Accelerated B.A./Master's Degree Program:
Management
Overview
The Master of Arts in Business Administration is offered through the Graduate School of Management at Clark University. The Graduate School of Management strives to develop: 1) outstanding leaders and managers of society's enterprises; 2) through a high quality educational experience; 3) carried out in an innovative community of learning; 4) by a faculty oriented toward research and service.
Departmental eligibility requirements
The MBA program is open to students from any undergraduate major. Prerequisite courses are required. Prospective MBA students need to have completed ECON 010 and either MATH 113, 119 or 120 with a grade of B- or higher prior to being accepted to the BA/MBA program (students can be enrolled in these courses in the semester that they are applying). If a student places higher than MATH120 on the math placement exam, he/she should take a higher level math course to satisfy the math prerequisite. AP credit may count towards the Math prerequisite requirement. However, Clark’s MBA program has many quantitative course requirements, and students are encouraged to take at least one quantitative course during their undergraduate years to help them prepare if they have AP credit for the math prerequisite.
The Accelerated BA/Master's Degree Program Application: Part 1must be completed by April 1 of the junior year and submitted to the Academic Advising Center. The Accelerated BA/Master’s Degree Program Application: Part 2 must be completed and submitted to the Graduate School of Management by April 15 of the junior year.
Program of Study
The Accelerated BA/MBA program involves 16 graduate courses.
BA/MBA Timetable
Junior year
Apply to the Graduate School (deadline is April 1). Apply to the MBA program (deadline is April 15). For nonmanagement majors it is helpful, but not required, that students should have no more than one to three classes remaining for undergraduate degree requirements (i.e. perspective courses and requirements for major/minor) at the completion of the junior year so that four-and-one-half to six units of graduate-level courses can be taken in the senior year. Management majors may be restricted in the number of graduate MBA courses they can take during their senior year. Management majors should consult with the Graduate School of Management program director.
Senior year – fall (3 units)
The following courses are recommended, although individual programs of study
may vary.
MGMT4301--Creative Effective Organizations: Strategic Decision Making (1 unit)
ECON4004--Management Economics (½ unit)
MIS4500—Management Information Systems (1 unit) OR MIS elective (½ unit)
MGMT 4708 – Contemporary Business Law (½ unit)
Senior year – spring (3 units)
MGMT4302 – Creating Effective Organizations: Leadership (1 unit)
ACCT4100 – Foundations of Accounting (1 unit)
STAT4005 – Statistical Methods (½ unit)
STAT4006 – Management Decision Models (½ unit)
Graduate year – (10 units)
FIN4200 – Financial Management (1 unit) OR FIN5301 – Stock & Bond Valuation (½ unit)
MKT4401 – Marketing Management (1 unit) OR
MKT4402 – Marketing Strategy and Simulation (½ unit)|
MGMT4709 – Business in Society (½ unit)
OM4601 – Operations Management (½ unit)
MGMT4707 – International Management & Global Competition (½ unit)
Capstone (1 unit)
MBA students choose a concentration, three to four units of upper-level electives are required In addition, free electives outside the concentration are required to complete a total of 5½ elective units. Concentration options include Accounting, Expanding Accounting, Finance, Global Business, General Management, Marketing and Management Information Systems. Students may also choose to do a dual concentration.
A Graduate Internship is required of all MBA students who have less than three years work experience in the United States. No academic credit is awarded for the internship requirement.
Advice for prospective students
Because the MBA program is highly structured, students must consider the BA/MA option as early in their undergraduate careers as possible. Since there are 16 units required, students must take MBA courses during their senior year. Students may choose to minor in management because certain undergraduate courses waive MBA courses.
The following undergraduate courses (with a grade of B- or higher) will waive MBA courses:
MGMT 101 AND MGMT 203 waives MBA ACCT 4100 (1 unit)
MGMT 104 waives MBA MIS 4500 (½ unit)
MGMT 230 waives MBA MKT 4400 (½ unit)
MGMT 240 waives MBA FIN 4200 (½ unit)
MGMT 250 waives MBA OM 4601 (½ unit)
ECON 160 or PSYC105 waives MBA STAT 4005 (½ unit)*
*Other undergraduate statistics courses may also provide a waiver
Students should plan to take these courses prior to senior year. The number of waivers received determines how many MBA units should be taken during the senior year.
Program Advisor (Signature Required on Application: Part 1)
Laura Burgess
Graduate School of Management
508-793-7744
Lburgess@clarku.edu
Student profiles
- Burcu Ozden completed an MBA with a concentration in accounting and is now working as an audit assistant with Ernst & Young, in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Lawrence Norman completed an MBA and is now a global marketing manager for Adidas International where he oversees the Kobe Bryant account.
- Esra Soner completed an MBA and is now and international brand analyst in the Strategy & Marketing Department of Renault in Paris.
Updated: 04/08
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