Career Impact
Career Impact
Career Impact
There are many reasons to pursue a graduate-level business degree. Beyond expanding a skill set, increasing compensation, and giving yourself an edge above the competition, graduate business programs evolve alongside industry trends and rapidly changing technologies, helping you remain current while positioning yourself for your next career move.
At Rowan University’s Rohrer College of Business (RCB), we urge students to forge connections with industry leaders in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations to connect with mentors and future employers, to make a positive social impact on the local community, to contribute to the region’s thriving businesses, and to hone their leadership attributes, a crucial part of transforming the next generation of business professionals.
According to the Graduate Management Admission Council: “Communication skills, strategic thinking, and versatility are the most often cited reasons for corporate recruiters’ confidence in business school graduates.” Known as GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Council, founded in 1953, is a leading consortium of graduate business school experts who evaluate the value of graduate management programs and advanced degrees in business using extensive data-based research and reporting. GMAC also owns and operates the GMAT, the most widely used business school assessment.
RCB is committed to offering high-quality graduate programs that provide opportunities to build technical expertise, metacognitive mastery, and well-developed interpersonal skills, along with developing superior effectiveness in multiple channels of communication. We support our students’ success by empowering them to pursue the knowledge and skills they need to achieve their individual career goals.
Learn more about RCB’s mission and vision and how we accomplish these goals.
Graduate Degrees in Business Elevate Careers
Learning is its own reward. Deepening knowledge, growing a skill set, and reaching expertise are all vital to professional development and evolving a career pathway in business. And achieving mastery in one’s passion brings a sense of accomplishment and self-satisfaction that is difficult to quantify. Pursuing knowledge has many such unquantifiable rewards. The discovery process is as various and as intrinsic as there are individuals.
Yet, reports based on salary trends and other employment data consistently show that pursing a master’s in business has tangible positive outcomes on multiple levels, with the potential to be emotionally, intellectually, and remuneratively rewarding.
Why Pursuing an Advanced Degree at Rowan’s Rohrer College of Business (RCB) is the Right Choice
Did You Know? Rowan University . . .
. . . is the 3rd fastest-growing research university in the nation, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, in a 2022 ranking.
. . . placed in the top 100 public national universities in U.S. News’s 2022 rankings. Rowan then jumped from the 99th in 2022 to the 88th top public school in U.S. News's 2023 rankings—an 11-spot change in one academic year!
. . . has a $25 million Rowan Innovation Venture Fund for supporting investment in cross-curricular entrepreneurship, for Rowan students, faculty, and alumni, in collaboration with the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the Rohrer College of Business.
. . . is 1 of only 4 universities in the nation with medical schools granting DO and MD degrees.
. . . will launch the 1st and only School of Veterinary Medicine in New Jersey, in 2025, making Rowan 1 of only 2 universities in the nation to offer DVM, DO, and MD degrees.
. . is ranked 35 in the nation for economic diversity, based on a study conducted by the New York Times in September 2023.
. . . U.S. News ranked Rowan 91st in national universities for social mobility in 2023. A 116-spot change from 2022!
And Rohrer College of Business . . .
. . . is ranked in the top 250 business schools in the nation according to U.S. News’s Best Colleges report of 2023.
. . . offers Accelerated Pathways that pair an MBA with advanced professional degrees in fields such as health care (MSN), medicine (DO and DVM), finance (MSF), and engineering (MSE) at a considerable savings in both time and money.
. . . has added 6 new cutting-edge MBA Concentrations and 7 graduate-level certificates since 2021, making it possible for students to hone their skills in 11 specific targeted areas of business.
. . . is proud of its diverse student population from all strata of professional experience across a myriad of industries. And approximately 250 graduate students are actively enrolled each semester, making for a highly productive networking and relationship-building ecosystem.
. . . . invites prospective and current students with a strong commitment to achieving a positive social impact to apply for the prestigious RCB MBA and MS Fellows program. Recipients will demonstrate the potential to lead corporate, not-for-profit, and/or government enterprises through hands-on research, service learning, and/or consultative initiatives. In addition to mentorship and the opportunity to develop skills to become change agents and economic catalysts for the region, recipients will receive $500 to $33,000 in grant funding.
Rowan University’s Rohrer College of Business is AACSB accredited.
