Academics
The School of Management offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Information Systems (MIS), and Master of Science in Investment Management (MSIM) as well as a doctoral program in accounting, business administration, information systems, strategy and policy, marketing, operations management, and organizational behavior, and a joint degree in information systems (MS/MBA); law (MBA/JD); manufacturing engineering (MBA/MS); economics, international relations, television management, and medical sciences (MBA/MA); public health (MBA/MPH); and medicine (MBA/MD). Other programs include cross-registration with all Boston University graduate and consortium schools, work-study, and consulting opportunities with local firms. Placement experience is required of public and nonprofit management and health care management students. The strongest areas of study are international management, finance, operations, marketing, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, information systems, and health care management. The most popular courses are finance, marketing, and information systems. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. In addition to the School’s Distinguished Speaker Series, classes and departments regularly bring in guest speakers as part of the curriculum.
Sixty-four total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 30 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Managing Organizations and People
- Financial Management
- Marketing Management
- Financial Reporting and Control
- Data Analysis for Managerial Decision Making
- IT Strategies for a Networked Economy
- Creating Value through Operations and Technology
- Economics and Management Decisions
- Competition, Innovation, and Strategy
- Executive Presentations
- Executive Written Communication
- Ethics and Law
- Career Launch
- Professional Portfolio Seminar
Required courses for the MS/MBA include:
- same as MBA, plus:
- Issues in Managing Networked Systems (3-week intensive)
- Object-Oriented Programming (on-line)
- Systems Architecture (3-week intensive)
- Telecommunications (3-week intensive)
- Database Management
- Systems Design for Business Networks
- Field Project
- IS Strategy
- Technology Tools and Methods
Required courses for the MSIM include:
- Team Learning
- Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Equity Analysis
- Fixed Income Investing
- Risk Management
- Micro and Macro Economics
- Business Mathematics and Quantitative Methods
- Introduction to Financial Management
- Futures and Options
- Investment Product Design and Management
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by waiver exam and transfer of credit from AACSB-accredited graduate business schools.
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 1 <1/2> years; maximum, 6 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 3 years; maximum, 6 years.
There are 107 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 86% hold a doctorate; there are 39 part-time faculty. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 44.