The school is delighted to announce its biggest news in years the establishment of a one-year M.B.A. program. The news coincides with a surge in undergraduate business enrollment. The steady downturn in enrollment that characterized the late 1980s and the 1990s has shifted dramatically, with a 65 percent increase in applications last year and further increases likely this year.
Several theories attempt to explain the phenomenon, but as yet there are no obvious answers.
The school is ready for the new undergraduate students and eager to welcome the inaugural graduate business administration students, who will start this fall. The program will be available to four-year college graduates, regardless of baccalaureate major. To be admitted, however, IC students are required to have completed the new 24 credit hour management minor, five specified pre-requisite courses, and either Public Communication or Business and Professional Communication. Equivalent preparatory courses will be required of graduates of other colleges and universities. Students who have completed an undergraduate business core curriculum will take 34 credit hours of graduate study over a 10-month period.