Stillman School of Business Graduate Webinar

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All right everyone. So welcome again. We've been having a little bit of some some technical issues with audio here. So if you are hearing an echo or if you don't hear anything clearly at any point, please do feel free to to type right in the chat box as we're going along here. So just want to send a welcome to everyone here. Thank you for for coming in into the into the graduate business webinar tonight. Tonight we're going to talk a bit more about the all of our graduate.

Programs here at Seton Hall. Some of our master's programs.

Certificate programs our MBA program to really give everyone here.

A sense of of what you can expect as a Seton Hall student. So going on into the next slide, I'm just going to go ahead and introduce myself. So my name is Gregory Davis. I am the Director of Graduate Admissions here at Seton Hall. And maybe you have all heard from me whether through e-mail, text, phone call, whatever it may be. But really excited to be here with you here tonight to discuss the programs in some more detail, the application process.

And I will know if you have any questions whatsoever as we're going through, please do feel free to type those questions right in the chat box as we do come along. So I will go ahead and pass it along. So Joyce Strausser, our our fearless leader, the Dean of the Stillman School of Business could not be in attendance tonight. So in place we have Wesley Pech was passed along to introduce himself looks similar enough. So Wesley, go ahead, take it away.

Exactly, yes. Hi, everyone. I am Wesley Besh and I'm the Associate Dean of Academics and Partnerships here in the School of Business.

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Yes. And I do see some some familiar names on there. So welcome. And everybody else put in the chat where you're where you're dialing from. That would be great to know. But I'm Mark Shield. I'm an associate Dean in the Stillman school, an instructor in the finance department and a proud alum because I got my MBA here six years ago. So I will be your MBA advisor and I'm also a general undergrad advisor and a grad advisor as well.

So I think we can go on to the next slide.

Great. Thank you, Mark. And as I mentioned before, as as as we're going through this, we have a decent amount of slides to get through as we'll take you through an in-depth presentation of our graduate program. So do feel free to type any questions right in that chat box. We'll address them either as they come along or add towards the end as well. So a little bit about the agenda today. We're first gonna just give you a brief overview about Stillman School of Business and what makes us unique, what makes U.S. special.

Will then go into the degree program. So all of the degree programs here at Seton Hall, as I mentioned, the MBA program with the eight different concentrations, the Master's program, specialized masters and our certificates. We'll then talk a little bit more about the learning centers in the community here at Seton Hall. And then I will take you through the admissions process and advice slides. So some of you may have already submitted an application have been accepted or some of you may be thinking about applying. So regardless, I think it'll be beneficial for all to hear.

So and just taking you through the Stillman history and accolades. So as you'll see here, many of you may know a bit about Stillman in terms of some of our accolades. But I would say that the Stillman School of Business is consistently ranked in the in the top business schools by the Princeton Review as well as U.S. news consistently ranking in the top 100 for the for best business schools and our part time MBA program in particular and you will see that.

A ACSB accreditation and I I would say what what makes us pretty unique is.

That we are AACSB certified.

Also in in in accounting as well as our our general business programs and even if you don't have interest in in accounting, I would say that double certification basically means that you're you're really kind of getting.

The, the, the, the, the top notch in terms of the education that you're receiving here and it puts us in the top percentage of of business schools with that double accreditation. So you're definitely getting some great education here as we go along.

And with that, I'll pass it over to to Mark to explain a little bit more about our unique value proposition.

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Excellent. Thanks, Greg. And Greg, I'll let you go through the slides. You'll try to keep up with me because I will sometimes jump ahead. I apologize to everybody but.

For those of you who are new to Seton Hall, you you will see that we we are a close knit community. It's not just a number. We are a family. You're part of our life whether you like it or not and or actually we're part of your life whether you like it or not. But we have small class sizes. It is a community, the grad level. We're really looking for classes that are a little more discussion based. It's not like undergrad. It's not best Memorizer wins. It's a lot of presentations. Lot of.

Conversations, working on soft skills, working on learning skills like in building Excel, building at IT, learning on basic programming, learning balance sheets and income statements and various other things.

On campus we we have multiple modalities, so we have hybrid and online offerings for flexibility. We also have our on campus evening classes weekly and I will put in a plug for that.

Our real value add is our on campus even in classes. So even if you're an online student and you could only make one a week, you know the beauty. And we'll get more into this when we get into the MBA program specifically. But our seven week two credit courses, if they're hybrid, you're at least coming three times. That's at least something. And coming to campus, being a part of the community, being on campus.

You want that? You know after the fact when you're done with this. If you never experience that, you're going to feel like you missed something. So we'll do whatever we can to try to make that work.

We're as flexible as possible. We have state-of-the-art facilities. We have a lot of learning centers, which I'll show you a little bit later in a later slide. We do a lot of experiential learning. In fact, it looks like I'm showing you one of those learning centers right now. That's the trading room, which is my home away from home. I spend a lot of time in there. It we have 7 Bloomberg terminals. We have a whole bunch of other PCs.

You're always welcome in there. You can get Bloomberg market concept. You can spend time on Bloomberg during some analysis or just hanging out in there and studying. A lot of students do that. And in fact, the Business School is sort of unique on the campus in the number of areas within our building from the entrepreneurship center, the trading room which you're looking at right there are faculty library, our market Research Center, our sports polling room where you could just hang out and study and be with your community, whether they're fresh undergrad or grad.

The MBA program, as I was just mentioning has a whole bunch of concentrations, 8 to be exact. Right now we're working on building more and you'll kind of see that as a common theme as you become part hopefully of Seton Hall University is that we do leverage all of our resources. So if we're building a new masses of financial technology and analytics, which we'll hear about later, you could expect that maybe somewhere down the road you're going to see a massive financial technology and analytics concentration in the MBA program, the MBA program.

Obviously different in a master's of business. It's a master's program, but you're getting first a broad overview of business, so you're going to get it. You're going to have. You're going to have.

11/2 credit courses that are 7 weeks long. You're going to have an accounting course, the finance course, management, marketing, law.

Corporate social for ethics, A quant class, an IT class and a finance class. And then beyond that, you're going to have electives that kind of drill, dig a little bit deeper and that sort of gives, that's a big differentiator between our masters programs, which maybe take one topic and maybe go a mile deep. Our program first you do an inch deep and a mile wide in the breath courses or in the core courses and then you do maybe you've picked your concentration, you're going to go a mile deep in those specific concentration courses.

But these concentrations, I don't think they need any explanation, but briefly accounting is the only one of those eight that require all five of your electives to be accounted.

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Finance for and all the other ones, four of the five are required. That also is a bit of our flexibility. We kind of say, hey, you know you're doing finance, but maybe there's this really cool digital marketing class that you're interested in. We could take that as your 5th elective IT and business analytics along with supply chain sort of overlap some places. So you could take a supply chain course that could count for it. You can take a business analytics course that can count for it or vice versa. So that way you're getting a little flavor from multiple areas as you're building the program that's right for you because I think that is our unique value proposition.

We're going to build a program for each one of you sort of individually, right? I mean, you're not going to go to the communication school, to the social work school and do a course, most likely, but.

You are going to be able to kind of specialize in many respects how you go through the program, maybe the next slide. So the first program we're going to look at in a number of our programs are stem designated, this would be one of them.

Greg, you're going to answer the questions while we're kind of going through, OK, perfect. So Masters of Business Administration.

Is step designated in these three concentrations? So if you do the business analytics or you do the IT or you do the supply chain?

You're able to qualify for a STEM designated program if you're an international student, which I know there are a few on here. We will make sure the key is you're doing 9 credits a semester, 6 credits in person, and the STEP designation gives you that extra year of OPT. So it's a pretty powerful opportunity there.

And and next would be a general overview with the NBA or as this says, an NBA at a glance.

It is 40 credits in total, 25 credits of course work that includes the.

11/2 credit courses that I mentioned, so that's 22 credits. Those are again seven weeks long. So for any of you who remember undergrad.

14 weeks is the traditional semester. We breakdown our semester into an A term and AB term, so coming up in the spring, January.

18 through February 28th and March 13th through this through May 14th. Don't hold me to those dates, I'm working off memory. But basically those are your 27 week terms. So it allows you to do two or three courses in the A term which are only two credits, seven weeks long and then two or three classes in the B term. So you've gotten through if you did that which was a lot, you've done 12 credits in your first term first semester counting those two terms. So it gives you a little bit of flexibility then you've got after you finish all of those 9450 through 60 under the NBA.

You then have the ability to do your Capstone course, which is the BMVA 9461 and what's interesting about that is that one we like to think of these as bookends. The next slide, more specifics on this, no, but somewhere we have a slide. It's OK, just stay there then, I guess. So the 9450 which is the launch experience is a great way to launch yourself into the program and it's again, it only runs in the a term of either fall or spring.

We have a nice dinner cocktail party. You hang out with your teachers and your cohort and then that thought that Sunday you're on campus doing a presentation, usually about a real company, but not a company that you're seeing like it'll be an Amazon or a Pfizer or Netflix.

The Capstone course, you actually have a real client, it's 14 week course. You have clients either from the community or sometimes we have Walmart in the past. So we've had different kinds of clients. Well, Walmart was for launch, but the point is you have a small business that needs help and you and a group are sitting down with them and doing a competitive model and looking looking at what they're doing and what they would need better or what would help them. And then you're doing a presentation at the end of the semester. So in a perfect world, those are your bookends and you're doing everything else in the middle.

Because of the flexibility of the program, you don't have to do it that way. You can do the BNBA 9450 through 60 as your schedule permits. If you were to, let's say, become a marketing major once you finish market decision making, which is BNB 894571 of those 11 courses I was talking about, the next semester, you could start taking marketing electives even while you're finishing your other core courses. So it gives you an ability to mix and match as you get through the program.

And to the end, this says once a week, 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours for the classes. And I'll tell you from personal experience how I ran the course, how I went through the program working full time is I figured, another 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours of work time, you know, So if I was taking two or three classes at a time, I would. I'm an early riser, I would get up five or 6:00 in the morning on a Saturday or Sunday and do some work for three or four hours. I would sometimes stay late at work and do an hour here or an hour there, usually before my next class.

