Core courses are the heart of a Ball State MBA and will give you the advanced skills you need for strategic thinking, decision-making, leading, and communicating. You will take eight core courses for a total of 24 credits. If you do not have an undergraduate degree in business or certain undergraduate courses in business-related topics, you will need to take up to three courses designed to give you foundational business knowledge that will prepare you for the rigorous courses that are within the Ball State MBA program.
You may need all or only some of the following courses, depending on your academic background. After you apply, your transcript will be reviewed and you will be notified which foundation courses you may need.
Choose from 10 concentrations in high-demand fields. The artificial intelligence concentration will provide you with a broad understanding of the fundamentals and importance of artificial intelligence. Your course work will cover the foundations of artificial intelligence including approaches, algorithms, platforms, and uses for AI. Information and communication strategies are presented through class lectures, research and presentations, and hands-on labs.
You will learn to use data-based discoveries to alleviate organizational risks and the skills to interpret large data sets. In other words, you would better understand how your role affects the overall project success. Our MBA construction management concentration is a specialized business degree that supports a significant market segment. Or you might take these courses as electives that you find useful as part of the general MBA track.
Meanwhile, the job outlook for construction managers is upbeat, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after forecasting in a job growth of 10 percent by And still another to make it succeed. In the MGT class, for example, you define your business dream. In MGT , you work on operational and marketing support. In MGT , you design a financial strategy for its success.
Faculty who have a track record in entrepreneurship interact with you one on one and step by step on class assignments. Those same faculty, who have notable expertise in areas of entrepreneurship, may have written your class material. The entrepreneurship concentration is designed so that neither a business degree nor a financial background is necessary.
Your classmate may be an attorney or a doctor or a musician. Many of them want to be innovators in their own companies, a quality sought by corporations today. But you may be waiting until you have the confidence to put your plan in place. And that comes by learning to innovate and create business ideas that succeed and then learning to follow through using the best business skills of implementation.
Finance professionals are needed to provide critical input to businesses, governments, not-for-profit entities, and financial institutions. Your track may lead you into such fields as commercial banking, corporate finance, insurance, private equity, real estate, or financial planning.
You will need the analytic and theoretical tools required to master practical issues in finance. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The demand for healthcare managers and administrators is growing at a rate faster than most other industries. As a student in the healthcare administration concentration, you will enroll in the following courses:. For those who need an MBA that concentrates on health economics policy and administration, the list is long. Health economics was never more relevant than today.
The cost of health care, aging populations, health care access, and public policy are among the many issues you will consider. Nurses, in particular, may be in search of tools that focus on ethical and practical ways to manage and allocate scarce health care resources to maximize value and outcomes. This IT leadership concentration, one of ten offered through the Ball State MBA, will provide you with an understanding of the fundamental technologies and technology-related processes essential to organizational leadership.
Your courses will cover key emerging technologies including IoT, coding, cloud services, and technology fundamentals. This concentration prepares you for positions such as logistics manager, supply chain manager, procurement manager, or supplier manager. Different companies give these positions different names. As a logistician, you play a major corporate role because you are pursuing profitability in an increasingly complex and global economy.
The academic calendar for first-year students in the Lauder Program begins in May. Students cannot apply to the Lauder Program after they have started their first or second years at Wharton. For more information about applying to the Lauder Program, please visit the Lauder website or contact lauderinfo wharton.
The Health Care Management major differs from other majors in that students must select this major at the time of application to Wharton.
HCM integrates academic and professional development, helping students to obtain summer and permanent positions in all parts of the health care sector, including consulting firms, health care venture capital and private equity, digital health, health care analytics firms, biotechnology, pharmaceutical firms, hospitals, insurers, and government agencies.
Please find more information on the application process here. Your application will be evaluated specifically for the Health Care Management major. If you are admitted to both programs and do not want to begin at Wharton, you will need to request a deferral and will be subject to our deferral policy. Deferrals typically are only granted for extenuating circumstances.
The School of Design requires all dual degree students to start at Penn Design. Unless otherwise noted on the Interdisciplinary Programs website, you must submit separate applications and materials to both programs.
Some schools will have strict application requirements around testing, recommendations, and essays. Please follow the admissions requirements for each individual school. For all other MBA dual degree programs, you will receive separate decisions, and it is possible that you could be admitted to one program and not the other. We cannot accept any credits from other programs.
You can pursue another program in your own time, but you would still be required to complete all Wharton credit units as prescribed by the full-time MBA program. As a full-time MBA student, you are expected to be at Wharton and pay tuition for four full semesters.
If you are interested in other programs not listed on the website, please contact the program office of that respective program. For most dual degree programs, you can apply to the other program during your first year at Wharton.
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