Master of Business Administration - General Emphasis Online
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Program Overview
$16,005*
Total Tuition
As few as 12 months
Program Duration
33*
Credit Hours
Gain a critical understanding of managerial-level accounting, economics, finance and marketing—and their impact on business operations and strategy—in the Master of Business Administration – General Emphasis online program from Southern Utah University.
In this 100 percent online program, you will deepen your knowledge of economics, finance, supply chain management, leadership and more. In addition to our relevant core curriculum, you can choose electives that fit your professional interests and goals. Plus, the integrated capstone course focuses on applying your MBA learnings in order to develop strategic solutions to management challenges in any organization.
As a graduate of this program, you will be able to:
- 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
- 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
This program prepares you for roles such as:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operations Officer
- Senior Manager
- Marketing Director
- Finance Director
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operations Officer
- Senior Manager
- Marketing Director
- Finance Director
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The Dixie L. Leavitt School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide.
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The School of Business offers multiple specialized MBA online tracks. View all of our tracks here.
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Tuition
Maximize the value of your MBA online with our affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition, which includes all fees.
Tuition breakdown:
$485
Per Credit Hour
$16,005*
Total Tuition
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA – General | $485 | $1,455 | $16,005* |
*Tuition price reflects 33-credit-hour program. Students who do not have a business undergraduate degree from an AACSB-accredited business school must take an additional 3-credit-hour corequisite Foundations course in their first term. Students can be fully admitted to the MBA program prior to taking the Foundations course.
Calendar
Designed for working professionals, SUU online programs conveniently feature 7-week courses and multiple start dates each year.
Now enrolling:
10/11/23
Next Application Deadline
10/18/23
Start Classes
| Term | Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall I | 8/30/23 | 8/16/23 | 8/23/23 | 8/25/23 | 8/30/23 | 10/15/23 |
| Fall II | 10/18/23 | 10/11/23 | 10/11/23 | 10/13/23 | 10/18/23 | 12/15/23 |
| Spring I | 1/8/24 | 1/1/24 | 1/1/24 | 1/3/24 | 1/8/24 | 2/25/24 |
| Spring II | 3/4/24 | 2/26/24 | 2/26/24 | 2/28/24 | 3/4/24 | 4/21/24 |
| Summer I | 5/13/24 | 5/6/24 | 5/6/24 | 5/8/24 | 5/13/24 | 6/30/24 |
| Summer II | 7/1/24 | 6/24/24 | 6/24/24 | 7/27/24 | 7/1/24 | 8/18/24 |
Ready to take the next step toward earning your degree online? Begin your online application today!
Admissions
Our streamlined admission process enables you to start quickly and easily. Please read the requirements for the MBA online, including what additional materials you need and where you should send them. Requirements include:
3.0 Undergraduate GPA
Professional Resume
GMAT or Waiver
A well-qualified MBA candidate will possess:
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
- Undergraduate GPA of 3.00 or higher (cumulative or in the last 60 credits of undergraduate study) and official GMAT/GRE test score
- GMAT Waiver: GMAT will be waived with a 3.3 undergraduate GPA (cumulative of last 60 credits) OR three or more years of significant management or professional experience (as verified by a resume) OR terminal degree. Please see below for additional essay option.
- Applicants with a GPA lower than 3.00 must submit a GMAT/GRE score and will be considered for admission if they are able to fulfill the index score of (GPA x 200) + GMAT >=1,150
- Applicants with a GPA lower than 3.00 must submit a GMAT/GRE score and may be considered for admission if they are able to fulfill the index score of (GPA x 200) + GMAT >=1,050
- Undergraduate GPA of 3.00 or higher (cumulative or in the last 60 credits of undergraduate study) and official GMAT/GRE test score
- Official GMAT or GRE test scores or proof to receive the GMAT waiver above
- Applicants who do not meet the above waiver requirements may either submit an official GMAT or GRE score, OR submit a 500-word essay explaining to the admissions committee why they should be admitted into the program without taking the exam. This essay will be submitted directly on the application form. The admissions committee will take into account the complete application and will make the final decision if a GMAT/GRE waiver will be granted.
