{"id":356942,"date":"2019-01-04T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=356942"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:55:12","slug":"simon-school-mba-named-program-of-the-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/simon-school-mba-named-program-of-the-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon School MBA named \u2018Program of the Year\u2019 for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MBA program at the Simon Business School has been named the <a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2018\/12\/31\/mba-program-of-the-year-rochesters-new-stem-play\/\">\u201cProgram of the Year\u201d for 2018 by <em>Poets &amp; Quants<\/em>,<\/a> a leading online news source covering the graduate business education market. It is only the second program in the US to receive that honor, after Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>The Simon School was honored for its newly revamped MBA curriculum, which is the first in the country to offer a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) designation in every area of specialization, from banking and corporate finance to brand management and operations. A STEM designation makes the program especially attractive to international applicants, since federal government programs allow graduates of STEM-designated degrees to stay in the United States for three years of work experience, instead of the standard one year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/pr\/Review\/V81N1\/0306_simon.html\">Read more about Simon\u2019s STEM designation in <em>Rochester Review<\/em> (Fall 2018)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simon.rochester.edu\/programs\/full-time-mba\/index.aspx\">Learn more about applying to the Simon full-time MBA program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAlong with benefiting our students, these moves will give Simon a real competitive advantage, because we are the only true STEM business school,\u201d says\u00a0Simon Dean Andrew Ainslie.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Simon has long used an analytical lens to research and teach finance, accounting, operations, marketing, and other facets of business education, the designation seemed a perfect fit, say the school\u2019s leaders. As Gregory Bauer, dean of full-time programs at Simon and the Rajesh Wadhawan Professor, puts it: \u201cWe were analytical before analytical was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school leveraged its quant-heavy curriculum with a strong focus on analytics and economics to gain STEM designation,\u201d wrote <em>Poets &amp; Quants <\/em>in their review of the MBA program. \u201cSimon was in a unique position to take advantage of the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/bsb\/\">school\u2019s undergraduate major<\/a> was also recently earned the STEM designation for both the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science programs for all five of the program\u2019s tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this acknowledgement from <em>Poets &amp; Quants<\/em>, in 2018 the Simon MBA program was also named one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rankings.ft.com\/businessschoolrankings\/university-of-rochester-simon\/top-mbas-for-women-2018#top-mbas-for-women-2018\">top 15 MBAs for 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