Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry is opening its doors to freshmen with drive and a sense of their futures ”“ in business ”“ to experience a faster, more focused college experience.
After three years, students who complete the honors-level course load will graduate with a B.S. in business administration. Mercy is setting the bar for admission at a minimum 3.2 high school grade point average. Undergraduate classes average 20 students.
Mercy also is applying the same focus and intensity to graduate business studies by adding an accelerated one-year MBA degree. Both programs are accepting applicants for fall 2013.
The MBA program will be available to nonbusiness majors who participate in a one-month immersion program to satisfy degree prerequisites. Undergraduates who have completed the intensive three-year program in good standing can then enter the one-year MBA program and graduate with an MBA in four years.
Mercy, which also maintains a Manhattan campus, has embraced what it terms a “new paradigm for business education” that relies on professionals to buttress professors”™ roles, plus an emphasis on working outside the classroom.
“The new three-year and one-year programs afford our students exceptional resources and tools to succeed in the business world,” said Dean Ed Weis of Mercy”™s School of Business.
There will be an MBA open house in the Vitale Life Skills Lab on the Dobbs Ferry campus 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., April 11.
