Academics
The College of Management offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Accounting (MSA), and Master of Science in Taxation (MST) as well as a joint degree in law (JD/MBA) with Touro College. Other programs include a 5-year accelerated BS/MBA degree. The strongest areas of study are finance, management, marketing, and international business. The most popular courses are Finance, Management, and Marketing. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus through the Center for Management Research.
Forty-eight total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 9 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Economics for Business Decisions
- Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Corporate Financial Management
- Management and Leadership in a Global Society
- Marketing Management
- Statistics for Managers
- Managing Information Technologies
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Competitive Marketing Strategy
- Organizational Behavior
- Operations Management
- Global Business Environment and Operations
- concentration electives (9 to15 credits)
- Capstone (3 credits) Core courses may be waived through prior recent graduate or undergraduate work and/or by satisfactory scores on waiver exams.
The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 2 years; maximum, 3 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2<1/2> years; maximum, 5 years.
There are 31 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there are 26 part-time faculty, of whom 25% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of credit hours faculty teach is 18; average business class size is 18.