Business Administration, MBA

A. Required:

• QBUS 601 - Mathematical Modeling and Decision Making Credits: 3
• MGMT 613 - Advances in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Credits: 3
• ACCT 607 - Accounting for Decision Making Credits: 3
• ECON 634 - Economics for Managers and Engineers Credits: 3
• IFMG 640 - Information Systems Management Credits: 3
• MKTG 603 - Marketing Analysis and Decision Making Credits: 3
• FIN 630 - Corporate Finance and Valuation Credits: 3
• MGMT 637 - Operations and Supply Chain Management Credits: 3
• MGMT 695 - Strategic Management Credits: 3

• 500 or 600 Level Course by Advisement Credits / Units: 3

B. Optional Concentration Requirements:

Students seeking to specialize can take additional credits of prescribed coursework and receive a concentration in the following areas:

• Entrepreneurship: The entrepreneurship concentration helps current and prospective entrepreneurs and small business owners in all facets and phases of starting and successfully operating a small business. It also helps individuals in understanding how to be innovative in a larger organization and how creativity and agility can help teams and departments in organizations.
• Finance: The in-depth Finance courses will enable the student to appropriately integrate financial theory with challenging problems in the finance field. Specializing in finance will help students become attractive candidates for employment in the areas of investment banking, commercial banking, risk management, and derivatives.
• Information Systems: The IS concentration is designed to be offered to an audience with basic exposure to IS. It will serve to further their understanding of IS/IT concepts and principles. For those students that already have a background in IS/IT, the value added will come from the enhanced business and managerial focus in the course content. The courses will integrate learning from other business and technical courses, and apply them to a business and managerial context. This program will help prepare students to take a diverse set of roles in the IS/IT industry, depending upon their background and interest. IS/IT is pervasive in today’s business and a variety of roles exist for students to explore and build a career in this area. For instance sustainability is emerging as an important topic in the area of IS/IT that students can explore. The IS/IT area is a dynamic and fast evolving discipline and as such course offerings in the concentration will be periodically adjusted as per market conditions and trends in the industry
• International Business: This concentration helps students to learn to manage in a global business setting such as a multinational company. It is important for today’s managers to understand the nuances of working in a global and cross-cultural setting. Students will gain expertise in the management and marketing aspects of a global business.
• Human Resources Management: The HRM concentration prepares students to be human resources generalists in smaller businesses or to be specialists that can work in appraisal, labor relations, and related human resource functions.
• Marketing: Marketing concentration entails courses that provide MBA students with an in-depth knowledge in specific functional areas of marketing, which would enable them to make strategic and tactical decisions pertaining to the marketing-related activities of their firms. The courses have been developed to provide the MBA students with the tools and the theories to deal with all three key areas of marketing: External Marketing—to make realistic promises of product and service offerings to B2B and/or B2C customers; Internal Marketing—to interact with the customers efficiently and effectively to deliver them the promised product and service offerings, thereby converting them to profitable, long-term customers.
• Professional Accountancy: The Professional Accountancy Concentration is designed for non-accounting majors who do not have an undergraduate degree in accounting but want to further their understanding of accounting concepts and principles. Completion of the program will help to prepare students for entry into the accounting profession and in most U.S. states satisfy the educational requirements to sit for the CPA licensing exam. (Since educational requirements may differ between states, the student should check with the regulatory agencies in the state in which he or she plans to sit for the exam to verify that state’s requirements.)
• Supply Chain Management: Managing supply chains has become increasingly important in today’s business environment, in which customers, manufacturers, service providers, and suppliers are spread around the world. This concentration prepares students to manage operations with good understanding of supply chains and logistics, enterprise resource planning (ERP), balanced scorecard, quality management, project management, inventory management, capacity management, strategic alliances, outsourcing, facility location/layout, and related topics.

Students seeking to specialize in a specific area of business can take additional credits of prescribed coursework as described below and receive a concentration in that area only in conjunction with the MBA degree. Concentrations are only available on-campus or by online delivery at designated times. The MBA program director will advise the Executive Track students about the available concentrations during the time of admission.