Academics
The College of Business Administration offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Finance (MSF), Master of Taxation (MTax), and Master of Business Administration/Master of Science in Finance (MBA/MSF) as well as a joint degree in JD/MBA Juris Doctorate/Master of Business Administration and JD/TAX Juris Doctorate /Master of Taxation. Other programs include work-study programs and internship programs. The strongest areas of study are business administration, finance, taxation, accounting, and management. The most popular courses are Finance and Accounting. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. A committee of faculty and students invites nominees to campus.
Forty-nine total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 6 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Accounting Concepts
- Economic Concepts
- Legal Environment of Business
- Statistical Analysis
- Finance Concepts
- Marketing Principles
- Operations/Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Managerial Economic Analysis
- Financial Administration
- Behavioral Sciences in Administration
- Advanced Marketing Management
- Introduction to Operations Research
- Management Information Systems: Technology, Strategy and Evaluation
- Corporate and Business Strategy
- Business Ethics
Required courses for the MTax include:
- Tax Research—Planning and Practice
- Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders I
- Taxation of Partnerships and S-Corporations
- Tax Accounting Methods
- Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders II
- Taxation of Property and Security Transactions
- Employee Compensation and Advanced Individual Taxation Issues
- International Aspects of Taxation
- State/Local Taxation
- Oil and Gas Taxation
- Estates. Gifts, Trusts and Tax-Exempt Entities
Required courses for the MSF include:
- Accounting Concepts
- Finance Concepts
- Statistical Analysis or Statistical Methods for Scientists & Engineers
- Economic Concepts
- Basic Calculus
- Calculus l
- Calculus ll
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Financial Administration
- Investment Analysis & Management
- Risk Management
- Research Tools in Finance
- Introduction to Operations Research
- Student Investment Fund
- Fixed Income Analysis
- Portfolio Management
- Empirical Methods in Finance
- Long-Term Financial Decisions
- Working Capital Management
- Stochastic Simulation and Queuing
- Computer Simulation
- Advanced Topics in Risk Management
- Empirical Methods in Finance
- Trading & Risk Management
- Stochastic Simulation and Queuing
- Computer Simulation
Required courses for the MBA Online include:
- Accounting for the Information Age
- Management Information Systems
- Management
- Finance
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
- International Business Topics in Finance and Marketing
- Supply Chain Management
- E-Commerce
- Topics in Information Technology Management
- Strategic Management
- Accounting Concepts
- Finance Concepts
- Economics
- Quantitative Analysis and Statistics
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by waiving up to 18 hours of foundation courses based on undergraduate or previous course work.
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 1 year; maximum, 6 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2 years; maximum, 6 years.
There are 29 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there are 2 part-time faculty. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 5; average business class size is 18.