Master of Business Administration Requirements

 

Degree Semester Hour Requirement

48 semester hours

Program Core Courses (36 Semester Hours)

ACC 501	Accounting for Decision Making	4
BUS 500	Financial Intelligence	4
BUS 520	Business Analytics and Decision Making	4
BUS 530	Managerial Economics	4
ETH 501	Business Ethics	4
FIN 501	Strategic Corporate Finance	4
MGT 501	Management and Organizational Behavior	4
MGT 599	Strategic Management	4
MKT 501	Strategic Marketing	4

Program Core Special Instructions

ETH 501 Business Ethics must be the first course taken before any other MBA course. For students with an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, BUS 500 may be waived, and an elective substituted. MGT 599 Strategic Management may not be taken until all other core courses have been successfully completed.

Concentration Options

MBA students may choose to complete the program with no concentration or choose a program concentration option. With a concentration, the student will complete 12 semester hours of specialized coursework in an area of the student’s choice in addition to the core courses listed above. Concentrations must be selected prior to enrollment in the capstone course. The MBA offers the below concentrations:

Business Analytics

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

BAN 518	Visual Analytics	4
BAN 583	Data Mining	4
BAN 584	Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence	4

Conflict and Negotiation Management Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

NCM 501	Foundations of Conflict Resolution Management	4
NCM 511	Mediation and Arbitration	4
NCM 512	Negotiation Strategies	4

Digital Marketing Concentration

Concentration Elective Courses (12 Semester Hours)

MKT 535	Social Media Marketing Management	4
MKT 545	Online Marketing, SEO & SEM	4
MKT 555	Digital Brand-Building	4

General Management Concentration

Concentration Elective Courses (12 Semester Hours) - Select 3:

BUS 503	Organizational Change and Transformation	4
LED 520	Cross-Cultural Communication and Leadership	4
MGT 506	Strategic Leadership	4
MGT 509	Human Resource Management	4
OPM 500	Operations Management for Managers	4

Human Resource Management Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

MGT 509	Human Resource Management	4
MGT 511	Advanced Topics in Human Resource Management	4
MGT 516	Legal Implications in Human Resource Management	4

Information Security and Digital Assurance Management Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

ITM 517	Information Security Overview for Managers and Policy Makers	4
ITM 527	IT Security and Disaster Recovery Management	4
ITM 537	Principles of Information Security Auditing and Digital Forensics	4

Information Technology Management Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

ITM 525	Management of Information Technology in Organizations	4
ITM 527	IT Security and Disaster Recovery Management	4
ITM 540	Database and Knowledge-Base Management	4

Logistics Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

LOG 501	Managing the Supply Chain	4
LOG 503	Managing Logistics Operations	4
ITM 525	Management of Information Technology in Organizations	4

Strategic Leadership Concentration

Concentration Elective Courses (12 Semester Hours)

Select three courses from the following options:

LED 520	Cross-Cultural Communication and Leadership	4
MGT 506	Strategic Leadership	4
MGT 508	Leadership of Teams	4
NCM 512	Negotiation Strategies	4

Safety Management Concentration

Concentration Core Courses (12 Semester Hours)

EOH 502	Fundamentals of Environmental and Occupational Health	4
MHE 503	Survey of Emergency and Disaster Management	4
MIH 527	Environmental Health Assessment	4