Program Description
The College of Business offers a program of graduate studies leading to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. The primary objective of this program is to educate future, middle and senior managers to deal with basic problems of choice, complexity and change in the challenging environment of business. The program is designed to develop skills which the manager can use to deal with these problems in a profit-oriented, free enterprise economy. Therefore, the program’s focus is directed toward decision making.
The overall objective is achieved with ample emphasis on the traditional subject matter of business administration, i.e., accounting, finance, management and marketing.
Program Requirements
The MBA consists of 36 credit hours as follows:
For department information or additional degree requirements, go to the Business (College of Business) department page.
| Total Credits Required | 36 |
| MBA Core Requirements | 15 |
| BUS 530 Organizations: Structure, Behavior and Human Performance | 3 |
| BUS 540 Marketing Strategy | 3 |
| BUS 570 Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 580 Financial Analysis and Management | 3 |
| BUS 590 Strategic Management | 3 |
| Behavioral/Quantitative Options | 9 |
| Choose 3 courses with at least one course from each category (Behavioral and Quantitative) | |
| Behavioral | |
| BUS 500 Managerial Communications | 3 |
| BUS 510 Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS 520 Management and Information Systems | 3 |
| Quantitative | |
| BUS 550 Business Statistics | 3 |
| BUS 560 Quantitative Decision Making | 3 |
| Electives | 12 |
| At least 6 credits must be BUS prefix courses. BUS 595 may be repeated if the topic changes. Up to 6 credits can be selected from graduate courses offered by other NMU departments (outside the College of Business). These courses must be approved by the student’s academic advisor and the Associate Dean of the College of Business. | |
| Submission of a Portfolio of selected Projects to the MBA Program is required | |
The following 5 courses have undergraduate course prerequisites:
Course Prerequisite*
BUS 540 MKT 230, Introduction to Marketing
BUS 550 MA 171, Introduction to Probability and Statistics
BUS 560 MA 171, Introduction to Probability and Statistics
BUS 570 ACT 240, Principles of Accounting II and MA 171, Introduction to Probability and Statistics
BUS 580 FIN 351, Financial Management I
*Relevant professional experience may be substituted for some or all of the prerequisite courses. Decisions regarding the acceptability of professional experience substitutions will be made by the Associate Dean of the College of Business in consultation with the faculty member assigned to the course.
Bulletin Year:
2017 - 2018 Graduate Bulletin
| View the current NMU Catalog.