Young Business Executives Return For New M.B.A. Training Program

Men with five to ten years of business experience will return to the classroom next year in a new program of the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Starting in February, 1954, the School will offer an intensive, 16-months course for younger business executives.

The program will be based in study of actual cases from business and industry, with students constantly involved in the making of business decisions. In 16 months, each man will face 1,000 executive decisions.

The course thus will parallel the present Master of Business Administration program for men about to start their business careers. But it will be adapted to meet the special requirements of older and more experienced men. These businessmen will receive the same M.B.A. degree given in the two-year course for younger men.

The program will start in February, 1954, with a class limited to 80 men. The major part of the class will be men with five to ten years of business experience who are sponsored by their companies. The rest will be service veterans of comparable experience and maturity.

Except for business experience, there will be no fixed requirements for entrance. A college degree is considered desirable, but not mandatory, and earlier study may be in liberal arts, engineering, agriculture of any other subject.

The educational director of the program which will have it own staff of teachers will be Professor Franklin F. Folts. The administrative director will be Assistant Dean Richard Chapin.