Fordham University
The Graduate School of Business
Fordham's Graduate Business School was founded in 1969 in the Jesuit tradition of excellence in education, intellectual vigor, and ethical conduct.
The "Fordham's Graduate School of Business Administration's mission is to educate business professionals who can manage effectively in a range of leadership roles, and who are equipped for continuous growth in the changing global environment." This statement summarizes the school's commitment to rigorous, relevant business education. Further, we are determined to be ranked as an institution of international distinction.
Our motto, "Urbi et Orbi"· For the City and the World, identifies the school's role in serving as a global gateway, wherein we take advantage of our extraordinary location to forge links with international companies who have major corporate presence's in the New York regional economy.
The Community
Full and part-time students are accepted at the Lincoln Center campus, which offers both day and evening classes, Monday through Thursday, on a trimester basis. Terms begin in September, January, and April. Some Saturday classes are offered in the fall and winter trimesters. The campus is superbly located on West 60th Street, with easy accessibility from most places of business and conveniently close to the social and cultural magnets of Lincoln Center and the Upper West Side to the north, the theater district and midtown Manhattan to the south, and Central Park to the east.
The campus itself is comprised of a classroom building, the Law School and a residence hall clustered around a seven-acre landscaped plaza, creating a "green" oasis in the middle of a great metropolis.
Programs of study and degree requirements
Students develop expertise in a specific field by completing a concentration or dual concentration in one or two of six areas: accounting, communications and media management, finance, information and communications systems, management systems, and marketing. An International Business Designation is also available to complement a student's selected area of concentration.
The 60-credit MBA degree program has 24 credits in the core business curriculum, including fundamentals of accounting, financial environment, information systems, business law, marketing management, operations management, and business policy. Upper-level courses in a student's selected concentration, together with electives both in and out of that concentration, fill out the MBA program. In addition to the "classic" MBA, Fordham offers several specialized MBA programs.
For students interested in Management Systems, the Deming Scholars program was introduced in the fall of 1992. Fordham Business School is a recognized leader in Quality Management, both in its teaching and in its practice. Consistent with that focus, a special intense program of study was designed for students to examine W. Edwards Deming's System of Profound Knowledge. The "MTA" program is a special 90-hour comprehensive program designed to meet the demands from accounting firms and multinational corporations for broadly educated tax professionals.
Fordham's Business School also offers other specialized programs for students with a strong interest in global business. The Global Professional MBA Program is for those students planning careers in international business. Students can also enroll in Fordham's executive-format Transnational MBA, or they can earn a dual degree with the American School of International Management, "Thunderbird".
Facilities & Resources
Fordham Business School's Technology Center provides hardware and software for education projects, research, and experimentation. Students have access to LEXIS-NEXIS, Dow Jones News Retrieval, and Bloomberg Financial Markets online databases. In addition to word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, and programming software, students also have access to the University's Lincoln Center computer facility, which consists of a public-user terminal area and four supervised rooms of microcomputer equipment, including two VAX timesharing computers. All mainframe computers are linked via an Ethernet network, which can be accessed through many microcomputers as well. The University offers students access to the Internet, along with an e-mail address, and terminals are located throughout the main academic hall.
The Fordham Business School library at Lincoln Center holds reference materials, books, and periodicals in the field of business. More than ninety-five percent of the collection is accessible through an online catalog system. Through the in-depth search capabilities of the system, students can access more than 20 million records stored in more than 100 data files. The library also has CD-ROM workstations with business databases.
Expenses and Aid
The tuition for 2004-2005 is $825 per credit. There is a nonrefundable $50 application fee. Per-trimester fees include a $40 technology access fee, a $40 general fee, and an $8 insurance fee.
Housing
Off-campus housing is estimated to cost $14,400 per year.
Financial Aid
Financial aid is available in the form of graduate assistantships, loan programs, scholarships, and fellowships. Graduate assistantships are awarded to full-time students for up to 12 credits in tuition per trimester for a maximum of three trimesters. Loan programs include the Fordham Business School's loan program, which allows students registered for 6 or more credits, to borrow up to $2500 per academic year; subsidized and unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans, which provide up to $18,500 annually; MBA Loans, a commercial loan program providing additional funds of up to $15,000 annually; and GradEXCEL Loans, an educational loan program offering students between $2000 and $20,000 annually. Scholarships and fellowships include the Alumni Association Scholarship, the Financial Women's Association Scholarship, the Global Fellowship Program, the Hitachi Fellowship, and the Xerox Fellowship. The Fordham Tuition Budget Plan and the New York Tuition Assistance Program are also available.
How to Apply
Admission to the MBA program is open to all qualified women and men who hold a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) from an accredited undergraduate institution. The Admissions Committee considers the applicant's academic background, GMAT results, and previous work experience, along with personal statements, a resume, and possibly an interview. The TOEFL is required of all applicants whose native language is not English.
Application deadlines are June 1 for the fall trimester beginning in September, November 1 for the spring trimester beginning in January, and March 1 for the summer trimester beginning in April (part-time only). Decisions are made on a rolling basis, and notification is usually given within one month after an application is received.
Who to contact
Dean of Admissions
Graduate School of Business Administration
Fordham University
33 West 60th Street, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10023
Telephone: 212-636-6200
Fax: 212-636-7076
E-Mail: gbaadmin@mary.fordham.edu
World Wide Web: http://www.bnet.fordham.edu