Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Virtual Information Session

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Great. All right, it looks like everyone is logged in, so we'll go ahead and get started. So my name is Jen Radwanski. I'm the associate director for graduate admissions here at Stockton University. And we're so glad that you're joining us for our virtual information session to learn more about our MBA program here at Stockton. Now I know we have a number of you who are joining us live. Thank you for doing so. But Please note this is being recorded and it will also be shared after the recording is done. So if you are watching this pre recorded.

Thank you for doing so. We appreciate you taking the time as well. And for those of you who are joining live, I will share with you there is a chat feature located on the right hand side of your screen and you're welcome to use that throughout the presentation. However, please just know that it is being recorded and anything of a more personal nature will appear in appear in that chat and will be, you know, shared with others when we share this recording. We're happy to take questions of a more personal nature offline after the presentation for both our in person guests as well as anyone watching.

This as a recording. What I would also share with you about the chat is we have a pretty in depth presentation for you to go into the to go over the MBA and that if you have questions that you hold those questions till the end and we'll do a full Q&A with the live folks. But we will probably get to your question throughout our presentation. So just to hold those questions because more than likely we'll be covering that material. So without further ado, I would like to turn things over to Doctor Keith Deaner, who is our program chair for the.

A program who's gonna give you a full overview of of his wonderful program? So, Doctor Tanner, take it away.

Hey, Jen, thanks so much for the introduction and welcome everyone. Welcome to our virtual information session about Stockton University's MBA. As Jenn said, we're really happy to have you here and we look forward to, you know, sharing a little bit about our program, what we have to offer, and taking any questions that you may have. So to start, I always like to start with this beautiful picture here. If you take a look at this picture on the screen.

We do have a gorgeous campus right on the beach in Atlantic City.

Our MBA program officially moved to this pristine location on September 2020, and we started offering all of our classes down there. So at this point in time, all of our classes are offered at our Atlantic City campus, literally steps from the boardwalk and the beach, typically at night, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM each class meeting one night a week. So if you take one class.

Might be on a Monday night, 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Take another class. It might be on a Wednesday night, 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

And we supplement those face to face meetings with some online offerings to provide a little bit more flexibility. So some students will take one class in person and one class online in a semester just to provide them with a little more flexibility. So we're really excited about being in Atlantic City and being hosted there and we have a beautiful campus down there. I'd encourage you to come and visit if you have the opportunity.

So heading now into the NBA program itself.

And some of the classes that we have to offer. So our MBA program, first we take a look at the bottom of the screen, you'll see a little AACSB accredited logo there. What that means is that our MBA program is one of less than about 6% of the business schools in the world were one of those 6% or so that has this accreditation, which is kind of considered the kind of gold standard for a creditor as a business schools across the world.

So our MBA program is a CSP accredited. So we do have to comply with their guidelines and the requirements to make sure that our MBA meets certain threshold criteria for rigor and also contains certain information. So a lot of that is contained in our core classes.

We have 8 MBA core classes, a 7 + a capstone, which is also considered a core. So over on the one side of the screen, you'll see we have accounting, management, marketing and finance. Those are typically the core classes that we recommend you take early in the program because they are prerequisites to that capstone course, the strategy of course Business 5505. Then over on the other side of the screen, you'll see we also have Business Decision Analysis, Info Systems and Technology Employment.

Ethics and of course our business strategy and policy capstone course. So it's a total of 8 core classes, which each of them being a three credit hour course, that's the total of 24 credit hours. And in addition to these 8 core classes, we also have 4 electives that are required to be taken as part of the program. And for the general MBA, you can choose your electives from any concentration area.

Currently here at Stockton.

We offer a general NBA, but we also offer six different concentrations. So in the event that you want to focus or say specialized in a particular area, you would take three of your 4 MBA electives and the concentration area. For example, if you like to focus on business analytics, which is currently a very popular trending field, it would take three of your 4 MBA electives in business analytics if you wanted to focus.

