
Come here, get it done in a year and move on.” That’s a lot if you are asking someone to give up their day job to move to a different community for the full-time program. Length of Program: “A lot of full-time programs around the country are two years. Here are a few other ways Hartline says FSU’s MBA programs, which enrolled 455 in the fall 2019, stand apart: We take our real estate and insurance students to major conferences.” We are taking a group of students to Wall Street to interact with investment bankers. “We’ll put our supply-chain students on a bus or van to Jacksonville and visit CSX and tour the port. Some return with an internship or job in hand, says Hartline, who has held faculty and leadership positions at FSU since 2001. The college raises funds so students can travel to business centers like New York and Chicago. “It is important for us to get the college out of Tallahassee,” says Michael Hartline, dean of Florida State University’s College of Business since 2016. Now many of them want to stay at their companies - they don’t get an MBA to change jobs.” They have a good idea where they are going. “We train people in skills that can work in any industry. UF has resisted the trend of specialized MBAs, such as in health care, Kraft says. "We encourage international experience, several internships and participation in experiential learning, all of which makes them more competitive when they are interviewing.” Kraft has also seen tremendous growth in starting salaries - now more than $100,000 for full-time MBAs.
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"I like to think that what we do is teach students how to make decisions." They can take analytics they can take negotiations they can take international business - and bundle them together in a curriculum," says Kraft, who is retiring this year. "We offer a significant number of electives so students can pick and choose what they think is relevant for their career option. In total, 800 students are enrolled in UF's highly ranked MBA programs. The online programs are the largest and fastest growing of UF's MBA offerings. The weekend programs can be completed in 12 to 24 months, while still maintaining cohort-style team learning. UF offers full-time residential programs primarily for those in career transitions, but it also offers six weekend MBA options, some live and some online. The future, he believes, is all about flexibility.

At the helm of University of Florida's Warrington College of Business for 30 years, he has overseen huge growth in MBA programs. John Kraft is the dean of Florida business school deans. Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend
