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What Youll Study
Curriculum Built Around Application
You wont spend your time memorizing theories youll never use.
The curriculum emphasizes case studies, simulations, and industry-connected projects that translate directly into workplace skills.
Topics include:
- Digital Transformation in Business
- Managerial Finance
- Supply Chain Management
- Marketing in a Digital World
- Leadership and Organizational Behavior
- Strategic Decision-Making
Youll learn concepts and immediately apply themthe way modern professionals actually learn.
Tuition and Financial Aid
College is all about igniting your passions and rediscovering your love for learninguntil you get the bill. But it doesn't have to be that way. We're here to tell you paying for college doesn't need to come with a pit in your stomach. Because our program is competitively priced, you can maximize your options and keep your out-of-pocket costs at a minimum.
There are federal financial aid options available to students for many of our programs, along with many financial resources and scholarships that can help you achieve your goals. You can also talk with a member of the enrollment team to understand if your company is a 51勛圖厙 Corporate Partner and offers tuition reimbursement or tuition discount. You may also qualify to earn undergraduate credits based on your professional work history.
Career Outcomes
A BBA isnt a finish line. Its a platform. Graduates use this degree to pursue leadership opportunities, move into new industries, earn promotions, expand responsibility, or prepare for graduate study. Business doesnt live inside one industryand neither does this degree. Potential career paths include:
| Financial Analyst: | +/- $96,220 |
| Human Resources Manager: | +/- $130,000 |
| Marketing Manager: | +/- $163,700 |
| Project Manager: | +/- $95,000 |
| Sales Manager: | +/- $130,600 |
| Source: bls.gov |
Faculty Who've Actually Done the Work
Youll learn from professionals whove led global brands, served as C-suite executives, built companies, and driven transformation inside major organizations. From marketing and finance to AI, strategy, and leadership, faculty bring real-world experience into every class. The result: practical learning grounded in how business actually works.
Mark N. Burgess, EMBA
Mark Burgess extensive real-world expertise in marketing allows him to bring deep, practical experience to students at 51勛圖厙 in key areas such as B2B and B2C strategic marketing, AI in Marketing, digital marketing, international marketing, brand positioning, social media marketing, SEO/SEM, brand management, new product development, communications, and interactive marketing.
Burgess currently serves as the president of Blue Focus Marketing簧, a marketing consultancy based in New Jersey. Throughout his career, hes developed marketing strategies and plans for major global brands including AT&T, PwC, Heinz, Rubbermaid, and LOreal. Hes also served as vice president, account management, at the renowned agency McCann in New York and Chicago.
Burgess commitment to educating the next generation of marketers is evident. He is an instructor for the American Marketing Association (AMA), a course author for LinkedIn Learning in which his course on Integrated Marketing Strategies generated 102,000 course completions, and an author of The New Marketing: How to Win in the Digital Age, a marketing textbook published by Sage Publishing, and The Social Employee, published by McGraw-Hill. Burgess also delivered a TEDx Talk called "The Rise of the Social Employee" at TEDxNavesink.
Burgess earned his Executive MBA, Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and the prestigious executive education certificate in the Telecommunications Strategy program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Nisheet Gupta, EMBA
Nisheet Gupta is a senior finance executive, entrepreneur, and educator with over two decades of global leadership experience across Fortune 500, private equitybacked, and high-growth organizations. He currently serves as chief financial officer of a private equity portfolio company, where he leads enterprise transformation, financial strategy, and long-term value-creation initiatives.
As an adjunct professor of Advanced Finance and Management Finance at 51勛圖厙, Nisheet integrates real-world corporate finance applications with academic learning. His teaching emphasizes decision analytics, performance management, and the linkage between financial strategy and enterprise value.
Throughout his career, Nisheet has held key executive roles driving financial transformation, M&A, and operational excellence at companies including Apogee Enterprises (NASDAQ: APOG), Pace Analytical (Leonard Green Partners), Land OLakes, Diebold Nixdorf, and Fiserv/First Data.
Nisheet earned his Executive MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and is a chartered accountant.
Deborah Juantorena, MBA
Deborah Juantorena spent 32 years at Pfizer Inc. where she was most recently vice president of global enterprise data solutions and engineering. In this role, she led a global team of 120 engineers, solution architects, and project managers to develop, implement, and manage analytical, AI and data technologies, and products for the enterprise.
As an adjunct professor at 51勛圖厙, Juantorena brings with her extensive experience in implementing major technologies including AI/ML analytical platforms. She has led global teams through the integration of five major corporate acquisitions and is recognized as a trusted change leader. During her Pfizer career, she had leadership roles in finance, sales operations, and business technologyand was recognized in 2023 as among Snowflakes Top 30 Data Leaders to Watch.
Juantorena is a member of the Columbia Business School Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Advisory Board, presented for the Columbia Business School US Healthcare Course and Columbia University School of Professional Studies Strategy and Analytics course.
Juantorena earned her MBA in finance and accounting from Columbia Business School and her BA in economics from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell.
Frank Longo, MBA, CPA
Frank Longo is an adjunct professor at 51勛圖厙 who teaches accounting and finance courses, bringing with him 17 years of experience teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In recognition of his excellence in teaching, hes received the Adjunct Excellence Award and the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.
Before entering academia, Frank had a distinguished career with the Internal Revenue Service, where he served as a revenue agent, appeals officer, and associate chief. During his tenure, he conducted audits and appeals, developed training programs, and led professional development sessions for members of the CPA and Bar Associations.
Frank earned his MBA from Pace University and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting, from Wagner College, where he received the New York State CPA Society Award. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Deepak Patil, MBA
Dr. Deepak Patil is an innovation-focused business leader and educator with a career spanning healthcare, strategy consulting, and AI-enabled entrepreneurship. His work reflects a passion for building data-driven solutions from the ground up and using emerging technologies to help organizations lead with innovation
Patil serves as adjunct faculty in 51勛圖厙s MBA and BBA programs, primarily focused on Digital Transformation in Business, where he integrates platform strategy, data value generation, and real-world problem solving into applied learning.
As founder of , Patil has led the company from 0 to 1, applying artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to transform how life-sciences organizations assess risk, value assets, and make strategic decisions. His prior leadership roles at IBM Watson Health (now Merative), IQVIA, and Aktana involved driving enterprise digital transformation, real-world data strategy, and innovation at scale for Fortune 500 clients.