What are the advantages to specialization in an MBA program?
Everyone in the MBA program identifies a concentration. It gives people an area of depth, a function that they then can offer to the marketplace. In a finance concentration, the curriculum around that concentration will build specific skills relevant to finance, or marketing, or operations. Basically, all of our students concentrate in something, and it gives them a depth of ability in a certain function to offer to the marketplace. Some of our students have two concentration areas. Some choose a concentration called general management, which means they’re basically going to be well-rounded and not specifically dive into any one function. Have there been any changes or improvements to the career center recently? We have new technology that we’re implementing this year, CAREERlink. That is a new tool that supports on-campus recruiting, and it offers employers a one-stop place to post positions and have exposure to a broad population of students. We also have a career course that’s not a
