Academics
The ESB offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) as well as a joint degree in law (MBA/JD) and pharmacy (MBA/PharmD). Other programs include cross-registration with the university’s McGeorge School of Law, a cooperative program with the Peace Corps, internships (required of all full-time students without significant work experience), foreign exchange, and a mentor program for full-time students. The strongest areas of study are general management, entrepreneurship, management information systems, finance, and marketing. The most popular courses are Global Marketing, Technology and Innovation, and Global Business Competition. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. Pacific Business Forum brings nationally known business leaders to campus to speak.
Eighteen total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 12 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Management Information Systems
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Global Marketing
- Operations Management
- Financial Management
- Marketing Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Global Business Competition
- Managing Leadership and Change
- Firm, Markets, and Environment
- Data and Decision Making
- Strategy Forumlation and Implementation
- Corporate Finance
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
- Negotiation
- Corporate Resposibility
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 2 year, maximum, 6 years.
There are 25 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 96% hold a doctorate; there are 2 part-time faculty. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 5; average business class size is 14.