is designed primarily for people with strong academic backgrounds in economics or business and substantial work experience. Program requirements include a minimum of 51 credits of approved graduate work, an appropriate distribution of required core courses and elective courses, and a minimum cumulative quality point average of 3.0. The Katz part-time MBA program is intended for working professionals. The program takes about three years to complete with students taking classes around work hours. Classes are scheduled Monday through Thursday 6:20 to 9:20 p.m. and occasionally on Saturday from 9:00 to 11:45 a.m. Program requirements include a minimum of 51 credits of approved graduate work, an appropriate distribution of required core courses and elective courses, and a minimum cumulative quality point average of 3.0. Entrance statistics for the Incoming Class of 2014 included 169 students with a 3.24 average grade point average, a 555 average GMAT score, and 4.3 years of work experience. Katz offers an Executive MBA that typically takes two years to complete and may be completed at one of many different extension facilities—in North America (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), South America (São Paulo, Brazil), and Europe (Prague, Czech Republic). Students take most of their courses at the site most convenient to them; however, they also participate in three week long immersion sessions, called Global Executive Forums, with their EMBA Worldwide classmates at other sites. Katz Executive MBA Worldwide program and Center for Executive Education is headquartered in Mellon Financial Corporation Hall on the fifth floor of the university's Alumni Hall. Rankings National rankings of Katz' MBA program include #37 by Forbes, #35 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and #39 by U.S. News & World Report. In global rankings, Katz was ranked #73 by Financial Times and #51 by The Economist. The MBA program is also ranked among the top 20 in U.S. public universities by Poets&Quants. The Katz Two Year MBA program has also been ranked #12 in the world by Times Higher Education and the Wall Street Journal. Masters Program The Master of Science in Accounting (MAcc) program is a full-time, 30-credit professional graduate degree program that also prepares students to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Students with an undergraduate accounting degree, will be able to broaden their skills by also taking graduate courses outside accounting and complete the program in two terms. Students with limited background in accounting who are looking to change careers can take prerequisite courses