Academics
The Graduate School of Management offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Accounting (MAcc) as well as a doctoral program in administration/health services, and a joint degree in public health (MBA/MPH), health administration (MSHA/MBA), and nursing (MSN/MBA). Other programs include internships, joint research offered through the Small Business Development Institute, and research projects with faculty. The strongest areas of study are finance and information technology management. The most popular courses are in marketing and ethics. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. In the Executive Seminar Program, a senior executive of a regionally based company is brought on campus once a quarter.
Fifty-one total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 6 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Strategic Cost Management
- Financial Analysis and Reporting for Management
- Management Information Systems
- Corporate Finance
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Social, Ethical, and Legal Environment
- Managerial Processes and Organizational Behavior
- Operations Management
- Business Strategy
- Applied Microeconomic Analysis
- Modern Marketing Concepts
- Seminar in Marketing Policy
- Business Statistics
- International Business Analysis
- Decision Science
Required courses for the Macc include:
- Tax Planning and Research
- Corporate Tax I
- Business Law for Accountants
- Fund Accounting
- Financial Reporting Strategy
- Current Problems in Auditing
- Management Information Systems
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Taxation of Wealth Transfers
- Information Systems Auditing
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by waiving up to 18 hours of course work completed at the undergraduate level (core classes).
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time or part time is 1 year; maximum, 7 years.
In a recent year, there were 54 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 91% held a doctorate; there were 11 part-time faculty, of whom 27% held a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated below average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 6; average business class size is 40.