Lake Forest MBA Program Overview
General Management MBA Degree
At Lake Forest, we focus on the working professional. Our MBA program helps you integrate your learning and your career by combining coursework with your day-to-day business challenges.
The Lake Forest MBA is a general management business degree, providing a broad knowledge base in the areas that are critical for success in today’s business environment. Timely business topics are incorporated into a curriculum which includes accounting, business management and policy, communications, economics, finance, marketing, organizational development, and strategy.
At Lake Forest, you will learn how to confidently approach the broad array of issues facing business leaders today. As managers are called upon to develop new business competencies, broaden existing ones, and participate in cross-functional initiatives, a general management MBA degree helps ensure that you are equipped to meet your business challenges.
At Lake Forest, you will study the issues facing business leaders today, and learn how to approach them with confidence. Interactive and personal, the Lake Forest MBA curriculum employs a wide range of teaching methodologies that enhance your experiential learning and improve retention. You will benefit by learning from facilitated discussions, case studies, computer simulations and exercises, role-play, team projects and presentations, web enhanced assignments including online discussion groups, and the application of classroom learning to your current workplace projects.
While many prospective MBA students choose not to declare a program specialization in favor of truly broadening their thinking, all Lake Forest MBA students choose three electives during the course of their study. If the combination of the three electives you choose qualifies you for a degree specialization, this can be a great, focused learning opportunity and an added academic credential that can give you an edge in your career.
Current specializations offered include Global Business and Organizational Behavior. In mid 2011, LFGSM announced the development of MBA specializations in Marketing, Finance and Healthcare Management. The elective courses for these new specializations will be available within a year so that incoming Lake Forest MBA students can declare these specializations. Ask your admissions representative for more details.