The decision by the Tippie College of Business to phase out its full-time Master of Business Administration program was a strategic move, not a financial decision to kill a money-losing program, its dean said today.
“I’ve been asked if this was simply a cost-cutting measure,” Tippie Dean Sarah Gardial said on a conference call today. “Nothing could be farther from the truth.”
Gardial said the decision rather came down to: “Do we stay in a shrinking market with ever-decreasing payouts, or do we move out to areas that represent growth?”
The University of Iowa college announced last week that its full-time program will end when the current incoming class graduates in May 2019. Phasing out the full-time program will allow Tippie to introduce…
