Academics
The School of Business offers the Master in Business Administration (MBA) as well as a joint degree in Pharmacy (PharmD/MBA), Medical (MD/MBA), Law (JD/MBA), 5-year Accounting (BBA/MBA). Other programs include a 3-2 degree with the engineering school; cross-registration with George Mason, Georgetown, American, and George Washington universities and the University of Maryland; cooperative programs; and joint research conducted with faculty. The strongest areas of study are management, finance, supply chain management, and marketing. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus and include 12 Citigroup Leadership Development Modules per year.
Fifty-four total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 15 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Organizational Management
- Marketing Management
- Statistics
- Management Communications
- Principles of Information Systems
- Managerial Accounting
- Microeconomics for Business
- Macroeconomics for Business
- Legal Environments of Business
- Production/Operations Management
- Strategic Management
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by completing comparable course work elsewhere.
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 4 semesters; maximum, 5 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 5 semesters; maximum, 7 years.
There are 62 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 92% hold a doctorate; there are 22 part-time faculty, of whom 45% 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 17.