Academics
The College of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Accountancy (MAcc) as well as a doctoral program in business administration and accountancy, and a joint degree in industrial engineering (MBA/MS), health administration (MBA/MHA), and law (MBA/JD). Other programs include a 3-2 degree with the university’s industrial engineering department, study-abroad opportunities, teaching and research assistantships, work-study, and internships. The strongest areas of study are finance, management, and marketing. The most popular course is finance. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. These include the Executive-in-Residence program, the College and University Lecture Series, and special seminars.
Fifty-nine total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 15 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Organization Behavior and Group Dynamics
- Managerial Accounting
- Computer Applications for Planning and Decision Making
- Economics for Managers
- Production/Operations Management
- Managerial Finance
- Managerial Marketing
- Security Markets and Investments
- Marketing Strategy
- Business Environment and Policy
- Business Law/Regulation
- Organizational Ethics
- Information Requirements Analysis
- MBA Communications Practice
- Business Problem Analysis: Field Project
- Business Consulting
- MBA Seminar I, II, III
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements with equivalent undergraduate course work.
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The maximum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 8 years.
There are 31 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there are 8 part-time faculty, of whom 38% hold 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 4; average business class size is 25.