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The Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University


Fairfield University is a Jesuit institution that prepares undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Approximately 5,000 students from 35 states, 46 countries, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are enrolled at the University's six schools. The University was founded in 1942 in the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, Connecticut.
With a foundation in the time-honored values of Jesuit learning and a dynamic blend of theoretical and applied learning, a Fairfield education prepares students for life-long success measured by how deeply they challenge themselves and how they influence the world for the better.
Fairfield University is a valuable contributor to the region and state, graduating well-prepared, talented students who are ready to make a lasting contribution to the community. Fairfield also enhances the quality of life in southwestern Connecticut by providing a cultural and intellectual richness that is difficult to match.
Annually, Fairfield's quality is reflected in national college guides and is recognized by other agencies:
• In the 2007 U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," Fairfield University ranks second in the top tier of colleges with master's degree programs in the North.
• In The Best 361 Colleges - 2007 Edition, Fairfield ranks as one of the 222 colleges named a "Best Northeastern College by The Princeton Review."
• The 2007 Fiske Guide to Colleges names Fairfield to its list of "Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Business."
• Fairfield University was recently listed as highly competitive in the 2007 edition of Barron's Profiles of American Colleges.
• Fairfield University was among the 2007 Peterson's 440 Colleges for Top Students.
• The Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University was named to The Princeton Review's "Best 237 Business Schools" for 2006.
• Fifty-three Fairfield University students have been awarded Fulbrights since 1993. In 2006-07, Fairfield ranked #1 in producing the most U.S. Fulbright Fellows among universities that grant master's degrees, as reported by The Institute of International Education and The Chronicle of Higher Education.



Fairfield University is a Jesuit institution that prepares undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Approximately 5,000 students from 35 states, 46 countries, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are enrolled at the University's six schools. The University was founded in 1942 in the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, Connecticut.
With a foundation in the time-honored values of Jesuit learning and a dynamic blend of theoretical and applied learning, a Fairfield education prepares students for life-long success measured by how deeply they challenge themselves and how they influence the world for the better.
Fairfield University is a valuable contributor to the region and state, graduating well-prepared, talented students who are ready to make a lasting contribution to the community. Fairfield also enhances the quality of life in southwestern Connecticut by providing a cultural and intellectual richness that is difficult to match.
Annually, Fairfield's quality is reflected in national college guides and is recognized by other agencies:
• In the 2007 U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," Fairfield University ranks second in the top tier of colleges with master's degree programs in the North.
• In The Best 361 Colleges - 2007 Edition, Fairfield ranks as one of the 222 colleges named a "Best Northeastern College by The Princeton Review."
• The 2007 Fiske Guide to Colleges names Fairfield to its list of "Small Colleges and Universities Strong in Business."
• Fairfield University was recently listed as highly competitive in the 2007 edition of Barron's Profiles of American Colleges.
• Fairfield University was among the 2007 Peterson's 440 Colleges for Top Students.
• The Charles F. Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University was named to The Princeton Review's "Best 237 Business Schools" for 2006.
• Fifty-three Fairfield University students have been awarded Fulbrights since 1993. In 2006-07, Fairfield ranked #1 in producing the most U.S. Fulbright Fellows among universities that grant master's degrees, as reported by The Institute of International Education and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Mission Statement

Fairfield University, founded by the Society of Jesus, is a coeducational institution of higher learning whose primary objectives are to develop the creative intellectual potential of its students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Jesuit Education, which began in 1547, is committed today to the service of faith, of which the promotion of justice is an absolute requirement.
Fairfield is Catholic in both tradition and spirit. It celebrates the God-given dignity of every human person. As a Catholic university it welcomes those of all beliefs and traditions who share its concerns for scholarship, justice, truth and freedom, and it values the diversity which their membership brings to the university community.
Fairfield educates its students through a variety of scholarly and professional disciplines. All of its schools share a liberal and humanistic perspective and a commitment to excellence. Fairfield encourages a respect for all the disciplines-their similarities, their differences, and their interrelationships. In particular, in its undergraduate schools it provides all students with a broadly based general education curriculum with a special emphasis on the traditional humanities as a complement to the more specialized preparation in disciplines and professions provided by the major programs. Fairfield is also committed to the needs of society for liberally educated professionals. It meets the needs of its students to assume positions in this society through its undergraduate and graduate professional schools and programs.
A Fairfield education is a liberal education, characterized by its breadth and depth. It offers opportunities for individual and common reflection, and it provides training in such essential human skills as analysis, synthesis, and communication. The liberally educated person is able to assimilate and organize facts, to evaluate knowledge, to identify issues, to use appropriate methods of reasoning and to convey conclusions persuasively in written and spoken word. Equally essential to liberal education is the development of the esthetic dimension of human nature, the power to imagine, to intuit, to create, and to appreciate. In its fullest sense liberal education initiates students at a mature level into their culture, its past, its present and its future.
Fairfield recognizes that learning is a life-long process and sees the education which it provides as the foundation upon which its students may continue to build within their chosen areas of scholarly study or professional development. It also seeks to foster in its students a continuing intellectual curiosity and a desire for self-education which will extend to the broad range of areas to which they have been introduced in their studies.
As a community of scholars, Fairfield gladly joins in the broader task of expanding human knowledge and deepening human understanding, and to this end it encourages and supports the scholarly research and artistic production of its faculty and students.
Fairfield has a further obligation to the wider community of which it is a part, to share with its neighbors its resources and its special expertise for the betterment of the community as a whole. Faculty and students are encouraged to participate in the larger community through service and academic activities. But most of all, Fairfield serves the wider community by educating its students to be socially aware and morally responsible persons.
Fairfield University values each of its students as an individual with unique abilities and potentials, and it respects the personal and academic freedom of all its members. At the same time it seeks to develop a greater sense of community within itself, a sense that all of its members belong to and are involved in the University, sharing common goals and a common commitment to truth and justice, and manifesting in their lives the common concern for others which is the obligation of all educated, mature human beings.
Source: Dolan School of Business :: MBA
 
