In order to provide students with a sense of cohesiveness and identity with the program, their class, and their classmates, and to provide teaching opportunities to build teamwork and leadership skills, the core will be taught to student cohorts. Students will be assigned to a cohort of approximately 60 students with attention given to balance and diversity across and within cohorts, respectively. Cohorts are selected on the basis of diversity among a wide variety of factors, to ensure that each student's academic experience in the program draws upon as many cultural, work, academic and social backgrounds as possible. The common educational experience of required core courses is designed to endow all students with basic general management capabilities, regardless of their subsequent concentrations or earlier career paths. Each cohort will be served by an academic advisor.
Career counselors are available to serve students with their career planning needs.
Project Teams Finally, an integral part of the first-year learning experience is assignment to project teams chosen from within the cohorts. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of this opportunity to share background experience, to support individual members, to use and expand the team's capabilities and to extend this first and future professional network of important colleagues.