NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An information session on the Vanderbilt Summer
Business Institute at the Owen Graduate School of Management will be
held on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 5:30 p.m. in the school‘s Averbuch
Auditorium. Undergraduate students from area colleges and universities
and their parents are invited to learn more about Vanderbilt‘s new
summer program at this one-hour event.
Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute is designed to provide
an intense immersion into business life. Through this program, a select
group of college undergraduates — and those who‘ve just graduated —
will develop the skills they need to land meaningful internships or
their first jobs and to get up to speed quickly and start making an
impact once they‘ve done so. The program is open to students in any
major — from engineering to communications and business — who don‘t
plan to seek an MBA right away.
The four-week program will be offered for the first time on the
Vanderbilt campus from May 28 to June 25, 2005. It will be taught by a
team of Owen School faculty whose mission it will be to supplement each
participant‘s strengths and refine the critical skills companies seek.
The program is a marriage of academic instruction, practical job skills
development, real project experience and networking with the business
community.
The four-week program costs $7,500 and includes lodging in a Vanderbilt
residence hall, all meals, events and activities and program materials.
Applicants are required to complete an application and provide a
college transcript, a resumÈ, two essays and two letters of
recommendation. Applications will be accepted through March 30.
Reservations for the upcoming information session can be made by calling 343-6291 or sending an email to accelerator@owen.vanderbilt.edu.
Founded in 1969, the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt
University is ranked as a top institution by Business Week, The Wall
Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times and
Forbes.
Media contact: Susanne Hicks, (615) 322-NEWS
susanne.hicks@vanderbilt.edu