The Student Experience
It is often said that MBA students learn as much from their fellow students as they do from their classes. The camaraderie that forms between classmates can easily turn into future business partnerships and contacts.
Supportive Community By maintaining small class sizes, the KU MBA fosters those relationships, allowing students to maximize peer-to-peer learning and leadership growth. With a low student-to-faculty ratio, students receive the attention and guidance necessary to build a strong business education.
Student OrganizationsKU MBA students are leaders, always looking for new, innovative ways to participate in their education. Each of these opportunities are entirely student developed and led.
Masters Student OrganizationsWhat Students Say about the KU MBA program...
Ryan Boomsma, MBA '07
December 2007 Graduation Speech“Coming to a completely new state, going back to school, and leaving my career could have been overwhelming, but the family-like nature of the program combined with the Midwestern college environment made it easy for me to meet people and create lasting friendships."
"I have been able to travel to Omaha to meet with Warren Buffet, Stand on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and to live and study in a 1,300-year old building in Asolo, Italy…I assure you these experiences are not unique to me or our class, but part of the great combination of opportunities that make a degree from Kansas an experience that goes beyond the classroom."
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Princeton Review’s student evaluation of the KU Business School:
"The best business school in the Midwest."
Professors that are “second to none”
"An exceptional international business program for being in the middle of the United States"
"A good value for the money"
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Jenny Weaver, MBA '07
May 2007 Graduation Speech
"My grad school journey has been one of personal and professional transformation…Our professors delivered traditional lectures but they took it a step further. They asked us to think critically about business."
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