Business Administration, MBA

Writing Coursework

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0-6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• EPB 50101 - Academic & Professional Writing for Business Students I Credit Hour(s): 3
• EPB 50102 - Academic & Professional Writing for Business Students II Credit Hour(s): 3

Accounting Coursework

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0-3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• ACCT 51010 - Financial Accounting Concepts Credit Hour(s): 3
• ACCT 21010 - Principles of Financial Accounting Credit Hour(s): 3

Economics Coursework

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0-3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• ECON 53081 - Economics Concepts Credit Hour(s): 3
• ECON 23020 - Principles of Microeconomics Credit Hour(s): 3

Management Coursework

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0-3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• MGMT 56060 - Business Law and Ethics Credit Hour(s): 3
• MGMT 26061 - Business Law I Credit Hour(s): 3

Statistics Coursework

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0-3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• MGMT 56070 - Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Credit Hour(s): 3
• MTH 14100 - Basic Statistics Credit Hour(s): 3
• MTH 24100 - Statistics for Natural Science Credit Hour(s): 3

Major Coursework

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15 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• ACCT 51011 - Managerial Accounting Credit Hour(s): 3
• FIN 52010 - Financial Policy Credit Hour(s): 3
• MGMT 56030 - Management Practices Credit Hour(s): 3
• MGMT 66080 - Business Policies and Strategies Credit Hour(s): 3
• MRKT 55010 - Marketing Principles and Issues Credit Hour(s): 3

Quantitative Coursework

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3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

• MGMT 56075 - Linear Statistical Models Credit Hour(s): 3
• MGMT 56080 - Business Analytics Credit Hour(s): 3
• MGMT 56085 - Operations Management Credit Hour(s): 3

Elective Coursework

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15 credit hours of coursework:

Students are required to take 15 credit hours of elective MBA courses.

Notes:

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Selected course will not count towards emphases.

(1) Students can only earn credit for one internship as an elective.

(2) In the event that core courses have been replaced by higherlevel elective courses (for students with undergraduate degrees in business), no such courses may simultaneously serve to fulfill the core requirement and the emphasis requirement. The student must still complete four courses within a single business discipline in order to earn an emphasis in that area.

(3) In the event that taking a core course would require a student with an undergraduate degree in business to repeat coursework equivalent to that which the student has already taken, the college dean or the student’s academic advisor may advise the student to select an alternative, higher level elective course (from within the same discipline) to fulfill the core requirement.

(4) MGMT 66080  is the capstone course, to be taken in the last term of the student’s program.

(5) Required Core Courses: MBA students who have sufficient undergraduate course work in a discipline may be permitted to substitute an advance course within the stated discipline for a required core course. An example would be: substituting ACCT 51030* - Advanced Cost Management  for ACCT 51011 - Managerial Accounting . Any substitution must be approved by the department head and/or the dean of the specific discipline.

(6) Students may opt to meet the course foundation requirements by (a) taking these courses at the graduate level at Lindenwood or at another regionally accredited institution or (b) taking the equivalent undergraduate courses at Lindenwood or any regionally accredited institution. In either case, students must have received a grade of B or better in order to waive the foundation course.

(7) Alternatively, students wishing to waive one or more of the business foundation courses without a transcript showing equivalent coursework may attempt to do so by achieving a score of 70 percent or better on a diagnostic exam (one exam per course) prior to the start of the business program. To schedule an appointment to take this exam, contact the Plaster College of Business and Entrepreneurship.

(8) All foundation courses that have not been waived for a graduate degree are required to be completed as part of the individual student’s graduation requirements.

(9) The prerequisite Academic & Professional Writing for Business Students may be required for any international student whose first language is not English, based on the results of the student’s academic writing placement exam, taken prior to the start of the business program. The writing prerequisite course must be taken during the student’s first term of the program.