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communications coordinator
for the dean of business
administration.
Graduate students in Mays
pay approximately $4,252 per
year for in-state tuition and fees,
Gerbig said.
Robertson said he and other
administrators agree with this
kind of ranking and push for
other credible rankings.
“Recruits for our MBA pro
gram are not all directly out of
undergraduate school,” he said.
“Most of them have been in full
time jobs an average of five
years, so this kind of ranking is
a very healthy way to look at the
program.”
The average salary for stu
dents graduating with a MBA
from A&M is much higher than
the amount of money spent on
tuition and fees, on average,
Robertson said. He said the
gain from salary compensates
for a high percentage of the
expenses.’
Robertson also said that the
MBA program at A&M ranked
highly because it offers a differ
ent approach to the traditional
business program. Students are
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divided into permanent teams
of five for a semester with
about seven teams per class,
resulting in a small instructor-
to-student ratio and allowing
for teamwork.
“This allows for healthy
competition across teams,”
Robertson said. “There are
several right answers to many
business problems or ques
tions, and each team and team
mate can present and challenge
each other with different alter
natives with disadvantages and
advantages.”
The teams are diverse, with
students from 21 different coun
tries, Robertson said.
“This allows students to
analyze business decisions
from different cultural per
spectives, since different coun
tries can have very different
business relations and cul
ture,” he said.
The team project design
allows for an environment
more like an actual business
environment, he said.
“Business recruiters and
students who have worked full
time before tell us that the pro
gram is very similar to busi
ness organizations and pre
pares them well,” Robertson
said.
Joel Oswald, a first-year
graduate student in the MBA
program at Mays, worked for
five years in the business
workforce before attending
graduate school. He chose
A&M’s business program
because “they seemed to really
care about me as an individual
student,” he said.
“I can say firsthand that [the
classes] are very similar to how
a lot of workplaces operate,”
Oswald said. “It’s a much rich
er learning experience; when
working with others you can
draw on their strengths and
work better, together. It’s a real
life experience.”
Rankings like those in
Forbes examine what an
MBA program does for a stu
dent beyond other “beauty
contest” blanket ratings that
are based on graduate school
admission requirements,
Robertson said.
“If I could talk to individu
als applying to MBA programs,
I would encourage students to
look at rankings like this that
consider the outcome of the
program rather that what is
takes to get into the program,”
Robertson said. “It’s a means
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