- Statement of Intent. In 500 words or less, describe your goals and expectations in pursuing an MBA degree from Southern Utah University and why you would be a valuable addition to the program. This statement will be submitted directly on the application form.
- Resume. Submit a professional resume that includes employment history, academic accomplishments, and highlights managerial and leadership experience.
- References. You must enter the contact information for three references on your application form. Please select people who can provide details about your academic and/or professional work and ability to be successful in an MBA program.
- Application Fee. A $60 non-refundable application fee must be paid by credit card with the submission of your online application.
During the application process, be prepared to submit official transcripts from each college or university attended. Applicants who have graduated from SUU do not need to submit a transcript.
Official transcripts must be mailed or emailed directly from the granting institution(s) to:
Email address
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Mail address
Admissions Office
Southern Utah University
PO Box 8008
Cedar City, Utah 84720
Courses
For the MBA – General Emphasis online, you must complete 24 credit hours of core courses, including a capstone strategy course, and 9 credit hours of electives. Students may be required to take a 3 credit hour business foundations course based on a holistic review of the application and supporting documents with special consideration of undergraduate major, GPA and relevant work experience. Students will be notified of their course sequence at the time of admission.
If you are required to take this course, it must be taken first and cannot be taken at the same time as another course.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This accelerated and condensed course covers the essential concepts of Business Statistics, Microsoft Excel, Financial and Managerial Accounting and Corporate Finance that are necessary for success in subsequent graduate level business administration courses.
Course objectives:
• Calculate and analyze business statistics in a variety of scenarios.
• Utilize excel functions to organize, analyze and visualize data using a company model.
• Demonstrate decision making processes by calculating financial metrics and utilizing managerial accounting methods.
• Build connections with fellow students trough discussion boards.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the principles of organizational behavior involved in managing people and organizations in a business environment. Topics include leadership, motivation, effective teams, conflict and negotiations, power and influence, organizational culture, and change management. This course focuses on the practical application of these principles in a meaningful and ethical manner.
**FIXED FIRST COURSE for all MBA STUDENTS unless you are required to take BA 6000. If BA 6000 is required, you will receive a course sequence from your academic advisor. This fixed-first does not apply to students in the MSN/MBA dual degree program or the MS in Cybersecurity with Information Assurance - Management program.**
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The management of operations and supply chain, including such topics as competitive strategy, product and service design, quality management, process improvements, supply chain management, work design management, logistics, and selected areas of operations research. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The purpose of the course is to enable students to prepare themselves to become leaders of organizations and to embark on paths of personal leadership development. The course requires personal curiosity and reflection from students as well as personal openness and sharing in class discussions. Leadership development concepts used in the course will be immediately applicable for students and useful for the rest of their lives. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course reviews the development and use of management accounting information systems in planning and control activities. Using case studies of actual companies, its focus is on new management accounting practices adopted by the innovative companies around the world.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Application of microeconomic principles to business management and strategy. Includes fundamental topics in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, and organizational economics. Uses business case analysis. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the capital budgeting process, including estimating the cost of capital and cash flows, correct application of decision rules, and ways of analyzing and dealing with uncertainty in your forecasts. It also discusses key topics in financial management, such as optimal leverage, raising capital for the firm, and equity payout policies. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on reinforcing, extending, and applying marketing concepts, principles, and techniques through readings, case studies, and secondary research. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is the capstone course for the MBA, and as such, it will integrate the methods and tools developed in the curriculum to solve the strategic positioning and management issues of the organization. This course is usually taken in the student's final semester. Prerequisite(s): BA 6000 or advisor permission - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Students must take three of the following courses. Note: Not all classes are offered both online and on campus.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Topics include balanced scorecard, cost allocation, profitability analysis, process costing, quality, theory of constraints, capital budgeting, transfer pricing, and performance measurement.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
