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Admissions Columbia Business School Uris Hall 3022 Broadway, Room 216 New York, NY 10027 212-854-1961 [email protected] gsb.columbia.edu/mba COLUMBIA Columbia Business School is the only MBA program that offers you wide-ranging thought leadership combined IMMERSE with unparalleled real-time immersion in global business. Learn from professors whose ideas are transforming industry and shaping public discourse. Interact with YOURSELF dynamic real-world companies and leaders in and out of the classroom. An MBA from Columbia gives you the IN BUSINESS knowledge and tools to make a powerful impact on business and the world. The most successful leaders have a perspective that reaches across disciplines, across geographic borders, and across time, seeing what has come before and anticipating what will be needed in the future. At Columbia, we challenge you to connect ideas beyond traditional boundaries by immersing yourself in real-world business challenges. You will develop the skills and broad perspective required to lead the businesses of tomorrow. Glenn Hubbard Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics 200+ 200+ ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ELECTIVES 152 Learn from the Best Minds in Business With an emphasis on seeing the bigger picture and connecting the dots across FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS 9 NOBEL LAUREATES different functional areas, our innovative curriculum and renowned faculty CURRENTLY ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY challenge you to solve complex business problems and prepare you to find opportunity in any environment. INTERNATIONAL 61% FACULTY MEMBERS Learn from professors whose work has a deep and direct impact on business. Columbia’s passionate teachers and leading scholars, who are also sought-after consultants, give you an insider’s view into their industry and the tools you’ll OVER 150 ADJUNCTS A YEAR need to apply those lessons in your chosen field. Through our 25 centers, (ALL ARE WORKING PRACTITIONERS) programs, and institutes, you are exposed to the latest big ideas across critical business areas. When you have the opportunity to see groundbreaking theory play out in practice, you develop both a deeper understanding of business forces and the decision-making skills to shape those forces. Hands-On Learning, Big-Picture Thinking Your coursework will be rigorous and relevant, and will encourage practical INTEGRATED LEARNING Operations Accounting application. Our core curriculum, responsive to business’s evolving needs, Our integrated case focuses on a specific provides essential building blocks for any career. With hundreds of electives challenge faced by a major company. across 14 areas of study, you can focus on your own passions and challenge Studying the problem in several core yourself to make new discoveries. Master Classes and other hands-on offerings courses, students examine key decisions INTEGRATED connect you directly with corporate and government clients to make business made by different functions within the CASE decisions in real time. Further enrich your learning through courses at company. Mirroring the way real-world, real-time business decisions are made, Columbia’s other renowned graduate schools. the integrated case challenges you to use incomplete information from different Collaborative learning is an integral part of the Columbia MBA experience. Your functional areas to craft successful class is divided into clusters and small learning teams, each carefully designed Corporate Strategy solutions to complex business problems. Finance to reflect diverse backgrounds and work experiences. Working closely with your peers on group assignments and leading projects, you develop close bonds, learn by doing, and address problems from multiple perspectives, teaching yourself to recognize opportunities others miss. FLEXIBLE ELECTIVES Break from the normal CHOOSE FROM OVER class schedule and take 200 ELECTIVES OFFERED a block week class, enroll IN 14 AREAS OF STUDY in an Executive MBA • Accounting course, or arrange an • Decision, Risk, and Operations independent study. CORE REQUIRED COURSE • Entrepreneurship SUMMER INTERNSHIPS • Finance and Economics August-entry students ELECTIVES SAMPLE ELECTIVE explore functional or • Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry areas and apply MASTER CLASSES Management 3 full-term new skills to the workplace. These project-based • Leadership and Ethics electives electives challenge • Management AUGUST ENTRY • Marketing second-year students Take an elective on • Media AUGUST TERM 1 JANUARY TERM 2 JUNE SUMMER to master core concepts entrepreneurship. by applying them to • Private Equity INTERNSHIP real-world business • Real Estate problems. PRE-TERM CLASS • Retail and Luxury Goods 2 half-term Lead: People, Teams, • Social Enterprise