Department of Graduate and Professional Studies in Business

MBA Student Learning Outcomes

The MBA program seeks to prepare its graduates for positions of leadership and organizational responsibility. Hence, we expect our graduates to be competent problem solvers who possess the relevant technical and professional skills to make good decisions. We also expect our graduates act ethically, based not just on an understanding of their own role in organizations and business, but also based on their understanding of the role and context of business in society. Finally, we expect our graduates to be able to apply and integrate a variety of relevant skills in making their decisions. Accordingly, the MBA program is designed to produce the following student learning outcomes:

1. Problem Solving: Students will demonstrate the ability to solve structured and unstructured business problems.
2. Technology: Students will demonstrate the ability to use technology to create actionable intelligence from business data.
3. Professional Skills: Students will demonstrate professionalism and the ability to communicate findings and recommendations to a professional audience.
4. Context: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the global, historical, regulatory and ethical context within which business operates.
5. Integration: Students will demonstrate an ability to integrate business skills across the core curriculum.

Graduate Certificates

In addition to the MBA, the Department of Graduate and Professional Studies in Business offers the following graduate certificates:

• Business Graduate Certificate (Intended for people with non-business undergraduate degrees)
• Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Graduate Certificate
• Cyber Security Management Graduate Certificate
• Digital Enterprise and Cloud Management Graduate Certificate
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Management Graduate Certificate
• Health Informatics Graduate Certificate
• Healthcare Management Graduate Certificate
• Project Management Graduate Certificate

MBA Degree and Certificate Completion Requirements

It is important for students to be aware that the MBA Program and the Graduate Certificate Program are two separate credentials that have differentiated requirements that must be completed. Students who are completing the MBA degree concurrent with a certificate program must simultaneously complete all the separate requirements of both the MBA degree program and the certificate program in order to graduate from both programs without delaying graduation.

• If a student is enrolled in the MBA Program and a certificate program at the same time but cannot complete the requirements of the certificate program at the same time as the MBA Program, then the student must detach the certificate program from their MBA Program (see Advisor/Mentor for this process). Students may finish their certificate program after their MBA degree requirements have been completed and their degree has been conferred. In such case  the student must apply to the university to complete the certificate program.

MBA Program

• Delivery Method:  On-Campus, Online, Hybrid
• Entrance Exam: GRE, GMAT

Graduate Certificate Programs

• Delivery Method:  Online, Hybrid
• Entrance Exam: No

Transfer Credit

The MBA program can accept up to 9 hours of transfer credit from another AACSB-accredited MBA program. The grade received for a transfer class must be a “B” or better, and the class must have been taken no more than six years prior to the applicant’s project graduation date.

Programs

• Business Administration, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Cyber Security Management Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Digital Enterprise and Cloud Management Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Finance Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, General, MBA
• Business Administration, Health Informatics Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Healthcare Management Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, International Business Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Management Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Marketing Specialization, MBA
• Business Administration, Project Management Specialization, MBA

• Business Graduate Certificate
• Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Graduate Certificate
• Cyber Security Management Graduate Certificate
• Digital Enterprise and Cloud Management Graduate Certificate
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Management Graduate Certificate
• Health Informatics Graduate Certificate
• Healthcare Management Graduate Certificate
• Project Management Graduate Certificate