Academics
The Love School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA). The strongest areas of study are leadership, marketing, and finance. The most popular course is Managerial Communications. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus and include Legends of Business, which is a regular program of national and state leaders in business.
Fifty-one total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 6 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Goal Setting and Career Development l
- Goal Setting and Career Development ll
- Enhancing Managerial Communications
- Economic Policy and the Global Environment
- Accounting for Managerial Decisions
- Marketing Management
- Financial Management
- Management Operations, Science and Systems
- Applications in Management and Organizational Theory
- Management Practice Workshop l
- Management Practice Workshop ll
- International Business
- Enhancing Organizational Leadership
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by transferring up to 9 credits from another AACSB-accredited program with a grade of B or better.
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full or part time is 21 months; maximum, 6 years.
There are 32 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there is 1 part-time faculty member, who holds a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 6; average business class size is 18.