On global business sustainability, which is also very popular trending field, you'll take three of your four classes and global business sustainability three of your 4 elective classes. And then your 4th class you could take, you'll take a fourth class and global business sustainability if you wanted to or you could take it in any of the other areas. I'll just get a little bit more of a well-rounded education. So this is sample is true for any of these concentrations, you would take three of the four.

Electives and the concentration area.

And again, if you didn't want to concentrate, and actually most of our students don't, a lot of our students just do the general MBA, you could just select from among any of the courses offered in any of the concentrations for your 4 elective courses. To give you an idea of what that looks like, Take a look at this slide. You'll see we have a lot of electives.

I did give you an idea of how frequently we we offer them. We typically offer six different electives each semester.

For a total of 18 different elective courses in a year, six in the fall, 6 in the spring, 6 in the summer, which gives you a pretty broad kind of base to select your courses from. If you're in the general MBA program, you can select from any of those 18 elective courses as electives in your MBA. If you're focusing in a particular concentration, again, you just want to pick three of those four NBA electives in that particular concentration.

And, and I'll mention as well that not every single one of these electives is offered every year. We try to rotate some of the courses in and out, but generally we'll have at least 18 unique electives across the summer, spring and fall and a given year. I'm going to take a look at some of these electives. We have things ranging from understanding corporate fraud to business analytics for managers to managerial economics to business ethics and corporate sustainability strategies to digital marketing and.

Analytics to hospitality and tourism research methods we have it's a broad variety of electives that you can select from that you can pick from as part of your MBA program. In addition to that eight class core program. Beyond the core and the electives, we do also offer some opportunities to go abroad and the event that you would like to study outside of the United States, take outside of Stockton, Atlantic City area.

And go to another country for a semester or for a short term. Right now we have in place a dual degree MBA program with National Shahi University in Taiwan, where if you wanted to go and spend a semester over in Taiwan.

I you go over there, you take your classes, have English speaking classes over there, you come back and you actually when you graduate, it's got a really cool thing. You would get 2 MBAs. You get an MBA from the Taiwanese school as well as an MBA from Stockton University when you graduate. So it's a really, really cool opportunity to go abroad for a semester if you're able to do so. We also occasionally put a faculty LED short term.

Program into our curriculum. A couple years ago we had a class where the students studied all about hospitality in France.

And then after the class ended, they want to spend a couple weeks in France and they had a lot of tourists and things really, really great opportunity. We're looking at adding another one of those in the near future. And then we have study abroad programs, general study abroad programs where you can select from a variety of different places through our Office of global engagement to go and study somewhere and, and possibilities are limitless. Really go over summer or for a semester and then come back and.

Transfer those courses into your MBA.

So we have some great opportunities for global education and always encourage you to do that in the event that you're able to.

Moving on now to funding opportunities for Stockton's MBA and I think Jen's going to join me in here on this slide in just a moment to to tell you a little bit about some of the scholarships and financial aid. But to tell you initially about kind of our number one funding opportunity, it is our graduate assistantship. This gives you an opportunity to to work with a professor.

Or with an administrator here at Stockton University for a semester in exchange for a tuition remission. And I should say partial tuition remission because our average awards are typically between two and four credit hours. So let's say if you're working for a professor and you're working.

7 hours a week or so, you'll get some credits towards your towards your tuition and which will reduce the overall cost of the program for you. In addition to the graduate assistantships and Jen's going to going to tell you a little bit about this. We have graduate student scholarships as well as.

Financial aid. So Jen, do you want to take it from here?

Absolutely. So with our scholarships, we have minimal scholarships for both domestic and international students. There is a small amount for incoming new students. But then we do have a foundation scholarship process institutionally that students can apply for scholarships after their first year. So let's say you start in the fall, you can have the application process for the foundation scholarships begins in the beginning of the spring semester. She usually like the last week of January, 1st week of February.

