The Faculty of Business Administration, in partnership with the Faculty of Engineering, has created a new Master of Business Administration in Engineering (MBA-Eng.) for professionals who would like to further their studies without taking extended leave from their jobs or moving away from the region.

“The Faculty of Engineering is recognized as among the top 20 per cent of engineering schools in North America,” says UNB President John McLaughlin. “We expect that this new program will attract the attention of candidates both within, and well beyond our traditional regional boundaries.”

The MBA-Eng. Program offers an intensive program, with the curriculum compressed into twelve months over one year, rather than 16 months over two years. The program has been created specifically for working graduates of engineering programs in management and senior management positions. By taking a combination of business and engineering courses, including a practicum that will ground their academic learning in their work experience, students will gain the skills to advance into supervisory and management positions, and run the business end of engineering successfully.

“The MBA in Engineering Management program will be able to draw from an immense professional pool of engineers wanting to further their studies,” said Dan Coleman, Dean of Business Administration at UNB. “UNB is positioned at the centre of Canada’s largest per capita engineering cluster with approximately 2500 engineers in the city of Fredericton alone.”

The University of New Brunswick will be accepting students into the program for its commencement in August 2009. Annually, one student accepted into the program will receive the Armour Ben McCrea Fellowship. The university received a substantial donation of $400,000 from Ben McCrea, a graduate of the engineering program at UNB, to create a full tuition fellowship, which will be offered to one student each year enrolled in the new MBA in Engineering program.