Business Administration, Cohort, M.B.A.

Learning Outcomes

• Goal 1: Communication: Graduates of the MBA program will be effective communicators.
  • PLO 1.1- Communications: Create a professional document and deliver a professional presentation.
• Goal 2: Business Ethics: Graduates of the MBA program will be knowledgeable of ethical factors and how they related to business decisions
  • PLO 2.1-Ethics: Apply ethical decision-making models to issues impacting an organization and demonstrate the capacity to analyze the underlying factors that lead to the ethical dilemmas.
• Goal 3: Functional Business Analyses and Applications: Graduates of the MBA program will be knowledgeable in the functional areas of business, their application, and their integration.
  • PLO 3.1-Accounting: Analyze financial statements; analyze and evaluate various costing methods to select the most appropriate method, apply cost-volume-profit analysis and use accounting data to evaluate potential business choices.
  • PLO 3.2-Computer Information Systems: Develop a database, analyze organizational choices of tools to provide the information needed to support the strategic objectives of the entity and evaluate infrastructure choices in data collection, analysis and reporting. 
  • PLO 3.3-Marketing: Apply marketing concepts to the analysis of business issues and synthesize market information to develop a viable set of solutions for solving marketing problems facing an organization.
  • PLO 3.4-Leadership & Management: Analyze, diagnose, and manage organizational behavior in order to improve the performance of individuals and teams in organizations.
  • PLO 3.5-Business Strategy: Synthesize strategic management concepts and analyze complex business situations to create solutions that address the needs of the various stakeholders of the organization.
  • PLO 3.6-Finance: Analyze various types of investments and make investment decisions, assess risk as it relates to corporate valuation, evaluate businesses using financial theory and quantitative methods.
  • PLO 3.7-Business Analysis: Create and apply the appropriate quantitative decision model to solve an operations problem, analyze quality control initiatives, and evaluate the effectiveness of supply-chain management strategies.

Admission

Requirements for admission to the Graduate School, including English language proficiency, may be found in the Admission  section of this Bulletin.

Requirements for admission to graduate business programs may be found on the Collins College of Business  page in this Bulletin.

Prerequisite Courses

To determine if a student will need to take prerequisite courses, a transcript evaluation is conducted at the time of application. A plan for completing prerequisite deficiencies must be developed in consultation with the program director. Deficiencies should be completed prior to entry into the program.

Satisfactory Progress

A candidate for a Master of Business Administration degree is expected to complete the program in a timely manner. All requirements for the degree must be completed within six years from the date of enrollment in the program with a minimum cumulative graduate G.P.A. of 3.0. Students who do not make satisfactory progress may be dismissed from the program. 

Curriculum

Candidates for the Master of Business Administration degree must complete 38 credit hours of advanced study in business. A minimum of 25 hours must be in 7000-level courses reserved exclusively for graduate students. A thesis is not required for the Master of Business Administration: Partnering with Business.

Recommended Sequence of Study (38 hours)

Students in the MBA Cohort program should follow the recommended sequence of courses. A personalized plan of study will be developed in consultation with the Director of Graduate Business Programs prior to the student’s initial enrollment. Students are strongly advised to meet with their advisor prior to enrolling each semester.

Elective Course Options

Students may choose from courses offered at the graduate level by any department within the Collins College of Business to utilize as electives, subject to advisor approval. Elective courses vary each semester and may require additional prerequisite courses. This includes courses offered by in the following disciplines: accounting, business information systems, energy business, energy management, finance, international business, management, marketing, MBA, or quantitative methods. Courses from health care delivery sciences may also be utilized, subject to the approval of advisors from both the Collins College of Business and Oxley College of Health and Natural Sciences.

Examples of elective courses include, but are not limited to:

• FIN 6113 Student Investment Fund
• FIN 7023 Investment Analysis and Management
• FIN 7093 International Financial Management
• MBA 7123 Human Resource Management
• MBA 7133 Innovation and Product Development
• MBA 7143 International Marketing
• MBA 7153 Consumer Behavior
• MBA 7163 Supply Chain Management
• MGT 7033 Entrepreneurship
• QM 7073 Foundations of Analytics

M.B.A. Summer Internship

Students are required to apply business principles in an actual business environment through a formal Collins College of Business internship, following the College’s Guidelines for Administration of Student Internship Programs.

The student may only apply MBA 7021 once to M.B.A. graduate degree requirements.