And then that scholarship can be applied if awarded to your following year. So the the next fall and spring. Umm, in addition to that, there are a number of opportunities for students to look for private scholarships. And although it takes a little bit more time and energy, it is something that we do encourage because it can be very fruitful if you have the time to put into that in research, in researching additional private scholarships that are related to either your place of employment or hobbies and activities that you're involved in.

And you'd be very surprised to see how many things that are available if, if you're able to take that time and to do that research. We also offer financial aid for graduate students, but it is much different than undergrad undergrad. So usually financial aid for graduate students is in the form of.

Just student loans. So just know that that is is a very different process and not available to international students as well. What I want to share with you, I'm going to drop a link in the chat and this is another webinar that we are doing that you can register for. It's on December 3rd.

So if you're watching this pre recorded after December 3rd, we will also share the recording. So just reach out to us. We can share the link for that recording. If you are watching this before December 3rd, 2024, please consider joining us. It's at 12:00, same as this one. And it is how to finance your graduate education and it's being hosted by our financial aid folks. So please take a peek at that. And she is going to go in great detail about all of these different topics. I can also drop a link in so that you can see.

The different topic areas she's going to be discussing, so you can kind of do a little research ahead of time, but then she'll give some great tips and tricks on how to finance your graduate education.

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Alright, fantastic. Thanks Jen. And I will be kind of handing the football back and forth a little bit here through the rest of the presentation. Jen and I do want to share with you a little bit about the the admissions criteria and she's also going to comment on how to apply in just a moment. So the admissions criteria for Stockton is there are several ways I should say that you can complete the five prerequisites that we have to the program.

If you had an undergraduate business degree, more likely than not you have several of these prerequisites already.

But we do require at least kind of a baseline knowledge of business, which includes an undergraduate class in management accounting, economics, finance and operations management. So 5 undergraduate classes. But we do work with some online vendors, which if you don't have one of these classes or you don't have a business background, you could actually take all five of these classes online for a pretty low cost.

And you could complete them in just a couple months prior to entering into our program.

So if you don't have these prerequisites right now.

You can, absolutely.

You can absolutely still complete them and I also just noticed that I failed to mention the statistics prerequisite as well. There's a statistics prereq in there as well, but you can absolutely complete them online through one of our online vendors. If you have questions about that, you can contact me or Office of Grad Admissions and we can we can provide you with the links to those online vendors as well.

If you have a 3.0 GPA then you do qualify for a GRE or Gmail waiver, so you will not be required to take the GRE or the GMAT if you have a 3.0 or above in your undergraduate studies. If you if you have below a 3.0, we do require AGRE or a task or submission.

And see what am I missing here typical application process you include your letters of recommendation, a personal statement or an essay, your CV, your official transcripts, and the application form along with all fees. There are some opportunities if you're coming out of a Stockton Business School program.

In the last year or so and you have a 3.5 GPA or above for direct entry where some of those application requirements are waived and it's a little bit more of a streamlined process. But if you're not coming out of Stockton program, then those are the typical requirements for admissions of genome. Am I missed anything, Jen?

I don't believe so.

OK, alright, alright. And we'll go to how to to apply then.

Alright, so I in the chat, I dropped a link to the NBA page. I know this is a little bit difficult to read. It's just a point of reference. It's not to be intended to be for you to sit and and stare at it and screenshot because everything is on our website. So that link at the very top of this screen page, I again, I put it in the chat and then you can, you can see where the apply button is. But then if you'd like to see those items that are on the left as far as admissions requirements and prerequisite requirements, those are under the admission criteria tab. So let's just talk.

Through what these items mean. So first we talked through doctor Deaner just mentioned the prerequisite courses that are required to apply. Those are really for your academic success. Many students say, well, why do I have to take those? Again, it's preparing you for a, a graduate level program and you need to have that baseline knowledge there. So that's very, very important. You must also have your bachelor's degree completed with at least a 3.0 GPA.

