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Rutgers Business School: Graduate Programs-- Newark and New Brunswick M.B.A. Course Catalog, Curriculum, and Information Guide 2005--2007 Contents Academic Calendars 2 About the University 3 About the School 4 Registration and Degree Requirements 5 Tuition and Fees 9 Financial Aid 10 Academic Policies and Procedures 13 Student Life 23 General Information 23 Student Services 25 Computing Services 26 Career Management 28 Degree Programs 30 Full-Time M.B.A. Program 30 Part-Time M.B.A. Program 31 International Exchange Programs 34 Other Degree Programs 34 Dual-Degree Programs 36 Courses and Concentrations 42 Course Information 42 Accounting and Information Systems 42 Business Environment 45 Finance and Economics 48 Management and Global Business 51 Management Science and Information Systems 53 Marketing 55 Concentrations 57 Important Notice Faculty and Administration 60 Please note that only the printed version of this catalog Governance of the University 63 is the official document of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. While Rutgers offers its catalogs on the Divisions of the University 64 Internet as a convenience, the university’s online catalogs Index 70 are unofficial, as is academic information offered at other Rutgers web sites. The university reserves the right for any reason to cancel or modify any course or program listed herein. In addition, individual course offerings and programs may vary from year to year as circumstances dictate. Academic Calendars Dates are subject to change. 2004–2005 September 2005–2006 1 Wednesday Fall term begins. August 6 Monday Labor Day—No classes. 31 Wednesday Fall term begins. November September 24 Wednesday No classes. 5 Monday Labor Day—No classes. 25 Thursday Thanksgiving recess begins. 28 Sunday Thanksgiving recess ends. November 23 Wednesday No classes. December 24 Thursday Thanksgiving recess begins. 13 Monday Regular classes end. 27 Sunday Thanksgiving recess ends. 14 Tuesday Reading period. 15 Wednesday Reading period. December 16 Thursday Fall exams begin. 12 Monday Regular classes end. 23 Thursday Fall exams end. 13 Tuesday Reading period. 24 Friday Winter recess begins. 14 Wednesday Reading period. 15 Thursday Fall exams begin. January 22 Thursday Fall exams end. 17 Monday Winter recess ends. 23 Friday Winter recess begins. 18 Tuesday Spring term begins. January March 16 Monday Winter recess ends. 13 Sunday Spring recess begins. 17 Tuesday Spring term begins. 20 Sunday Spring recess ends. March May 11 Saturday Spring recess begins. 2 Monday Regular classes end. 19 Sunday Spring recess ends. 3 Tuesday Reading period. 4 Wednesday Reading period. May 5 Thursday Spring exams begin. 1 Monday Regular classes end. 11 Wednesday Spring exams end. 2 Tuesday Reading period. 19 Thursday University commencement. 3 Wednesday Reading period. 20 Friday RBS graduate commencement. 4 Thursday Spring exams begin. 10 Wednesday Spring exams end. 18 Thursday University commencement. 19 Friday RBS graduate commencement. For further information on academic calendars, visit the web site http://scheduling.rutgers.edu/academic.htm. 2 Graduate School–Camden serve their respective campuses. About the University In addition, the university has established professional schools in applied and professional psychology; communi- cation, information, and library studies; criminal justice; the fine arts; management; and social work. Several of these schools offer undergraduate programs as well. In 1969, the university founded Livingston College to provide under- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with more graduate degrees to a diverse community of students. than 50,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark, and Today, Rutgers continues to grow, both in its facilities New Brunswick/Piscataway, is one of the nation’s major and in the variety and depth of its educational and research state university systems. The university comprises 29 programs. The university’s goals for the future include the degree-granting divisions: 12 undergraduate colleges, continued provision of the highest quality undergraduate 11 graduate schools, and 6 schools offering both undergrad- and graduate education along with increased support for uate and graduate degrees. Five are located in Camden, outstanding research to meet the needs of society and to 8 in Newark, and 16 in New Brunswick. fulfill Rutgers’ role as the state university of New Jersey. Rutgers has a unique history as a colonial college, a land- grant institution, and a state university. Chartered in 1766 Institutional and Specialized Accreditation as Queen’s College, it was the eighth institution of higher Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is accredited learning to be founded in the colonies. The school opened by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle its doors in New Brunswick in 1771 with one instructor, one States Association of Colleges and Schools (http:// sophomore, and a handful of first-year students. During www.msache.org), 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA this early period, the college developed as a classical liberal 19104-2680 (215/662-5606). The Commission on Higher arts institution. In 1825, the name of the college was Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and changed to Rutgers to honor a former trustee and Schools is an institutional accrediting agency recognized Revolutionary War veteran, Colonel Henry Rutgers. by the U.S. secretary of education and the Council for Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Higher Education Accreditation. That accreditation was Jersey in 1864, resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers renewed and endorsed in 1998. Documents describing the Scientific School with departments of agriculture, engi- institution’s accreditation may be downloaded from the neering, and chemistry. Further expansion in the sciences university’s web site at http://oirap.rutgers.edu/reports/MSA/ came with the founding of the New Jersey Agricultural index.html. They may be reviewed during regular office Experiment Station in 1880, the College of Engineering in hours by contacting the Office of Institutional Research and 1914 (now the School of Engineering), and the College of Academic Planning, Rutgers, The State University of New Agriculture (now Cook College) in 1921. The precursors to Jersey, 85 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1281 several other Rutgers divisions also date from this period: (732/932-7956). the College of Pharmacy in 1892 (now the Ernest Mario Certain undergraduate programs on the Camden, School of Pharmacy), the New Jersey College for Women Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses of (now Douglass College) in 1918, and the School of Rutgers are subject to specialized accreditation. For further Education (now a graduate school) in 1924. information about specialized accreditation, including the Rutgers College became a university in 1924. The legisla- names of associations that accredit university programs, ture passed laws in 1945 and 1956 designating all divisions contact the Office of Institutional Research and Academic of Rutgers as the state university of New Jersey. During Planning. these years, the university expanded dramatically. An evening division, University College, opened in 1934. The Licensure University of Newark joined the system in 1946, and the College of South Jersey at Camden was added in 1950. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is licensed Since the 1950s, Rutgers has continued to expand, by the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. For especially in graduate education. The Graduate School–