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Willamette University plans MBA program for Portland site

SALEM - Portland workers will be able to get a graduate business degree from Willamette University - without hopping on Interstate 5.

The Salem university's new home in the Pearl District will feature classrooms for the new professional master of business administration program, said Jim Goodrich, dean of Willamette's Atkinson Graduate School of Management The George H. Atkinson Graduate School of Management is the MBA program at Willamette University, one of only two MBA programs in the world accredited for both Business Administration (AACSB International) and Public Administration (NASPAA). .

Goodrich said the PMBA PMBA Police Mountain Bike Association
PMBA Program Management Baseline Agreement program aims to provide Portland businesses with a convenient location to develop their working executives.

The Willamette Portland Center opens in August. The two-year program is accepting students into its first class of 30, and will add another 30 for each fall and winter term. Classes begin this fall during evening hours. Tuition will be about the same as for Willamette's full-time program, which is $10,000 a semester, Goodrich said.

The Oregon Executive MBA Oregon Executive MBA is a joint program from University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University located in Portland, Oregon. External links

Oregon Executive MBA
OSU College of Business page on OEMBA

program - a consortium of the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. , Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. and Portland State University - already serves the Portland area with a faculty of business professors from all three schools.

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Title Annotation:	Higher Education; NORTHWEST
Publication:	The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:	Jun 28, 2005
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