To enhance their knowledge of business law, students will study negotiable instruments, bank/customer relations, secured transactions, debtor/creditor relations, bankruptcy, agency law, real property, insurance, wills, trusts, estates, accountants’ legal liability, and legal and political philosophy.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This seminar is designed to help students develop the strength of their own characters by receiving ethics education in moral sensitivity, judgment, and motivation. Ethics philosophies, professional codes of conduct, and strategies for ensuring ethical behavior in the workplace are discussed using case studies of ethics scandals and moral exemplars. The course fee of $22.00 is used to support the computer labs and mediated classrooms in the Business Building.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to data science methods in business, finance, and economics. Includes an introduction to an appropriate programming language for data manipulation and modeling. Provides an overview of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive methods in data analytics. Prerequisite(s): MATH 1040 and (MATH 1100 or MATH 1210 or ECON 2500) - Prerequisite Min. Grade: D-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A continuation of ANLY 6100. Covers the primary analytic techniques involved in data mining, including logistic regression, decision trees, kNN, naive Bayes, and others. Introduces unsupervised learning methods. Builds on the programming skills established in ANLY 6100. Prerequisite(s): ANLY 6100 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Application of quantitative methods to business analysis and decision-making. Fundamental topics of management science are covered including optimization modeling, decision and risk analysis, and simulation modeling.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides students with an understanding of the financial tools used in creating, running, and valuing entrepreneurial enterprises. It includes an overview of the entrepreneurial process, including different organizational structures, financing sources, and the value of intellectual property protections. The course also covers the valuation techniques commonly used by professional investors, and examines how investors, particularly private equity sources, select projects for investment. Students will learn to use common financial ratios and cash flow projections to analyze the liquidity and profitability of the firm. A semester-long project will help students apply these techniques and ideas. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6100 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C-
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to the real estate industry with a focus on the financing and valuation of real estate assets. The class applies time value of money concepts to evaluate the attractiveness of different loans alternatives, including the impact of loan points, early repayment, and adjustable payments. It also covers important aspects of real estate contracts and the secondary mortgage market. A major portion of the course focuses on valuation techniques that are commonly used in the real estate appraisal process, including common lease terms and their impact on the value of projects. This course provides excellent preparation for students interested in undertaking the professional licensing process.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This class serves as an introduction to commonly traded assets, as well as the markets on which they trade. For each major asset class, we learn common valuation approaches, as well as the theories used to estimate appropriate discount rates. Applied projects are used to illustrate the type of mathematical analysis used by investment professionals. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6100 or MBA Director permission
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to negotiation principles and tools. Students will sharpen their problem-resolution skills in a negotiation setting and explore negotiation strategies and tactics from both a conceptual and an applied basis. Students will develop and apply the necessary skills to resolve conflict and achieve mutually beneficial agreements.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is intended to help managers arrive at better decisions and make more accurate judgments through research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, economics, probability, and evolutionary theory.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course builds on the foundations of leadership to help students develop into effective, authentic leaders. Taking a practical approach, this course will help students become more self-aware of their natural leadership style, how their personal leadership impacts others, and what they can do to become a more effective and authentic leader. Prerequisite(s): MGMT 6150 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course covers a deep exploration of what it takes to build effective teams. Participants will study what makes teams effective, what is required to build trust on teams, handling team conflict, creating accountability on teams, practical leadership strategies when leading teams, multicultural and virtual teams and team branding. Prerequisite(s): MGMT 6150 or MBA Director permission
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an overview of the analytics methods used most commonly in current marketing decision-making. Students are introduced to common marketing models and the advanced analytics tools available to address the increasingly complex problems facing today's marketers. This course will augment the traditional, well-established marketing research methodology with the most up-to-date research methods used in industry today. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 6200 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores key marketing strategies related to communicating value regarding products and services through cases, readings and research. Topics include: promotion campaign management, traditional and digital advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, and public relations. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 6200 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: C
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