Academics
The Haworth College of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA). The strongest areas of study are management, marketing, finance, and accounting. The most popular courses are Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Intercultural Communications, Business Strategy, International Finance and Change Management. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus through the Distinguished Speaker Series and Professor of the Day programs.
Thirty-six total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 9 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Prerequisite/core courses (12 hours):
- Accountancy
- Basic Economic Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Legal, Regulatory, and Political Aspects of Business
- Business context courses (9 hours):
- Global Business and Intercultural Communication
- Business Policy and the Social and Ethical Environment
- Information Technology Management
- Functional core courses (15 hours):
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Customer-Driven Marketing Management
- Business Process Management
- Managing Human Resources and Behavior
- Concentration electives (9 hours)
- Integrative Business Solutions ( 3 hours)
- Business Strategy
Required courses for the MSA include:
- A minimum 30 semester hours, including 15 hours of accounting, must be selected from these courses:
- Advanced Accounting
- Advanced Accounting Information Systems
- Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
- Accounting Theory and Problems
- Cost Accounting
Concepts and Practice - Advanced Tax Accounting
- Seminar in Financial Accounting Theory
- International Accounting
- Seminar in Management Accounting Concepts
- Seminar in Business Tax Planning
- Special Topics in Accountancy
Students may substitute for or waive basic core courses based on grades in prior courses. They may waive up to 4 core courses and may substitute an elective for 1 core MBA class.
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The maximum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full or part time is 6 years.
There are 65 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated below average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of credit hours faculty teach is 18; average business class size is 30.