Graduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 04, 2024  
Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Business Administration, MBA


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General MBA: 31 Credit Hours

MBA with Emphasis: 37 Credit Hours


The MBA Program is designed to provide a practical professional development opportunity for individuals already engaged in full-time careers. This program will prepare individuals to embark upon and continue successful careers in business, government, and education.

Learning Outcomes
  1. Students will be able to Integrate theory and practical application across business functional areas for strategic analysis, planning, implementation, and control.
  2. Students will be able to apply the standards of ethical reasoning skills and behavior to the legal, social, and economic issues in the global business environment.
  3. Students will be able to utilize appropriate technological tools and management techniques to analyze complex data with multiple implications for business decision-making.
  4. Students will demonstrate advanced professional business communication skills.
  5. Students will demonstrate well-developed organizational, leadership, and teamwork skills.

Students can earn the MBA in either a fully online format or an executive format combining online and on-site study. The Executive format program requires attendance at weekend residency classes. Further, the Executive MBA Program meets the needs of international graduate business students. This program provides both in-seat and online coursework. Graduate students joining the Executive MBA program will be employed or conduct projects in business-related positions and participate in Applied Learning Practicum, in which students apply what they are learning in their program to the real world via work or internship experiences.

General MBA: 31 Credit Hours


The general MBA is comprised of twenty-one (21) credit hours of core courses, nine (9) hours of business elective courses and one (1) additional credit hour for a Capstone styled course or Applied Learning Practicum.

Notes:


*All online students who are seeking to earn this degree must take this course in lieu of INTR 599, in addition to meeting all program degree requirements. Executive format students can substitute the required INTR 599 course in lieu of this course as part of their program degree requirements. 

** Executive format programs have an applied learning component (internship or practicum) that is an integral and essential part of the established curriculum. Due to the applied learning component required for the degree program, Executive format students must enroll in INTR every term of enrollment. 

 

All candidates completing the Master of Science in Business degree will complete a written Comprehensive Examination in the last semester of their academic program as a graduation requirement.

Business Electives: 9 Credit Hours


The MBA Business Electives are designed to develop competent business professionals who are knowledgeable in the various areas of professional practice.

General MBA with Emphasis: 37 Credit Hours


  • Core Courses: 21 Credit Hours
  • Emphasis: 15 Credit Hours
  • Capstone: 1 Credit Hour

The MBA concentration curriculum is comprised of fifteen (15) credit hours within a concentration, twenty-one (21) hours of core required credit hours and one (1) additional credit hour for a Capstone styled course or Applied Learning Practicum.

Content Emphases: 15 Credit Hours


Fifteen credit hours are earned in courses in one of the following emphases: Accounting, Blockchain, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Administration, Marketing, Project Management, Public Administration, Strategic Management. 

Content Emphases are taken in place of the Business Electives listed above.

Blockchain


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