Again, preparing you for academic success.

The next, the next couple of items that I want to share with you are pieces for the application process to begin. So one, we do require a $50 application fee and that we do have some waivers for domestic students, minimal ones. And then we also waive it for direct entry. And that is for specific Stockton students that have requirements that they must meet as well in order to have that waived through the direct entry application as Doctor Deaner had mentioned.

Umm, once you either put the waiver code in or do your $50.00 deposit, that is going to populate the opportunity for you to complete the rest of the application. Sometimes people get confused and they say, well, I'm not going to put put that code in or I'm not going to do anything else until I can upload all my materials. Unfortunately, you have to do the the code or the deposit in order to move forward with loading your materials or having materials sent to us.

So the one thing that will populate first after you do your code or you do your pay your $50 fee is it will show you your.

Application Essay This is a prompt that all all students for the program receive and you will be able to see that prompt after you start the application. We recommend that you write that letter yourself. You do not use AI for that and that you do have someone proofread it for you. This is just a representation to the program knows they can see your writing abilities. So it's very critical that you again spend some time on this, spend some energy proofread it and that it is your unique writing for this piece of material.

You can load that as a PDF and you'll be able to load that yourself to the application. The next part is that you'll need 3 letters of recommendation. Those letters of recommendation are done electronically and again, once you begin your application, you'll put your recommenders name, title, and e-mail address in. We suggest you reach out to those recommenders before putting their information in so they know that they'll be receiving that letter to complete electronically and to have a conversation with them about the program you're applying to, the deadline for that program.

Maybe give them a copy of your resume so that they feel really prepared to write you a solid letter of recommendation. As far as recommenders go, one of the frequently asked questions we get is, well, who should write my letters of recommendation? And these should be individuals who can speak to your academic success. They neither need to be professors that you've had in class, people who you've.

Worked with on maybe a research project as an undergraduate student, or if you're a working professional, someone who can speak to your professional status and how this would work for enhancing your professional career.

So again, a supervisor would be a great idea, but a lot of times people say, well, what if I have my neighbor write 1, You know, they've known me for 20 years. They know I'm a great person. I take in their trash cans for them all the time. Unfortunately, we're not looking for a character reference. We're looking for someone who can speak to your academic success. Doing a graduate program is very rigorous and and so we're looking to make sure this is someone who can speak to your academic abilities.

The So again you'll be you'll be giving us their e-mail address. We also suggest that you copy and paste their e-mail address from an e-mail that you already have from them.

I can't tell you how many times we realize that an application is almost complete, but they're missing one letter of recommendation and it's because the student, the applicant typed in their recommenders e-mail address wrong. The recommender never even got the letter of recommendation request. And so we hate to see that happen. So please make sure that the e-mail address is correct for that recommender. The next component is the testing requirement. So as as was noted previously.

For individuals who do not have the 3.0 or higher, the GRE is required. The GRE is the OR you can take the GMAT. So the graduate Management Admission test or the Graduate entrance exam and the GRE in particular is the one that many folks do. However, we get a question, well, which one should I pick? Our suggestion is YouTube. Go to YouTube and there's some great short 4-5 minute videos that explains the difference between the GMAT and the GRE and then.

You can make the decision on which you feel is the best choice for you. There are a number of differences with those and and we suggest you select the one that you feel you'll be most successful with. Both of these are offered by outside agencies. You cannot take those tests here at Stockton. And when you take the test, we suggest that you take a quick screenshot of your final score and also make sure you have those scores sent to us and so on our admission criteria site, the school code is there. It is 2889.

And you'll have those scores sent to us directly.

But that's an important piece of the puzzle. And then again, making the decision between the GRE versus the GMAT test.

