamped the set of core, foundation and experiential components that together provide the essential big picture for managerial practice, and one that helps distinguish the M.B.A. degree from specialty masters degrees.
Rutgers Business Schools M.B.A. graduates will benefit from rigorous training that provides them with critical-thinking skills, specialized knowledge, and the creative ability to shape that knowledge to fit particular managerial challenges they face in their careers.
Douglas H. Jones, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, is enthusiastic about the revised curriculum. Among the benefits, he says, is an integrative approach that will result in more effective teaching, greater integration of material across academic disciplines, more electives, and greater flexibility and choice for students.
Rutgers Business Schools demanding but flexible M.B.A. curriculum emphasizes the conceptual and practical mastery of core business practices. Areas of concentration include finance, information technology management, management and global business, marketing, pharmaceutical management, and supply chain management. Customized concentrations are also available. The new curriculum extends the depth of material in each of these concentrations to a five-course elective requirement.
The programs in-depth focus enables students to work closely with Rutgers Business Schools distinguished faculty, who are world-renowned scholars in their fields who can impart the leading-edge understandings and techniques in their areas of business practice.
According to Dean Oppenheim, Rutgers Business Schools M.B.A. program is unique among New Jersey business schools in its emphasis on team-building, experiential learning and leadership. This is no mass-production M.B.A. program.
Among the programs experiential components is the required Interfunctional Management capstone course, in which a team of seasoned M.B.A. students serve as consultants to a client company for the semester, putting their knowledge and experience to work on a real-life challenge.
The full-time M.B.A. program will be offered on the Rutgers-Newark campus only, beginning this fall. The part-time M.B.A. program is offered on the Rutgers Newark and New Brunswick campuses, as well as convenient locations in Morristown, Jersey City and Princeton.
Learn more at Rutgers M.B.A. Open House
On Saturday, April 21, Rutgers Business School will host a Graduate Admissions Open House, from 10:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Janice Levin Building on the Rutgers Livingston campus in Piscataway. Presentations by RBS faculty and admissions staff will offer an overview of the MBA and Executive MBA programs as well as specific concentrations, off-campus and nonmatriculated programs, and the admissions process. Attendees will also have an opportunity to meet current students and alumni.
To request an application or for program information, visit the April 21 M.B.A. Open House or contact the RBS Graduate Admissions office at 973-353-1234 or admit@business.rutgers.edu, or visit admit.
About Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
Founded in 1929, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) offers extensive undergraduate and graduate business programs on the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. RBS is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report , Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. Alumni of Rutgers Business School include C.E.O.s and C.F.O.s of leading corporations.
Graduate programs offered by RBS include the M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., International Executive M.B.A. and M.B.A. in Professional Accounting. Joint degrees including a J.D./M.B.A. and a J.D./Professional Accounting M.B.A. are offered in conjunction with the Rutgers School of Law-Newark; the M.D./M.B.A., M.P.H./M.B.A. and M.S. in Biomedical Sciences/M.B.A. are offered in conjunction with UMDNJ; M.P.P./M.B.A. is offered in conjunction with the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Other graduate degree programs include a Master of Quantitative Finance, Master of Accountancy in Taxation, a Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting (online), a Master of Accountancy in Financial Accounting, and a Ph.D. in Management. The school is also home to numerous outreach and academic research centers.
For additional information, visit rbs .