electives Organizations • Value Investing • Managerial Economics • Corporate • Business Analytics • Managing Marketing AUGUST TERM 3 JANUARY TERM 4 JUNE • Managerial Statistics Finance • Global Economic Programs • Strategy Formulation • Financial Environment • Operations Accounting • Marketing Strategy Management PRE-TERM CLASS 3 full-term Lead: People, Teams, electives Organizations Choose electives TERM 1 TERM 2 JANUARY JUNE from more than 4,000 Cross-register for a GRADUATE-LEVEL Columbia Law School course. CLASSES ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY. THE J-TERM JANUARY ENTRY January entry allows qualified students 2 half-term to skip the summer internship and earn electives their degree in just 16 months. withenable real-worldMASTER students companies CLASSES to consult and solve real-time challenges. REAL-TIME, REAL-WORLD BUSINESS IE@COLUMBIA connects teams of students across The Power of Access the Universitybold ideas with into resourcessuccessful to businesses. transform Columbia positions you in Manhattan, the heart of New York City, and at the nexus of global business. Our location combined with our premier role in take students behind the scenes business and business education mean that you have unparalleled access to 16 EXECUTIVES of diverseCOMPANY businesses VISITS in and practitioners and industry leaders. IN RESIDENCE beyond New York City. In addition to offering their own expertise, your professors frequently invite legendary executives to discuss key business trends in class. You also benefit from dynamic practitioners teaching as adjunct professors and top business of business. SILFENdraws LEADERSHIP influential SERIESspeakers leaders who join Columbia’s community as Executives in Residence. These from the highest echelons luminaries teach classes, help students network, give one-on-one advice, and often stay in touch with students beyond graduation. Columbia Is New York COLUMBIA WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SMALL With so many business leaders based in or traveling to New York, we draw an MEDICAL BUSINESS CENTER extraordinary concentration of icons, innovators, and rising stars to campus CONSULTING for speaker series and guest lectures. Student-led conferences bring industry PROGRAM FUTURE experts to campus, tap the knowledge and resources of our research centers, COLUMBIA and give you the chance to serve in leadership positions and participate in UNIVERSITY the latest debates in a range of industries. Gain insight into the daily workings CAMPUS 135TH STREET of business through field trips that include the New York Stock Exchange MANHATTANVILLE downtown, Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, our popular Silicon Valley trek, COLUMBIA RETAILING MASTER CAMPUS and many international opportunities. CLASS Partner with fashion students to MORNINGSIDE consult for luxury HEIGHTS In addition, Columbia Business School alumni are generous with their time and ORIENTATION goods companies. 116TH STREET expertise to help our students with internships, job strategies, and individualized SCAVENGER HUNT IN CENTRAL PARK RIVERSIDE PARK career advice. Our more than 40,000 alumni are pivotal players in nearly every top industry in the city and around the world. AMSTERDAM AVE FACULTY COLUMBUS AVE HOSTED DINNERS BROADWAY RICHMAN CENTER RECRUITING EVENT “INTELLIGENCE MADISON AVENUELEXINGTON AVENUE AT CREDIT SUISSE SQUARED” DEBATES CENTRAL PARK GLOBAL UPPER WEST SIDE IMMERSION COMPANY VISIT VENTURE FAIR MEDIA NEWARK CLASSES AND AT GOOGLE MENTORING MADISON AIRPORT TO SPOTIFY STUDY TOURS BREAKFAST AVENUE PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL CAMP CENTRAL PARK WEST 5TH AVENUE 3RD AVENUE HOME TO THE THEATER 1ST AVENUE PHARMACEUTICAL 11TH AVENUE DISTRICT COMPANY INDUSTRY GARMENT VISIT TO INNOVATION MIDTOWN DISTRICT L’ORÉAL NEW JERSEY SUMMIT MONTAUK 42ND STREET (LONG ISLAND) CENTER ON CHELSEA JAPANESE ECONOMY AND COLUMBIA BUSINESS LECTURE BUSINESS LAB This co-working space PARK AVENUE GRAND CENTRAL The Columbia curriculum is very much brings together graduating 2ND AVENUE Just a train ride intertwined with New York and New York entrepreneurs, offering them INTERNATIONAL 6TH AVENUE SILICON ALLEY to hedge funds in office space for a year, CAREER business. For example, my Operations Westchester and mentorship, the chance to 14TH STREET RECRUITING Connecticut. class this week has a tour to the Steinway collaborate, and resources piano factory in Queens. There’s a tour to to help build their JFK AIRPORT new ventures. (QUEENS) the Brooklyn Brewery. What I love about SOHO HOUSTON STREET the curriculum is that it’s not just CANAL STREET WINE SOCIETY TOUR theoretical—it’s extremely practical. LOWER AND TASTING AT VISIT TO THE NEW YORK EAST SIDE BROOKLYN WINERY STOCK EXCHANGE BROOKLYN BROADWAY COMMUNITY Nyambura Gichohi ’14 RECRUITING WALL STREET SERVICE DAY AT Nairobi, Kenya EVENT AT SPRING