Kelley to open location in Carmel this fall

Starting in August, Kelley School of Business students will be able to take courses for the first two years of the three-year evening MBA program from a satellite location in Carmel, Ind.\nOfficials say the need for a satellite location rose from the growing number of applicants. This new facility will be able to accommodate 40 to 50 students from the surrounding counties.\nRoger Schmenner, associate dean of Kelley's Indianapolis programs, said the program received 50 percent more applications for the spring semester than ever before.\nThe satellite location will make it possible for more people to earn an MBA degree.\n"We admit 60 MBA students for the fall semester and 60 MBA students in spring," Schmenner said. "The IU campus is maxed out as far as classrooms go, and we don't want to turn anyone down."\nProfessor Phillip Powell, faculty chair of the evening MBA program in Indianapolis, said that this is the same MBA program that is offered in Bloomington, but it is aimed at working professionals with an average age of 28.\nSchmenner said that the new teaching facility will "break a bottleneck" for the Kelley School and will "enlarge the MBA program for people in the growing suburbs."\nHe said that students could take classes for the first two years of the three-year MBA program at the Carmel satellite location. In those two years, students will take the required courses and then take the elective courses during their third year at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis. \nSchmenner said there is not enough room at the IUPUI classrooms to fit everyone for the required courses, so the Carmel location helps to accommodate everyone for those courses. IUPUI does, however, have enough classroom capacity for the elective courses. \n"With the growing demographic growth in Central Indiana, this is the thing we ought to do for the business community," Schmenner said.\nPowell said he feels Carmel is the best location for the satellite campus.\n"Carmel is the fastest growing economy in the state with a high profile location," Powell said.\nSchmenner said that this program is open to everyone and that there are no background requirements.\nThe MBA program will be housed in a refurbished public library, now the Carmel Community Life & Learning Center.