MBA Program
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The Wilkes MBA program, in its continuing effort to maintain excellence in teaching, serves as a resource to the University and to the community of businesses, entrepreneurial enterprises, not-for-profits, and government agencies, by preparing students for lifetime leadership roles and professional and personal contributions.
The learning-centered business program maintains an integrated curriculumfaculty, and facility designed to provide students and the community with knowledge and information to address the traditional functional and cross-functional content areas of the business and accounting disciplines.
It also offers course work and real-world active learning experiences that provi…
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The Wilkes MBA program, in its continuing effort to maintain excellence in teaching, serves as a resource to the University and to the community of businesses, entrepreneurial enterprises, not-for-profits, and government agencies, by preparing students for lifetime leadership roles and professional and personal contributions.
The learning-centered business
program maintains an integrated curriculumfaculty,
and facility designed to provide students and the community with
knowledge and information to address the traditional functional and
cross-functional content areas of the business and accounting
disciplines.
It also offers course work and real-world active learning
experiences that provide analytical, problem-solving interpersonal,
technological, and communication competencies; and challenges
students to develop sensitivity to the public policy and ethical
dimensions of decision-making in an economy that is closely
interrelated with a rapidly changing, diverse, and global
economy.
The Wilkes MBA program is accredited by
the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs
(ACBSP). This distinction shows potential employers, doctorate
programs, and professional schools the comprehensiveness and
excellence of Wilkes University’s curriculum. The ACBSP
accreditation creates a competitive advantage over others seeking a
career in business or admission into a doctorate program. The
Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership is also a member of
the Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
(AACSB).
The curriculum leading to the Master of Business
Administration degree at Wilkes emphasizes a general,
broad-based approach to graduate business education. Students
acquire the quantitative and judgmental skills necessary for a
manager to succeed. The program provides advanced training in the
functional areas of business and also provides the opportunity for
specialization in selected fields through additional training. The
core objectives of the MBA include:
- To develop professional managers, with emphasis on the organization, operation, and control of an enterprise;
- To enable individuals to create and evaluate alternative courses of action as a procedure for making decisions;
- To give business persons an understanding of international business policies and practices;
- To prepare these business persons for the challenge of understanding and appreciating the cultural and sub-cultural similarities and differences in various business environments;
- To prepare students for further training through post-graduate and/or doctoral studies in business and related disciplines.
The program provides management education at the master's level for
students with varied undergraduate backgrounds: business and
economics, engineering and science, and others. Master of Business
Administration courses are offered on weekday evenings and on
weekends.
Applications are invited from individuals who have earned
undergraduate or graduate degrees in any discipline or field of study. To be considered for admission, the applicant must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Submit to the Graduate Admissions Office a completed graduate
application for admission with payment of appropriate application
fee;
- Demonstrate satisfactory performance as an undergraduate by
providing to the Graduate Admissions Office a complete set of
official undergraduate transcripts as evidence of an
earned baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited
institution.
To be accepted on a regular basis, a
candidate for the Wilkes MBA must have obtained a cumulative GPA of
at least 3.0 in his/her undergraduate degree program.
A prospective student with a GPA of less than
3.0 may be accepted into the MBA program on a
provisional basis. To change to regular status, the
provisionally accepted MBA student must maintain no less than a 3.0
for each course in the first six graduate credits of the MBA
program. Failure to maintain the minimum 3.0 in any course will
result in dismissal of the provisionally accepted student from the
MBA program.
The MBA Program at Wilkes
practices intensive, self-directed student advising.
A student accepted into the program is immediately assigned an
advisor.
Advising sessions are used as an opportunity to
communicate effective
managerial role models, changing job market conditions, student
career ambitions and strengths and to identify course scheduling
options. The focus of the advising process is to encourage students
to develop a responsible and rewarding career.
A minimum of thirty-nine (39) credit hours are
required for all MBA students.
These consist of six (6) credits
in Foundation Courses, twenty-one (21) credits in CORE
courses, six (6) credits in Elective Courses, and six (6) credits
in Capstone Courses. MBA Core Courses cannot be taken on
an independent basis.
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