Academics
The Townsend School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) as well as a joint degree in MBA/JD (with Touro Law School). Other programs include 3-2 degrees with Suffolk County and Nassau County Community Colleges, internships, work-study programs, and interdisciplinary programs in aviation and management. The strongest areas of study and the most popular courses are in total quality management, corporate finance and management, information systems management, public management, and accounting. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus including an MBA Executive Speakers series and visiting scholars.
Thirty-six total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 12 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Government and Business
or - Information Technologies for Managers
- Marketing Strategies
- Managerial Finance
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Operations Research
or - Macroeconomics
or - Business Forecasting
- Managerial Economics
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements.
The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full or part time is 16 months; maximum, 7 years.
There are 18 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 60% hold a doctorate; there are 86 part-time faculty, of whom 8% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category llB institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 18.