LIM’s grasp’s diploma program is trying to the college’s roots for inspiration because it takes on a brand new identify and reinvigorates its curriculum.
Newly named after its founder, Maxwell F. Marcuse, The Marcuse Faculty of Graduate Research grasp’s diploma program has revealed it should quickly broaden its choices to supply college students with extra STEM-designated enterprise diploma choices and alternatives to earn specialised levels. The modifications have been permitted by the New York State Schooling Division and can take impact in fall 2024.
“Formally naming graduate research in his honor, whereas concurrently deepening our dedication to grasp’s diploma applications is becoming,” mentioned Elizabeth S. Marcuse, president of LIM Faculty and the granddaughter of Maxwell F. Marcuse. “College students and employers across the globe worth the LIM model of industry-immersive training, our New York Metropolis location and unbelievable community of employer connections. These curricular modifications will higher place graduates to satisfy employer calls for within the quickly evolving vogue and life-style industries.”
LIM’s school, led by Eda Sanchez-Persampieri, LIM Faculty’s dean of graduate research, designed updates to the college’s grasp’s diploma program with the purpose of “reflecting tendencies and expertise wants by means of extra emphasis on track content material in expertise and analytics.” The modifications additionally add extra choices for incomes levels with specializations in areas together with sustainability and digital media advertising and marketing which proceed to broaden.
LIM’s revised graduate applications, all of which could be accomplished in a single 12 months with programs provided on-line, in-person and in hybrid codecs, contains two STEM-designated enterprise applications with a Grasp of Science diploma in world vogue provide chain administration and a Grasp of Skilled Research diploma in vogue advertising and marketing. The varsity’s MPS in vogue merchandising and retail administration program will even provide 4 new specializations together with product improvement and sourcing, shopping for and operations administration, sustainability in vogue, and vogue and life-style.
“LIM grasp’s diploma applications are designed to assist transfer careers ahead,” Sanchez-Persampieri mentioned. “College students are immersed within the enterprise and vogue capital of the world, studying straight from, and making key connections with, the professionals who make vogue and life-style occur. Our new enterprise STEM coursework and specialised program tracks will proceed to present college students data and expertise in essentially the most related matters within the enterprise of vogue and life-style, making them eminently employable in a variety of roles and positioning them to guide our {industry} into the long run.”
Notably, LIM Faculty’s class of 2022 had a profession end result price of 96 p.c, which the college factors to as proof of its wonderful programming and evolution alongside the {industry}. As the college celebrates its eighty fifth anniversary, it plans to proceed this dedication to excellence for a lot of extra years to come back.
