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The ROI of Jenkins MBA
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No. 8 Best Online Business Analytics MBA Program
We are known for equipping our students with business analytics skills, one of the top skills employers are looking for (US News and World Report, 2023).
No. 10 Among Online MBA Programs
Jenkins MBA has been consistently ranked as a top online MBA program, including No. 3 in employability. (QS World University Rankings, US & Canada, 2023)
No. 4 in Diversity
for Full-Time MBA
Our full-time Jenkins MBA program has been ranked No. 4 in the B-School Diversity Index (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2023-24).
No. 1 in the Southeast for Entrepreneurship
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Meet Yessel Davis (left), an online #NCStateMBA student and a Program Control Analyst at Applied Research Associates. While Yessel was taking a hybrid MBA 580 class (Creating Value in Organizations) during our inaugural #PACKedSaturday, her husband Matt (right) and son Avery (middle) stopped by in Nelson Hall to chat with our staff and faculty.
“Taking this hybrid course has allowed me to better interact with fellow MBA students I wouldn’t have met otherwise. It was also refreshing to get away from my typical place of study,” shared Yessel.
Thank you to all the family members and friends of our students for being the pillars of support on this MBA journey!
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#NCStateMBA inaugural #PACKedSaturdays 🐺 👏🏼
70+ online MBA and Master of Management students, as well as MBA alumni, experienced a Saturday full of networking and in-person learning on NC State campus.
PACKed Saturdays include four hours of in-person instruction, lunch talks, plus networking lunches and coffee breaks to increase engagement and foster networking among online working professional students.
This Saturday, we offered MBA 580 Creating Value in Organizations, MBA 590 Art & Science of Negotiation and MBA 533 Negotiation and Conflict Management. Over the lunch, professor Chris Hitch delivered a powerful presentation “CEO of your Life” about creating the life and career you aspire to have.
“The kind of flexibility that our #NCStateMBA program is going to offer is phenomenal. Students might choose to take three online courses and one hybrid course, or they might choose to take 100% of their courses online,” Vikas Anand says, associate dean of academic programs at #NCStatePoole. “Our goal with these is to enhance the MBA experience and increase the number of choices we’re offering students. We’re committed to making sure that whatever choice students make, they have a great learning experience.”
We look forward to having our working professional students in Nelson Hall this fall!
@ncstatepoole @ncstateonline
Meet Kayla Bashore, MBA, a recent #NCStateMBA graduate with a remarkable story. A first-generation college student (and alumna of the University of Florida), Kayla wanted an MBA experience to remember. She chose NC State largely because of the culture and diversity of her fellow students.
Fast forward to today, where Kayla is an Experience Sustainability Analyst at @chs_inc .
“When I arrived at the Jenkins MBA program, I started to have a stronger interest in sustainability which was reinforced through meeting Professor Jessica Yinka Thomas. As a graduate assistant at the MBA program I was randomly paired with Professor Thomas who teaches an undergraduate business ethics course. By sitting and listening in her class, I got more and more interested in sustainability and was eventually asked to join the Business Sustainability Collaborative (@bsc.poole.ncstate ) team as a BSC Associate, where I was then able to take a leadership role in planning FoodCon 2023,” shared Kayla.
#PooleStudentSpotlight
➡️ Read more student and alumni stories at mba.ncsu.edu/news
A warm welcome to the #NCStateMBA class of 2025 from @ncstatepoole! Hear directly from Jake Mueller, a first-year full-time MBA student about his first week in the program:
“During my first week with the NC State Jenkins MBA program, I have had the privilege of getting to know the incredible individuals in my cohort, while also attending the first of many events.
Yesterday, we all had the honor of attending a networking event @pendo.io generously hosted. It was a great opportunity to network, socialize, and get an insight for the industry’s offerings. I am genuinely excited to embrace all the opportunities that the next two years have to offer!” (reposted from LinkedIn)
Meet Kofi Kwateng-Yeboah! Kofi is a full-time MBA student, a valued member of the Jenkins Finance Club, and is completing a finance concentration with a certificate in data analytics.
