This program provides an opportunity for students to complete their undergraduate business degree along with an M.B.A. degree in five years. The program consists of 150 academic hours, 120 hours at the undergraduate level and 30 hours at the graduate level. At the undergraduate level, students may choose to specialize in the following business areas: accounting, finance, general business, management, and marketing. At the graduate level, the program requires a total of 30 graduate credit hours, which consists of 21 hours of core requirements and nine hours of electives.
The nine hours of graduate elective courses allow students to explore individual preferences, develop additional competencies relevant to their interests, and specialize in an area. Students have the flexibility to take all three elective courses in one area for a concentration in that area or select individual elective courses from different areas without any concentration.
The Concentration areas include: accounting, management, marketing, and finance. Elective coursework also may be chosen from the fields of aquaculture, computer science, or public administration.
Students are required to complete an internship. This requirement can be fulfilled during any school semester during their junior year or the following summer. The internship is designed to provide real-world business experiences and opportunities to apply knowledge learned in the classroom.
Special admission requirements for new freshmen include:
Students with an overall GPA of 3.25 and junior standing may qualify for Pre-M.B.A. status.
Transfer students with 60–89 credit hours, an overall GPA of 3.25, and three letters of reference from faculty, may qualify for Pre-M.B.A. status. Admission decisions are made by the M.B.A. Committee.
Students should apply for formal admission to the M.B.A. Program by the end of the fall semester of their senior year. An acceptable GMAT score (at least 400) must also be submitted. Students may not take M.B.A. classes until the last semester of their senior year.
The B.A. degree will be awarded at the end of the senior year and the completion of 120 semester credit hours. The M.B.A. degree will be awarded at the completion of the 30 semester credit hours of core M.B.A. core courses and electives, for a total of 150 semester credit hours.
The Five-Year M.B.A. Program assumes satisfactory completion of degree requirements on a timely basis.
The Division of Computer Science is a part of the College of Business and Computer Science. The division offers programs of study leading to the Master of Science in Computer Science Technology (MSCST).
A prospective candidate may or may not have an undergraduate baccalaureate degree in computer science. A candidate with a non-computer science degree must show great motivation towards learning in the technological fields.
Students with an undergraduate degree in computer science (Plan A) will directly proceed to the core courses. However, the students with undergraduate degrees in fields other than computer science (Plan B) must complete six hours of intensive foundation courses to gain the proficiency needed in the areas of computer programming, data structures, discrete mathematics, and computer organization. After completion of the foundation courses, students in Plan B will move on to the core courses. Both thesis and non-thesis options are available in the program leading to the Master of Science degree. Six (6) hours of project or two (2) additional electives are required in the non-thesis option.
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