Wilkes University Rankings by Salary Score

Wilkes University is a wonderful school to attend if you have hopes of becoming a special education teacher or general education teacher. Their education courses are set up to prepare you for real life application of the skills taught. You will progress through classes that require field work, observations, and classroom experience to help you prepare for teaching. You are given mentors, coaches, and support systems as you enter your student teaching requirements. You must take and pass all of the Pennsylvania... Read More teaching certification classes before taking 300-level classes and you must sustain a 3.0 GPA during all 200 and 300 level courses. There are tutors and advisers available to help you at any time if needed. Campus is filled with many resources and a high-tech research center.

The MBA program is a very strong "part time" program, although pricing is high and the curse offerings are somewhat limited. Overall the professors are extremely helpful, and well qualified, almost all from strong regional US universities. (Ohio, Buffalo, Rutgers or top tier international universities such as the Indian Institute of technology). Strong aspects of the program include: opportunities for research, with many of the professors seeking tenure. A strong entrepreneurial program, modeled on Babson,... Read More with at least one professor having taught there. As the MBA choices are sometimes a bit limited there is flexibility to take and transfer 6 credits with other universities (Scranton, Harvard, Penn State etc...). Finally there are a lot of international students, expect to have students from India, China, Saudi, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Russia, and Morocco in your class. This unusually wide cultural mix has many advantages in terms of international networking and cultural exposure. If you want one on one teaching from a professor, the opportunity to publish your research, the flexibility to build your own MBA, study part-time whilst working full time and the opportunity to have a future AACSB certification (Wilkes is in process of certification) then Wilkes is a strong contender. The Wilkes MBA program is essentially what you want it to be, it can be a comparatively easy program and you can coast through as acceptance rates are high and through careful selection of courses such as 3 credits for the study abroad you can have a reasonable workload. Or it can be a stretch program with 6 credits transferred from other more established programs, international research with outstanding faculty, the opportunity to complete the MBA (39 credits) in a year and striving to graduate with a perfect 4.0 (Less than 10% of the MBA class). The weakest aspect of the program is the lack of internship and job placement opportunities, internships are geared to the under graduates as the assumption of the MBA program is that you are studying part-time. With that one caveat, Wilkes is a 4.5 out of 5.