The Wesleyan MBA

    The MBA degree has been described as the ultimate business credential, a passport to the ranks of upper management.

Scott Bellamy Director, MBA Program

Yet, market globalization, advances in technology, an emphasis on customer satisfaction, a multicultural workplace, and more rigorous standards of ethical behavior require managers at all levels to operate in an increasingly complex business environment. To meet this need, the Wesleyan MBA offers an integrative, general management curriculum that prepares managers to think and lead at all levels of an organization. At its core, our broad-based curriculum strives to create organizational leaders with multiple skills, people who can analyze business problems from a variety of perspectives and exercise ethical judgments when finding solutions. Clearly, Wesleyan MBAs are well-trained in the functional areas of business: accounting, finance, management, and marketing. Still, it is the intersection of the functional areas that holds the answers to most business dilemmas. Thus, the Wesleyan MBA emphasizes cross-functional training and recognizes that the basic tools available to managers proceed from the behavioral sciences, economics, and quantitative analysis. The Wesleyan MBA also acknowledges that business education should be dynamic and continually evolving.

Accordingly, our objectives are:

• to offer a program with a rich philosophy about judgment, analysis, and action, via a healthy mix of theory and practice;
• to provide a unified and innovative core curriculum that offers focus and continuity for the Program;
• to motivate outstanding, student-centered teaching that results from faculty who are current in their fields and committed to developing students as ethical decision-makers; and
• to offer a program that balances both technical and substantive issues in management.

The Wesleyan MBA is specifically designed for working residents of Central West Virginia. The Program is flexible, offering each core course three times during a two-year cycle. Classes are taught during the evenings to accommodate working professionals, who design their own schedules and paces of study. In addition, the Program is particularly friendly to students with non-business backgrounds.