Wednesday, October 15, 2014ELYRIA, Ohio -- The director and the coordinator of the graduate program in business administration at Youngstown State University will hold an information session at Lorain County Community College at 6 p.m. Oct. 22 as YSU prepares to hold classes there next January that lead to an MBA.
The information session will be held in the Loft Room 119 of University Center, 1005 Abbe Road North.
The director, assistant professor of management Patrick Bateman, and coordinator, Monique Bradford, will relate how the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration has revamped its MBA program, making it less cumbersome to earn the degree.
The MBA program has shifted its focus to students employed or who have work experience so they can use that experience in their pursuit of an MBA.
Criteria for admission to the Williamson College graduate program “are designed to reflect the importance of work experience,” Bateman says. “Those with full-time professional work experience can apply for an exemption of the standard graduate admission test,” the GMAT or GRE – Graduate Management Admission Test and Graduate Record Exam.
The concentrated format at Lorain County Community College is one where classes meet on alternate Saturdays. “This format allows students to complete the 39 hours required for an MBA is as little as two years,” Bradford says, “which is important to upwardly mobile professionals.”
The Williamson College is accredited by AASCB International, a designation YSU calls “the mark of excellence [in] that fewer than 5% of all business schools worldwide have earned [it].”
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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