Academics
The College of Management offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Management Information Systems (MMIS), and Master of Public and Nonprofit Administration (MPNA). The strongest areas of study are management information systems and project management. The most popular course is Project Management.
Forty total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 8 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Managerial Communications
- Management Information Systems
- Operations Management
- Marketing Management
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Management Strategy and Policy
- Organizational Behavior
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
Required courses for the MMIS-Systems Development include:
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing Management
- Problem Formulation, Data Representation
- Project Management
- Process Analysis and Design
- Management of Distributed Computing
- System Design/Decision Support
- Database and Client/Server System Design
- Advanced Software Design
- Integrative Project
Required courses for the MMIS-Information Management include:
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing Management
- Problem Formulation, Data Representation
- Project Management
- Process Analysis and Design
- Organizational Behavior
- Knowledge Engineering and Management
- Supply Chain and Automation
- Data Warehousing and Data Mining
- Integrative Project
Required courses for the MPNA include:
- Managerial Communications
- Organizational Behavior
- Marketing Management
- Strategic Management of Information
- Seminar in Community-Oriented Management
- FoundationsPublic Administration of Nonprofit Organizations
- Economics of Social Issues
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements by the completion of previous course work at another institution.
The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 18 months; maximum, 5 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2<1/2> years; maximum, 5 years.
There are 21 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 96% hold a doctorate; there are 62 part-time faculty. Faculty salaries are rated above average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 6; average business class size is 22.