Support Services

Broad has many resources available to help you succeed, which are employed from the moment you are admitted. We set you on a course to learn:

The hard skills you need within your area of expertise
The soft skills to communicate and sell that knowledge
Career planning strategies to achieve your immediate, mid-term, and long-range goals

Office of MBA Academic and Program Services

Taking on an advising and programming role to partner with you during your tenure in the program, the Office of MBA Academic and Program Services:

Encourages leadership and learning toward becoming an ethical and global-minded leader
Provides the link between admissions and graduation, with two student advocates who coach you through the academic and co-curricular processes
Works closely with the administration and your professors to develop programming that enhances your performance

Team advisors

Because the Broad MBA program requires a high level of cooperative teamwork, each MBA team has a team advisor. Team advisors are available during the first year and meet with their assigned team regularly throughout the first semester.

Student mentor program

The MBA Association coordinates an active student mentoring program where second-year MBA’s act as mentors for first-year MBA students. Mentors help you in your transition to life on campus and to the demands of the Broad MBA program by answering questions on:

Curriculum
Career paths
Other issues related to MBA student life

International students have a similar mentoring program that adds a component to help them acclimate to life in the U.S. as well to the MBA program. Both programs include events where participating students meet and mingle.

MSU Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS)

The Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS):

Supports and enhances international students' academic, cultural, and social interaction at MSU
Serves as the primary link between international students and the university, community, federal government, and public and private agencies

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MSU Council for Graduate Students (COGS)

The Council of Graduate Students is an authorized student government on campus representing our graduate/professional students at various levels across MSU. Its mission is to improve and advance graduate education to ensure the vitality of intellectual discovery, which it accomplishes through:

Advocacy
Innovative research
Development and dissemination of best practices

“A lot of what we do here is research on very practical kinds of business issues, and that gets reflected in the classes. They're hearing about these things while they're fresh. It'll show up in the literature in another two years—three years, but we're exposing our students to those ideas—to those learning's today.”

Gary L. Ragatz

Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management

News

Did government intervention turn a manageable subprime mortgage problem into an unmanageable financial crisis?

Broad School Professor Naveen Khanna, the A. J. Pasant Endowed Chair Professor in Finance, wrote a three-part commentary on the 2008 financial crisis. According to Khanna, "The crisis we are now facing is no longer due to the excesses in the housing market, but because of the excesses by our government in dealing with the problem."

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