Important Dates

Please carefully review these dates and put them in your calendar. More key dates will be added as our calendar for academic year 2020 – 2021 is finalized; be sure to continue to monitor this page.

Academic Dates: A Note About Weekends

Please understand that weekends are not free. Weekends are frequently needed for group work, academic review sessions, and other activities. Additionally, some midterms and final exams are held on weekends. This is particularly true during the accelerated summer core curriculum. We urge you to avoid outside commitments as much as possible.

Pre-Arrival

Start your career search strong at this optional—but highly recommended—one-day program led by the Career Management Center team. You’ll learn how to:

Identify key company contacts and influential alumni
Build influential recruiting relationships, and how/when to leverage them
Essentials of MBA job search etiquette
And more.

There is no cost associated with attending the Career Prep Bootcamp, but registration is required. Please watch your email for more details.

International Students: This program will be a part of your International Student Orientation on May 6 – May 8.

Summer Term

The summer core curriculum is extremely accelerated. Class sessions and exam dates are mandatory; plan to be fully engaged and limit your outside commitments. Typically, you will take two classes at a time, with sessions all day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Wednesdays are devoted to group work, career prep, and other activities. You’ll use weekends to work with your core team, attend review sessions, and sometimes take exams.

All members of the One-Year Class of 2021 must participate in the start of our orientation and summer term on Monday, May 11. Attendance at all Monday orientation sessions is required.

The first day will begin at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time and will run through 10:45 a.m. and will focus on a Program Overview and getting to know your peers in the Johnson Cornell Tech and One-Year Ithaca MBA programs .

Later sessions in the day will be offered twice so you can participate in whichever time works best for you. These sessions include:

Technology at Johnson
Student Panel with Class of 2020 One-Year MBAs

On Tuesday you’ll start your day at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time with everyone joining a Career Management Overview that runs until 10:30 a.m.

Later sessions in the day will be offered more than once so you can participate in the time that works best for you. These sessions include:

Excellence & Integrity at Johnson, offered twice in the day.
Student Breakouts, offered multiple times so you can get to know others in the Johnson Cornell Tech & One-Year Ithaca MBA programs

Class sessions and exam dates are mandatory; plan to engage fully and limit your commitments. Typically, you will take two classes at a time, with sessions all day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Wednesdays are devoted to group work, career prep, and other activities. You’ll use weekends to work with your core team, attend review sessions, and sometimes take exams. There are some weeks, however, when you might have class or exam on a Wednesday and/or a Saturday.

On Wednesday, May 13, you’ll begin your Core Team Practicum and Leading Teams classes.

Fall Semester

In the first half of the fall semester, you’ll finish one final core course: Managing Operations. You can also take your Leadership course requirement in the fall. Everything else is up to you—consider pursuing an Area of Focus, enrolling in the Management Practicum, or venturing outside of Johnson for coursework in other Cornell programs.

Spring Semester

In the spring you’ll continue to pursue electives. You will also have the option of participating in an Ithaca-based Immersion program, or you might consider a Johnson NYC Curriculum Intensive in New York City. You’ll also need to wrap up your leadership requirement if you didn’t complete it in the fall.