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Faculty

Academic Program

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management (Drucker School) MBA Program provides a unique graduate management education and experience that differentiates us from other schools of management. We are committed to developing and enriching tomorrow’s leaders by weaving Peter Drucker’s perspective of the liberal art of management throughout the entire Drucker School experience—this represents the Drucker Difference: ethical leadership and effective management.

It is our intention that our graduates develop an unsurpassed understanding of management-related topics. Courses are constantly updated to reflect leading practices based on the insights of our own faculty plus contributions from pre-eminent global management practitioners and other academic researchers. Drucker School students are challenged to develop a comprehensive analytical and technical skill set as well as a keen understanding of the practice of management and skills for effective leadership. In this context, we are widely recognized for academic rigor, exceptional teaching, and a highly personalized and supportive environment.

The Drucker School faculty, their research, teaching, and service reflect the core assets of the Drucker Difference. Our faculty is a team whose first and primary purpose is to enhance the professional lives of our students and through them to improve the organizations they lead. Teaching the liberal art of management brings us together with the reality of the world in which we live—our social, institutional, and intellectual history as well as our social and ethical responsibilities. We equip our students not only for the workplace realities of today, but also for the new realities of the global economy that awaits them tomorrow.

Admission Requirements

Applicants to the management program at the Drucker School must submit a completed application, application fee,GMAT score, official undergraduate and graduate school transcripts, a résumé, three letters of reference, and a personal statement. TOEFL scores are required for applicants for whom English is not a native language and who do not hold a degree from a U.S. college or university. These students must submit the TOEFL score in addition to the GMAT score.

The Drucker School MBA candidate is a well-rounded individual with highly-developed writing, analytical, and communication skills. Candidates usually possess three to five years of professional work experience and have completed the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 grade point average. Ideally, they have demonstrated a superior verbal and mathematical skill set by scoring above 600 on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). Applicants who fall outside these parameters may be admitted due to outstanding personal qualities, supportive essays, letters of recommendation, and a personal interview. The ideal candidate will have made a positive impact in the communities and organizations they have served and demonstrate the motivation to do the same in the MBA Program.

International students with scores below 100 on the TOEFL are required to either complete a non-credit course offered by CGU in Global Communications or the summer International Fellows Program. Students admitted to this program commence study in the summer semester prior to entering the MBA program in the fall.

Degree Requirements

Course Requirements. The program consists of 60 semester units. Most courses offered are 4-unit courses. A limited number of 2-unit courses are generally offered as special interest topics. The teaching year is concentrated in the fall and spring semesters although a substantive summer program include some core and elective courses that are often taught by visiting faculty.

Students are required to complete a series of core subjects (32 units) in the Drucker Difference, Quantitative Methods, Marketing, Financial Accounting, Organizational Behavior, Corporate Finance, Applied Operational Methods, and Strategy. Once students have completed the initial core requirements, they have the option of directing their studies toward a specified area of concentration including:

Strategy
Finance
Leadership
Global management
Marketing

The curriculum is designed in an integrative fashion to allow students to progressively build on and relate acquired skills and experiences as they progress through the course structure.

Several courses bring students into direct contact with outside managers and their current challenges. Internships, field studies, applied projects, and independent study programs allow students to test their skills on real-world problems with established businesses. Visiting faculty and corporate leaders bring current management issues and developments directly into the classroom. Management students have the opportunity to gain international experience through elective courses including a summer course in Doing Business in Europe, taught at Oxford University, England, and a spring course in Doing Business in a Culture of Sustainability, taught in Costa Rica, exchange semesters at Hitotsubashi University in Japan, Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, and St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Additional requirements and policies. Students may be permitted to waive up to 16 graduate semester units. This requires a grade of B or better attained in a faculty-approved course from an accredited institution within the previous five years of the student’s CGU enrollment date. Information on continuous registration, master’s program outlines, changes of field, and other general requirements may be found in the “Degree Regulations” section of this Bulletin.

Time Requirement/Limit. Students are required to complete the program within six years. Generally students enrolled in a full time status (12 units or more per semester) complete all degree requirements within 2 years. Students on a part time status (8 units or less per semester) complete degree requirements within 2 1/2 to 3 years.

Dual Degree Programs

Students who wish to pursue an MBA with another master’s or Ph.D. degree may find additional information and a description of the dual degree programs in the “Registration and Degree Information” section of this Bulletin. The rules governing the Dual Degree programs allow students to earn both degrees at less cost and time than would be the case if the degrees were pursued consecutively. For example, only 48 Drucker School units are required for an MBA with the remaining 12 units being cross-counted from the other degree program.

Concurrent Degree Program

JD|MBA - Southwestern Law School

The Drucker School and Southwestern Law School have a concurrent degree program that help Drucker and Southwestern students enhance their education and career options by earning a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Juris Doctorate (JD) – JD|MBA.

The combination of legal training and management skills is increasingly in demand, and we believe graduates of these programs will find enhanced career opportunities and be able to make a positive difference.

MPH|MBA – School of Community and Global Health

The Drucker School along with the School of Community and Global Health established a formal dual degree program in public health and business administration (MPH|MBA). The dual degree program is aimed to provide leadership and management training for the health services industry at the local, national and international levels.

A dual MPH|MBA degree offers a comprehensive knowledge and competency in public health sciences (foundations of health behavior, public health policy and practice, principles of biostatistics, principles of epidemiology, environmental and occupational health) and state of the art business practices (finance, accounting and marketing combined with strategic thinking, entrepreneurship and value-based management). The program prepares graduates to transfer strategic thinking, scientific know-how and leadership and managerial skills to rapidly changing environments and global health challenges in the 21^st century.

MBS | MBA (2+1 Program) – Keck Graduate Institute

The Drucker School and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) has partnered to develop the “Drucker | KGI 2+1 Program. The 2+1 program combines the MBS (Master of Bioscience) from KGI with the Drucker MBA program. The goal of the 2+1 program is to provide MBS students with additional business training in the areas of marketing, strategy and leadership.

Special Program: BA/MA

Undergraduate students from The Claremont Colleges may apply to the BA/MBA Programs currently being offered in conjunction with Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps colleges. Once admitted, these students are increasingly exposed to Drucker School courses in the last two years of their undergraduate program. With that completed, they then spend an additional year with full graduate status in the MBA Program.

Jointly Offered Programs

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management jointly offers the programs below. For information on “Jointly Offered Programs” see the links below.

Arts Management, MA – with the School of Arts and Humanities.
Financial Engineering Management, MSFE – with the School of Mathematics
Politics, Economics, and Business, MAPEB – with the School of Politics and Economics