Career-Focused Curriculum

We know that your interest in an MBA degree comes from your desire to enhance your career. Our MBA curriculum allows you to design a flexible, career-centered MBA experience that focuses on the skills you need to achieve your career goals. The career-focused curriculum features:

Core Courses

• MGT 500 - Managing Effective and Ethical Organizational Behavior (includes Personalized Career Skills Assessment)

Business Foundation Courses

• GSB 420 - Applied Quantitative Analysis
• ACC 500 - Financial Accounting
• MGT 502 - Operations Management
• ECO 509 - Business Conditions Analysis

Business Decision-Making Courses

• ACC 555 - Managerial Accounting for Decision Making
• MGT 555 - Strategic Management of Human Resources
• FIN 555 - Financial Management
• MKT 555 - Decisions in Marketing Management
• ECO 555 - Economics for Decision Making
• MIS 555 - Management of Information Technology

Integrative Capstone Course

• GSB 599 - Strategic Analysis for Competing Globally

Concentration Courses / Electives

In addition to the core courses, students take six additional courses. At the student's discretion, these six courses can be used:

• to complete two concentration areas as open electives
  
• some combination of concentrations and open electives

The flexibility offered by these six courses allows each student to tailor the curriculum to fit their personal circumstances and career aspirations.

Note:
Course waivers are decided on an individual basis, but students with extensive coursework in business may be able to complete a MBA in as few as 12 courses, and most students with undergraduate degrees in business will be able to complete the MBA in 13 to 15 courses.