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SMU Cox Offers Business Boot Camp for Non-Business Majors
Four-Week Summer Business Institute Teaches the Basics in Business
DALLAS (SMU) -- To give recent and soon-to-be graduates a competitive edge among other job candidates, SMU Cox Executive Education offers the Summer Business Institute (SBI), a four-week business boot camp for non-business majors to be held June 3-29, 2007.
SBI is designed for non-business majors, such as those in the liberal arts, communications, engineering, the fine arts, or sciences, who have completed their junior or senior years in college or who have recently graduated. The program offers a challenging and comprehensive curriculum covering the most essential topics of business. Students will learn the business skills that not only complement their major fields of study but boost their résumés, creating more competitive and employable job candidates.
“The skills learned in the Summer Business Institute provide the leverage needed to successfully compete in the job market,” said Frank R. Lloyd, associate dean of SMU Cox Executive Education. “We have a proven track-record of providing non-business majors a balanced skill-set, allowing them to establish successful careers in areas including film production, automotive marketing, and entrepreneurship.”
We have designed this program so that non-business majors can balance their specialization, whether liberal arts or science, with business skills and enter the workforce as knowledgeable and well-rounded employees.”
During the four-week program, students will concentrate on the “hard skills” of business, including accounting, finance, marketing, management and operations. Cox School faculty members, all experts in their subject areas, will teach the Summer Business Institute sessions. In addition, students will learn career planning strategies and tactics to assist them in their future job searches.
The SMU Cox Summer Business Institute is the most established program of its kind in the Southwest. Now in its sixth year, the program has welcomed participants from leading undergraduate programs throughout the U.S. and around the globe.
Students may attend on either a residential or a non-residential basis. Applicants must have completed at least three years of college before attending.
For more information or to apply online, visit www.exed.cox.smu.edu/sbi. Student testimonials available upon request.
About SMU COX School of Business
SMU’s Cox School of Business offers a full range of business education programs, including BBA, full-time MBA, Professional MBA (PMBA), Executive MBA (EMBA), Master of Science in Management (MSM), Master of Science in Entrepreneurship, and Executive Education. The school also offers a number of unique resources and activities for students, ranging from its Business Leadership Center (BLC), Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, Maguire Energy Institute, and American Airlines Global Leadership Program (AAGLP) to its Associate Board executive mentoring program and an international alumni network with chapters in more than 20 countries. SMU Cox is ranked among the top business schools nationally and internationally by major publications, including BusinessWeek, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report. For more information on the Cox School, go to www.smucox.com.
About SMU Cox Executive Education
SMU Cox Executive Education is the region’s premier resource for advanced leadership and management training. Located in the new state of the art James M. Collins Executive Education Center on the SMU campus, SMU Cox Executive Education has provided management education programs tailored to the oil and gas industry for a quarter century, in association with the Maguire Institute. In addition, SMU Cox Executive education creates customized educational programs for individual organizations that enable new, experienced and high potential managers to have immediate and lasting impact on their companies and on their careers.
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