Master of Business Administration
Core Classes
All MBA candidates must complete each of the 8 core courses.
- ECON 6000 - Managerial Economics
The study of fundamental principles of microeconomics most relevant to managers. Topics include managerial analysis, market equilibrium, pricing, market structures, incentive structures, and strategic interactions.
- ACCT 6010 - Accounting Information for Management Decisions
Analysis, interpretation, and use of accounting information by managers in directing the operations of organizations. (This course may not be used toward a Master's of Accountancy.)
- FIN 6020 - Financial Management
Concepts and theories of corporate financial management with emphasis on value-based decision-making, including the financing decision, the investment decision, and relevant special topics.
- ECON 6050 - Analytical Decision Making
Analytical decision making for business operations including statistics, quantitative methods, and other optimization and simulation models.
- MKT 6100 - Strategic Marketing
Strategic marketing issues and opportunities that impact both the marketing process and marketing program. Decisions will also consider environmental variables as well as the internal elements of an organization.
- BMGT 6200 - Organizational Leadership
An examination of behavioral concepts required for effective leadership within business organizations.
- DS 6220 - Management of Information Technology
Concepts of current components of information technology and their management as it relates to the support of the strategic business plan.
- BMGT 6950 - Business Strategy
Prerequisites: ACCT 6010, FIN 6020, ECON 6050, MKT 6100, BMGT 6200.
An integrative capstone course dealing with the formulation and implementation of corporate strategy.
Elective Courses
Electives are offered in all areas of the business core: Economics, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Decision Sciences, and Management. Electives may also be satisfied by special offerings including international travel courses or independent research. Elective offerings vary by semester and include courses in advanced data analytics, services marketing, entrepreneurship, cyber management, financial statement analysis, network security, economics of health care, banking and financial services, and others.
Two (2) courses/six (6) semester hours* must be selected based on the student’s chosen curriculum, from the list of courses below.
* Students admitted prior to Fall 2022 will select three (3) courses/nine (9) semester hours of electives.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COURSES ARE NOT OFFERED EVERY YEAR/SEMESTER.
- MBA Electives
ACCT 5300 – Financial Stmt. Analysis
ACCT 5600 – Forensic Acct & Fraud Auditing
ACCT 5700 – Int’l. Experience in Accounting
ACCT 5900 – Special Topics in Accounting
ACCT 6220 – Audit & Attestation
ACCT 6900 – Special Topics in Accounting
BMGT 6900 – Special Topics in Management
DS 5125 – Computer Forensics
DS 5900 – Special Topics in Decision Sciences
DS 6530 – Advanced Data Analytics
DS 6540 – Network Security
DS 6550 – Database Mgt.
DS 6570 – Cyber Security Management
DS 6900 – Special Topics in Decision Sciences
ECON/AGBE 5120 – Natural Resources Economics
ECON 5200 – Environmental Economics
ECON 5310 – Labor Economics
ECON/AGBE 5510 – Int’l Trade & Finance
ECON 5520 – Comp. Econ. Systems
ECON 5530 – Hist. of Economic Thought
ECON 5600 – Econ. Growth & Development
ECON 5640 – Econometrics
ECON 5900 -- Contemp. Econ Workshop
ECON 6900 – Special Topics in Economics
ECON 6920 – International Economics
EMGT 6210 – Project Management I
FIN 6350 – Small/Micro-Cap Portfolio Mgt.
FIN 6900 – Special Topics in Finance
FIN 6910 – Multinational Finance
FIN 6920 – Banking & Financial Services
LAW 6450 – Organizational Ethics
MBA 6830 – Business Research
MBA 6840 – Field Research
MBA 6980 – International Experience
MKT 6500 – Advanced Marketing Analysis
MKT 6510 – Services Marketing
MKT 6630 – Entrepr. & Small Bus. Mgt.
MKT 6900 -- Special Topics in Marketing
MKT 6930 – International Marketing
Course descriptions are available via the Graduate Catalog.