Re: Graduate Programs-The Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program

Graduate Programs
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program


An MBA program is meant to be a generalist degree which covers all the relevant topical areas and gives a student the opportunity to specialize, but not major, in a functional area of business. The MBA program has three components: core courses, breadth courses, and specialization or concentration courses.
The core courses are not required courses; they are designed to provide fundamental tools and functional area competencies for students who either did not major in a business specialty as undergraduates, did not perform well academically as undergraduates, or took only a portion of the functional and tool courses that comprise the MBA core. For example, a student who majored in Economics as an undergraduate probably has sufficient background in economics, mathematics, statistics, and information systems, but lacks coursework in marketing, accounting, finance, organizational behavior, etc. Therefore, the Economics major would need to complete the missing core courses in order to have the same set of fundamental competencies as a student who majored in a business discipline. This is called "leveling," i.e., everyone starts at the same level, or nearly so, before they go on to take advanced coursework. Therefore, the core courses are prerequisites to the full MBA program.
The full MBA program is comprised of the breadth courses and the specialization courses. The new AACSB accreditation standards require at least 30 semester hours of study beyond the core. The School of Business will limit the number of options that it offers in both the breadth and specialization courses to strengthen the program pedagogically with a strong set of breadth courses that everyone must take, and limit the number of specialization electives to provide a focus for each concentration.
Course Waiver Policy: Most students admitted to the program are able to waive selected core courses on the basis of previous course work; upon successful completion of a written qualifying examination; or relevant work experience when combined with related course work, qualifying examinations, program of graduate study and other factors. Students will not normally waive Breadth and Concentration courses.
Computer Usage: All students are expected to demonstrate and/or attain proficiency in the use of computers during their program of study. Usage is integrated throughout the curriculum and it is expected in each course. The School provides fully equipped microcomputer labs for student use, and each student may obtain a computer account for access to the University's mainframe systems.
Core Courses - 18 credits
AACSB standards require that the core curriculum include the following core areas:
Financial reporting, analysis and markets,
Domestic and global economic environments of organizations,
Creation and distribution of goods and services, and
Human behavior in organizations.
Up to six courses (18 credits) may be waived if equivalent undergraduate or graduate coursework has been completed with a "B" or better. Usually core courses are taken before breadth and concentration courses.
AC 400 Introduction to Accounting
FI 400 Principles of Finance
MG 400 Organizational Behavior
MK 400 Marketing Management
OM 400 Integrated Business Processes
QA 400 Applied Business Statistics
Breadth Courses - 18 credits
AC 500 Accounting Information for Decision-Making
FI 500 Shareholders Value
IS 500 Information Systems
MG 500 Managing People for Competitive Advantage
MG 503 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
MK 500 Creating, Managing and Measuring Customer Value
Concentration Courses - 12 credits
Four concentration courses (12 credits) are required from one of the following concentrations:
MBA Accounting
MBA Finance
MBA General Management
MBA Human Resources Management
MBA Information Systems and Operations Management
MBA International Business
MBA Marketing
MBA Taxation
One elective must be a designated "research" course in the student's area of concentration. Usually, electives are taken following completion of core and breadth courses.
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Elective Course - 3 credits
One 500 level free elective gives graduate students the flexibility to choose another course within their area of concentration or outside of their concentration area.
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Capstone - 3 credits
MG 584 Global Competitive Strategy
 
