Academics
The Paul Merage School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) as well as a doctoral program in management, and a joint degree in medicine (MD/MBA) with University of California/Irvine School of Medicine. Other programs include a 3-2 program, cross-registration with other academic units on campus, foreign exchange with 104 countries, work-study, internships, joint research, and an intercampus exchange with other UC campuses. The strongest areas of study are information technology, marketing, and finance. The most popular courses are Finance, Marketing, and Information Technology Management. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. Visiting professors hold appointments at Merage on a regular basis, and there is a Distinguished Speaker Series, Health Care Distinquished Speaker series, Program in Real Estate Management Breakfast series, and an Industry Innovator Breakfast Series, open to all students.
Ninety-two total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 42 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Management of Complex Organizations (residential)
- Statistics for Management
- Financial Accounting for Management
- Information Systems for Management
- Principles of Marketing for Management
- Managerial Accounting for Management
- Organizational Analysis for Management
- Management Science
- Operations Management
- Business Strategy
- Microeconomics for Management
- Corporate Finance
- Macroeconomics
or Business and Government
Required courses for the EMBA – Executive MBA (part time) include:
- Management of Complex Organizations (residential)
- Microeconomics
- Organizational Analysis
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Statistics for Management
- Principles of Marketing
- Managerial Finance
- Macroeconomics
or Public Policy - Business Strategy
- Global Business
- Global Business II (residential)
- Information Technology for Management
- Operations Management
- Executive Leadership (residential)
Required courses for the Fully Employed MBA (part time) include:
- Management of Complex Organizations (residential)
- Organizational Behavior for Management
- Microeconomics for Management
- Financial Accounting
- Statistics for Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Marketing Principles in Management
- Managerial Science
or Operations Management - Managerial Finance
- Information Technology for Management
- Global Business I and II (residential)
- Business Strategy
- Investments (or elective)
- Macroeconomics
or Public Policy - Executive Leadership (residential)
Required courses for the Health Care EMBA (part time) include:
- Management of Complex Organizations (residential)
- Microeconomics
- Organizational Analysis
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Statistics for Management
- Principles of Marketing
- Managerial Finance
- Business and Government
- Business Strategy
- Investments
- Current Issues in Health Care
- Federal Health Care Policy (residential)
- Information Technology for Management
- Operations Management
- Executive Leadership (residential)
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by petitioning to waive courses or substituting credits through extra electives.
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 6 quarters; maximum, 6 quarters. For students attending part time, the minimum is 7 quarters; maximum, 12 quarters.
There are 55 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 95% hold a doctorate; there are 38 part-time faculty, of whom 58% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated above average for Category 1 institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 46.