Program Detail
To prosper in a business, a student should have a unique advantage over the competition.
Businesses are very desirous of hiring College / University graduates who have a higher level of management training and expertise. The Gardner-Webb University GEM Program provides business students with a unique hiring advantage over other universities’ graduates. To take advantage of this outstanding program, GWU students must meet the following criteria:
1 - Take six (6) business courses from a GEM professor, who are former/current corporate CEOs / COOs, superior court judges or senior executives all having terminal degrees. "The overseas trip counts as one course.
2 - Earn a cumulative 3.0 GPA upon graduation.
3 - Complete, under the guidance of GEM professors, two additional case study papers in each GEM class.
4 - Participate in a GWU international study/tour experience at a Swiss or other similar European University, which includes 9-10 days of classroom instruction, business tours, and written analysis. GEM students may receive 3 hours of GWU academic credit for the trip.
5 - Prior to graduation, attend a two-day weekend retreat at North Carolina resort hosted by GWU where outside current CEOs/COOs and judges will instruct students on corporate entry and offer some job interviews. Complete additional business case papers.
6 - Pay a one-time fee of $2,995 to finance the international educational experience, GEM executive retreat, and other initiatives of the GEM program.
7 - Upon graduation receive, along with the diploma, a GEM certificate signed by all GEM professors endorsing the expanded GEM educational experience.
GEM students are in the classroom daily being taught by someone who has actually accomplished the ultimate to which most business students now aspire.
Read more about the Switzerland Trip.