Academics
The Marriott School offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), Master of Public Administration (MPA), Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA), Master of Accountancy (MAcc), and Master of Information Systems Management (MISM) as well as a joint degree in law (MBA/JD, MPA/JD, and MAcc/JD), and engineering (MBA/ME). Other programs include 3-2 degrees with Marriott School Systems (MAcc and MISM degrees), an interdisciplinary program in management engineering, work-study with the Career Services Office, and a graduate internship. The most popular courses are Finance and Marketing. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. The school sponsors an Executive Lecture/Entrepreneur Lecture Series as well as an Executive-in-Residence program.
Sixty-four total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 38 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Business Finance
- Marketing Management
- Operations Management
- Written and Oral Communication
- Introduction to Strategy
- Management and Information Technology
- Management Seminars
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Managerial Accounting
- Introduction to Global Management
- Business Ethics
- Strategy II
- Leadership
- Track Professional Seminar
- Strategic Human Resources Management
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by transferring upper-division course work that was not used toward another graduate degree. They may transfer up to 15 credit hours as electives.
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 2 years; maximum, 5 years.
There are 135 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 90% hold a doctorate; there are 46 part-time faculty, of whom 26% hold a doctorate. Average number of courses faculty teach is 3; average business class size is 45.