Academics
Offering 鈥渋nternational business learning opportunities not available elsewhere鈥 as well as solid programs in finance, consulting, entrepreneurship, real estate, marketing, and entertainment, the University of Southern California鈥檚 Marshall School of Business excels in a broad range of areas. Best of all, perhaps, USC boasts 鈥渢he most amazing alumni network in the nation,鈥 a huge asset when the time for job searches arrives. As one student explains, 鈥淚 have never met another Trojan anywhere in the world who wasn鈥檛 excited to meet another fellow Trojan!鈥 鈥淭he Trojan Network is enormous and expansive, providing a lifetime equity of resources.鈥
Marshall offers a two-year full-time MBA as well as a part-time evening MBA, an executive MBA, a one-year international MBA (called the IBEAR MBA), a global executive MBA, and an online MBA. The school 鈥渃ombines a rigorous curriculum鈥 with 鈥渢he personal attention of a private college.鈥 The MBA program here 鈥渉as a strong emphasis on providing students an international perspective on business issues. It is more than just saying 鈥榃e think it is important that you consider other cultures.鈥 At Marshall, it鈥檚 mandatory that all students work on a consulting project for a company overseas and travel to that region through the PRIME program. As a result of PRIME and other programs, I鈥檝e had meaningful work, educational, and fun experiences in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and in Western Europe.鈥
Marshall professors 鈥渁re outstanding. They bring new research into the classroom and encourage students to actively participate in class.鈥 The faculty represents 鈥渁 mixture of academics and recent career switchers from their fields in business...they do a very good job giving us a base to learn from.鈥 Course work is demanding; one student warns, 鈥淢arshall is much more difficult than I expected. I have nine years of work experience and consider myself a fairly bright individual. If I put in a decent amount of work and keep up with the reading, I can get a B-plus in our classes with relative ease, but it really is difficult to break the A barrier.鈥 Administrators 鈥渁re committed to growth and innovation as an institution.鈥 According to one student, 鈥渃haos is inherent when new programs and classes are initiated. . . . This is a leading school鈥檚 greatest challenge, and USC Marshall does everything in its power to attend to students鈥 individual needs as well as meet their own goals and expectations.鈥
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