Academics
Atkinson offers several different graduate programs. The school offers full-time, part-time, and evening enrollment. MBA programs include the MBA for Professionals, Accelerated MBA, Early Career and Career Change MBA. In the Early Career and Career Change MBA, students can choose areas of interests including accounting, finance, general management, human resources, information systems, marketing, organizational analysis, public management, international management, and quantitative analysis/management science. Students in their first year in a program are required to enroll in an entrepreneurship course called PACE that includes strategies that are used to develop a business plan. The graduate programs also require courses in business ethics, including the Oregon Ethics in Business Awards evaluation program. Located across the street from the Oregon State Capitol, unlike similar management schools, Atkinson has been able to maintain some of its focus on public management programs.
The school also offers a four-year joint MBA-JD degree in association with the Willamette University College of Law. Willamette's MBA for Professionals program in Portland and Salem focuses management skill development, broad based strategic thinking and cross-functional knowledge. Classrooms are located in the Brewery Block II building in the Pearl District and on the Salem campus.
Atkinson offers three study abroad programs, Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and Bordeaux Business School and EM Strasborg Business School in France. In addition to student programs, AGSM also offers an Executive Development Center (EDC) designed to educate businesses and organizations as consultants to those groups. The PACE Program is the centerpiece of Atkinson’s full-time MBA Program, specifically for students early in their career or changing careers. By working within and outside organizations, students apply what they are learning in the classroom to the inner workings of the private, non-profit, and government sectors.
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