Program Learning Outcomes: Business Administration

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Understand the global, ethical, and sociopolitical context of business.
Use and integrate knowledge from core areas of business, including finance, accounting, marketing, and more.
Effectively apply strategic analysis and decision-making skills, supported by appropriate quantitative methods and information technology.
Integrate the principles of organizational behavior as it pertains to employee motivation, teamwork, and conflict resolution.

Develop a comprehensive understanding of current analytical tools.
Address complex data-driven challenges in the business environment using analytical methods and tools.
Effectively use strategic analysis and decision-making skills, supported by appropriate quantitative methods and information technology.

Learn how to analyze, design, and implement Cybersecurity systems.
Use and integrate knowledge from core areas of business into the technological environment.
Gain the interpersonal skills to ensure coordination and promote technological improvements.

Learn common valuation approaches as well as the theories used to estimate appropriate discount rates.
Gain an in-depth understanding of financial statements in order to better evaluate and forecast economic performance.
Improve students’ skill in developing estimates of future growth and the required cost of capital.

Develop an in-depth understanding of the management and organizational processes within the healthcare industry.
Improve students’ interpersonal and diagnostic skills to become an effective administrator in the current business environment.
Through the application of current events in healthcare organizations, gain an understanding of operational design and behavior.

Select the right type of business analytics techniques to solve hospitality business practices
Identify opportunities and challenges of applying big data and business analytics in hospitality management.
Identify issues that impact the hospitality or tourism industries.
Explain how current global events influence the hospitality or tourism industries.

Students will learn how to design effective HR policies, compensation plans, and key roles within a company.
Understand human resource legal obligations faced by organizations.

Develop an in-depth understanding of micro- and macroeconmic topics that are critical to the global environment.
Learn what it takes to effectively manage in an international business setting.

Build on the foundations of leadership by becoming more aware of students’ natural leadership style.
Explore how students’ personal leadership impacts others and what they can do to become a more effective and authentic leader.
Learn what it takes to lead effective teams, applying principles in the areas of trust, accountability, conflict resolution, team building, and nurturing multicultural and virtual teams.

Explore key marketing strategies related to communicating product or service value.
Learn to apply advanced analytics tools available to address the increasingly complex challenges facing today’s marketers.
Develop an essential understanding of common marketing models and the most up-to-date research methods.

Understand the importance of supply chain management in both global and domestic companies.
Think analytically to uncover problems and implement solutions.

Demonstrate an understanding of key terminology and frameworks in project management
Demonstrate the ability to apply project management tools for analyzing projects, as well as for assessing the firms’ project management practices
Demonstrate an understanding of how project management contributes to achieving the strategic objectives of the firm
Demonstrate the ability to incorporate ethical decision-making strategies to managing projects
Apply the principles learned in the emphasis in preparation to take the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) exam administered by the Project Management Institute