The MBA curriculum offers a strategic balance of theory
and practice. The program focuses on the development of
honed management skills designed to meet the needs of mid-career
executives. Courses are structured sequentially to allow
program participations to build upon studied concepts and
practices in cumulative fashion. Text materials will be
supplemented by journal readings, case discussions and analyses,
business simulations, as well as individual and small group
projects. Throughout the learning experience, participants
are encouraged to apply the products of acquired learning
to applicable contexts within their own organizations.
The required core curriculum provides the quantitative,
analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills required
for successful careers in business management. Students
are presented not only with the best practices for ultimate
success, but with the fundamental principles underpinning
these practices. Moreover, the broad-based curriculum emphasizes
creative problem solving and "out-of-the-box" thinking.
In sum, students who complete the MBA at the University
of Atlanta should do so with the knowledge and skills essential
to significant leadership roles across organizational types.
Program Objectives:
• Prepare for leadership and service within a broad spectrum of
business and business-related arenas, by demonstration of
process and organizational mastery.
• Hone formerly-acquired tools specific to business processes
and procedures and manifest the capacity to understand the
principal theory, significance and practical applications
related to a broad range of complex issues within the business
sector.
• Evidence a comprehensive, nuanced understanding of the
functional components of business - economics, marketing,
accounting, finance, law, management, thus enabling the holder
of the Master’s degree to assume managerial and leadership
positions and like positions in which they will have the
occasion to contribute to the development, sustenance or growth
of the organization.
• Develop and be prepared to articulate and contextualize a
significant understanding of ethical situations commonly
encountered in business environments. Such an understanding
should allow for solution-centered contributions.
• Prepare to embrace and oversee global, political, social,
legal, regulatory, and technological issues as they relate to
business: knowledge put into applied use.
• Demonstrate preparedness for technical and professional
requirements of the workplace, including, where requisite,
certification examinations and other formalized verifications of
competency and knowledge acquisition.
• Demonstrate an understanding of economic and business theories
which, via critical thinking and systematic, informed analysis,
allow for strategic contributions that will advance an
organization.
• Demonstrate a substantial level of technical skills
acquisition – in order to ensure the ability to create an array
of documents and to produce data analysis reports, as needed or
desirable.
• Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the ability
to conduct independent research and to formulate documents,
reports, and publications that manifest mastery of content and
execution.
Career Opportunities:
The successful graduate will be suitably prepared to assume
mid-level management in the corporate sector, in industry, in
government, in other professional arenas – or, alternatively, to
assume enhanced (administrative and leadership) responsibilities
within the context of a currently-held position. The degree,
founded on, and grounded in, intensive training and high-pitched
expectations, is intended to provide the keys to advancement and
expanded opportunities at the mid level and/or movement toward
senior management levels.
| Course No. |
Course Title |
Credits |
| CORE COURSES
(REQUIRED) = 4 Courses |
| MBA 600 |
Human Capital Management in Organizations |
3 |
MBA 605
|
Analytical Methods for Business |
3 |
MBA 639
|
Dynamics of Corporate Strategy |
3 |
MBA 640
|
Organizational Management and Change |
3 |
| SPECIALIZED
COURSES (CHOOSE 5 of 7) = 5 Courses |
MBA 610
|
Managerial Technology in Business |
3 |
| MBA 611 |
Managerial Negotiations |
3 |
| MBA 615 |
Economics for Business Decision Making |
3 |
MBA 620
|
Marketing Research and Analysis |
3 |
| MBA 625 |
Applied Corporate Finance |
3 |
| MBA 630 |
Manufacturing and Service Operations |
3 |
| MBA 645 |
Project Management in Enterprise |
3 |
| RESEARCH AND
PROJECTS COMPONENTS (REQUIRED) = 3 Courses |
MBA 700
|
Research Proposal and Project |
3 |
MBA 715
|
Field Work Experience – Applied Analysis |
3 |
| MBA 725 |
Master’s Thesis |
3 |
| Total |
12 courses |
36 credits |
Program Tuition
Charged at the rate of $350 per MBA credit hour (rounded to $1000 per three-credit course)
Program cost = 12 courses x $1000 = $12,000 (for full program)
