COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree program prepares individuals for careers in management. More specifically, its aim is to provide an opportunity for men and women to develop knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and understanding that will constitute a foundation for growth into competent business management professionals, qualifying graduates to seek employment in major industries including computer-related services, investment banking/securities and consulting in the areas of marketing, research, analysis, and/or finance.
MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – ADMISSION CATEGORIES:
Minimum academic requirements to apply to the MBA degree program is:
- Regular Degree Applicant - Student with a Bachelor degree from a state-approved or regionally or nationally accredited institution.
- Transfer Applicant – Applicants who have earned units from a MBA program from a state-approved or regionally or nationally accredited institution may transfer up to six (6) semester units to Irvine University College of Business subject to evaluation of grades and courses.
MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA); PROGRAM (30 units):
BUS 500 Organizational Leadership 3 units
BUS 505 Economics 3 units
BUS 510 Marketing Management 3 units
BUS 520 Sales Management 3 units
BUS 525 Business Strategy 3 units
BUS 530 Managing Information Systems & Technology 3 units
BUS 540 Organizational Behavior 3 units
BUS 550 Financial Management 3 units
BUS 553 Business Law 3 units
BUS 557 Applied Methods 3 units
Total MBA program 30 units
MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:
Student must complete thirty (30) prescribed units with a cumulative G.P.A of 3.0 or higher. Students must apply for graduation and meet all academic and financial requirements.
MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION – COURSE DESCRIPTIONS :
BUS 500 Organizational Leadership (3 units)
This course introduces the graduate organizational leadership program. It discusses Kouzes & Posner’s model of leadership applicable to business organizations. Students will have the opportunity to examine their own leadership styles in the light of this model. Through their studies, students will be able to assess, understand, and improve their own approach to leading, as well as their ability to select and evaluate leaders.
BUS 505 Economics (3 units)
The course applies economic principles and methodologies to business decision problems relating to costs, prices, revenues, profits, and competitive strategies and provides an analytical base for study of the corporate strategy process. Basic economic theory and the application of this analysis to management decision-making are covered first. The general model used for this application is organizational architecture consisting of three aspects of corporate organization. Theory is then applied to topics such as performance evaluation, leadership, understanding the business environment and ethics.
BUS 510 Marketing Management (3 units)
This course covers the theory and practice of selling effectively, including relationship selling, solution selling, and strategic account management. Learners also will explore topics in sales force management, including alignment of the field organization, the use of resellers, and compensation. The course ends with a focus on the economics and best practices of customer acquisition, retention, and relationship expansion. This course will present tools and techniques to help you influence others, build relationships, and inspire trust.
BUS 520 Sales Management (3 units)
This course covers the theory and practice of selling effectively, including relationship selling, solution selling, and strategic account management. The course ends with a focus on the economics and best practices of customer acquisition, retention, and relationship expansion. This course will present tools and techniques to help you influence others, build relationships and inspire trust.
BUS 525 Business Strategy (3 units)
This course will focus on strategic development and the integration of knowledge in functional areas of management. Students will be asked to examine the strategic role of information systems, marketing and management within modern business organizations and review those aspects of organizing, managing and controlling information systems, marketing and management in order to develop an understanding for strategic frameworks.
BUS 530 Managing Information Systems and Technology (3 units)
This course will focus on the impact of technology on the organization. Topics include information awareness, decision architecture, and internal knowledge dissemination. In addition, the course will cover tools and techniques for competitive analysis, strategic planning, and strategy implementation, addressing the use of information, knowledge, and technology as a strategic asset.
BUS 540 Organizational Behavior (3 units)
This course begins with an examination of critical personal characteristics of organizational members to see how these factors influence the effectiveness of organizations and their members. Special attention is then given to the role of teams in organizations, the stages of team development, and actions that can support the development of effective teams. The realities of interpersonal processes are considered through examination of the roles of power, politics, and conflict in organizations. Then leadership behavior is examined, with leaders viewed as facilitators of organizational and member effectiveness.
BUS 550 Financial Management (3 units)
This course is an applied financial and managerial accounting course. The course will focus on the principles of financial and managerial accounting to examine the difficult strategic and operational decisions. The general objective of this course is to provide the decision maker with the financialand managerial accounting theory, concepts, and tools necessary to make better financial management decisions as well as enable the student to make sound judgments regarding financial analyses performed by others
BUS 553 Business Law (3 units)
This course will focus on the legal environment of the business enterprise from the moral and social aspects of law. Emphasis is the legal system and its significance in decision making.
BUS 557 Applied Methods (3 units)
This course is intended to be a challenging and exciting capstone course for the graduate business school curriculum and it also provides a foundation for using methods to perform empirical research in business areas. The capstone course will be structured around a framework of measurement principles covered in the Executive M.B.A program.
The students will be required to use different methods and principles learned in this program as a foundation for their final project of the program.
