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MBA Program Concentrations (A maximum of 6 credit hours of course work at the 600- or 700-level may be taken in any of the following concentrations.)
Finance
The MBA Finance concentration prepares you for a career in corporate finance, the investments field, or with financial institutions. The specialized knowledge provides the necessary foundation for understanding organizational financial management issues. Our curriculum blends theory with applied business practice to prepare you for the varied activities involved in financial management issues. You will also gain experience with many different financial analysis tools that facilitate problem solving. Most advanced courses involve cases or projects requiring computer modeling and analysis.
FIN 850 - Managerial Finance must be taken prior to or concurrent with courses that comprise the concentration.
Required: FIN 860 - Cases in Financial Management and Investments
Two of the following electives:
FIN 620/FIN 821 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management FIN 823/ECON 847 - Risk Management w/Options and Futures FIN 625/ECON 674 - International Finance FIN 632/FIN 830 - Financial Institutions and Markets FIN 650/FIN 870 - Financial Modeling
Marketing
The MBA Marketing concentration prepares you for a career in general marketing, marketing management, marketing research, and services marketing. Our curriculum focuses on fundamental marketing concepts, current marketing practices, and emerging marketing techniques. The specialized knowledge provides the necessary foundation for a solid understanding of the marketing function for organizational success.
MKT 801 - Marketing Management must be taken prior to or concurrent with courses that comprise the concentration.
Students electing the Marketing concentration may choose three of the following:
MKT 601/IB 601 - International Marketing MKT 607 - Promotion Management MKT 608/ENTRE 608 - Selling and Sales Force Management MKT 690E - Principles of On-line Marketing MKT 805 - Consumer Decision Processes ENTRE 869 - Corporate Entrepreneurship COMM 865 - Organizational Communication
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The MBA Entrepreneurship concentration provides you with the foundation for developing your own business, moving into a leadership role in a family business, or managing innovation and new business formation in a corporate setting. The Entrepreneurship concentration builds on the MBA curriculum to enhance your ability to cope with the full range of issues in evaluating markets, developing business ideas, new product and process innovation, and writing business plans. The specialized knowledge helps you to understand the business startup process and related managerial issues. Students electing the Entrepreneurship concentration may choose three courses from the following:
ENTRE 620 - Growing and Managing an Entrepreneurial Firm ENTRE 668 - Developing a Successful Business Plan ENTRE 805 - Technology Entrepreneurship ENTRE 806 - New Product and Technology Development ENTRE 855 - Entrepreneurial Finance Seminar ENTRE 868 - Business Plan Development ENTRE 869 - Corporate Entrepreneurship ENTRE 690/890 - Seminar in Special Topics
Health Care Administration The MBA Health Care Administration concentration is designed to offer you the opportunity to study business administration at the graduate level with particular emphasis on health care management. The Health Care Administration concentration builds on the MBA curriculum to provide understanding and knowledge of the issues facing organizations in the health services industry. The specialized knowledge provided will help you cope with managerial processes in the dynamic health care industry.
Students electing the Health Care Administration concentration may choose three courses from the following:
HMCD 624 - Financing Health Care Services HMCD 643 - Introduction to Geographic Info. Services PHS 812 - Health Care Policy and Administration PHS 814 - Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health PHS 826 - Politics of Health Policy Making PHS 831 - Essentials of Health Insurance and Managed Care PHS 833 - Health Economics PHS 841 - Leadership and Change Agency in Public Health PHS 858 - Long-Term Care Systems
Technology and Operations Management
The Technology and Operations Management (TOM) concentration is designed to provide students the opportunity to gain expertise in the area of managing manufacturing and service systems. The concentration focuses on various decision-making frameworks in contemporary environments where operations and technology are strategic advantages. The TOM concentration emphasizes the strategic and tactical management of a firm's supply chain, enterprise system, quality, business processes, and project planning/control through the use of technology-intensive tools. The completion of the concentration enhances a student's ability to meet challenging responsibilities as front-line manufacturing and service managers, project managers, systems analysts, supply chain managers, and other rewarding positions in today's contemporary organization.
Students selecting this concentration will need:
Three electives from list A OR Two electives from list A and one elective from list B
LIST A: DS 655 - Project Management DS 675 - Spreadsheet Mod. for Decision Making DS 860 - Enterprise Resource Planning DS 865 - Supply Chain Management (or IME 783)
LIST B: DS 851 - Advanced Operations Management DS 876 - Advanced Management Science DS 890 - Special Topics MIS 650 - Knowledge Management MIS 884 - Database Planning and Management
Courses may not be taken for credit toward the concentration or the degree if an equivalent 600-level course has been taken as part of an undergraduate degree.
