Academics
The Graduate School of Business offers the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science in Business Administration (MSBA), and Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) as well as a joint degree in Latin American studies and a 4-year concurrent program with California Western Law School leading to an MBA/JD. Other programs include foreign exchange with 10 countries, coop programs, joint research through the Center for International Business Education and Research, and the MBA for Executives program designed for midcareer executives. The strongest areas of study are accountancy, entrepreneurship, financial and tax planning, international business, and marketing. The most popular courses are Product Innovation, Financing the Emerging Enterprise, and Entrepreneurship. Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus, including Executive-in-Residence, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and Visiting International Scholars programs.
Forty-nine total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 15 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Accounting
- Managerial Economics
- Financial Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Operations Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Marketing
Required courses for the MSA include:
- Financial and Managerial Accounting
- Statistics
- Financial Management
- Managerial Economics
- Organizational Behavior
Required courses for the MSBA include:
- Financial Accounting Fundamentals
- Managerial Accounting Fundamentals
- Principles of Economics
- Statistical Methods
or Elementary Statistics for Business - Fundamentals of Finance
- Introduction to Production and Operations Management
- Management and Organizational Behavior
- Marketing
Students may eliminate or substitute requirements for the MS only by having completed relevant course work in undergraduate study.
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 12 months; maximum, 2 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2 years; maximum, 4 years.
There are 88 total full-time graduate business faculty, all of whom hold a doctorate; there are 11 part-time faculty, of whom 80% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated well above average for Category IIA institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 9; average business class size is 35.