Rutgers Graduate School of Management
This Presentation: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dhjones
Rutgers GSM Ranking
• Tier III Business School Business Week
• The Only Public
Institution in the five
MBA Programs in NewHaven to Philadelphia
Corridor
• Thirty-fourth in Research
in the Nation - Chronicles
of Higher Ed
• Top 10 PhD in
Management Degree
Granting Institutions
The Rutgers Choice
• Member school, American
Association of
Universities
• American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of
Business
• High Admission Standards
• The State University of
New Jersey
• 16,000 MBA Alumni
The Part-time MBA Program
Profile of the Part-Time Student
• Liberal Arts
Undergraduate
• Business Undergrad
Engineer
• GMAT Score: 540 - 580
• Undergraduate GPA - 3.11
• Acceptances/Applications
- 70%
• Full Time Employee
Profile of the Full-time Student
• Liberal Arts
Undergraduate
• Business Undergrad
• Engineer
• GMAT Score - 610
• Undergraduate GPA - 3.1
• Acceptances/Applications
- 37%
Learning Environment
• Student takes
responsibility for learning
• In-depth learning
encouraged
• Courses concentrated and
intense
• Courses build sequentially
• Grades less important than
in undergraduate school
The MBA: A New Discipline
• New vocabulary: capital
leases; options; swaps;
convertible debentures;
net present value.
• Integrate complementary
skills: management;
leadership; public
speaking; interviewing;
communications; team
work; mathematical
modeling; making
decisions; living with
ambiguity.
Curriculum Requirements
• Proficiency
Requirements
• Core Program
31
• Information Tech. 3
• Team Consulting 5
• Elective Courses 21
Total
60
MBA Advanced Standing
• Rutgers will recognize up to 18 credits from a
variety of sources
• Graduate/undergraduate course work completed
with a B or better and/or qualifying examination in
business core areas of study.
• A student may receive two (2) credits for every
three (3) credits of undergraduate course
• Qualifying examinations for core courses
MBA Advanced Standing
• Two (2) credits for a three (3) credit elective
undergraduate comparable to a GSM core course
• CPA receives three credits for the core course in
accounting
• Ph.D. receives 12 credits of elective course work.
• Organizations giving equivalent accreditation may
be found at the Council for Higher Education
Accreditation (http://www.chea.org).
For Students With 18 Credits
Advanced Standing
• MBA in 27 months at
6 credits per semester
• MBA in 18 months at
9 credits per semester
Proficiency Requirements
• Communication Skills
– A score of 32 or better on
the verbal portion of the
GMAT examination
(mandatory in Fall 2002)
• Calculus and Statistics
– A grade of B or better in an
undergraduate course in the
subject area
Making up a Deficiency
• Business
Communications
– Course must be completed
within the first thirty
credits of course work (2
credits)
• Calculus and/or
Statistics
– Courses must be
completed during the first
semester(s) (2 credits
each)
Core Requirements
• Basic Tools
• Functional Analysis
• The Corporate
Environment
• Integrative Course
Requirements
Basic Tools
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George Biddell Airy
1801- 1892
Decision Models
Statistical Models
Managerial Accounting
Managerial Economics
Organization Behavior
Information Technology
Functional Analysis
• Operations
Management
• Marketing
Management
• Financial
Management
John Maynard Keynes
The Corporate Environment
• Aggregate Economic
Analysis
• Legal Environment
• International Business
Environment
Integrative Course
Requirements
• Team Consulting I &
II
Interfunctional Team Consulting
• Requirement after
completion of Core -Requires two consecutive
semesters
• Consult with Major
Institution
• 4-6 Students on
Consulting Engagement
• Faculty Mentoring
Elective Courses
• Choose any 21 credits of electives
• Choose 12 credits for a
concentration and take the
remaining courses as electives
• Take two concentrations of 12
credits each
GSM Study-Abroad ESC LILLE
• Two weeks in duration
• 3 credits
• Under $3,000
Lille, France
• Run by the ESC
• Focuses on changing
business conditions
within the Eurozone
• It includes short trips
(day trips) to Brugge,
Belgium.
The Popular Concentrations
• Finance
• Marketing
• Computers and
Information Systems
• Human Resources
Management
• Management of
Innovation and
Technology
• Strategic Management
Consulting
New Concentrations
• Pharmaceutical
Management
• Supply Chain
Management
• E commerce
• Business and the Arts
More Concentrations
• International Business
• Entrepreneurial
Management
• Operations
management
• Management
Accounting
• Economics
• Applied Statistics
Campus Sites
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Newark
New Brunswick
Hopewell - Merrill Lynch Headquarters
Morristown - Drew U.
Off-Campus
• Not all courses are offered in every
semester - Plan ahead
• Off campus faculty have received superior
evaluations on their teaching
Principal Contacts
• Student Services –
Dean Pat Rotonda,
PROTONDA@andromeda.rutgers.edu
– Study Abroad Programs
• Special MBA Programs –
Dean Kathleen Connelly,
MCONNELL@andromeda.rutgers.edu
– Advice on curriculum, add and drop courses,
registration, exceptions to existing rules
Other Principal Contacts
• Other Information –
Dr. Douglas Jones, MBA Director,
MBA@BUSINESS.RUTGERS.EDU
– Exceptions to policy on referral from student
services
• Department Chair Persons
– Challenge examinations, requirements for
concentration
Rutgers GSM List Servers
• Send mail to
LISTSERV@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
• With body of message:
SUBSCRIBE LIST
• Where LIST is
MBA_NKPT (for Newark students) or
MBA_NBPT (for New Brunswick students) or
MBA_OFF_CAMPUS (for off campus students)
Informational Websites
• This Presentation:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dhjones
• Rutgers Course Catalogue on Blackboard:
http://fom.rutgers.edu
• Rutgers Complete Course Descriptions:
http://business.rutgers.edu