Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) is an integral part of one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most distinguished institutions of higher learning: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Founded in 1929, RBS has been accredited since 1941 by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), a distinction that represents the hallmark of excellence in management education. Today, RBS is educating more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students at two main campuses in New Jersey as well as six satellite locations in New Jersey, China, and Singapore.
RBS students and faculty access a strong network of corporate partnerships and more than 27,000 RBS alumni. Through a multidisciplinary approach with other Rutgers schools and departments, they also tap into a network of over 380,000 Rutgers University alumni.
Steeped in academic excellence, with a distinguished faculty, RBS is highly ranked by the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal. It is recognized as one of the top three business schools in the greater New York metropolitan area, and in 2008 was ranked #10 nationwide for "Most Competitive Students" by the Princeton Review.
Combining Business and Science: The Rutgers Advantage
RBS offers strong partnerships with global businesses in the United States and abroad; faculty with an international reputation for the high quality of their teaching and research; a highly diverse student body; and a curriculum that emphasizes experiential learning--providing students with the advantage of innovative, industry-relevant knowledge and real-world, international experiences.
Corporate Partnerships: Geographically situated in an epicenter of global business, RBS has high access to the top executives leading the world's largest corporations. Our partnerships with these companies are central to the RBS experience and offers our students distinct career advantages, evidenced by the success of our alumni.
Multidisciplinary Programs: With more than 270 Rutgers University degree programs to partner with, RBS is uniquely capable of delivering cutting-edge, multidisciplinary curricula that combine the mix of business and science required by today's leading corporations.
Honors Program:
Beginning in fall 2011 the Newark RBS undergraduate program offers a full business-oriented honors program for all qualified incoming first-year students. Once accepted into the Honors Program, students qualify for an annual scholarship of $6,000 per year as long as they maintain an active presence in Honors.
Global Experiences: Students at RBS get multiple real-world experiences, through:
- Corporate internships
- M.B.A. Team Consulting, a required capstone course
- Case-study competitions
- Industry-sponsored student clubs
- Executive mentoring
- Involvement with RBS Board of Advisers
- Presentations by distinguished guest speakers
- International study abroad programs
Ranked #1 in Diversity, Again: In 2011, U.S. News & World Report ranked Rutgers–Newark Campus #1 in diversity, for the twelfth straight year. Successful companies recognize diversity as a key ingredient to innovation, and repeatedly leverage our wealth of diversity through research projects and other forms of collaboration with our academic research centers, MBA Team Consulting, internships, and hiring RBS graduates.
Degree Programs
RBS offers an undergraduate program, a full-time M.B.A. program, a part-time M.B.A. program, an executive M.B.A., an international executive M.B.A., and an M.B.A. in professional accounting. Other graduate degree options include the master of information technology, master of quantitative finance, as well as master of accountancy degrees in financial accounting, governmental accounting, and taxation. In addition, a Ph.D. in management is offered.
Multidisciplinary dual-degree and joint-degree programs are also available, enabling students to combine an M.B.A. degree with a science or liberal arts degree.
Beginning with the fall 2008 semester, RBS now offers two new accelerated bachelor's/M.B.A. degrees, enabling students to obtain an undergraduate and graduate degree as well as valuable work experience, through a required internship, in as little as five-and-a-half years: the B.S. in business/M.B.A. and the science M.B.A.
The Science M.B.A. is designed specifically for undergraduate students with an interest in science, to open up doors to leadership jobs and careers.
The B.S. in business/M.B.A., open to Rutgers' top business students, provides internships, team consulting, and cooperative employment opportunities to provide our students with a competitive edge for launching their careers. RBS is the only business school in New Jersey that provides M.B.A. students with such powerful real-world experiences.
RBS also has long-standing dual-degree programs, with a B.S./M.B.A. and a B.A./M.B.A. degree offered in conjunction with Rutgers' Newark and New Brunswick schools of arts and sciences.
Master-level dual-degree programs include a J.D./M.B.A. and a J.D./professional accounting M.B.A., offered in conjunction with the Rutgers School of Law–Newark. An M.P.P. (public policy)/M.B.A. is offered in conjunction with Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Other joint degree programs include the M.P.H. (public health)/M.B.A., an M.S. in biomedical sciences/M.B.A. and an M.D./M.B.A., offered with the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey (UMDNJ).
See the Academic Program Requirements chapter of this catalog.
Nondegree Programs
Nondegree programs include the Post-M.B.A. Certificate, the Certificate in Government Financial Management, a Pharmaceutical Management Certificate, and the Supply Chain Management Certificate. We also offer a variety of Mini-M.B.A.TM certificates through the Center for Management Development.
Business Outreach and Academic Research Centers
Representative of its strong corporate partnerships, RBS is home to numerous outreach and academic research centers, including the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies; the Center for Governmental Accounting Education and Research; the Center for Management Development; the Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership; the Center for Research in Regulated Industries; East Asian Business Center; New Jersey Small Business Development Center; Prudential Business Ethics Center; Rutgers Accounting Research Center; Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management; Rutgers University Technical Assistance Program; the Technology Management Research Center; the Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services; and the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, among many others.
