Master Degree

Master of Business Administration (Project Management)

Projects exist at the complex end of the spectrum of organizational endeavor. This complexity is enhanced when they are situated with in an operational environment that engages the interests of a rich variety of stakeholders who will judge the success of the endeavor by different (and often completing) criteria. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations invariably involves balancing competing demands of: scope, time, cost and quality, stakeholders with different needs and expectations, identified requirements (needs) and unidentified requirements (expectations).


Again, one of the first courses to be taken is BUS 637, which prepares the student to conduct research for the case study required for the capstone course, MGT 785-Corporate Strategy Formulation and Implementation. In the capstone course, the student will be responsible for an in-depth analysis of an industry and a corporation. The analysis is based on the application of the theory and practical knowledge obtained in the courses taken in project management systems and the managerial core.


 

1. Common Body of Knowledge - 27 credits

  • ACC-505 Financial and Managerial Accounting (3)
  • ECO-5O1 Economic Theory (3)
  • FIN-517 Financial Management (3)
  • MGT-340 Organization Theory and Behavior (3)
  • MGT-511 Quantitative Methods for Business & Management (3)
  • MGT-550 Political, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Business (3)
  • MGT-570 Operation Management (3)
  • MKT-502 Marketing Management (3)
 

2. Managerial Core - 18 credits

  • BUS-637 Graduate Research Methods (3)
  • FIN-639 Financial & Economic Analysis of the Firm (3)
  • INB-601 International Business Environment (3)
  • ITS-620 lnformation Resources Management (3)
  • MGT-625 Strategic Management (3)
  • MKT-646 Strategic Concepts in Marketing (3)
 

3. Major - 21 credits

Project Management ( 21 )

  • MGT-490 Total Quality Management (3)
  • ITS-590 Management of Technology Proposals (3)
 

And one elective course. Select from 600 or 700-level Accounting, Finance, Information Technology Systems, International Business, Management or Marketing.