On May 9, Penn State Great Valley held a commencement ceremony honoring 474 students who have completed their graduate degrees this past academic year. MBA alumna Rina Desai, principal/owner of Eigen X, a professional services firm focused on data and technology, gave the keynote address.
Penn State Great Valley MBA alumna Rina Desai, principal/owner of Eigen X, a professional services firm focused on data and technology, will address graduates at the Great Valley commencement ceremony on May 9.
Mary Zuccato, who earned her master of business administration from Penn State Great Valley, applied her knowledge to a variety of roles at Vanguard before taking on the role of chief operating officer at Every Cure, a nonprofit biotech organization that uses artificial intelligence to identify and evaluate repurposing opportunities for existing medicines that could be used to treat other diseases.
Penn State Great Valley is offering a streamlined 33-credit MBA with highly flexible delivery and the opportunity to specialize by earning up to three graduate certificates as part of the program.
Brooke Schneider worked with the campus' Career Management Services to land a new position after graduating and has been thriving in the two years since.
Penn State alumna Jessie Whiteman enrolled in Great Valley's MBA program in large part because of the stackable graduate certificates that allowed her to customize her degree to fit her career and educational goals
Vanessa Sexton, a recent Penn State Abington graduate who is now enrolled in the MBA program at Penn State Great Valley, is quickly advancing in her career thanks to the diverse and marketable curriculum that is only available through Abington's customizable integrative arts major.
In August 2019, Jason Herman sustained a severe traumatic brain injury and other life-threatening injuries. Less than four years later, he earned his MBA from Penn State Great Valley with a 3.6 GPA.
Penn State Great Valley’s MNGMT 897 Global Immersion course trip to Strasbourg, France, took a while to get off the ground — literally. The course was first offered in spring 2020, but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the international travel component was canceled just three days before the class was set to leave the United States. Three years later, Great Valley was able to hold the course with a successful trip abroad.
