Academics
The Simon Graduate School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Business Administration (MS), and Master of Accountancy (MS Acc) as well as a doctoral program in business administration, and a joint degree in public health, and medicine. Other programs include a 3-2 degree with various University of Rochester undergraduate schools, cross-registration with the Department of Economics, foreign exchange with 9 countries, and joint research at major business schools. More than 100 organizations offer summer internships. The strongest areas of study are finance, marketing, accounting, operations, entrepreneurship, and health sciences management. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus, including the Carnegie-Rochester Public Policy Conference, the Frederich Kalmbach Executive Seminar Series, and the Max Farash Lecture Series.
Sixty-seven total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 33 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Corporate Financial Accounting
- Managerial Economics
- Framing and Analysing Business Problems l
- Information Systems for Management
- Capital Budgeting and Corporate Objectives
- Marketing Management
- Operations Management
- Framing and Analysing Business Problems ll
- The Economic Theory of Organizations
- Management Communication
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 18 months; maximum, 2 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2 1/2 years; maximum, 7 years.
There are 48 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 82% hold a doctorate; there are 12 part-time faculty, of whom 50% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated above average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 50.