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Departmental Degree Requirements
The MBA program is intended for business and nonbusiness majors and experienced managers. The program consists of seven 3-hour common courses (21 hours) and 9 hours of electives. It is intended that the full-time student can complete the 30-hour program in one calendar year.
The 21 credit hours of common business studies are broad in scope for the purpose of developing general managerial competence through extensive use of the case method and selected use of other pedagogies such as simulations and research projects. These case courses are taught in an active learning and frequently team-based environment. The 9 credit hours of electives are used to develop special competencies of interest to the student. With permission of the Director of MBA Studies and the appropriate academic department chair, a student with 18 hours in the appropriate academic area may omit the common course from that area and substitute another approved course. This will allow accounting track students to meet the 12-hour AACSB track requirement as well as allow other track students to further concentrate their course of study.
Following the required program, a general management MBA student will take elective courses in such areas as international business, entrepreneurship, quality management, technology management, e-business, and others as determined by demand. The general management MBA allows students to pursue a wide variety of business careers.
Students in the accounting concentration will take four required accounting courses. A seven course undergraduate accounting core that can be taken at Tennessee Tech is required before accounting concentration students can take 6000-level accounting courses. The undergraduate accounting core that is required must include six hours of Intermediate Accounting, three hours of Cost Accounting, three hours of Tax Accounting, and three hours of Auditing. Students in the accounting track are not required to take MBA 6010, therefore there are six common courses (18 hours) that are required instead of seven. The accounting concentration courses are available only through distance-based delivery. The accounting concentration MBA qualifies students to sit for the Tennessee CPA examination and can fulfill one year of the CPA experience requirement.
The management information systems (MIS) concentration provides students with focused study of several important subjects in the current business information technology environment. It has the primary objective of strengthening current and future managers’ ability to manage information technology. Students in the MIS concentration are required to take three of the four MBA level MIS courses offered in addition to the Common Courses. The Mis Concentration courses are available through distance-based delivery as well as on-campus, in-class delivery.
Page last updated: 7/30/04
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