2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Master of Business Administration, Management Information Systems Concentration, M.B.A.


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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 

Management Information Systems Concentration


The MBA Management Information Systems concentration offers a unique combination of business intelligence and industry standards through practical project-oriented instruction. The rationale is to produce quality MBA graduates with in-depth knowledge and hands-on understanding of the essentials of managing today’s information technology systems. Students study the foundations of business so they can apply management information system technology to create efficient, effective business enterprises capable of competing in a global setting.

In addition, students are exposed to the concepts and applications of data analytics, security and privacy of big data, and project management as they pertain to system architecture and a firm’s ability to answer complicated business questions.

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