Because the classes are all at night, 6:30 to 9:00 is usually when they run. And so I would usually kind of hang out because I happen to work on campus. So that part was easy for me. I didn't have travel time and it gave me an opportunity to class. So it was never sort of like an overwhelming, you know, I've got 20 hours of work a week kind of situation. Now the next slide talks a little bit more about the MBA program in the sense that it's self-paced. We have pre qualified courses for some of you if you've been out of school for five years or more or if you never were in a business program.

We have pre qualifying courses that run sort of the spectrum accounting, a math, the stats an IT.

A legal and I'm missing one, but I can't think of it right at the moment.

But the Econ and finance, so those are those the if you feel like let's say.

We tell you that you need because you have been in college for five years, you need to do the IT pre qualifier, but you use Excel every day in your work. We have a challenge exams that you can take. If we're not waiving it because of experience, which we very well may, you can do the challenge exam and just test out of the thing. So those are pretty and so that's a pretty common thing. Some of those courses to sort of mix and match. You don't necessarily have to do all of them, but I have to tell you as somebody who did the IT1.

Great refresher in Excel accounting, great refresher in balance sheet, income statement, statement and cash flow.

And they don't, even though they say the prequalify for accounting is the prerequisite for the accounting for decision makers.

The spirit of them is to refresh you on all of this stuff. So you may find that you didn't use the accounting pre qualifier that much in your accounting for decision makers, but it was really helpful in your IT class because they were working on a case study where you needed to look at a balance sheet. So it really is sort of a nice thing to look at overall. I mentioned the launch experience already where it was a two credit. It's an immersive weekend even for online students. We we require you to be here for at least that weekend. It's sort of our way of at least trying to make sure to make sure you're here.

And getting some kind of community spirit here, but it really is a great weekend. It's a lot of fun. It's the kind of thing where the students during the weekend are sort of like, Oh my God, I'm nervous. I've got so much to do. It's so hard. But by the end they're like, this was great and it's pretty universal in that sense.

During the launch, we always have a company like if it was Amazon, that's our spotlight company. This year it's IKEA, that's the spotlight company for the launch experience. And then throughout all of your courses, in most cases, the faculty are using IKEA and their balance sheets and their income statements and problems with that company in your courses. So you're sort of seeing the same company from different perspectives.

Ah, then again, you have 5 elective courses, four of which have to be in your concentration except for accounting of which needs 5. And once you've finished your core, the 9450 through 60, you can go on and do your capstone. Like I said, Greg is going to try to keep up with me, but since I jump all right around, it's very difficult for anybody to keep up with me. That's all. That's by on purpose, but I'm just kidding enough on the NBA for a moment. I'm going to move over to a couple of our very cool accounting programs.

Masters of Science and Professional Accounting is a program if you were an undergraduate accounting major.

It's a 30 credit program that.

Not only, but for A to a large extent.

You're probably at 120 credits and you want to get those 30 credits you can sit for your CPA. Well, this is what this program is really geared towards you and we have great.

Advisor and Daniel and the chair of the department, Mark Holtzman. They've lived and breathed this their whole lives. They understand this stuff. Again, very similar to the NBA in that.

Hybrid or online is the meeting so you have multiple types of about modalities.

You've got, as it says, 10 classes that are 30 credits. All the classes are 15 weeks long, which you're happy about that, trust me, because it would be very difficult to kind of compress this stuff into a 5 into a seven week term.

Next we, let's see, there's a little more on that MSPA, which again you're doing, here's just some examples of some of the courses you're doing. You're doing 3 credits of financial accounting or tax. You're doing 6 credits in data analytics, which you know, we're doing more and more analytics. And you'll see that in a moment because frankly, analytics is the sexy word of the the decade of this current generation. And you know our job, which we take very, very seriously.

Whether it's at the undergraduate level.

Graduate level. Our job is to lookout in the real world, talk to community people, talk to corporations, talk to business people, and kind of figure out where the world is going to be one year from now, two years from now, five years from now, and prepare you for that. So we're adding more programming, basic programming, adding more analytics, adding different things in the finance area and on and on as we're seeing and hearing that those things are what the employers and the real world expects.

From their employees. So you'll have nine, again 6 credits of Data Analytics, 6 credits of Law and Systems Analysis. You have 9 credits of Electives. So you can dig a little bit deeper into some areas that you're more interested in and then some business electives.

As I alluded to just a second ago, we have created a new program to sort of tweak the Masters of Science and Professional accounting by making it a Masters of Science and Professional accounting and analytics. So even though in the MSPA you have some analytics, this one digs a little bit deeper still 30 credits, but twelve of those thirty are in data analytics. And so we're you, we are pushing you a little for some of you probably a little bit out of your comfort zone.

But my attitude is good, that's what we should be doing and that's what you should be doing too, because.

That's why you're coming here to do this, You know, and you don't want to take the easy way out. You want to actually learn and.

