Elon welcomes new MBA cohort

The Elon MBA program welcomed 36 new students in September. This is the largest cohort in the program's history.

The cohort includes graduates of Duke University, Michigan State, University of Maryland, Wake Forest University, and UNC-Chapel Hill, and employees of firms such as Bank of America, SAS Institute, Merck & Co., RF Micro Devices, and LabCorp.

BusinessWeek magazine named Elon the #1 program in the South and #6 in the nation in the magazine’s list of part-time MBA programs.

The students range in age from 21 to 49, with an average age of 32. The average GMAT score was 568.