Next Oh, and also Please note that you need to schedule those well in advance. There are opportunities to take them online, but you can also take them in person. But making sure you schedule it well in advance is critical because those can book off, especially for the in person version of those exams. And you should also do a little bit of preparation for them. You know, don't just take them and put your name on them, but actually do a little bit of maybe online.

Test questions and and really do a tiny bit of preparation for them.

Uh, next is uploading your resume and you'll do that in APDF format. This is, you'll want to put everything on there that you want the committee to know about all of your volunteer experience, your work experience, any honors or awards that you've received, any reason to give them to, to say, yes, this would be a great candidate to have in our program. And again, you'll do that in APDF format. And then lastly, official transcripts. And so for your official transcripts, they have to be sent to us. We cannot receive an unofficial copy.

Umm, if you are a Stockton student, we can take your, we can pull your Stockton transcripts for you and we would be happy to do that. Umm, please just check in with us if you'd like for us to do that. If you don't see it happening automatically, umm, but if you have not attended Stockton, uh, we will need copies of your transcripts and we recommend that you sent those to us electronically. You can have them do a paper copy or if you happen to have a signed sealed envelope in an official capacity, you can deliver those to us by hand and we can take those as long as they're signed and sealed.

But again, sending them to either grad school at stockton.edu or selecting Stockton at the drop down menu of your institution's provider, usually it's a clearinghouse. There's a few others that are out there. If you are an international student, you will need to have your transcripts evaluated by an official accredited evaluator. And that the ones we recommend are either W ECE or Span Tran and those links are on our website. We'll talk about that in just a moment.

But for the transcripts, again, sending them to grad school at Stockton Edu or having you selecting Stockton from the drop down is critical. The last component with those transcripts I'll share with you is that it does need to be.

Any institution you attended. So if you have an associate's degree and a bachelor's degree, if you had dual credit from high school, from your local college or university, if you have another master's degree, another doctor, any of those things.

We must receive every single one of your transcripts and all of those transcripts get included when we talk about that 3.0 GPA. So keep that in mind too. They all get average together and masters and doctoral classes are weighted more heavily than undergraduate classes. But all of those transcripts must be received and be part of your application to be complete. So if there are questions that you have with that, don't hesitate to reach out. We, we can, we'd be more than happy to help. Now, I alluded to the idea that we have a.

Of different things that you have to consider if you're an international applicant. And I see that we do have a number of folks who are joining us from Broad. So thank you for doing that. Let's talk a little bit further about what international applications look like, although it will not let me click on the slide. Keith, I might need you to help me on that one. Will it let you click on the next slide?

I got the international slide up now. Is it showing on your screen?

MMM. Yeah. OK. Thank you.

It's not that's unusual, but there we go. OK, I can see it now. Alright, we're good and hopefully you can all see it too, but I will. I do want you to note on the NBA page on the left hand side of our website, there is a link for international applicants. And this is the page that will take you to. So you'll see that tab on the left with the arrow international applicants. And on that page there is a different checklist of information for admissions criteria. And so as I mentioned, trans.

Do you need to be evaluated and sent to us? If you there are a few countries that are exempt from that. If you have questions about if your country is exempt, please feel free to e-mail us and we'll give you our contact information shortly and then.

We will upload both your official transcript from your institution as well as your evaluation together 'cause those agencies send us both and we'll upload that to your application. The other piece that you will need as an international applicant is to upload a copy of your passport and.

So again, you can do all of that in the application process. The other item I will share with you is we are very lucky here in the Office of Graduate Admissions that one of our admissions counselors actually it works specifically with our international students. So he's the designated student official or DSO for international graduate students here at Stockton. His name is Matthew Shaw. And so if you are considering applying and and are not currently residing in the United States, we suggest making.

Virtual one-on-one appointment with Matt sometime in December. There's no need to do it right now. We encourage you to do so after the 1st of December. And that would be applying for fall of 2025. And Matt is the one that processes all of the visa information and helps with that process once a student is admitted to the program and and before being admitted as well to talk through the application process. So again, his name is Matt Shaw and his information is on the international graduate student.

