Business Administration, MBA

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The MBA degree program offers professional training to qualified applicants who aspire to careers as efficient and responsible managers. The program emphasizes the development of analytical skills in problem solving and decision making.

The MBA degree program requires between a minimum of 30 s.h. and a maximum of 60 s.h. and consists of two major components; the business core and the business breadth.

Courses required to fulfill the business core requirement are

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Some or all of the business core courses may be waived if equivalent recent work of sufficient depth has been completed at a high performance level.

Courses required to fulfill the business breadth requirement are

ACCT 6521 - Accounting for Decision Making
FINA 6604 - Financial Management II
MGMT 6722 - Strategic Management
MGMT 6802 - Organizational Behavior
MKTG 6822 - Marketing Strategy
OMGT 6613 - Management Science
OMGT 6683 - Statistical Methods
and sufficient electives as approved by the assistant dean for graduate programs

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Electives are divided into analytical and behavioral subgroups and each student is usually required to take at least one elective from each subgroup, although a student judged weak in one of the subgroups may be required to take all three electives from that subgroup. At least 30 s.h. must be in business courses numbered 6300 or above. Upon approval by the director of graduate programs, certain 5000-level courses may be substituted for business electives, reducing the total required business courses numbered 6300 or above to 21. Students may choose to use their electives to complete one of the graduate certificate programs as approved by the director of graduate programs.