Master of Business Administration

The MBA program provides the leaders of today and tomorrow with the knowledge and skills required to succeed in a competitive business environment. The major emphasizes critical and strategic thinking, business management skills, ethics, and real-world applications.

Objectives:

On completion of this program, the graduate should be able to:

• Apply management principles that coordinate with human capital and processes to optimize organizational success.
• Analyze legal and ethical aspects of business through a Christian worldview.
• Develop holistic strategies that enable organizations to effectively create, communicate, deliver, and exchange offerings to create a profit in today’s global environment.
• Evaluate business operations using qualitative and quantitative analysis to assist decision-making and problem-solving for performance improvement.

PROGRAM36 Hours

• ACC6010 Advanced Managerial Accounting3
  Use of financial information in the internal operations of an organization, including approaches to management decision-making, organizational planning, and performance evaluation through internal financial information.
• BUS5000 Graduate Essentials3
  An orientation to skills for graduate study, including graduate writing and research, and an introduction to management, finance, accounting, economics, and marketing. This course is the Prerequisite for the remaining courses in the program.
• BUS5020 Project Management3
  Principles and processes for project management, including initiation, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing.
• BUS5030 Economics for Managers3
  Economic theory for establishing, revising, and interpreting business policy, including identifying and interpreting economic indicators, and macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena that aid decision-making for management. Political influences on the performance of markets, currency exchange, and economic growth.
• BUS5050 Legal and Regulatory Environment3
  Regulatory and legal systems and their causal effect on the legal environment of business, with analysis of relevant court cases and legal principles as a basis for understanding the depth and breadth of the law’s influence on free market enterprise systems.
• BUS6050 Quantitative and Analytic Methods3
  This course introduces the concepts and skills for integrating analytics into the decision-making process, to assist organizations in achieving their goals. Core statistics and basic analytical concepts are introduced. The course will include an overview of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, focusing on the ability to communicate with numbers to assist organizations in improving performance.
• BUS6800 Applied Business Administration Capstone3
  Integration of learning from MBA coursework, including synthesis of the business and administration strategies and practices from leadership, economics, marketing, operational analysis, ethics, managerial accounting, and finance courses.

  Prerequisite: Completion of major courses and/or concentration courses.
• FIN5060 Managerial Finance and Analysis3
  Financial theory and analytical tools, with application to management decision-making and strategy.
• LDR6500 Ethics in Leadership3
  Ethical, legal, and moral issues facing leaders. Within the context of a Christian biblical worldview, students will critically examine how leaders and managers maintain ethical principles in an organizational culture.
• MGT6070 Global Business Environment3
  Common operational challenges of global businesses with a focus on management, social, economic, political, and financial implications of strategic operations from a faith-based perspective. Topics include cross-cultural context, values, ethics, communication, the influence of international expansion, human resources, and faith-based business operations. Special consideration of current events related to global organizations and their impact on the business environment.
• MGT6200 Advanced Strategic Management3
  This course is designed to provide students with an advanced understanding of the current strategic operations management approaches, with proven analytic techniques.
• MKT5010 Marketing and Advertising for Managers3
  Analyzing marketing mix variables for problem solving in both domestic and international markets, consumer behavior, digital marketing strategies, improving product management, maximizing channels, and customer-driven marketing strategies. MKT 6100 Management in Social Media and Ecommerce 3 Managing digital marketing, content marketing, and customer relations to build ecommerce platforms to cultivate lead and sales from social media relationships.