Become the best you can be, so to speak. I think I'm stealing that from some other big industry out there, but I won't give them credit. But the point is the data analytics, the business analytics component. You'll still be able to, with the MSPA qualify to suffer your CPA, but now you'll have a stronger analytics.

Component attached to it.

Now for those of you who come to this world with a background other than accounting, but still want that accounting, we have a Masters of Science in accounting, MSAC and this one is 30 credits, it's nine classes and you should see a common theme worth 30 to 40 credits is sort of where where we are in all of our programming because again we see that as the most realistic both on a cost basis and on just a time basis. You can comfortably be working full time and get through these programs in two years.

At a 40 credit program, even the 30 credit programs you can get, you could. Probably.

Uncomfortably, you can get through the 30 credit programs in one year.

But certainly comfortably in a year and a half or so.

Now, so the MSAC, it's 21 credits of of required core courses. It's 9 credits of accounting and tax electives. They're again three credit classes. They meet once a week to you, it's hybrid or online.

You know, some of the courses are things like financial reporting, cost auditing, tax. There's a seminar. Oh, I jumped over to the next slide, Correct. Sorry, commercial law, some accounting where every program is going to make sure as much as possible having electives, having two to three to four to five electives because we want them. Each one of you is different, right. So we want to make sure that we're adding some of those things. One of you might be more interested in enterprise resource planning and another one might be more interested in tax planning.

So we're going to give you some of the back and forth depending on what you're interested in along with the required 18 credits.

Well, 21 credits in total county commercial law that you would need to do.

And again, in both MSPA, MSPAA and MSAC, we have a strong department, strong faculty, a chair and an advisor who are best of breed. So they're really on top of the program, on top of the industry and are really there to help you throughout everything. And if you have anything to complain about with them, you can come talk to me.

The Masters of Science and Business Analytics, the next program I want to talk about is well up until recently was our newest program and again analytics not surprising that's in in our the name. I was part of the Advisory Board that helped build this, but I was.

The dumb person on the Advisory Board. We had execs from the Amazon, TD Bank, KPMG.

Bain Consulting, we had a lot of Cisco foods and so people who were able to help us again look at the real world, look at what would be important on a programming level, even at a basic programming. We're not asking you to build a computer, but we want you to be comfortable with Python And R and back then it was sequel. Now there's other things and you know more comfortable with Excel and just continue to perfect.

Or at least gain the knowledge that you want if you're going into a program like this. As this says, 80% of Fortune Global 100 companies report analytics and Ms. and data analytics is the most important area that they're looking to hire. This program does a great job in the concepts to practice, which is one of our most important tag lines highlighted by our Capstone which is run by an executive at Fiserv here here in New Jersey comes in. He teaches an actual project coming from the actual company that the students are doing and they're presenting to them. So it's.

Really. Hands on, really real world.

Situations that I don't really think you can just get anywhere. So it's a really strong program and it is also well somewhere down the road soon, probably by that time you're here. I'm expecting this also to be STEM eligible.

But you didn't hear that from me and our newest program is the Master of Science and financial technology and analytics, which is sort of taking again the analytics model but taking it more on the financial services component. So if you want to work in a trading desk, if you want to work in credit analysis, if you want to work in swaps or various areas in the finance place and again you know.

There's a lot of Gray area. You know, I think to me the hardest thing is to figure out oh, I want to do both of these, which one can I do? And we do leverage the resources where in the masters and business analytics sometimes there could be some financial tech classes and the masses of financial technology and analytics. There will be some masters in business analytics classes and even an MBA class because financial decision making will be one of the first classes you would have to take. But the point is we are still going out there, look in this case predominantly the financial services world.

And saying what are the analytical skills that you're requiring of all of your financial services?

Professionals and that's how we built this program. So it's 35 credit hours, it's 12 courses. It's an odd number because we have a two credit course in there. It's 8 core courses, three track courses and elective. And as it says, you know, it's a rigorous program, but you can complete this in three semesters.

There are two tracks for this program, so if you're interested in the data science side.

Statistics, data mining, big data. That's where you're focusing just this semester. Right now, we've got.

We're just starting registration tomorrow actually, but some of the new courses that blockchain was offered in crypto last semester or the current semester for next semester financial software skills, which is basic programming on the financial services side like Python And.

Algorithmic trading and robotics.

Taught actually, by a guy who used to run belt labs back when there was about labs. He wasn't his fault. That no longer exists, but just to kind of give you a sense of the kind of people that are teaching these courses.

I think, yeah, I think we go to the next one.

I talk faster than Joyce.

Or Wesley regret but dual degree opportunities we have some really cool opportunities that fit you know a lot of again our goal is to figure out what works for you and hopefully offer it to you. So if you're interested in law an MB JD really amazing program one of our colleagues Deanonymous she did that and BJD and our our our law school is in Newark couple train stops away it's pretty convenient to do both of these things you start off at the law school and.

Finish up in the MB Four, start off in the law school and go to the NBA. Then finish up back at the law school.

MBA with Diplomacy, they're right next door and there's a big there's a very strong camaraderie. I was with a couple of those people today.

Great way to end up in Washington or doing something. The thing take or UN. I was talking to somebody. They've got a new Diplo lab, which works. They were even saying it's undergrads and grads, but it really is.

