• The MBA program was fashioned to be an interdisciplinary program in business for practicing administrators, primarily for early and mid-career managers. The typical student has an educational background in business, engineering, or science, but aspires to mid-level and upper-level managerial positions in organizations in technology-driven environments. The curriculum is designed to accommodate students from engineering, science, the liberal arts and other non-business backgrounds. The students in this program are more mature than traditional full-time students. Most have been out of school and employed full-time from five to fifteen years. They aspire to upward career mobility or are seeking to change career paths.
  • The MBA program emphasizes the development of integrative systems thinking skills in order to build capable, creative managers able to face successfully both external challenges such as rapid technological change and increasing environmental complexities, and internal issues such as changing employee expectations and methods of increasing productivity.