Business Administration
Mission Statement
To foster the development of future business leaders, enabling them to excel in an ever-changing landscape by creatively synthesizing and applying essential business principles.
Program Objectives
- Prepare students to synthesize, analyze, and integrate knowledge to solve complex problems and create innovative solutions
- Prepare students to communicate ideas effectively
- Prepare students to seek quality information and generate new data through research
- Prepare students to consider ethical implications of outcomes
- Prepare students to demonstrate broad thinking and global consideration of decisions
Each track has embedded curricular modules developed by Harvard Business School that combine extensive business research with practical application to enhance leadership skills to support industry change. To pay for these modules, some MBA courses have additional course fees of $400 per credit hour:
MBA541 Quality Management (3)
MBA543 Finance and Accounting Principles (3)
MBA545 Managerial Economics (3)
MBA546 Disruptive Strategy (3)
Master of Business Administration - Accounting
The fully online 30-credit-hour MBA in Accounting is intended to provide advanced coursework for students interested in expanding their business knowledge with an emphasis on accounting. This track is also ideal for students seeking to become CMAs. Case studies and practical scenarios will guide the theoretical investigation of topics. Program prerequisites include intermediate accounting I and II at the undergraduate level.
Master of Business Administration - AI Driven Management
The fully online 33-credit-hour MBA in Artificial Intelligence for Business offers a flexible, asynchronous three-to-four-course specialization designed to prepare students for strategic leadership in AI adoption across industries. With a low-code approach, this program builds foundational technical literacy, enabling students to bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders. Through practical case studies, students learn to ethically scope, manage, and evaluate AI projects, critically assess solutions, and identify opportunities for innovation. Equipped with future-proof skills in problem-solving and strategic management, graduates are ready to lead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Program prerequisites include foundational business or technology coursework at the undergraduate level.
Master of Business Administration - Business Analytics
The fully online 33-credit-hour MBA in Business Analytics offers a flexible, asynchronous concentration designed to equip students with practical, data-driven decision-making skills. Through hands-on assignments, case studies, and portfolio-building presentations, students master analytical tools for data querying, visualization, and modeling while developing a strategic manager’s mindset. Emphasizing real-world applications, the program integrates AI and machine learning, preparing graduates to lead with confidence and adapt to evolving industry demands in data-driven business analytics. Program prerequisites include foundational business or statistics coursework at the undergraduate level.
Master of Business Administration - Cybersecurity Management
The fully online 33-credit-hour MBA in Cybersecurity Management is designed to prepare students for high-demand, managerial roles in cybersecurity, aligned with the NICE Workforce Framework. Focusing on Oversight and Governance (OG) and Protection and Defense (PD), this flexible, asynchronous program equips students with strategic, big-picture thinking to mitigate cyber risks and lead organizational cybersecurity efforts. Through case studies and practical applications, students gain literacy in cybersecurity roles, learning to orchestrate effective protection against cyber threats. Graduates are well-positioned for leadership positions in this critical, high-paying field. Program prerequisites include foundational business or technology coursework at the undergraduate level.
Master of Business Administration - Finance
The fully online 30-credit-hour MBA in Finance prepares the students for a career in finance. Through this program, students obtain knowledge and competence in applying financial theories to solve real-world business problems. It trains the students to gain insights and understanding of the ever-evolving financial markets based on time-tested financial principles and methods.
Master of Business Administration - General Business
The fully online 30-credit-hour MBA in General Business is intended to provide advanced coursework for students interested in expanding their general business knowledge. Case studies and practical scenarios from multiple industries will be used to emphasize content and expand application options. The courses within this graduate program focus on a broad perspective of business knowledge and application. This includes core business knowledge as well as personal and professional behaviors such as leadership, emotional intelligence, and communication that enhance outcomes.
Master of Business Administration - Healthcare Administration
The fully online 36-credit-hour MBA in Healthcare Administration equips students to manage services, employees, and facilities; to understand and implement the policies and regulations relevant to healthcare fields; and to develop working knowledge of informatics and analysis, insurance industry processes, and quality management.
Case studies and practical scenarios will guide the theoretical investigation of topics.
This MBA in Healthcare Administration infuses the strength and practice of high functioning business practice and combines it with innovative strategies that are critical within a health industry in the midst of reform.
Master of Business Administration - Human Resources
The fully online 30-credit-hour MBA in Human Resources focuses on core business concepts while emphasizing aspects that support and enhance a business’ largest expense: Its employees. Coursework will focus on recruitment, retention, and a variety of human-resource practices and policies that can align with the organization’s strategic initiatives to support operational goals.
Master of Business Administration - Marketing
The fully online 33-credit-hour MBA in Marketing includes core business concepts as well as courses poised to prepare students for next-level marketing strategies. Courses will emphasize marketing communication, technology, consumer behavior and the user experience, research options, digital analytics, and strategic communication planning and tactics.
Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Administration
The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Administration is a component of the MBA in HCA and is intended to offer the healthcare leader foundational content to support their role as they navigate an evolving industry. Courses can be used to complete the full MBA. The Graduate Certificate is 15 credit hours with online courses offered in 8- or 15-week sessions.