An example of what most pH. D programs are doing as far as teaching how to do research. That's on the Diplo side. The MBA side is sort of the same thing with a few tweaks both at the what we do with the dual degree. We basically say what courses can we pull out to make this as efficient as possible. So the MBA is in 40 credits at the JD, it isn't 40 credits at the diplomacy, nor is it 40 credits at the at the nursing side. If any of you are interested in that stuff, we can go over and I can go over with any of these with you offline or Greg, Greg could as well.

And then, if you're not quite ready to jump in with both feet and commit to a master's program, we have certificates. They're all listed right there.

Basically they allow you to the advanced in. I think the advanced study one is the one I'm thinking of now it might be grad business. I always confuse those two. You're basically taking a bunch of those MBA core courses and.

Sorry, my wife's phone is calling on her computer. I hate technology, OK, but the the you're taking a whole bunch of those BNBA 9450 through 62 credit courses that I was talking about.

And once you finish those or even halfway through, you say, you know what, I'm loving this. I'm committed. I want to continue on to the NBA. Great, all the courses you're taking just transfer over to the NBA and it's like you started in the NBA program. You just keep going. So it's a perfect, it's a perfect way to.

Kind of put 1 foot into the water and kind of get your get ready to do this without really a committing. But almost. I'm going to say, since I've been here seven years, I've probably only seen one or two people do a certificate and not continue on into the program because you're doing a lot of it, you're loving it, you're enjoying it. You figure out that it's flexible. I've got people, I advise all these students, all right now I've got people who are doing as much as three or four courses every seven weeks and maybe so 8 to 12 credits.

In a 14 week period and then I've got people doing 2 credits in a 14 week period because it's a busy time of year for them. We're going to build a program that works for you.

And now I'm going to talk a little bit about the Learning Center that that's up for those of you who haven't been to campus. Go back to that slide for a second, Greg. That's a beautiful picture of our University center. If you look over to the right hand side, that's the Stillman School of Business.

That to the left, that's really all you can. Who cares? It's a business program. To the right is a Stillman School of Business. The rest of it is just a beautiful campus picture. Now we can move up.

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Thank you, Craig. These are some of our learning centers. We have a Center for ethics. We have the poll set, the polling center where we do sports polling. That is actually although most of the polling now and the creation of questions is or the polling is done online, the creation of questions is done with the students and then these are quoted in ESPN were quoted in various sports and not just sports.

Newspapers and periodicals, our market Research Center is very cool in that it has, you know, one of those two way mirrors. So people you could be doing a presentation in one room and you're being filmed, you're being critiqued.

Able later to critique yourself and for a great learning tool. We use that a lot in our assessment and that's where we're watching and doing assessments of various presentations. And then what you're looking at a picture is our old Center for securities trading and business analytics. It's now you saw the picture earlier it's now 50% larger. It's much more of a room to hang out in and study in and work on the Bloomberg's and work on your own. Last night I had a class in there with 30 students in there. So it's a great and a discussion with an executive from Black Rock.

So we're always bringing in people from professional world to kind of sit down with you and your cohort hopefully who are looking for either. You're looking for a new job, you're looking for the first job, you're looking for a career advancement. We're bringing people in who understand that and that's otherwise they wouldn't be coming to see everybody.

We have an we have an entrepreneurship center and they do various competitions, One of them, Pirates Pitch. If you've ever heard of Shark Tank, you've heard of Pirates Pitch. You're coming up with an idea, either by yourself or with the group. You present it If you win. Either way, frankly, even if you don't win, the judges are professionals and alums coming in with with expertise, and they're going to critique you and give you some advice. So even if you don't win, you're getting some really valuable information and background to help you and whatever you're planning on doing in the future.

But clearly a lot of people do win upwards of 15 grand in scholarship money.

And we do. Thankfully, COVID is a distant memory. And so we're really getting back in a strong way to the international travel in the spring. There's a trip going to India, there's a trip going to Austria, there's a trip going to France.

And those are trips that are sponsored by and run by our faculty.

There are tons of trips that go all over the place and if you come up with one that you're interested in, we could probably help you consolidate that. We have a great office of International Programming and a guy, Doug Cantelmo, who lives in Breathe Study Abroad, and if you have an idea, we could probably figure out how to make it work. And that that is also one of the really good.

Benefits of having that 5th elective because a lot of times we'll see students say, hey, I really wanted this opportunity to go to London, well, we'll figure out a way that that could be your 5th elective, maybe. So it might not count as your IT class, but it could count as your fifth general elective and you get an opportunity to go to go abroad, so.

Just to keep that in mind, to sum up a little bit what we talked about, small classes, applied learning. Sometimes they happen in the learning centers, but that's sort of always our common theme. Sometimes we take classes who are, you know, our class might be in a normal classroom, but they go up into the Learning Center, do do a project in the trading room on Bloomberg or go do something. Certainly the market research class does a lot of projects in the market Research Center. If you're in the entrepreneurship program, you might be going to the entrepreneurship center. So there's a lot of back and forth into those things.

