UNC Kenan-Flagler Essay Topics 2012-2013

The UNC Kenan-Flagler essay topics for the 2012-2013 have been released

Essay One (Required): What are the 2 or 3 strengths or characteristics that have driven your career success thus far? What are the other strengths that you would like to leverage in the future? (500 words maximum)

Essay Two (Required): Please describe your short and long term goals post-MBA. Explain how: your professional experience has shaped these goals; why this career option appeals to you; and how you arrived at the decision that now is the time and the MBA is the appropriate degree. (500 words maximum)

Essay Three (Required): What personal qualities or life experiences distinguish you from other applicants? How do these qualities or experiences equip you to contribute to UNC Kenan-Flagler? (500 words maximum)

Essay Four (Optional): If your standardized test scores are low, or if you have not had coursework in core business subjects (calculus, microeconomics, statistics, financial accounting), please tell us how you plan to prepare yourself for the quantitative rigor of the MBA curriculum. (300 words maximum)

Essay Five (Optional): Is there any other information you would like to share that is not presented elsewhere in the application? (300 words maximum)

Kenan-Flagler’s 2012-2013 application deadlines have already been announced.

For more information, visit the school’s admissions website.

UNC Online MBA Programs are Credibile

UNC Kenan-Flagler's online MBA program is gaining credibility. Kenan-Flagler's program is is the first time a top 20 school has put together an online effort with the publicly stated goal of making it the world's best MBA program delivered over the Internet.

UNC's partner, 2tor Inc., is a startup with over $68 million in venture funding, is investing more than $10 million into the program. It also has online degree programs in nursing at Georgetown University as well as social work and education at the University of Southern California. Kenan-Flagler has 20 of its full-time professors, many of them considered the school's best faculty, deeply involved in the online initiative, developing and recording special lectures and teaching live classes online.

Together, 2tor and UNC aim to make online education both respectable and credible. If they succeed, the number of MBA candidates in this two-year, $92,725 program will vastly exceed Kenan-Flagler's full-time MBA student population on-campus and the program will reach a worldwide audience.

So far, UNC has signed up 134 students for MBA@UNC since taking on an inaugural class of 19 students in the fall of last year. The school enrolls a new group of candidates every quarter and, on April 4, it will bring in some 45 new students as part of a fourth cohort.

A typical webinar session has little more than a dozen. "These guys are being taught in groups of no more than 15 students," he says. "It's an intense experience. Everyone sits in the front row so there is nowhere to hide."

Kenan-Flagler's professors have developed 32 hours of asynchronous teaching material and have another 36 hours under development. Three professors -- including two adjunct hires -- are teaching their live sessions from India, Israel, and France. The students, meantime, hail from all over the country and the world, including China and Kuwait.

A few field trips to keep things personal

The San Francisco experience -- which runs from a Thursday to Sunday evening -- is one of four in-person immersions in the program. Another one is devoted to leadership development and held at the school's Chapel Hill campus in North Carolina. Two more will be global, with an immersion in San Paulo, Brazil, focused on managing in a high-growth environment, and one in London centered on global markets. Each student is required to do two immersions during the two-year program.

Source: CNN

UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Launches New Undergraduate Summer Program

The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced the launch of a new summer program designed for undergraduate college students from around the world to business studies at the school.

The new five-week, for-credit “Summer Business Immersion” program will include entrepreneurship and finance courses, presentations by Kenan-Flagler professors and guest speakers, company visits and leadership skills development. Participants will also take part in an orientation program, a weekend trip to Washington, DC, and networking, cultural, sports and other activities. 

As part of the entrepreneurship course, participating students will meet with serial entrepreneurs, work in teams to develop a business plan for students’ ventures and practice presentation skills to make a business pitch. The finance class will be taught in UNC Kenan-Flagler’s state-of- the-art Capital Markets Lab, which provides a real-world setting for students to use information and complex analytical tools to manage assets and add value for future clients.

The inaugural “Summer Business Immersion” will take place from June 18 –July 27, 2012, and will include housing in UNC’s Old East residence hall. 

Source: UNC Kenan-Flagler