The first full year of required core courses is offered at the Newark and New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses during the day. The second year includes 4 credits of interfunctional team consulting and 1 credit of entrepreneurship, which is offered in Newark and New Brunswick/Piscataway, and electives, which are offered only in Newark. Electives offered during the day in finance and marketing are sufficient to meet the concentration requirements in those two areas. Other elective courses will also be offered during the day. Additionally, electives are scheduled in the evening at both the New Brunswick/Piscataway and Newark campuses.

Full-time day students are required to complete the full day core program during their first year of studies at the school. Substitutions between day and evening courses are not permitted during the first year.

The first year of the full-time day program is demanding, especially for students who need to make up deficiencies in calculus and/or statistics. Students should not expect to be able to work part time during their first year of studies. Out-of-class assignments are based on the assumption that all full-time students have their full time available for study. The typical student should expect to spend 50 hours a week engaged in classroom and out- of-class assignments. Much of this work needs to be accomplished on campus in the library, computer laboratory, or in team assignments. Students in the second year are in a position to judge the extent, if any, to which they can work part time in addition to full-time study.