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Contact: Joe Hunter 617/552-0419, [email protected]
BOSTON COLLEGE GRADUATE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL CREATES JOINT MANAGEMENT / FINANCE DEGREE
(Chestnut Hill, Mass.) -- Responding to the growing need for executives able to bring sophisticated financial skills to the solution of global business problems, the Boston College Graduate School of Management has created a unique joint degree combining a globally oriented MBA program with an intensive graduate finance curriculum.
Available beginning in the 1998-99 academic year, Boston College's MBA/Master of Science in Finance degree is the first program in the Boston area, and one of the few in the country, to offer this combination of skills. The degree is aimed at students interested in careers that call for exceptional managerial and leadership abilities, as well as advanced financial and technical skills. Possible career paths include investment management, corporate finance, risk management and venture capital. Through the overlap of electives, the joint degree can be completed in a much shorter time period than if the two degrees were earned separately--two years of full-time or four years of part-time study. Students are eligible to apply for advanced standing in the MBA core curriculum, which could further reduce the time to complete the joint program.
Because it requires high-level quantitative abilities, the new joint program is highly selective. To receive the joint degree, students must satisfy all requirements of the MSF Program and all core requirements of the MBA Program, and take two graduate management electives.
The MBA portion of the new joint program provides a distinctive mix of classroom and hands-on learning. Students in the Boston College MBA Program are able to apply managerial skills and concepts to the solution of actual business problems through consulting and business planning projects. Global management issues are a central part of the MBA curriculum. Boston College MBA students have extensive opportunities to develop a global business perspective through course work, study abroad opportunities and contact with the MBA Program's diverse student body, one third of which is international. The MSF Program is a rigorous, ten-course curriculum that offers an in-depth focus on finance, providing students with high-level financial analysis skills. Students take advanced course work in investments, corporate finance, quantitative theory, and other specialized topics necessary to understand complex financial problems. The Boston College Graduate School of Management enrolls approximately 975 students in its four degree programs. In addition to the MBA and MSF degrees, the school offers a Ph.D. in Management with concentrations in either finance or organization studies, as well as additional joint programs combining the MBA degree with study in another discipline.
For more information about the joint MBA/MSF Program, or the other programs of Boston College's Graduate School of Management, contact the Office of MBA Admissions at 617/552-3920, or the Office of MSF Admissions at 617/552-4488.
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