Master of Business Administration Program
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Applicants who have an undergraduate degree in any business discipline from an accredited undergraduate institution may complete the MBA degree with a minimum of 36 semester hours. Others who have earned an undergraduate degree in other majors/minors can finish the MBA with 36 graduate hours in addition to the necessary foundation (prerequisite) courses.

Requirements of the 36 hour online MBA program include completion of the following courses with a minimum grade point average of 3.0/4.0 on ALL graduate course work attempted.

Course Number
Course Title
Credit hours
ACCT 611 Accounting Analysis for Managerial Decision Making 3 HOURS
BIS 630 Managerial Communication 3 HOURS
CIS 615 Managing Information Technology 3 HOURS
ECON 661 Managerial Economics 3 HOURS
FIN 660 Financial Management 3 HOURS
MKT 650 Marketing Administration 3 HOURS
MNGT 665 Organizational Behavior 3 HOURS
MNGT 691 Business Policy and Strategy 3 HOURS
  APPROVED ELECTIVES 12 HOURS

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Applicants that do not possess an undergraduate degree in business may be required to complete the foundation course sequence in addition to the 36 hours necessary to satisfy the degree requirements. What foundation courses that may be needed, if any, can only be determined by a review of the applicants undergraduate and graduate transcripts. The foundation course sequence, or comparable courses or experience, must be completed prior to full admission with at least a 3.0 average and no grade of less than C in any course. The foundation course sequence is as follows:

 

Course Number
Course Title
Undergraduate Equivalents

Graduate Semester Hours

ACCT 600 Survey of Accounting Principles I & II of Accounting 3 hrs.
MNGT/FIN 602 Survey of Quantitative Business Analysis Business Statistics and College Algebra or higher 3 hrs.
ECON 600 Survey of Economics Macroeconomics & Microeconomics 3 hrs.
MNGT 600 Survey of Management and Organizational Behavior Principles of Management or higher 3 hrs.
MKT 600 Survey of Marketing Principles of Marketing 3 hrs.
FIN 600 Survey of Finance Business Finance 3 hrs
    Total Foundation Course Sequence 18 hrs.

Note: None of the four graduate level survey courses (ACCT 600, MNGT/FIN 602, ECON 600, FIN 600, MKT 600 or MNGT 600) satisfy the requirements of the 36 hour MBA program. They are prerequisite courses only.

 

Dismissal from the MBA Program

A student will be placed on probation if that student receives two grades of C in any MBA class. A student will be dismissed from the MBA program is that student receives three grades of C or below in any MBA class.