This week saw the MBA Conferring for the classes that completed this summer.
Conferrings are always a huge event for us and for the Smurfit School in general as they mark the culmination of so much work and effort for everyone involved, it’s a chance to celebrate a tremendous personal achievement with graduates, their families and the academic staff. This years ceremony was added too by the festive atmosphere provided by the approach of Christmas and the truly impressive Christmas tree which dominated the top to the O’Reilly Hall and which became a favoured backdrop for post conferral class and family pictures. MBA graduates were joined by two other classes, the Master in Accounting and the MSc Finance stream and this made of a busy and vibrant event.
One thing which is always commented upon at MBA conferrals is the large number of small children who attend, a testament to just how good many of our participants are at juggling both academic and personal lives. Throw in work for the EMBA classes and you can see what an amazing accomplishment the obtaining of an MBA degree really is.
This particular conferring ceremony was unusual in that it was actually our second of the year. The previous one -for the classes finishing in Summer 2009- was in March and was the last of the March conferrings since the University decided last year to move conferral up to December.
Congratulations again to the Smurfit MBA Classes of 2010 !
– Roisin O’Loughlin, EMBA Programme Manager
