Zarb Students Awarded Scholarships
Two senior management majors from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business have won $25,000 scholarships from the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust. The Harold S. Geneen Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Management is awarded based on academic excellence, financial need and student essays on the importance of responsible corporate management.
The Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust was formed with funds provided by Harold S. Geneen, CEO of ITT, one of the first international conglomerates. The principal mission of the trust is fostering the education of young people and promoting responsible corporate management. The trust’s emphasis is on educational programs directed toward the encouragement of individual initiative and development of managerial skills and techniques and those that benefit outstanding individuals whose financial resources are limited and augmented by their own efforts.
Zarb Ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the full time MBA program at the Frank G. Zarb School of Business among the best in the nation. This ranking is one of only three business schools in the New York City metropolitan area to make the list this year.
This is the first time Hofstra has been included in the 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek rankings. Hofstra has been ranked no. 79. The other New York City metro business schools that were ranked are Columbia University and New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Zarb Ranked by Payscale.com
Payscale.com College Salary Report has ranked the Frank G. Zarb School of Business among the top 10 schools in the nation for undergraduate business majors. The ranking is based on the mid-career salary of the school’s graduates.
Hofstra University ranks no. 10 on Payscale.com’s Best Schools by Salary Potential for Business Majors, ahead of Cornell, New York, George Washington, Syracuse, Pace and Rutgers universities. It is the only university in New York state to make the top 10.
Zarb’s Beta Alpha Psi Wins Gold Challenge
The Zarb School of Business announced that the Delta Pi Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi won the KPMG Gold Challenge Competition at the 2014 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Zarb Beta Alpha Psi chapter is a student organization of the Department of Accounting, Taxation and Legal Studies.
Beta Alpha Psi is an honorary organization for Financial Information students and professionals. The primary objective of Beta Alpha Psi is to encourage and give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence in the business information field.
Beta Alpha Psi was founded in 1919. Today, there are 300 chapters on college and university campuses nationwide with over 300,000 initiated members since its inception.Only 15 chapters are selected to win this prestigious award from more than 300 Beta Alpha Psi international chapters.
Zarb Students Complete Bloomberg Essentials Designation
The Zarb School of Business‘s Department of Finance offers students the opportunity to obtain Bloomberg Essentials designation by completing a self-study program designed and provided by Bloomberg. The study takes place at Hofstra’s Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room, one of the largest academic trading rooms in the country.
For the last 10 years, students have been trained in this state-of-the-art facility, which is equipped with 34 Bloomberg Professional terminals. During the 2013-2014 academic year, a record number of 75 undergraduate and graduate students completed the Bloomberg workshops.
OpenLink Awards Zarb Students Grant for Technology Education Program
Hofstra University has been awarded a grant from OpenLink, the global leader in Transaction Lifecycle Management software for the commodity, energy and financial services industries, to support a technology education program taught by Frank G. Zarb School of Business students using tiny, low-cost portable computers to help elementary and middle school students learn basic programming skills.
The Next Generation Computer Programming Academy began more than a year ago at The Progressive School of Long Island, and has evolved into a vibrant partnership that builds the resumes of Hofstra information technology students while building the computer skills of the youngsters they teach.
