explore their individual preferences and develop additional competencies appropriate to their interests. The students have the flexibility to take all 3 elective courses in one area for a specialization in the area or select individual elective courses from different areas without any specialization.
The specialization areas include: accounting, finance, management, marketing, and aquaculture (in collaboration with the Division of Aquaculture).
The electives in the business area are as follows:
Accounting (4 courses) ACC 503: Auditing ACC 510: Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities ACC 563: Advanced Income Tax ACC 597: Contemporary Topics in Accounting
Finance (3 courses) FIN 540: Financial Institutions FIN 550: Investment Analysis FIN 575: Behavioral Finance
Management (4 courses) MGT 533: Strategic Human Resource Management MGT 555: Operations Management MGT 565: Entrepreneurship MGT 601: Contemporary Topics in Management
Management Information Systems (1 course) MIS 597: Contemporary Topics in MIS
Marketing (4 courses) MKT 510: Marketing Communications MKT 530: Marketing Research MKT 540: Consumer Behavior MKT 560: Marketing of Services
Aquaculture (3 courses) AQU 522: Principles of Aquaculture (3 credit hours) AQU 525: Aquaculture Economics and Marketing (4 credit hours) AQU 591: Internship in Aquaculture (2 credit hours)
In addition to the above electives, MBA students may choose their electives from other graduate programs at KSU subject to the approval of the MBA Program Coordinator.
The normal load of a graduate student during any semester is 9 semester credit hours. Under no circumstances, may it exceed 12 credit hours. Part-time students who are employed full-time are advised to carry no more than 6 semester credit hours of graduate-level coursework in any semester.
All students must maintain a GPA of at least 3.0. If a student’s GPA falls below this minimum requirement, fulltime students have one semester to raise the GPA to 3.0 and part-time students have 2 semesters to improve their GPA to the minimum of 3.0. All students must receive a grade of C or better in all courses.
A student may repeat a graduate course. Only the highest grade will count toward total hours or toward the student’s grade-point-average.
Students who fail to maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better and/or have more than two grades of “C” will be placed on academic probation. Students will have one full-time semester or its equivalent (9 semester credit hours) to remove the academic probation by attaining a 3.0 average. Students placed on scholastic probation are not eligible for assistantship. Probation may not be appealed.
A student who is on academic probation, and whose current grade-point average falls or remains below 3.0, or who fails to complete coursework required to be removed from probation, will be dismissed from the graduate program and the University. A dismissed student may reapply for admission to the program after a period of absence from the University for at least one year. Enrollment will be terminated for academic probation for three semesters of enrollment.
All program requirements must be completed within six years of initial admission, unless otherwise approved by the Dean of the College of Business and Computer Science.