What is it about our Graduate Business Program that makes us distinctive?  Leadership that makes a difference.  These aren’t just words, they are tradition.

Tradition of Success

Students who graduate from our program become leaders who are making a difference.  Here is a very short list of the companies in which our MBA graduates are working:

Tradition of Excellence

As a Jesuit University, John Carroll University is dedicated to developing socially responsible leaders through educational excellence.  Through a challenging and comprehensive educational environment that reinforces the full impact of a person’s actions is what the Jesuits are all about, and have been for over 450 years.  This is the approach we take in the Boler School of Business.  Effective leadership has to start with an exceptional knowledge base.

Tradition of Leadership

As a Jesuit University, John Carroll University is dedicated to developing socially responsible leaders through educational excellence…wait, didn’t we already say that?  Well, yes we did.  Ok, so the Jesuits are all about leadership and have been for over 450 years.  This is our core competency.  It’s what we do.  In Boler’s graduate programs in business, the focus is on leadership.  It’s on making decisions that are right for your company, right for your employees, right for your customers and right for the larger community.  In short, it’s about becoming a leader who makes a difference. 

But there’s much more.  You’ll start the program with an assessment of your leadership skills.  You’ll also start the program with an evaluation of your career plan to assist you in identifying how you can attain positions of leadership.  And you’ll be given every opportunity to strengthen your leadership skills and refine your career planning throughout the rest of the program.

Tradition of Ethics and Social Responsibility

As a Jesuit University, John Carroll University is dedicated …enough already with the Jesuit mission!  You get the point.  Ethics and social responsibility make up the third arm of what drives our educational environment.  Our graduate business programs end with two capstone courses, one of which focuses on using ethics and social responsibility to integrate everything you’ve learned up to that point.  But more importantly, every course will have significant ethical issues along with a number of social responsibility factors to consider.  For the faculty at JCU, it’s a natural part of the teaching process.

Tradition of Personal Attention

Our faculty care about the development of each student.  Our classes are small (typically 20-25 students at a maximum; many will be smaller than that).  This means that, as a student, your contribution to the classroom environment is important each and every class period.  The faculty will know you by name and most classes are very conversational in nature.  Learning is a personal process and we’ll make it personal for you.

Tradition of Flexibility

The Boler Graduate Business Programs are self-paced. Depending on your educational background, many of the foundation courses may be waived, giving you the opportunity to move through the program at a pace with which you are comfortable.  Each course meets once per week during the Fall and Spring semesters allowing students to take as few as one to as many as four courses per semester. Summer classes meet twice per week. You may begin the program during any semester.