Soft skills. Back to what I said to you. We go to the real world and find out what's lacking.

Soft skills is always like the number one thing that everybody needs to work on and so we make it.

A requirement in most cases to be having teamwork or communication.

Various different things that presentations that are helping you work on your soft skills. This is an example of our CFA team. Every year we compete in the CFA challenge. Those those five over there to the left.

Got all the way to the Final four. They were in Prague and but we've basically every year got won the New York region and got most not every year, every year.

Or like.

13 of the last 15 years we've gotten through the Final Four, gotten through the New York region.

It's a great opportunity. It's just one example of something we do. This is a rough idea.

Of the breakout of male female, average work experience you see, where 64. You know, I like to round up. It's easy. 6040 male female in the MBA program and 5644, I guess male female in the masters programs. Around four years of work experience in the NBA. And it's as I said to you, you know that that's where you're looking for that breath. You might not be as sure as what you want to do, 'cause you don't have as much work experience. You're a little bit younger usually. Although I'll tell you I skewed, I probably skewed this whole thing coming in at 55.

And then the masters programs, you tend to be a little bit older.

Tend to have a little bit more work experience. So you realize that OK for me to breakthrough that ceiling, I need a little more data analytics or a little more accounting to get you know or various other things. So that's why you know that's sort of the difference between the NBA and the Masters programs. And then the last slide that you have to listen to me.

Is just sort of a, you know, it should be obvious, but you are the customer. We are all here to help you and work with you and our Career Center is a big part of that. So we have career fairs, we have Expos, we have marketing events, we have a finance networking forum, we have all sorts of different things where people are coming, a lot of alum coming back. And why I keep focusing on the alum is when you're here on when you become part of our community, you're an alum. The alum love to bring in alum to their jobs and to their community into kind of help all of us rise up so.

We bring them back to campus. These are just just an example of some of the jobs that are out there, that people who are actually alums working in now.

We have handshake is a program that really everybody's using is just an easy way.

Online, sort of like most of you probably got jobs using LinkedIn. Handshake is another system like that. Our Career Center helps you with that. Career advisors are on campus in our building multiple times a week, and I think that might be it for me.

Yeah. Thank you so much, Morgan.

Yeah. So now I'm now answering questions.

Thanks a lot Mark. And and everyone can give Mark a silent round of applause there as he seamlessly went through about 25 slides. So much appreciated Mark. So I will take you all through the admissions process and advice and again if you're having any trouble hearing me, if there is some sort of echo, please just let me know in the chat. Hopefully you all can hear me clearly. So in regards to application requirements for the MBA and accounting program, so you'll see here an online application form is needed.

Simple. It's gonna be an application. You'll have to log in and and using an e-mail address that works for you, you'll ask for some personal questions about yourself regarding employment history, education history. You'll then be asked to write a personal statement and this is about 250 to 500 words really just explaining why you want to be a part of the program, what experience you'll bring to the program, and what are some of your goals. After. After achieving a master's degree, we'll need your most updated resume letters of recommendation. That will vary depending on which program you apply to, but it's usually either one or two letters of recommendation required.

G matter, G resource, so we are test optional. So just keep that in mind and I will get into a little bit more about our test optional policy on the further slide.

And official transcripts. So Please note that we will need official transcript. That means a transcript cannot come directly from you. We cannot accept a copy of your transcript. An official transcript has to come directly from the institution to Seton Hall in order for us to deem your application and your transcript official.

So application requirements for international students. So I know we have some international students in the room. Welcome again. So if you are an international student, we will need your TOEFL, IELTS or Duolingo score. And these are for international students who did not complete their undergraduate studies at an accredited university with English language instruction. Now if you did attend a university outside of the US or Canada and your instruction was complete, was conducted in English, then we will just need an official letter from your institution stating that the language of instruction was English and we could go ahead and wave you up those English.

Proficiency exams.

And then we will need an addition to your official transcript. We will need your international transcript evaluation. So again, for any students that attended university outside of the United States, we will need your international transcript evaluation. Part of the some of the organizations that we work with is Macy's. One of the members of Macy's is West, which stands for World Education Services. There are other members as well that you can work with to get an international transcript evaluation done. But I would say that those are probably the the two common organizations that we do work with.

So in regards to admissions requirements, so admission requirements, generally speaking we're looking for in a degree from an from an accredited undergraduate institution. I would say generally speaking, and I'll get into the specialized Master's programs in a bit because those requirements are a little bit different. But generally speaking, we're looking for an undergraduate overall GPA of a 3.0 or higher. And if you will be taking your GMAT or G RE exam, we are looking for a score in the 30th percentile on one of those exams.

For any international students for English language proficiency, we're looking for a score of at least an 80 on the TOEFL exam, a score of at least a six on the IELTS, and a score of a 110 on the Duolingo.

So I mentioned that we are test optional, but we do also offer automatic waivers for GMAT or GRE exams. For example, if you haven't under an overall undergraduate GPA of 3.4 or higher, you'll be automatically waived if you've received a graduate level degree from an accredited institution, Maybe you've received a master's degree or an MBA degree and are coming back to to do a different degree here. Then you can be waived of those G matter degrees, five years of significant professional or entrepreneurial experience. If you do have that, you can qualify for a waiver.