MBA Accounting Concentration

To earn a Master's in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting, the student must successfully complete the MBA core and breadth courses, as well as the area of concentration in Accounting.
To be eligible for admission to this area of concentration, the student must have an undergraduate degree with a major in accounting or equivalent, i.e., B.S. or B.A. The equivalent of an undergraduate degree in Accounting includes the successful completion of: Intermediate Accounting (6 credits), Advanced Accounting (3 credits), Cost Accounting (3 credits), and Auditing (3 credits).
Required Concentration Course
AC 590* Contemporary Issues and Problems in Accounting
A student must choose three courses from the following to complete the concentration:
AC 520* International Business, Accounting and Tax Issues
AC 530 Accounting for Governments, Hospitals, and Universities
AC 540 Topics in Managerial Accounting
AC 550* Accounting Information Systems and Technology
AC 560 Issues in Auditing & Auditing Services
AC 580 Financial Statement Analysis
AC 598 Independent Study in Accounting
Students pursuing a concentration in accounting may substitute one of the following taxation courses as an elective:
TX 510 Corporate and Shareholder Taxation
TX 520* Estate and Gift Taxation
TX 522* Taxation of Flow-Through Entities
 
Re: MBA Finance Concentration

MBA Finance Concentration

Required Concentration Courses:
FI 530 Corporate Finance
FI 540* Investment Analysis
A student must choose two courses from the following to complete the concentration:
FI 545 Portfolio Management
FI 555* International Financial Management
FI 560 Global Financial Markets and Institutions
FI 565 Derivative Securities
FI 570 Fixed Income Securities
FI 575 Capital Budgeting
FI 585* Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Finance
 
MBA General Management Concentration

Required Concentration Course:
MG 504 Leadership
A student must choose three courses from the following to complete the concentration:
MG 505 Human Resource Strategies
MG 506 Organizational Culture
MG 507 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
MG 508* Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
MG 510 Management Communication, Power, and Influence
MG 520 Diversity in the Workplace
MG 530 Entrepreneurship
MG 540 Cross-Cultural Management
MG 550 International Business Law and Regulation
MG 580 Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Management
 
Re: MBA Human Resource Management Concentration

MBA Human Resource Management Concentration
Required Concentration Course:
MG 505* Human Resources Strategies
A student must choose three courses from the following to complete the concentration:
MG 525 Performance, Management, and Reward
MG 535 International Human Resources Management
MG 545* Law and Human Resource Management
MG 555 Labor Relations
MG 585* Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Human Resource Management
 
Re: MBA Information Systems & Operations Management Concentration

MBA Information Systems & Operations Management Concentration
A student must choose three courses from the following to complete the concentration:
Students select three courses from the following list:
IS 501* International Information Systems
IS 520 Project Management
IS 585* Contemporary Topics in IS&OM
OM 525 Business Process Improvement
OM 535 Global Supply Chain Management
IS 598 Independent Study in IS&OM
 
Re: MBA International Business Concentration

MBA International Business Concentration
Required Concentration Course:
IB 585 International Business Management
A student must choose three courses from the following to complete the concentration:
AC 520* International Business, Accounting and Tax Issues
FI 555* International Financial Management
FI 560 Global Financial Markets and Institutions
IB 565* International Business Seminar
IB 580 Study Abroad
IS 501* International Information Systems
MG 535 Managing People for Global Business
MG 550* International Human Resource Management
MK 550* Global Marketing
 
MBA Marketing Concentration
Required Concentration Courses:
MK 510* Customer Behavior
MK 520* Marketing Research
A student must choose two courses from the following to complete the concentration:
MK 535 Building Brand Equity
MK 540* Advertising Management
MK 550* Global Marketing
MK 560* Business to Business Marketing in the Internet Economy
MK 570* Internet Marketing
MK 585* Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Marketing
 
Re: MBA Taxation Concentration

MBA Taxation Concentration
Required Concentration Course:
TX 550 Tax Planning
A student must choose two courses from the following to complete the concentration:
TX 510 Corporate and Shareholder Taxation
TX 520* Estate and Gift Taxation
TX 522* Taxation of Flow-Through Entities, Shareholders and Beneficiaries
**Students pursuing a concentration in taxation may substitute one of the following accounting courses as an elective.
AC 520* International Business, Accounting, and Tax Issues
AC 530 Accounting for Governments, Hospitals, and Universities
AC 550* Accounting Information Systems and Technology
AC 560 Issues in Auditing & Assurance Services
 
Re: Overall MBA Program Requirements

Overall MBA Program Requirements
Core Courses 18 credits
Breadth Courses 18 credits
Concentration Courses 12 credits
Elective 3 credits
Capstone 3 credits
Total Requirements 54 credits

A minimum of 36 Graduate Credit Hours must be completed at Fairfield University for the MBA degree.
Time to Complete Degree
Students are expected to complete all requirements for the MBA and MS programs within five years, and within three years for the Certificate Program, after beginning their course work. Each student is expected to make some annual progress toward the degree or certificate to remain in good standing.
A student who elects to take a leave of absence must submit a request, in writing, to the Dean.
Source: Dolan School of Business :: MBA
 
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