Kogod Graduates First Professional Part-Time MBA Class
The Kogod School of Business celebrated the first graduating class of its Professional (part-time) MBA program on Tuesday, December 16, 2014. These students were the first to complete Kogod’s 27-month program that was recently revamped by the university to cater specifically to the needs of the working professional.
The Kogod Professional MBA is designed for the working professional in the D.C. region and meets one evening per week (6:00-9:00 PM), offering the flexibility to manage both the professional and personal commitments that working individuals have to juggle while earning an MBA degree.
The curriculum features a carefully sequenced course schedule. Students will take only one class at a time, one evening a week on campus with each course building on the previous one. Its collaborative, cohort-based format also emulates how modern businesses and corporations function and helps build a network of fellow students and professors that can be tapped both inside and outside the classroom.
The school even takes care of dinner for its students in the program. Each week, a light meal is provided when students in the cohort arrive on campus. Evening parking on AU’s campus is complimentary for PMBA students, along with shuttle service to and from the Tenleytown Metro station.
“The idea is they don’t have to think about it,” Jill Klein, director of the Professional MBA program, told the New York Times. “They just have to commit, and in 27 months, they’ve earned their MBA.”
As program director, Klein brings more than 25 years of IT and banking management experience to the classrooms at the graduate and undergraduate level. According to her the bio on the Kogod website, enjoys developing courses that provide students with “live client” projects and resources. She co-chairs the Kogod Information Technology Executive Council, comprised of 20 corporate and government CIOs. Prior to joining Kogod, Professor Klein worked at JP Morgan, IBM, Riggs Bank, The Advisory Board and managed her own IT consulting firm.
For more information on the Kogod PMBA Program, visit the university’s website.
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