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Two New Joint Degrees Available to Business Students
April 2007
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—MBA students will be able to pursue joint degrees in Environment and Resources and in Public Policy under two new programs approved by the faculty senate. Each degree requires that the student be admitted to the Graduate School of Business before applying for the joint program and that they successfully complete an additional set of classes beyond those required for a business degree.
The environmental master's joint program is offered in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (IPER). It will require 129 academic units, including 45 units from IPER. Faculty from the schools of Business, Law, Engineering, Humanities and Science, and Earth Science are developing a new core course for the program titled Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers.
MBA students are expected to complete their course work over eight quarters and may choose from four areas of concentration for the joint degree: the natural sciences; culture, law, institutions, and politics; technology and engineering; or economics and policy analysis. The students will be required to complete the first full year of study at the School of Business before enrolling in qualifying non-GSB classes. Eight current business students have requested permission to pursue the joint degree.
The joint degree in public policy is offered with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Its purpose is to "provide MBA students an opportunity to become more sophisticated consumers and commissioners of public policy analysis with the context of their careers as professional managers."
The joint public policy degree will take approximately three years to complete and requires at least 45 course credits taken outside of the GSB, once business students complete their first-year requirements toward the MBA degree.
Required courses for the joint degree include Microeconomics, taught by Jeremy Bulow, the Richard A. Stepp Professor of Economics; and Economic Policy Analysis, co-taught by Daniel Kessler, professor of Economics, Law, and Policy at the Business School.
The Business School already offers joint degrees with the schools of Law and Education.