MBA Degree Requirements
Students are required to take 36 credit hours in the program. There are 27 credit hours of core courses and 9 credit hours of electives.
Course Curriculum and Description
Proficiency Courses (15 Credit Hours maximum)
Students who enter the program without undergraduate business courses will be advised about the necessary proficiency courses they are required to take prior to taking the core classes.
MBA 5301 – Accounting Theory and Practice
MBA 5302 – Economic Analysis
MBA 5303 – Fundamentals of Quantitative Methods
MBA 5304 – Finance and Business Enterprises
MBA 5305 – Management Theory/Marketing
Core Coursework (27 Credit Hours)
MBA 5313 – Managerial Accounting
MBA 5315 – Quantitative Methods for Management Decisions
MBA 5318 – Financial Management
MBA 5320 – Marketing Management and Theory
MBA 5322 – Behavioral Theory
MBA 5324 – Management and Social Environment
OR
MBA 5325 – Moral Decision Making in Business
MBA 5335 – Economics for Management
MBA 5357 – Management Information Systems
MBA 5370 – Seminar in Management
Areas of Concentration (9 credit Hours)
Accounting (students must take three of the following courses)
ACCT 5333 – Auditing
ACCT 5353 – Decision Strategy and Taxes
ACCT 5360 – Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting
ACCT 5362 – Taxation of Business Entities
ACCT 5366 – Comparative Accounting Practices
Ethics
MBA 5324 – Management and Social Environment
MBA 5325 – Moral Decision-Making in Business
(plus one of the following)
MBA 5349 – Mapping the Catholic Cultural Landscape
MBA 5350 – Special Topics in Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
(Please note that as MBA 5324 or MBA 5325 are MBA core courses as well as electives, students pursuing an ethics concentration must take one other elective of their choice in order to graduate)
Finance
MBA 5319 – Investment Theory
MBA 5331 – Financial Institutions and Markets
Plus one other elective
Health Care Administration (offered by Texas Woman’s University)
HCA 5103 – Foundations of Health Services
(plus two of the following courses)
HCA 5483 – Epidemiological Methods
HCA 5193 – Health Law
HCA 5633 – Health Policy
**Please note that students interested in this concentration must be registered as visiting graduates with Texas Woman’s University. See the Director of the Graduate Business program for more details.
International Business
MBA 5326 – International Economics
(plus two of the following courses)
MBA 5330 – International Finance
MBA 5351 – International Management
MBA 5355 – Global Marketing
Marketing
MBA 5321 – Marketing Applications and Research
MBA 5333 – Seminar in Marketing
Plus one other elective
Management Information Systems
MBA 5358 – Systems Project Management
MBA 5359 – Selected Topics in Management Information Systems
MBA 5360 – Networking and E-Architecture
MBA 5368 – Systems Analysis and Design
MBA 5369 – Data Administration and Data Management
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