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Rutgers Dual Degree program enabled graduate student to pursue interest in healthcare while she earned an MBA

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- After graduating from Cornell University, Daphni Sawyer worked in healthcare for more than two years before she decided to pursue an advanced degree. In May, she will graduate with two master's degrees from Rutgers. 

Key Points: 
  • An MPH opens you up to a multitude of positions in healthcare while an MBA is important for leadership roles."
  • Sawyer described Rutgers Business School's dual degree program option as "the perfect fit" because it allowed her to do the Full-Time MBA Program and earn a Master's Degree in Public Health at the same time.
  • Want to learn more about what the Rutgers Full Time MBA Program offers?
  • She earned a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management at Cornell and gravitated to healthcare policy courses.

Alumna's career path became clear when she started the Rutgers business of fashion master's program

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Friday, April 5, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Her sights set on a career in healthcare, Brooke Pikiell filled her schedule at Northwestern University with pre-med courses. But the pandemic prevented the psychology major from getting hands-on experience in the field. It wasn't until she began an accelerated nursing program after college that she realized it wasn't for her.

Key Points: 
  • Pikiell, who attended Northwestern on a full basketball scholarship, felt she was back at square one on her career quest.
  • While researching options online, she came across Rutgers Business School's Master of Science in Business of Fashion (MSBF).
  • "I'd always been interested in fashion but figured beyond being a designer or model, the career options were few," Pikiell said.
  • The graduate program provides a rigorous academic business school degree tailored to the fashion industry.

Doctor chose Rutgers MBA to broaden her influence in healthcare

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the chief of pediatric rehabilitation medicine at Atlantic Health Center, Dr. Hannah Aura Shoval relishes the personalized, multidisciplinary healthcare she provides for children and families. To expand her reach, she is now pursuing a Rutgers MBA.

Key Points: 
  • To expand her reach, she is now pursuing a Rutgers MBA .
  • I am hoping to leverage my MBA to have a much greater scope of influence," said Shoval, a part-time MBA student who is focusing her studies in finance and strategy .
  • Shoval wants to use her MBA to merge her medical knowledge with business concepts to help all people access quality healthcare.
  • Shoval expects to complete the Rutgers MBA program next year, but she is already seeing results from her courses.

Georgia student chooses Rutgers to gain new perspectives

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

PISCATAWAY, N.J., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- When Kate Pitzel drove from her home in Georgia to visit Rutgers for the first time, she walked around Rutgers University's Livingston and College Avenue campuses with her mother and kept thinking, "I could imagine myself here."

Key Points: 
  • She was an avid rower at Chattahoochee High School in Johns Creek, Georgia, and knew she wanted to row in college.
  • A teammate put Rutgers on Pitzel's radar – a new rowing coach had created momentum, and buzz.
  • "It is one of my vivid memories of why I thought supply chain would be a good major," she said.
  • Read about why Rutgers Business School's Supply Chain Management Program is widely regarded as one of the best in the nation.

Formerly Incarcerated Student Finds New Path to Life of Purpose at Rutgers

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

NEWARK, N.J. , March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- When Lavonta Bass takes his seat in a classroom at Rutgers Business School, he's not only there to absorb knowledge and pass exams, he's also there to redeem a second chance he's received to pursue a life of purpose.

Key Points: 
  • But after doing all the prison time, I have no 401K, no social security," said Bass, who became a Rutgers Business School senior in September.
  • "If I get a college education, I give myself an opportunity to have a fighting chance of getting a job."
  • Bass grew up in Linden, raised by a single mother whose care and discipline ensured that he graduated from high school.
  • Across the university's three campuses – New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden – more than 137 formerly incarcerated students have earned bachelor's degrees.

Students graduating with a Rutgers MBA benefit from robust New Jersey job market

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With a booming economy in the state of New Jersey and the close proximity to New York City, Rutgers Business School  MBA graduates are taking advantage of a robust job market.

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  • NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With a booming economy in the state of New Jersey and the close proximity to New York City, Rutgers Business School MBA graduates are taking advantage of a robust job market.
  • Most Rutgers Full-Time MBA graduates find a job in New Jersey in part because it has experienced some of the fastest job growth of any state in the Northeast.
  • "The unsung hero is the New Jersey economy," said Dean Vera, assistant dean and director, MBA Office of Career Management at Rutgers Business School.
  • The median starting base salary after graduation (in 2022) for full-time Rutgers MBA students was $113,500 according to Vera.

Professor's expertise in emerging technologies like AI and Chat GPT gives Rutgers Business School students an advantage

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Friday, February 16, 2024

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Hussein Issa doesn't rely on textbooks. Instead he brings his expertise in emerging technologies to the accounting classes he teaches at Rutgers Business School. What's changed lately is those emerging technologies – artificial intelligence, data visualization, and robotic process automation, among them – have become increasingly more essential for students to know as they enter the accounting field or work to advance their careers in the industry.

Key Points: 
  • Instead he brings his expertise in emerging technologies to the accounting classes he teaches at Rutgers Business School .
  • Students get hands-on experience using advanced analytics software to collect data and perform analyses that are done routinely by accountants and auditors.
  • Issa's work is an example of the practical expertise that has made Rutgers Business School's Continuous Auditing and Reporting Laboratory well known around the world.
  • Rutgers faculty in the accounting and information systems department know that many accounting programs don't offer the same expertise.

NBA vice president and Rutgers Executive MBA student continues to find ways to grow his career

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- If only the rafters of the Meadowlands Arena (formerly Continental Arena) could talk, what stories they would tell. Home to New Jersey's professional sports franchises (Devils and Nets) from the 1980s to 2010, the arena offered John Zisa, a Jersey kid and new Rutgers University grad, a front row seat to New Jersey's basketball team before they moved to Brooklyn.

Key Points: 
  • He looked at EMBA programs at Columbia and NYU Stern, and ultimately decided to join the Rutgers Executive MBA program .
  • Learn more about how the Executive MBA Program at Rutgers Business School can enhance your career and professional aspirations.
  • "It was immediately obvious to me that John was an inherently brilliant student," said Farrokh Langdana , professor of finance & economics and director of the Rutgers Executive MBA program.
  • His journey may inspire the next Jersey kid and Rutgers grad to reach for the rafters as well.

Actor's latest role: Student in Rutgers Executive MBA Program

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Being led away in handcuffs isn't the best look for someone in business school – unless, of course, you're Michael Worden.

Key Points: 
  • The first-year student in the Rutgers Executive MBA program has also been caught spying on guests in a seedy motel, participating in an illegal dice game, and fleeing the law across the rooftops of London.
  • He said he hopes to put his Executive MBA – along with his experiences in music publishing – to work in academia, with the goal of teaching in a music industry program.
  • Learn more about the Rutgers Executive MBA Program: The next in-person info session is Feb. 3 in Newark.
  • Worden chose the Rutgers Executive MBA Program for its high rankings and for its director, Farrokh Langdana .

Need a path to your dream profession? Rutgers Business School offers a roadmap to success

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

The programs make the business world a tangible reality through internships, access to top companies and connections to Rutgers' long line of influential and industry-shaping alumni.

Key Points: 
  • The programs make the business world a tangible reality through internships, access to top companies and connections to Rutgers' long line of influential and industry-shaping alumni.
  • Here is an overview of Rutgers Business School's five Road to Success programs:
    "Send me some resumes!"
  • Imagine hearing that from someone at a top Wall Street firm or bank, and the person making the request is a Rutgers alum.
  • The vast Rutgers alumni network helps create the connections students need to start their careers in investment banking, finance, and business.