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DREXEL UNIVERSITY LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS SACRAMENTO EMBA Technology Conference Presented By David Stewart, Senior Director of Graduate Programs in Business John Morris – Technological Innovator and Industry Leader. January 19, 2011.
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DREXEL UNIVERSITY LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS SACRAMENTO EMBA Technology Conference Presented By David Stewart, Senior Director of Graduate Programs in Business John Morris – Technological Innovator and Industry Leader January 19, 2011
Drexel Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies and Technology Review
How are we since BusinessWeek top 10 part-time MBA program recognition from 2007- 2011? • We are good! • Competition is good • Technology is very good • Having attended the last session, I am eager to know how our tech platform agnostics are doing? • Judging from our expanded audience, we are all eager to learn more.. Thanks Barry!
Drexel Sacramento at Glance • January 2009 – 27 students in Sacramento where everyone thought we were a furniture company • January 2012 - we have 400+ graduate students and celebrated our 100thCalifornia Center graduate • We will break even this year even with the worst US economy since the depression in less than 4 years. • September 2012 - Our accelerated evening MBA is averaging 60 students a year. Our full-time MS Finance will triple in size from 10 in 20011 to 30 in 2012 while maintaining our 610 GMAT average score. • Working with leaders from Kaiser Permanente, Sutter, and UC Davis – Drexel will launch a healthcare MBA concentration.
Drexel Sacramento TipsIf you have to negotiate space in CA, do it during the worst economy in decades!
Drexel Sacramento Tip • If you are even thinking of expanding to Sacramento, a New York Times 2012 article listed it as one of the nation’s worst flooding risks. • I here Atlanta, Dallas and Denver are great though!
30 SECOND RECAP FOR THOSE ALREADY ADDICTED TO THEIR TABLETS -- • Drexel is good! • Drexel Sacramento is good • Drexel Online is booming • Technology is very good It is my pleasure to pass the torch to a technology leader who helped create our success in Sacramento through technological innovation.
The Drexel LeBow Difference • Experiential Insight • Sophisticated simulations & Case competitions • Faculty with real-world experience • Custom career plans and co-curricular programming • More Choices • Concentration for focus on your interests • Additional electives ─flexibility for designing a specialty • Flexible Core coursework from the LeBow Centers of Excellence • Entrepreneurial Thinking • It’s not just a concentration • Entrepreneurship
Why The Drexel LeBow MBA? AACSB-accredited One of only 4% of business schools worldwide One of only 25% in the U.S.
SAMPLE Term Format FF = Face to face V = Videoconference OL=Online Executive Speakers and assorted student skills enhancement opportunities are interwoven throughout each term. Many are captured for student viewing post lecture. *BUSN 505 & 506 are 1.5 credits each, 90 minutes a session, and distributed over the term.