Academics
The MBA Program offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA). Other programs include interdisciplinary programs in education, arts, liberal arts, and natural sciences. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus, including a visiting professor from Israel each summer.
Thirty-six total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 3 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
- Advanced Managerial Accounting
- Analysis for Market Planning
- Management and Organizational Theory
- Advanced Business Statistics
- Managerial Finance in Theory and Practice
- Managerial Policy and Strategy
- Comparative Analysis Using Managerial Economics
- Productions/Operations Management
- Advanced International Business
- Human Resource Management
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements through CLEP exams for prerequisites, and up to 6 hours may be transferred. Survey classes for prerequisites are used to accelerate entry.
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 15 months; maximum, 7 years. For students attending part time, the maximum is 7 years.
There are 6 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there is 1 part-time faculty member, who holds a doctorate. Average business class size is 15.