News-Letter

When the administration announced the opening of the W.P. Carey Business School and its five-year BA/BS-MBA program, the first question that many current business minors asked was, "Can I do that?" Now, a month later, we're still waiting for an answer.

It seems logical that freshman and sophomore business minors should be able to enter the program with enough time to complete the requirements, but it is unclear where juniors stand. Many wish to join the program, but the University has not been forthcoming with information relevant to them. And since the announcement came out before spring registration, it would have been helpful for these students to know what requirements they need to fulfill in order to complete the program, regardless of when they officially enroll in it. If it turns out in a month that juniors will be able to enroll but only if they have certain courses completed, how are they supposed to meet the requirements in time?

It's preposterous to think that when the decision to create the school was made, no one realized this would be an issue. It is as if those who designed the five-year program were too busy thinking of all the future applications they'd receive to remember the students currently paying tuition.

Most students who want to go into business are in the Entrepreneurship and Management minor because there was no business major when they came to Hopkins. Now that there is a better option for those who want to go into the field, they can't figure out how to take advantage of it. When the project was conceive,d one of the first issues to be addressed should have been current business students, not publicity or fundraising.

If Johns Hopkins wants to compete with top business schools such as UPenn's Wharton and NYU's Stern, we should get started as soon as possible: with our current students just dying to get their MBA. If the school is unable to get these potential business school students into the program, they may be lost to the competition.

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