Advising for MBA Course Selection

How long will it take you to complete the MBA degree?

Our program is focused on serving the working professional. Evening and select weekend courses are scheduled to accommodate students with active work schedules. Courses are generally designed to meet one evening, three hours per week, for 11 weeks. How quickly you complete the degree will depend upon the number of courses taken each quarter and whether you go summer. Most students do 2 classes per quarter and on average complete the MBA in three years.

To progress through the MBA program in the most efficient manner, it is recommended that students complete the required pre-MBA foundations core and advanced courses in the following order. As a general rule students should try to complete the courses in each set before beginning the next set. Student should verify that they meet course prerequisites with the associate graduate director.

Care should be taken when planning for the required five elective courses, because many of these may only be offered once each year and a few are offered only every other year. MBA students may take information systems management courses as MBA electives.

Set One

BUS 6201* Christian Values, Ethics and the Marketplace
BUS 6202* Business Ethics: Issues and Moral Leadership
BUS 6110 Macroeconomics for Managers
BUS 6140 Legal Environment of Business
BUS 6171 Quantitative Methods
BUS 6260 Managerial Communications
BUS 6266 Leadership in Organizations

Set Two

BUS 6130 Financial Accounting
BUS 6132 Managerial Accounting
BUS 6120 Managerial Finance
BUS 6150 Managerial Marketing
BUS 6164 Operations Management
BUS 6170 Information Systems Management

Set Three

BUS 6210 Managerial Economics
BUS 6263 Designing Organizations
BUS 6280 Global Political Economics

Set Four

BUS 6220 Financial Analysis
BUS 6250 Marketing Analysis
BUS 6299 Strategic Policy and Planning

*BUS 6201 and BUS 6202 must be completed as two of the first five courses taken in the MBA program; 6201 should precede 6202.