Successful completion of US recognized certifying exams. So, for example, if you have taken your CPA or your CFA, you can be automatically waived.

Or completion of a Stillman School of Business graduate certificate program. So we touched on their certificate programs. If, for example, you've completed one of those in the past and are applying now to a master's program, you can be automatically waived Of those G Matter Geras.

But as I did mention, we are test optional. So test optional means it is at your discretion whether you would like to submit your GMAT or your GRE scores. I will say that GMAT and GRE scores are optional, however, if you are interested in, which I'll talk about in a bit. But some of our competitive scholarships if you're interested in a graduate assistantship which is an on campus job, in which case some of the rewards are tuition remission, some of those more competitive financial aid opportunities.

I would say that the G Matter GE exam can help you in that case to to make your application a little bit stronger, especially for our competitive financial aid opportunities.

So getting into the application requirements for the Ms. and Business analytics, as I did mention, the specialized master's programs are a little bit different, but for the most part.

Pretty much the same process in terms of the application. So the online application form, personal statement, resume, letters of recommendation I mentioned, a little bit about transcripts and test scores and a little bit about the for the requirements for international students.

So in regards to just kind of generally speaking, we talked a little bit about the MSN business analytics in terms of the type of material that that you'll be learning in the program. So I would say a background in these areas can certainly help, but is not required for admission into the MSN business analytics program. So background in accounting, computer science, economics, engineering, finance, information technology management, mathematics, natural sciences or supply chain management, background in those areas whether through education or through professional work experience.

Can definitely strengthen your application for the Mississippi and business analytics.

So in regards to the admission requirements for the Ms. and financial technology and analytics, so as mentioned our newest program. So you'll see here that the the GPA is a little bit higher. So we're looking for a competitive GPA of around a 3.6 or higher. We are looking for students that have completed undergraduate coursework in mathematics, statistics, computer programming or something along those lines.

Alternate route for for anyone who's has extensive work experience and financial technology industry or related fields, that's definitely.

Something that's favorable for a student in this program and students who, just generally speaking, with strong backgrounds in STEM, IT management and finance, are strongly encouraged to apply.

So in regards to the application requirements for certificate programs and also non matriculated, non matriculated meaning maybe you just want to take one class or two classes to kind of get a taste of what you can expect. But and then our certificate programs as well, those programs that range from about 12 to 16 credits for completion, you'll see here. The online application form pretty much similar, will never necessarily ask for for GMAT or G resource for any certificate students, but for the most part application requirements remain the same. We will need your personal statement, resume, official transcripts.

So in regards to tuition and fees, and I know that we did receive a question regarding regarding if there's an annual tuition or how to graduate tuition work. So you'll see that our tuition cost per credit is $1465.00. So that's our tuition cost per credit. And obviously based on the programs that we offer, you'll see that we offer everything from 30 credit to 40 credit masters programs and 12 to 16 credit certificate programs. So you can kind of get a sense there of how much your degree will cost, you'll see a part time student.

Anywhere A student that's taking anywhere from 8 credits or lower in a semester and we consider a full time student. Anyone that's taking over 9 credits. So I would say for them, most part, it's completely up to you whether how, how you want to take your courses, whether you know you want to take one course at a time, 2 courses at a time, or you want to take on a full work or a full course load, that's completely fine.

Would say the part time or the full time basis will really kind of matter when we're talking about financial aid, if you filed a FAFSA and any sort of scholarships that you may have received that requires a minimum credit requirement per semester.

So I spoke a little bit about financial aid, but you'll see your graduate financial aid website if you just go on our website, type in graduate financial aid. We have a page that discusses the FAFSA process if you will be filing a FAFSA for Graduate School, as well as different sort of scholarships that we do offer. I will tell you that scholarships you're automatically considered for scholarships. So there isn't necessarily an additional application you have to file for a scholarship. You'll be automatically considered based on the application materials that you send us.

And then if you do receive a scholarship, you'll receive an e-mail directly from us in the coming weeks after you apply and that e-mail will detail the, the outline of your of your of your scholarship. So just kind of keep that in mind. And we are always looking at at students in terms of qualifications for scholarship. We also offer endowed scholarships as well. And these are scholarships specifically offered by the Stillman School of Business, not scholarships offered by the university. Some of these scholarships specifically for example for accounting students, we have scholarships that we can offer for students that have financial needs. So for students that file the FAFSA show demonstrate financial need, we have endowed scholarships for those students. So I would always say it's definitely beneficial to fill out a FAFSA as there could be scholarships that pertain to that.

Athletics.

You'll see the information there regarding our the FAFSA as well as our school code and I briefly touched on graduate assistantship. So for a graduate assistantship is a great opportunity for a financial aid opportunity. So graduate assistantships is a on campus job that normally is about 15 to 20 hours per week. We have graduate assistantships in the Stoneman School of Business. There are also graduate assistantships across various other departments at the university whether in financial aid housing.

