What Every Graziadio Student Needs to Know!

For those of you who got accepted and are now very excited to start Orientation, I put together a list of terms and abbreviations you will hear a lot during your two years of study at Graziadio. This list is by no means an exhaustive list, it is just an appetizer! I am sure that in the next two years, you will come up with your own abbreviations and this list will grow exponentially. In the meantime, take a look at this one and enjoy your first year!

Biz Law – Business Law, a required class you’ll have to take in your second year.

C4C - Challenge for Charity, the school's designated charity. Check out our new website at www.pepperdinec4c.org.

DELS – The Dean’s Executive Leadership Series, a networking event that brings executives on campus to talk about real-world challenges and opportunities.

Drescher - the graduate campus, home to the Business, Education and Psychology, and Public Policy schools.

E2B - Education to Business; a big part of the 14-class Marketing 101 class, where you and your teammates act as consultants to a company. It's also the project that will test your patience, nerves, and your people skills.

FEMBA - The Fully Employed MBA program.

GSBM - The Graziadio School of Business and Management, um, the school that you're either considering or just got accepted at. This is probably one of the first acronym you should remember.

QBA – Quantitative Business Analysis class.

MarComm – Marketing Communications class.

MGBS - The Malibu Graduate Business Society, the student government association that guides us throughout the year. They have elections every year, so if you’re eyeing the White House, you should consider starting your ascent with the MGBS President position.

MBAM - MBA Malibu, the full-time program in Malibu.

MSAF - Master of Science in Applied Finance.

SEW – Social Enterprise Week, a student-driven annual event promoting and celebrating social responsible practices. It is usually scheduled in March-April and it culminates with the infamous Talent Show.

The Talent Show aka PepperJam – This is something you wouldn’t want to miss! Every year, GSBM students shed their business suits and replace their laptops with guitars, pianos, or other instruments. And there is always a surprise! The quiet classmate is an amazing break dancer, the best presenter in your group is secretly a great drummer, and the QBA professor loves to rock. Yeap, that’s PepperJam!

VCLL - The Value-Centered Leadership Lab, a student organization emphasizing the presence and importance of ethics in business.

Waves - the Drescher cafeteria. It’s not amazing by any means, especially if you are a vegetarian, but at least it is convenient and the people there are very nice.