Academics
The School of Management offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), as well as a joint degree in health care administration (MBA/MHA). Other programs include joint research projects with area businesses and agencies in financial and personal research projects and as research assistants on faculty projects. The strongest areas of study are accounting, marketing, and management. The most popular courses are Accounting and Marketing.
Thirty-six total credits are required to complete the MBA (thesis option), including 6 elective credits. Required courses for the MBA (thesis option) include:
- Administrative Managerial Finance
- Marketing Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Management and Organization
- Advanced Price Theory
- Advanced Business Policy
Required courses for the MBA (nonthesis option) include:
- Administrative Managerial Finance
- Advanced Quantitative Management Analysis
- Marketing Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Management and Organization
- Advanced Price Theory
- Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
- Advanced Management Information Systems
- Advanced Business Policy
- professional paper
Required courses for the EMBA include:
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Corporate Ethics and Legal Environment
- Management and Organization
- Corporate Finance
- Advanced Marketing Management
- Financial/Government Study Tour/Elective
- Managerial Accounting
- Global Business
- Economics for Managers/Study Tour
- Capstone
- Leadership
- Managerial Operations
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 year; maximum, 2 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 3 years; maximum, 6 years.
In a recent year, there were 13 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 95% held a doctorate; there were 6 part-time faculty, of whom 90% held a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated well below average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of credit hours faculty teach is 12; average business class size is 20.