Page as well and on our contact us page.

All right. Did I miss anything as far as the admission criteria, Dr. Deaner?

Yeah, you did a great job, Jen. I think. I think you hit every point.

Yes, thanks.

Alright. Well, do you want to take us into the next part of things and then we'll open things up for questions?

All right, everyone. So we've talked about our our general MBA and we've talked about the the six concentrations we have in the general MBA, but no presentation on Stockton's MBA program would be complete without at least a, a shout out to our MBA and healthcare administration and leadership. This is a relatively new program that launched in September 2020.

Again, Atlantic City program, it's a little bit different.

Insofar as it meets on the weekends, but only four weekends a semester, uh, and the rest of the program is kind of, it's an online hybrid setup. Uh, so it's set up this way because it's a program that's intended for healthcare administrators, healthcare managers, uh, people who have very busy schedules during the weekdays also that they're able to, uh, both, you know, attend an MBA program aimed at kind of healthcare professionals while also working.

Time and a lot of the students in this program are full time healthcare professionals. So if you are in healthcare or if you desire to go into healthcare, this is a great program for you to check out. And it's taught by both business and Health Sciences faculty and it has some really cool unique Health Sciences classes in it, but you just you can't get in the general NBA. So if you're a healthcare oriented or healthcare management oriented, definitely check out this program also falls under ACS.

Validation and I'll mention as well that I don't have a slide for it yet because we haven't officially launched it yet, but in spring of 2025, we have the official launch of our new Masters of Accountancy program as well. So this is an Ms. program, it's not an MBA program, it's a little bit different, but it's aimed for those students who want to attain their CPA credential and a lot of the classes in this master's program are aimed at.

Preparing students for the CPA credential and the CPA exams and things.

So in addition to our general MBA or six concentrations, our MBA in healthcare administration on leadership, we also have an MSN accountancy for those of you who are CPA or accountancy data oriented. And so a lot of exciting things happening here at Stockton, some new programs, some new concentrations for you to check out, lots of options. But we also have a very long and established MBA program with a very strong alumni base in the South Jersey area.

So with that action, so we'll open it up for questions if I any of our participants have questions.

I'll mention it. Well, one of my, my favorite things about our MBA program is we really are the the local commodity. One of the things I hear from students over and over again is how much they enjoy kind of meeting other professionals and the field and the South Jersey region, getting to know professors and kind of building their network in the South Jersey region. And that's where I think we we really offer the competitive advantage over a lot of other programs, online programs going to Philly because we really are.

South Jersey University and RMB A program is the South Jersey MBA program. So if you want to stay in South Jersey or you're in South Jersey, or if you want to come to South Jersey and live at the beach for a couple years, you know Stockton is a great opportunity and a great place for you to check out.

BJP.

Excellent. Thank you so much. I'm going to go ahead and if you have questions, please feel free to drop them in the chat. See, we have a couple that will address in just a second. And Doctor Jenner, can you click on that last slide one more time 'cause it's not populating for me. I don't know if it is for everybody else, hopefully it is, but we're going to have our contact information up there for you in just a second and I'll drop it in the chat too.

Is it showing now because I've just gone back and forth between slides on it again?

OK, Yeah.

It's still not showing. It's just maybe me and that's totally OK. And like I said, I'll drop it in the chat too in case it is stuck. But hey, if we're at the very end, we're doing OK, right?

Replay Kajol.

So I see that we have a couple of questions. The first question is, is transcript evaluation required for international students? Yes, it is. And I will share with you a really short list of programs that are there are countries using the British pattern style system, which is the official criteria for who does or does not need a transcript evaluation. So if you fall into one of these countries.

You do not need to have your transcript evaluated because your credit and are the same and as long as you attended an English speaking institution we can do the credit evaluation ourselves because the the credits are the same and it is in English. So the following countries would be Great Britain, Cameroon as long as English speaking area, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Uganda.

