Letter to Guidance Counselors

Marymount Manhattan College is a small liberal arts college located on the upper east side of Manhattan. This letter is meant to introduce the Business Department at MMC. We are a division within a liberal arts college in spirit as well as in fact. As such, the education we provide is in the liberal arts. We believe in a focus on the fundamental intellectual skills: abstraction, empirical investigation and the ability to communicate ideas. We also stress the use of historical and social analysis to learn about societies and philosophy, literature and psychology to learn about individuals. We aim to produce lifelong learners.

We believe that this approach is more appropriate for a business major than ever before. In the current environment, no job stays the same for very long. Workers must continually learn new skills and often new jobs. Being a lifelong learner is essential.

We are also small and our size allows us to nurture students. Most classes have fewer than 25 students and there are no large lecture sections. The full-time faculty know all of the business majors. The department encourages all majors to participate in at least one internship during their college career.