A woman named Andrea Healy has been promoted to chief administrative and human resource officer at North Brookfield Savings Bank. Pretty typical press release, but this caught my eye:
She has most recently completed an MBA in industrial organizational psychology from Anna Maria College.
Telegram.com
An MBA in industrial organizational psychology? What’s that now? That’s a new one to me. I did a little digging on the Anna Maria College website and found this. As far as I can tell, this is an MBA with a four-course specialization/certificate in IO:
- IOP 649 Applications and Issues in I/O
- IOP 622 Leadership
- IOP 710/IOP 701 Research Methods
- IOP 633 Organizational Theory and Behavior
That’s a cool option, but I don’t think it’s cool that they included career info (i.e., labor projections, median salary) for industrial-organizational psychologists on the specialization page. Four courses in an MBA program are not going to qualify you as an IO psychologist.
They will qualify you to become a chief administrative and human resource officer, though, so they should start bragging about that!
Hi:
fyi, the Baruch College (CUNY) has offered an I-O specialization in the MBA program for more than 50 years…………….
Yeah. Roosevelt University has allowed for MBA students to earn a concentration in IO for decades also. I agree with Ben that this is not truly the same as an IO degree proper. There are some programs that allow students to complete both simultaneously cropping up now though.