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Located on
the River Campus of the University of
Rochester, the Simon School is
situated near the banks of the Genesee River and three miles south from
downtown Rochester. The Simon School is just one of seven schools and
colleges within the University. The University provides graduate study in
approximately fifty fields to approximately 2500 of its 6800 full-time
students...
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E. Simon Graduate School of Business is one of the nation's most
recognized small graduate business school. The main emphasis of
the MBA program is providing high-quality management education on the principles of
economics in a
free-market system. The School utilizes an integrated, cross-functional
approach to management with the hallmark of the program being the
intense interaction due to small size and dedication of the
faculty. Furthermore, significant focus is placed on teamwork and
communication skills...
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Some
of the recent prestigious awards given to the Simon School include the
following:
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in the latest Business Week survey,
published in October 2000, the Simon School was ranked 2nd in the nation
for teaching, 11th in intellectual capital and 21st overall
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ranked 25th by U.S. News & World Report in
its March 2000 survey
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29th among the top 50 business schools in
North America and Europe by the Financial Times of London in its
January 2001 survey
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in
2000, the Princeton Review ranked the Simon School 1st among the
leading U.S. business schools in developing students' financial skills,
2nd in developing quantitative skills, and 6th in developing accounting
skills. The School also ranked 10th in student comfort with
computers and data management
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the Hispanic Business
Magazine ranked the Simon School 1st among top business schools who hire
and support Hispanic businesses...
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What
differentiates the Simon MBA is the extent to which economics of
organizations and markets is used as the integrating framework of the
curriculum. All
Simon School faculty use this basic framework in their research which allows them to work
easily to integrate this research in the classroom.
Additionally, faculty
use a mixture of lecture, case study, and projects for the course work.
The program introduces more application courses as the students move
through the program...
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The
Simon School has been a pioneer in developing teamwork skills as a
critical element in MBA studies. Since 1988, all of the full-time
MBA students have been required to work in teams throughout their
entire first year of study. Students from different geographic
regions of the world are assigned to management teams of four or five
people, who remain together throughout the first year of the program.
In the small, collegial and cross-functional environment, students with
diverse cultural, ethnic and professional backgrounds learn to work
together effectively. These student teams, when combined with the
economics-based approach to management, permit students from all over
the world to communicate and integrate their experiences in the MBA
program...
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As
displayed by the rankings, the
faculty of the program is one of the school's true major assets. The
faculty choose to work at the Simon School for its innovative research
and collaborative work style. The faculty's enthusiastic
commitment to a superior quality program and their preference for direct
involvement in program activity define the atmosphere; a tightly
integrated, coherent program is the result...
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