Word: mba
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Pellegrini wants to continue that education and has applied to the business schools of Wharton, Columbia, and NYU so he can start on an MBA program in the off-season. "It's not one of those 'what am I going to do after football' decisions--I have been supporting myself in real estate since 1978, but I want to learn more," he says...
...other students noted that they think the changes will hurt the MBA curriculum. "Some people think it will diminish the value of the program by making it easier," Roberta Sidney, a first year student says...
Professor John Kotter, chairman of the committee that studied the second year programs agreed, saying the B-School's workload would remain for above that of most other MBA programs. "We haven't made it easy," he said early this spring. "We've changed it from impossible to hard...
...restructuring marks the biggest overhaul of the school's MBA program in more than 20 years, but officials agree the changes do not signal a substantial departure from the school's traditions or philosophy, but are in keeping with the school's beliefs and the asults of an ongoing review of the program...
...School officials note that the MBA program, even after the changes, will remain the most demanding in the nation. The RCS study states that the average work hours of students--about 55 hours per week--compares to an average of 48 at Stanford and 40 at the Wharton School of Business. Total class hours over the two year program will be 515 hours at the B-School, compared to an average of 400 hours at nine other schools surveyed...