This summer, Kofi is a payment finance intern at @google, where he enjoys working within Big Tech and the new era of AI. Kofi regularly performs market research, participates in financial planning and strategy discussions, conducts financial analysis, models scenarios, and provides recommendations where he leverages data to create compelling cases.
Thanks to Kofi’s internship, he is currently spending the summer in San Francisco, where he visits various tech companies, attends tech events, and connects with professionals in the industry. Kofi’s also thankful for the opportunity to explore the San Francisco sights.
#PooleStudentSpotlight #NCStateMBA
We’re proud to spotlight full-time student Kate Hedgecock. Kate is completing a concentration in marketing as well as a certificate in data analytics. Her goal is to use these credentials to create enhanced customer profiles, thus better understanding the customer and their needs.
This summer Kate chose to be a Merchandise Operations intern at @walmart where she enjoys the process of forecasting. Kate is spending her summer gathering data via SQL queries, processing said data in Microsoft Power BI, then using the outcomes to create informed customer profiles and forecasts. Kate’s internship has allowed her to return to her hometown of Bentonville Arkansas. She greatly enjoys the time this has allowed her to spend with her family and her dog Tucker.
Kate sits on the board of the Jenkins MBA Student Association as one of our two valued event planners.
Greeting my from Rio! 🇧🇷 Our @ncstatepoole grad students spent 10 days in Brazil, where business and biodiversity meet, studying sustainability with professor @jyinkathomas.
Our 2023 NC State Business Analytics Initiative (BAI) Roundtable on Wednesday was a HUGE success. 🐺 🐾 🎉
The roundtable featured thought leaders from academia, firms, and organizations who are working on state-of-the-art #analytics and the transformational power of those analytics. 💡
Experts shared insights and emerging trends in business analytics with #PoolePack students, faculty/staff and our corporate partners.
From chocolate to cheese! 🍫🧀 These MBA students experienced all Switzerland had to offer, taking advantage of a their Spring Break by studying abroad. They visited the @unitednations, @abbgroup, and @lindt chocolate, while learning about trends impacting organizational resiliency.
That’s a wrap! 🎉 We concluded Raleigh Residency I and II this past week with 150+ students as they developed their leadership skills, practiced relationship building and engaged in networking opportunities.
We had fun mixing and mingling last week with alumni, students, and business partners—expanding our business, social, and enterprise contacts.
Since starting the #JenkinsMBA Professional Online program, Adrian Bryant has already received an internal promotion and landed a new role at another company. Learn how the program has helped him keep his career moving forward. 🔗 Link in bio.
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It’s incredible what we as people can achieve when we work together as a team. 🤝 MBA students put that to the test this weekend at the @townofcary Bond Park Challenge Course as part of the McLauchlan Leadership Series.
Caution: Wolfpack alumni hard at work. ⚠️ 🚧🐺 We had the opportunity to visit @citrix ShareFile today and interview alumni Alysia Eve, director of product marketing, and Shaluka Perera, senior director of product management.
We had the privilege of hosting Chancellor Randy Woodson today as he toured @ncstatepoole and spoke to grad students, faculty and staff. 🐺🎉
The start to a great weekend in Raleigh! 🎉🤘We’re hosting 100+ students for our Raleigh Residency Program, a unique way for our online and professional students to connect while earning course credit over three days!
"One of the most valuable benefits of the Jenkins MBA program has been learning outside of the classroom through team assignments and collaboration. This immersive experience in Prague presented us the opportunity to push outside our comfort zones, ask challenging questions, and share insights with our fellow classmates throughout the week - both within the classroom setting and outside during our cultural experiences.
Getting different view points from professionals in different industries and roles allowed me to expand beyond my own thought bubble. To be successful in leading others, it is vital to keep an open mind and understand people’s why." -Bonnie Landaverdy, MBA Student
"It was an amazing experience to learn about cultural differences across organizations and then hear about it from company leaders here in Prague. Despite the location, all companies are facing similar problems after covid and the economic turmoil and it was interesting to learn the different approaches everyone was taking." -Diana Douglas, MBA Student
