Master of Business Administration (MBA)
33 credit hours
College of Business Administration
The MBA program is a customized program designed to offer either a general management education to students new to the study of business or an advanced and more specialized business education to students with a business degree and/or significant business experience. This customized program offers students the opportunity to develop a curriculum best suited to their backgrounds, skills, and career goals.
Eligibility for Admission
Applicants for admission to the MBA program must have a baccalaureate degree, regardless of the undergraduate field of study, and an acceptable level of scholarship from an accredited institution of higher education. Students entering the program will also need to show evidence that they have completed at least one statistics course in their undergraduate degree. Students without such a class may complete instead a non-credit statistics tutorial offered by the college for a fee.
The relative emphasis of a student’s plan of study on each of these areas will depend on each student’s academic and business background.
Functional Core
MBA Core
9 credit hours All MBA students will complete three core courses that address business processes and skills fundamental to Creighton’s Jesuit and values-based mission. Creighton’s MBA program emphasizes how business leaders apply sound and coherent ethical principles to serve its stakeholders and society for the common good. To support this emphasis, all MBA students complete the following courses:
MBA 771 Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBA 775 Business Policy and Managerial Action MBA 776 Business, Ethics, and Society
Up to 15 credit hours Students who are new to the study of business because they hold neither an undergraduate degree in business nor have extensive business work experience may be required to take some or all of the functional core classes. Taking these classes and the core MBA courses will lead to a general competency in most areas of business. Students who hold undergraduate business degrees or have extensive business experience may elect to take one or more of these courses with the approval of the Associate Dean for Graduate Business Program’s office or may elect to move directly to concentration courses.
MBA 701 MBA 711 MBA 741 MBA 761 ITM 731 Financial Reporting for MBA’s Managerial Finance Economic Analysis for Managers Marketing Management Information Systems Management
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MBA Plan of Study
9–24 credit hours All MBA students will work with the Associate Dean for Graduate Business Programs to develop a plan of study reflecting the students’ academic and work backgrounds, business competencies, and career goals. Plans of Study will consist of courses from the Functional Core and/or from an extensive list of Concentration courses.
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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Concentration
9–24 credit hours All MBA students will complete the balance of their 33 hours from concentration courses available in all of the functional areas. These business courses cover advanced topics in all areas of business including accounting, finance, economics, information technology, marketing, and management. To ensure appropriate breadth and depth:
1. Students must take one course in each of three of five functional areas (accounting, finance, economics, information technology, and marketing); 2. Students may take a maximum of three courses beyond MBA 771 in the management/leadership area; and 3. Students may take a maximum of four courses in a given functional area.
For example, students who wish to focus on the study of investments may take courses in our finance area and our MSAPM program such as:
MBA 715 MBA 719 MBA 719 MSA 722 MSA 730 MSA 732 MSA 734 Investment Value and Theory Current Issues in Finance Institutional Investing Fixed Income and Derivatives I Financial Statement Analysis I Capital Markets Equity Analysis
Students who wish to focus on the study of information technology management may take courses in our MS-ITM program such as:
ITM ITM ITM ITM 734 735 782 789 Human Factors in Information Systems Information Systems Projects and Risk Management Data Base Management Systems Advanced Topics in IT Management
Concentration Courses
Tier 2 Courses: Tier 2 courses are advanced courses in each functional area of business. These courses may be taken by students with undergraduate degrees in business or students who have completed the Functional Core courses and would like additional courses in an area.
MBA 702 MBA 712 MBA 742 MBA 765 ITM 736 ITM 788 Advanced Accounting Advanced Managerial Finance Seminar in Applied Managerial Economics Marketing Information for Executives Managing Information Resources Business Information Analysis and Process Design
Students who wish to focus on the study of accounting may take advanced accounting courses such as:
MBA MBA MBA MBA 717 717 717 739 Accounting Seminar - Corporate Governance Accounting Seminar - Internal Auditing Current Issues in Accounting Tax Theory and Business Decisions
Students who wish to focus on the study of leadership may take advanced leadership courses such as:
MBA MBA MBA MBA 779 779 779 779 Personal Leadership Development Business Consulting Managing for Innovation and Excellence Leadership Through the Hollywood Lens
Focus Areas Depending on the number of credit hours to be completed with concentration courses, students may wish to focus on particular business areas by taking multiple courses in a single area.
The above simply illustrates how students may tailor the courses in their curriculum to fit their backgrounds, competencies, and career goals. Students are encouraged to discuss these and other focus areas with the Dean’s office.
College of Business Administration 2500 California Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68178–0002
Phone: 402.280.2829 Fax: 402.280.2172 www.creighton.edu/business
College of Business Administration