Whatever it may be that you may be interested in. So if you are interested in graduate assistantships, keep in mind all of our classes for the graduate program are held at night. So if you're not a full time working professional and you have some time and you are looking for ways to to alleviate the cost of the program, I would say a graduate assistantship is definitely a good opportunity. Right now we are hiring for graduate assistantships for the Spring 2024 semester. We'll be hiring again in the Fall 2024 semester. There's an application online. If you have any interest whatsoever, please do feel free look into that and you can always e-mail me directly.

So getting into a little bit about the deadlines for the programs, you'll see for the For US applicants, you'll see the deadline that we recommend for all students or so for. For this would be the Fall 2024 semester, would be May 31st. For the Spring 2024 semester, we recommend a deadline of October 31st, which obviously has passed. However, I will note that we are still accepting applications for the Spring 2024 semester. I work pretty quickly on our end with my admissions team to get US decision as soon as possible.

So once you do submit an application, we have all the requirements from you to render a decision. You can expect a decision and I would say the following two to three days after we received all your application materials. So the fall, the January semester will start in, I'm sorry, the January this spring 2024 semester will start in mid January and as I mentioned there is still definitely time to apply. So if you have any interest please do. For international applicants, you'll see the the deadlines recommended is a little bit earlier. Just in terms of any sort of additional paperwork that needs to be filled out, either it's regarding a student's I-20 or their visa.

If you are an international applicant, as soon as you submit an application and receive your admissions decision within the next day or two, you'll be receiving an automated e-mail from our Office of International Programs OIP and they'll be a great source for you to work out any sort of I-20 or visa processing that you may need.

I touched a little bit on the the personal statement. So umm you know one question that I get as as we're touching on application materials is regarding recommendation letters. Those are recommendation letter have to come from a a current professor, a former professor? Does it have to come from a supervisor? We don't have any requirements on who that must come from. So just note that we are looking for for someone in regards to the letter of recommendations that can speak to you well either as a professional, as a student or as a person in general. And then another important aspect of the application of course is the personal statement. So.

Always recommend it to start early again discussing your professional trajectory. You will see there are a few prompts.

Within each application for the personal statement, so you can always discuss a little bit your fit and and and how you feel that the program will will help you as well as you know what you'll contribute to the program as well. So just keep that in mind. The personal statements are read pretty thoroughly.

So finally, if you haven't yet submitted an application, as I mentioned, I know there there may be some people in this call who've already submitted an application. Maybe you're awaiting a decision or maybe you've already been admitted. If so, congratulations. But if you still are considering applying and and you are interested, as I mentioned, we are still accepting applications for the spring 2024 semester. I always advise just to submit an application. There's a fee waiver code there that you'll see. So it's an absolutely free application. You don't have to worry about paying the $75 application fee, you'll see it there. It's GFW. It stands for Graduate Fee Waiver.

Case you forget that, but I always advise students to submit an application if you have any interest whatsoever in applying for the upcoming spring semester. If we get to that point and and you would like to push your acceptance back or you know it's a little bit too soon to start, we can always defer your application to a future semester. So it definitely doesn't hurt to apply for the upcoming semester.

And then finally, just connecting with Stillman. So some of you may have already possibly set up a one-on-one appointment with me, but you'll see that graduate admissions and me being the director of graduate admissions, I hold appointments every day with our students. You can schedule a one-on-one appointment that can either be via e-mail, that can be phone, that can be a virtual meeting, or it can even be an in person meeting if you're if you happen to be on campus. So you can always just schedule a meeting there. You'll see the e-mail, it's just biz grad.

BUSGRAD at shu.edu. I'll put that in the chat as well.

If you ever just interested in kind of seeing what a class is like, we also offer class visits. So if that's of any interest to you, definitely feel free to reach out. And we will be also holding as as this is a virtual session but we will be also holding on campus sessions as well. So keep an eye on your on your e-mail as our office of Graduate Affairs normally pretty pretty regularly puts together opportunities for for students whether you've been accepted or whether you've just applied or whether you've just interested in the program.

Opportunities to come on campus, meet faculty in person, meet current students, meet alumni. So definitely take advantage of those opportunities as they come about.

And with that, we're just about four minutes shy. So we did pretty, pretty good here. But I, I, I see that Mark answered some questions in the chat. Thank you, Mark. But I'll just leave the next minute or so just to see if there are any final questions before before we let you all go.

All right. Then I put my that e-mail in the chat as well. If you have any questions for for any of us, any questions for for Mark, for Wesley, for for for Joyce, the Dean of the school. Any questions at all please and or if you have questions maybe about specific programs or maybe questions for faculty, you can always feel free to start with the graduate admissions e-mail as listed there. I can always if I can't help I'll point you in the right direction that's that's that's basically my job to to help you all out and put you in point you in the right direction so.

Any general questions? You don't know exactly where to start? You can always start with graduate admissions there, and we'll be sure to help.

And as we end everything go pirates. So thank you all for coming to this. Thank you Greg and Wesley and thank you all for joining and reach out to me. I've already gotten one e-mail. Thank you Chris. So.

Thank you everyone.

Thank you everyone. Appreciate it. Go Pirates.

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