Online MBA Courses
Curriculum Details
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The online MBA program consists of 12, 8-week courses that offer the ultimate flexibility. Our well-rounded program allows you to tailor your education to your goals with engaging curriculum and multiple specializations, including project management, healthcare, fraud and forensics, leadership and management and human resources.
In our interactive classrooms, faculty get to know each student individually, understand their goals and help them succeed on their own terms. Our program allows you to pursue the business career you want and grow personally and professionally.
Core Courses
Credits
MBA 711 is a fully online course that focuses on written communication skills for professionals, emphasizing the critical role effective, carefully crafted written communications play in successful business and nonprofit leadership. Students prepare various short pieces of writing throughout the semester, such as memos, emails, and letters. Topics include business/corporate, technical, and persuasive writing; and grammar, mechanics, and style (this course uses APA).
Strategic Analysis introduces the concepts within business strategy as a competitive advantage, by framing the fundamental relationship between strategy and operational effectiveness. It prepares students to develop and present a strategic plan by working on an individual and/or team basis using industry-leading tools such as value chain analysis, benchmarking, and Blue Ocean strategy. Best practices in strategic methods are applied to for-profit and not-for-profit sectors in both U.S. and global contexts, with an emphasis on critical analysis and ethical leadership behaviors across industries.
Introduces the MBA student to theories and techniques critical to the function of business analytics as defined by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Discussions focus on framing the business problem or question, framing the analytics problem, managing data, selecting the analytics approach, and addressing the business problems/questions based on data analysis results. Discussion will also involve understanding the basics of good research design methodology (quantitative and qualitative) and the applications of those methodologies in current business/professional research. Students will discuss evidence-based decision making, and work on real or simulated analytics projects using analytical packages and statistical tools.
This course focuses on decision making as a fundamental activity of professionals working in any management discipline. Modern leaders need to deal with a myriad of factors that affect the achievement of their goals. This course addresses the fundamental problems that occur in managerial decision making at both the theoretical and a practical level. At the theoretical level, students will learn what we currently know about making effective decisions. At the practical level, this course offers the opportunity to learn a decision-making framework widely used in organizations, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). This method combines simplicity with rigor and has been successfully applied to make decisions in economic, social, political and technological environments.
This course examines corporate financial management and financial planning. Topics include: financial statements, financial statement analysis, working capital management, time value of money, cost of capital, long-term debt, capital budgeting, stock markets, investment banking, mergers, international financial management and current issues in the global economy. This course will afford the student the opportunity to examine several functions and responsibilities of a corporation’s accounting and finance departments.
Introductory economics is the portal to a way of thinking that provides powerful insights into how and why the world works that way it does. This course studies the basic economic problems, and takes a closer look at markets, prices, profits, and performance in the industry. The course also looks at the U.S. economic system including Gross Domestic Product, national income accounting, economic instability, unemployment, labor unions, and economic growth.
Dealing with emerging trends in information technology (IT) and its management, this course is particularly useful for students managing or working closely with IT initiatives such as ERP, CRM, SaaS, Business Intelligence, e-commerce, supply chain management, disaster recovery, telecommunications, networking, ethics and privacy. Students taking this course will become familiar with fundamental concepts and terminology of modern information technology management.
This course examines the impact of technology on marketing, and the strategic role of marketing in the overall goal of organizational success in a highly competitive and volatile market. The decision making process of managers will be explored as they lead the design and implementation of a marketing strategy that encompasses product planning, pricing, supply chain management and promotion strategies.
Required Courses for Specializations
Credits
Meet the need for fraud prevention business experts with an online MBA in Fraud and Forensics and graduate prepared for the national Certified Fraud Examiners exam.
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 701 Principles of Product Management
- MBA 731 Management Organization Change & Innovation
- MBA 733 Project Management I – Introduction
- MBA 734 Project Management II – Agile
Help deliver quality healthcare through business expertise with an online MBA in Healthcare Management and graduate in as few as 15 months.
- MBA 796 Healthcare Management & Administration
- MBA 798 Telehealth Management
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 701 Principles of Product Management
- MBA 731 Management Organization Change & Innovation
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 733 Project Management I – Introduction
- MBA 734 Project Management II – Agile
- MBA 797 Healthcare Project Management
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 732 Financial Planning & Analysis
- NU 727 Fiscal Management
Positively impact your workplace with an online MBA in Human Resources Management and graduate prepared to sit for the national SHRM exam.
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 701 Principles of Product Management
- MBA 731 Management Organization Change & Innovation
- MBA 733 Project Management I – Introduction
- MBA 734 Project Management II – Agile
- MBA 797 Healthcare Project Management
Prepare to be a well-rounded and effective leader with an online MBA in Leadership and Management and graduate in as few as 15 months.
- MBA 701 Principles of Product Management
- MBA 734 Project Management II – Agile
- MBA 796 Healthcare Management & Administration
- MBA 798 Telehealth Management
Become a leader in project management with an online MBA in Project Management and graduate prepared to sit for the PMP certification exam.
- MBA 734 Project Management II – Agile
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 701 Principles of Product Management
- MBA 731 Management Organization Change & Innovation
Choose 1 from the following:
- MBA 733 Project Management I – Introduction
- MBA 797 Healthcare Project Management
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