{"id":33115,"date":"2015-03-25T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=33115"},"modified":"2015-03-25T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:18:44","slug":"info-session-on-thursday-will-help-non-business-students-discover-the-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/03\/info-session-on-thursday-will-help-non-business-students-discover-the-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"Info Session on Thursday will help non-business students discover the MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33116\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2013-distinguished-leader-fab-198.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33116\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33116\" title=\"2013-distinguished-leader-fab-198\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2013-distinguished-leader-fab-198-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Graduate students at the Goodman School of Business\" width=\"504\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate students at the Goodman School of Business<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three letters &#8211; MBA &#8211; can make a big difference to your career success.<\/p>\n<p>MBA stands for Master of Business Administration and even if you&#8217;ve never taken a business course, the MBA can help you rise to higher professional levels and earn more in your career.<\/p>\n<p>The Goodman School of Business and the Faculty of Graduate Studies are hosting an information session on Thursday, March 26 to provide an overview of Goodman&#8217;s MBA and explain the benefits of the program to non-business students.<\/p>\n<p>The information session, which includes a pizza lunch, will highlight admission requirements, the GMAT waiver policy, specializations and the application process for the full-time, part-time and co-op MBA programs.<\/p>\n<p>A student panel of current MBA students will also talk about their current experience as an MBA Candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The session runs from noon to 12:50 p.m. in AS201.<\/p>\n<p>Goodman&#8217;s MBA program is internationally recognized for its support of MBA candidates without a business background. Carrie Kelly, director of operations, graduate and executive programs at Goodman, is a featured expert at mba.com where she writes about why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mba.com\/global\/the-gmat-blog-hub\/ask-the-expert\/2014\/nov\/three-reasons-why-a-non-business-undergrad-should-consider-an-mba.aspx\">non-business students should pursue their MBA<\/a> and how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mba.com\/global\/the-gmat-blog-hub\/ask-the-expert\/2014\/dec\/four-reasons-not-to-fear-the-gmat.aspx\">get over their fears of the GMAT<\/a>, a standardized admissions test.<\/p>\n<p>And if career success isn&#8217;t enough of an incentive, Goodman has six <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/business\/future\/graduate\/mbadegrees\/mba\/fees\/entrancescholarship\">Dean of Graduate Studies\/Dean of Business MBA Entrance Scholarships<\/a> available for recent graduates of Brock&#8217;s Faculties of Applied Health Science, Humanities, Social Science, Math and Science, Education and the Goodman School of Business. The scholarships are worth up to $4,000 each and are awarded based on academic merit and student life involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three letters &#8211; MBA &#8211; can make a big difference to your career success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[594,3330,2843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33118,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions\/33118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}