2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 22, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Master of Business Administration, Project Management Concentration, M.B.A.


Master of Business Administration, M.B.A.


Requirements For: Master - 33 Hours, 3.0 GPA


Concentrations


All students complete all core courses to provide a common foundation; therefore, the program’s policy is not to waive any of the core courses.

The general MBA program offers the flexibility to tailor electives to the student’s professional interests. Ample choices allow a broad choice or a focus, such as finance, entrepreneurship, global business or information systems. Alternatively, the student may select one of the following formal areas of concentration:

  1. Disaster and Emergency Management Concentration  
  2. Finance Concentration  
  3. Global Business Concentration  
  4. Homeland Security Concentration 
  5. Human Resource Management Concentration 
  6. Management Accounting Concentration 
  7. Management Information Systems Concentration 
  8. Project Management Concentration 
  9. Public Accounting Concentration 
  10. Quality and Innovation Management Concentration 

Project Management Concentration


The MBA Project Management (PM) concentration is designed to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to competently plan, organize, staff, and guide processes for creating a solution or system. The PM concentration intends to adequately prepare the students to take the Project Management Professional (PMP)® credentialing exam. More specifically, the content is aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, 5th edition) and introduces students to the 5 process groups, 10 knowledge areas, and 47 processes of project management.