Classes, primarily at night, allow the student to specialize in accounting, international management, decision sciences, finance, managerial economics, marketing, and organization strategies. Students earn the M.I.M.S. degree via the Internet, audio instruction, and campus retreats held three times a year. A specialized M.B.A., the E.M.B.A., is offered in the Executive Education program. It focuses on management for change with a curriculum that stresses skills and perspectives needed for leadership in the twenty-first century. The E.M.B.A. is a lockstep, two-year weekend program for executives with at least ten years of managerial experience.
Classes meet twice a month.
Academic Computer Services provides central computing facilities, workstations, microcomputer equipment, and network services for student, faculty, and staff use in instruction and research. Complementing existing campus labs, the new School of Management Computer Lab, based on Windows-NT, is open primarily to management students. The Microcomputer Center, located in the McDermott Library building, provides a modern, fully networked personal computing environment with both IBM-compatible and Macintosh computers. The Computing Lab, located in the Jonsson Center building, is the focal point for student access to the University's extensive UNIX environment, which is based primarily on SUN servers accessed via X-Windows terminals. Dedicated servers support such functions as campus information services, programming instruction, applications instruction, research-related instruction, and computationally intense applications.