Max M. Fisher College of Business - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Fisher College’s MBA curriculum allows students to customize their focus. After learning the core functions of business, students can select from over 100 elective courses to refine their knowledge.

Students may concentrate in:

Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management
Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

and Logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
Corporate Finance
Corporate finance
Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Investment Management
Investment management
Investment management is the professional management of various securities and assets in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors...
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
Strategy
Strategy
Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
Interdisciplinary Studies

Additionally, students can choose a Career Track in:

Global Management
Services Management
Real Estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
Six Sigma
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986. , it is widely used in many sectors of industry.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and...
Health Sciences & Biotechnology
Consulting
Consultant
A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...
MYO (Make It Your Own)

Another element of the curriculum is the Professional Leadership & Development program —consisting of seminars, workshops, and training sessions that differentiate Fisher MBA's among the host of less qualified candidates in the work force. Students have ample of opportunities to participate in interview training and networking workshops, join leading business executives and alumni in exclusive luncheon series, or learn the ins and outs of many career choices.

Numerous international study opportunities with more than 20 partner business schools around the world complement the MBA program—including global field studies, internship opportunities, and job placement.

Faculty

Fisher’s academically rigorous, teamwork-oriented MBA program enables a high level of interaction with faculty, with a student–faculty ratio of 3:1. The faculty is lead by dean Christine Poon

Christine Poon

Christine Poon, born c. 1951 in Brentwood, Missouri, is an American business executive. She is the former Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson's Board of Directors and Worldwide Chairman of J&J's Pharmaceuticals Group. Poon is currently dean of Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business...

, a former business executive who does not hold a doctorate degree.

Degrees offered

Admissions

Full-Time MBA Students of the Fisher College generally have 3–4 years of work experience, academically strong, and score high on the Graduate Management Admission Test

Graduate Management Admission Test

The Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer-adaptive standardized test in mathematics and the English language for measuring aptitude to succeed academically in graduate business studies. Business schools use the test as a criterion for admission into graduate business administration...

(GMAT). The average GMAT is around 674 with 80% of the class scoring between 600 to 730. The average age of the recently admitted applicants is 27 years old. More than a third are from overseas, one in three are women, and one in seven is a minority. The Working Professionals class profile closely resembles the full-time profile with students having on average two additional years of professional experience.
Cooper, Robertson & Partners

Cooper, Robertson & Partners

Cooper, Robertson & Partners is an international architecture and urban design firm headquartered in New York City.Founded originally as Alexander Cooper and Associates by Alex Cooper in 1979, the firm has designed a number of significant planned communities, urban infill, and transit-oriented...

with Karlsberger Architecture as Architect of Record) is oriented around its largest building, the signature Fisher Hall, which is the same height as the main university library and on axis with it. This visually links the college to the larger OSU campus. The organization of undergraduate buildings, graduate study, and administration cluster around a traditional campus green that encourages social mixing of different student bodies and faculty. The brick architecture reinterprets the Neo-Classical

Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...

tradition found throughout OSU. Cooper, Robertson & Partners designed both Fisher Hall and Pfahl Hall, the executive education building. Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood designed Gerlach Hall, Schoenbaum Hall and Mason Hall. RTKL was hired as the hospitality consultant for the Blackwell Inn. Karlsberger completed all design documents and served as construction administrator for the entire complex.

Student organizations & activities

Fisher's students have the opportunity to get involved in a variety of organizations. In addition to the hundreds of student clubs available through the University, Fisher also sponsors the Finance Club, Real Estate Club, the International Club, the Club for Women in Business, the Marketing Organization, the Partner’s Club, or more specialized clubs such as the Golf Club. Fisher Serves is a student run organization that engages in community service activities such as charity fund raising activities and uses its members skills to offer pro-bono consulting to local businesses or serve on the board of non-profit organizations.

The American Accounting Association

American Accounting Association

The American Accounting Association is an "organization of persons interested in accounting education and research". It was formed in 1916. Its main publication, The Accounting Review, was first published in 1926. It is the principal professional association of accounting academics in the United...

's Hall of Fame was established at Fisher in 1950 to honor those who in some way distinguished themselves in the field. An international board of accountants nominate and select new members annually to add to the 78 inducted members. Current Ohio State University faculty are prohibited from nomination.

Expenses

Among the Top 25 MBA programs in the United States, Fisher's tuition falls in the bottom half. Scholarships and graduate assistantships are available as well. More than 60 percent of each entering class receives some form of financial package. Packages vary in size, and can range from $1,000 to a fellowship with full tuition waivers as well as a monthly stipend. In addition to merit based funding, there are also financial aid sources available through the university.

Career Services & Placement

Students have numerous opportunities to meet corporate executives and to network with Fisher College’s alumni base of more than 60,000 world-wide, many of whom are renowned business leaders. With more than 300 companies coming to campus to recruit, the Office of Career Services actively partners with students. Students have access to a career advisor and coach, trained and ready to support students in their job search. The Office of Career Management provides FisherConnect for students and employers. FisherConnect is an online hub for posting resumes, viewing and scheduling interviews, viewing career fair information, and keeping up to date with all Career Services has to offer. Over 12 percent of students have accepted a job offer within only three months of graduation.

Affiliations

Fisher College of Business has numerous exchange programs and MoU's with leading universities across the world, including Atatürk University in Erzerüm, Turkey, Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India and Asia Graduate School of Business, Hyderabad, India http://www.asiagsb.ac.in

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