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

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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.

Required (6 units)

• BA/MIS 649 -- Business Analytics (part of the Professional Core)
• MIS 688 – Information Systems in Organizations, OR
• MIS 691 – Decision Support Systems

Choose Three (9 units)

• 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 Management
• MIS 705 – Communication Strategies
• MIS 720 – Electronic Business and Big Data Infrastructures
• MIS 750 – Strategic Program Management
• MIS 752 – Enterprise Resource Planning and Blockchain
• MIS 753 – Global Supply Chain Analytics
• MIS 755 – Information Systems Security Management

Students with Undergraduate Degree in Accounting 

Students will 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.

• MGT 724: Entrepreneurship
• FIN 641: Financing the Emerging Enterprise
• MGT 744: Managing the Growing Firm
• MGT 748: International Entrepreneurship
• MKTG 761: Product Innovation Management
• BA 780: Field Studies in Business

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 (taken with permission from Graduate Business Director)

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

Choose Any of the Following

• 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

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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.

• MIS 585: Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Management (Prerequisite: MIS 687)
• MIS 695: Business Systems Analysis and Design
• MIS 697: Project Planning and Management
• MIS 720: Electronic Business and Big Data Infrastructures
• MIS 750: Strategic Program Management
• MIS 755: Information Systems Security Management
• MKTG 761: Product Innovation Management

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.

• MIS 620: E-Business Infrastructure
• MIS 752 (Recommended): Enterprise Resource Planning and Blockchain
• MIS 753 (Recommended): Global Supply Chain 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