Overview
Program Structure
Admission Requirements
Prerequisites
Course Transfer Policy
Cohort Progression
Graduation Requirements
Overview
The MBA program offered at Concordia University-Wisconsin, at either the Green Bay Center or Appleton Center offers you the opportunity to accelerate your professional growth by earning a MBA degree while maintaining full-time employment. Today's dynamic business climate demands that business managers be prepared to meet the challenges in many global administrative and business settings. This MBA is readily adapted to meet the needs of students from engineering, health, non-profit, religious, and other fields.
The evening MBA program is specifically designed for the working professional in Northeast and Central Wisconsin. Coursework combines theoretical background with practical knowledge students can use in their jobs the next day. Taught by practicing business managers, this cohort based program provides students with a strong foundation in business theory and application. Course instructors use a mix of formal lectures, class discussions, case studies and other corporation-based models to give students a comprehensive understanding of an increasingly intense international business environment.
Topics of study in the MBA curriculum include quantitative analysis, operations management, organizational behavior, legal and ethical issues, human resource management, and global business policy and strategy. Strategic management is a Capstone Course that is taken last in the MBA course sequence. The capstone course interweaves all aspects of business and corporation management.
Program Structure
The MBA degree requires 39 semester hours of credit comprising 13 courses. No thesis is required for this degree. Students take one course per each eight week term. This allows the program to accommodate a student's professional and personal schedule to the maximum degree possible.
Admission Requirements
The following requirements must be met by any student who applies for admission to the Concordia University Wisconsin master's degree programs:
- A bachelor's degree from a regionally-accredited college or university;
- A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for full acceptance;
- Two letters of recommendation
- Current resume
- One page essay
- Concordia University Wisconsin Graduate Admission Application
- $35.00 Application fee
Prerequisites
The prerequisite courses are undergraduate courses necessary to adequately prepare a student for the MBA. It is expected that students will have acquired the basic knowledge of these courses prior to beginning the program. Concordia University provides these courses in the BA completion sequence, or these courses may be completed at the CUW Green Bay or Appleton Center, students who have completed any of these courses more than five years ago may wish to refresh their knowledge by repeating or auditing the class. One or more of these courses may be waived for students with business/professional experiences. Please consult with the MBA Program Director for information about waivers. The prerequisite courses consist of:
- Introduction to Statistics
- Principles of Management
- Principles of Accounting
- Principles of Marketing
- Business Finance
- Economics (Macro or Micro)
Course Transfer Policy
The program will accept up to six (6)hours of transfer credit into the MBA program based upon the following criteria:
- Courses transferred must be comparable in scope and subject matter to courses offered in the MBA Program.
- Courses transferred must have been completed at the graduate level
- Courses must have been completed with at least a 3.000 on a 4.000 scale. Transfer grades will not be used to compute CUW Program grades.
Cohort Progression through the Program
Students will start the program with a cohort or group. The group will progress through the program requirements with a course offered each term. Each course meets for one four-hour session per week, for eight weeks. The four hour session is scheduled for either a weekday evening or Saturday morning. Total time needed to complete the Program is 20-26 months. Periodic adjustments will be made for holiday periods.
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