Business Administration (MBA)

The MBA in Finance Specialization provides students with an academic curriculum that focuses on four career tracts: Financial Management, Investment Management, Financial Institutions Management, and Wealth Management.

Choose Four (12 units)

• FIN 522: Individual Insurance Management
• FIN 585: Estate Planning Issues and Practice
• FIN 589: Personal Financial Planning
• FIN 590: Personal Financial Planning Practicum
• FIN 617: Financial Management II
• FIN 641: Financing the Emerging Enterprise
• FIN 651: Seminar in Investments
• FIN 652: Seminar in Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
• FIN 653: Case Studies in Financial Management
• FIN 654: Seminar in International Business Finance (Summer)
• FIN 659: Decision Making in the World Economy
• ACCTG 620: Financial Measurement and Reporting
• ACCTG 663: Financial Statement Analysis

Career Track Recommendations

The MBA in Health Services Administration is designed to give students the opportunity to integrate the knowledge they gain in earning their MBA with 12 units of coursework in Public Health. This knowledge helps to prepare students to work in various healthcare administration positions within the healthcare field.

Required (3 units)

• PH 641 – Introduction to Health Services (offered in the Fall)

Choose Three (9 units)

• PH 644B – Managing High Performing Health Care Organization
• PH 648 – Health Policy
• PH 748 – Health Services Competitive Strategy and Marketing
• PH 605 – Health Services Administration

The MBA in Information Systems specialization provides students with an academic curriculum focused on creating value with information. An information system (IS) is a reliably, repeatable way to create value with information. In times past, organizations used IS to boost their productivity. In today’s knowledge economy, the information system is the business. This specialization prepares a leader to understand and improve an organization’s ability to protect and to optimize the return on its intellectual capital. It will examine how an organization can use its information and information systems to enhance its offerings and to gain sustainable strategic advantages.

Choose One (3 units)

• MIS 688 – Information Systems in Organizations
• MIS 691 – Decision Support Systems

Choose Three (9 units)

• MIS 720–Electronic Business and Big Data Infrastructures
• MIS 686 – Enterprise Database Management
• MIS 687 –Secure Enterprise Networking and Mobile Technologies
• MIS 688 – Information Systems and Strategies in Organizations
• MIS 691 – Decision Support Systems
• MIS 695 –Business Systems Analysis and Design
• MIS 697 – Project Planning and Development
• MIS 705 – Communication Strategies
• MIS 649 – Business Analytics
• MIS 750 – Strategic Project Management
• MIS 752 –Seminar in Supply Chain & Enterprise Resource Planning
• MIS 753 – Global Supply Chain Analytics
• MIS 755 – Information Systems Security Management

The MBA with a specialization in Accounting provides students with an academic curriculum that prepares them for career opportunities that require a broad understanding of financial statements and the use of accounting information for decision-making.

The MBA in Entrepreneurship provides an academic curriculum that focuses on preparing students for a future as an entrepreneur. Students will master core theory and concepts of entrepreneurship, the financing of emerging enterprises, and business plan development. Students will also have the opportunity to take additional courses that will allow them to tailor their education to the specific contexts most relevant to their entrepreneurial interests.

Required (9 units):

• MGT 724: Entrepreneurship
• FIN 641: Financing the Emerging Enterprise
• MGT 744: Managing the Growing Firm

Choose One (3 units):

• MGT 748: International Entrepreneurship
• MKTG 761: Product Innovation Management
• BA 780: Field Studies in Business

The MBA in International Business Specialization helps to prepare students for diverse career opportunities. It includes positions – both in the U.S. and abroad – with business corporations (including multinational enterprises), nonprofit organizations, international institutions, and government agencies. Careers and responsibilities can vary depending upon a student’s portfolio of courses and “emphasis” in functional areas such as accounting, finance, information systems, management or marketing.

Choose Four (12 units)

If only THREE international business courses have been completed from the courses within the Fowler College of Business, one of the courses outside the Fowler College of Business can be used as the fourth course in the specialization:

Within Fowler College

• FIN 654 – International Business Finance
• MKTG 769 – International Marketing
• MGT 710 – World Business Environment
• MIS 753 – Global Supply Chain Management

Outside Fowler College

• POL S 577 – Principles of International Law
• JMS 574 – International Advertising

The MBA Management Specialization provides an academic curriculum that focuses on preparing students for future management and leadership positions in organizations. Students will have the opportunity to select courses within three key areas (listed below) to ensure exposure to a breadth of theory and concepts that are applicable to the student’s chosen field and/or interests.

Choose Four (12 units)

Select at least one from each group (if possible).

The MBA Marketing Specialization provides students with an academic curriculum that focuses on how products and services are developed, priced, promoted, distributed and sold. The process requires an understanding of buyer and seller behavior within the context of the overall market environment.

Choose Four (12 units)

• MKTG 761 – Product Innovation Management
• MKTG 763 – Seminar in Sales Management
• MKTG 768 – Seminar in Internet Marketing and E-Business
• MKTG 769 – Seminar in International Marketing
• MKTG 772 – Strategic Brand Management
• MKTG 779 – Advanced Marketing Strategy

Focused MBA Marketing Specialization Course Recommendations

The MBA Specialization in Project Management provides students with an academic curriculum focused on planning, leading, organizing, and controlling the resources and schedules of large-scale projects such as software development projects, engineering projects, civic improvement projects, or construction projects. A project is a temporary group activity with the goal to create a unique work product. This specialization provides students with knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently.

Required (9 units)

• MIS 695: Business Systems Analysis and Design
• MIS 697: Project Planning and Development
• MIS 750: Strategic Project Management

Choose One (3 units)

• MIS 585: Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Management (Prerequisite: MIS 687)
• MIS 720: Electronic Business and Big Data Infrastructures
• MIS 649: Business Analytics
• MIS 755: Information Systems Security Management
• MKTG 761: Product Innovation Management

The MBA Specialization in Supply Chain Management provides students with an academic curriculum focused on coordinating and integrating of materials, information, and finances as they flow both within and among companies. Common supply chain activities include sourcing, procurement, conversion, distribution, and logistics management. Supply chain management is the design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of maximizing value an organization creates for its stakeholders.

Choose Four (12 units)

• MIS 752 (Recommended): Supply Chain & Enterprise Resource Planning
• MIS 753 (Recommended): Global Supply Chain Analytics
• MIS 620: E-Business Infrastructure
• MIS 749: Business Analytics
• MKTG 761: Product Innovation Management OR
  MKTG 769: Seminar in International Marketing
• MGT 710: Seminar in World Business Environment OR
  MGT 722: Seminar in Business Ethics and Social Institutions