The School of Business at Ke ntucky St ate University offers a program of study leading to a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. Consistent with the liberal arts mission of the University, the objective of the MBA Program is to provide essential knowledge and skills that can be directly utilized by business professionals in both the private and public sectors. The program emphasizes a solid grounding in graduate business education, combined with sufficient elective course work to provide for individual preferences and career enhancement. Elective coursework may be chosen from four business areas (accounting, marketing, management, and finance) or public administration and computer science.

The Chairperson of the School of Business and the MBA Coordinator oversee the program. The Chairperson and the MBA Coordinator are members of the University’s Graduate Council.

The Business faculty designed the MBA program based on the best practices in business education. The design of the curriculum has been driven by consideration of accreditation issues and concerns as well as providing the most appropriate graduate education for the students. The program requires a total of 30 graduate hours, including 21 hours of core requirements and 9 hours of electives.

The program will accept students with a bachelor's degree in any field. Those students without undergraduate business degrees will be required to show proficiency in the principal copies of accounting, economics, management, marketing, management information systems, finance, quantitative methods and statistics before enrolling in the MBA courses. A set of fundamental, prerequisite courses has been developed for this purpose. Students without some or all of these proficiencies will be required to complete one or more prerequisite courses.

Students may be admitted to the MBA program on a regular or probationary basis. For regular admission to the MBA program, the student must:

Have a GMAT score of at least 400

Submit completed application including a writing sample Provide 3 letters of recommendation (professional and/or academic)

Provide 3 l etters of recommendation (professional and/or academic)

Send official academic transcripts

Submit TOEFL score for international students

Students who do not meet admission requirements relating to the program prerequisites, undergraduate GPA, or GMAT score, may be admitted on a probationary basis. Probationary admission is based on demonstrated work record, career plans, academic record, letters of application, or other appropriate documentation.

Students admitted on a probationary basis may change their status to regular status by meeting the regular admission requirements or the successful completion of 9 hours of graduate study with at least a GPA of 3.0 for those courses.

Admission decisions are made by the MBA Admissions Committee.

ACC 500: Survey of Accounting - Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting

ECO 500: Survey of Economics - Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

BUA 330: Corporate Finance

ECO 311: Business Statistics I

ECO 321: Quantitative Methods for Business

MGT 300: Management Information Systems

MGT 301: Principles of Management

MKT 301: Principles of Marketing

The Core of the MBA Program is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for successful careers in business and nonprofit organizations. The core of the MBA program consists of 7 courses (21 hours) as follows:

ACC 502: Managerial Accounting

ECO 502: Managerial Economics

FIN 530: Corporate Financial Management

MGT 510: Management Information Systems

MGT 560: Organizational Behavior

MGT 590: Strategic Management

MKT 590: Strategic Marketing Management

The 3 elective courses (9 hours) allow the student to 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 or select individual elective courses from different areas.