Guyana, Bahamas, Barbados, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

That is the, the current list that I have. If you have a question about a country other than that, we'd be happy to look it up for you. But as of right now, those are the ones would that would not because again, the credit systems are the same falling under the British pattern system. And also they would be coming to us in English so we could see the course titles. So great question. Umm, is there a separate application for graduate assistantships or scholarships? Yes and no. So for graduate assistantships, umm, there is a separate tab in the application.

When you're completing your application, you would submit your information for graduate assistantships at that same time. You would be notified after you've been admitted, but you would submit your request for it at the same time. And then for the scholarships, for the ones we talked about with the foundation, those would be done after you've been enrolled. And so you would do those in the spring term. You have to have at least one semester completed here at Stockton, so if you are a Stockton student.

You can apply for those and you're going straight through. You are able to apply for them in the spring, your first spring semester. If you were enrolled in the fall, if you are a new student of Stockton, you would need to wait till the following spring.

And if you are enrolling in the fall, then you can do it in the spring as well for the following fall. It's a little complicated, understand. Again, happy to talk through it with you if you'd like more details on when you'd be eligible based on who you are, where you attended undergrad, when you attended undergrad, and also when you're planning to enroll. It's, it's not the easiest system, but again, we're happy to assist.

Any other questions that you all have, please feel free to drop those in the chat and again for those who are.

Joining us virtually, I'm going to drop our contact information for the office into the chat as well.

Umm, if again, you are an international student, umm, I would, you need to make your appointment specifically with Matthew Shaw and his information is on there and you can schedule a virtual appointment. Umm, I can see any candidates. And then also, uh, we also have Tara and Hunter who are part of our team, uh, and they have specific areas of, of expertise too. And so you can click on those accordingly.

But all of us could assist you, so please don't hesitate to reach out if someone else's availability works. But again, if you're an international student, Please wait until after December 1st to make your appointment with Matt, but he's very happy to help you talk through the process. Uh, any other closing, closing items or thoughts that you have doctor dinner before we wrap up?

How to start? Thanks to everyone for joining us, and don't hesitate to reach out in the event that you have any questions. Like Jen said, we're more than happy to work with you to talk with you to set up individual Zoom meetings as needed or in person meetings if you're in the area to talk about the program and to answer any questions you may have. So thanks for joining us today. And Jen, thanks for everything you've done and for all your work on this program today as well.

No problem. My, my, my closing thought is I always like to share with folks, umm, last month I attended an in person, uh, grad school fair and a colleague asked me, they said, what's the main reason somebody should consider attending a grad program at Stockton? I thought that was a great question. And without hesitation, I said, our faculty, uh, I, I 100% believe that the success in and our strength here in our graduate programs is our amazing faculty and the MBA program is surely one of them. Umm, we, I work.

One of our graduate students here that works in our office is in the MBA program and we've met many students who've gone to the program who've said how thoughtful and caring and detail oriented our our faculty MBA faculty are. They you're not just a number. They know who you are. You, you are, are, are learning so much in their classes. They're experts in their field. And so if you're considering this program, that is a strong reason to consider it because I know that, you know, there's a number of other programs where, you know, maybe it's.

It's fully online and you're just a number. And that's just not the case in our program. And I, Keith, I'm going to embarrass you for just a quick second. And, and we did an event together in September. And I can't tell you how many students came up to him and just wanted to come say hello, give him an update, give doctor dinner, an update on the things they were doing and tell them how they were, you know, classes were going and just to check in. And I just spoke volumes of that kind of relationship building that takes place in this program. So kudos to you and in that and keep up the good work. And I hope you all consider to, you know.

Lying to this wonderful program and we're happy to answer questions if you come up with any after, you know, viewing this session. So we hope you have a wonderful day and everyone take care and be well. Thanks.

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