The Evening MBA programs at Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management deliver a broad-based perspective on management that is strategic and global, and the course content integrates the spectrum of functional areas—from finance to operations, from marketing and entrepreneurship to information technology. The Babcock School offers two-year evening MBA programs in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Charlotte, N.C.
Because incoming students already have started to develop a career in their chosen field, the Babcock School's evening MBA programs mostly are composed of required classes. Given the nature of the evening MBA program there are few international students, but the student body remains diverse with a variety of industries and backgrounds represented. In the 2007 class, women constituted 37% of the student body, and 20% of students were from traditionally under-represented minorities.
The first year of the evening programs spans 12 calendar months and three academic semesters - fall, spring and summer. In the fall and spring, classes are held from 6-9 p.m. (with a break from 7:30-7:45 p.m.) on Monday and Wednesday nights in Winston-Salem and on Tuesday and Thursday nights in Charlotte. Each class typically meets 16 times during the semester. In the summer semester, classes are held from 6-9:30 p.m. (with a break from 7:30-7:45 p.m.) on Monday and Wednesday nights in Winston-Salem and Tuesday and Thursday nights in Charlotte. Summer classes typically meet 12 times each semester.
First-year classes include Organizational Behavior, Accounting, Microeconomics, Managerial Accounting, Quantitative Methods I and II, Leading Change, Marketing, Financial Management, and a Residency Period (Winston-Salem only). In the second year, classes include Operations, IT Management, Business Law, Macroeconomics, Strategy, International Business and three electives.
The evening MBA programs at the Babcock School are taught by the same professors who teach in the full-time MBA program, and most classes use the case learning method.
