Starting a business 101
Masters of business program stopping, liberal arts masters of business to begin
With the job market looking less appealing that it has in decades, opening a business could be a better prospective.
In effort to help students obtain more appealing qualities and traits for running a business, the Masters of Business degree GCSU’s Milledgeville campus currently offers will be replaced by the Liberal Arts Masters of Business come this summer. The Macon and Warner Robins campuses will remain with the MBA.
Students who are currently in the MBA program in Milledgeville can continue through graduation, but no new students will be accepted.
The 15-month, 16-course program is directed toward students with undergraduate degrees in fields with a focus on opening a business. Students who majored in business during their undergraduate education will not be considered.
Applicants thus far have included students who hold undergraduate degrees in fashion management from the University of Georgia, art history majors, mass communication majors and many others.
James Watters, newly accepted to the Liberal Arts MBA program, was a biology major at Birmingham Southern College, graduated in December. He’ll start the program this June.
“I want to work for a health care organization,” Watters said. “This program gives you a broader background (than other MBA programs).”
Dr. Catherine Whelan, chair of the department of accounting, is part of the task force finalizing of the new Liberal Arts MBA.
“The program goes through the different steps entrepreneurs need to start a business,” Whelan said. “So if students go to a bank to get a loan after they graduate, they’ll know everything they need.”
The program will be run in a cohort style, each semester a class of 20 to 30 students will take every class together, without the possibility for variant schedules.
The program is an original, or at least the task force that implemented the program hasn’t found any similar during their research.
“We haven’t found (a program) like this,” Whelan said.
New curriculum and syllabi will be made for the classes, but no new faculty will be hired. Classes will be various by professors from various departments within the business school.
Usually, graduate business programs require foundation classes, but this program doesn’t, said Whelan. Everyone starts on the same level, with other people who did not major in business for their undergraduate degree.
Posted by Claire Dykes
on Mar 19 2010. Filed under News.
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