Professional MBA (PMBA)
The Professional MBA Program (PMBA) is designed to meet the needs of working professionals by offering an MBA curriculum in a flexible part-time evening class format (8 credit hours or less per semester) to students who have at least three years of full-time professional work experience. The program features a leadership development program and a capstone strategic management project designed specifically to meet the career needs of working professionals interested in taking their career to the next level.
Degree Requirements
Business Essentials Courses
| ACC 500 | Essentials of Financial Accounting | 2 |
| ACC 501 | Essentials of Managerial Accounting | 2 |
| ECO 500 | Microeconomics for Managers | 2 |
| ECO 501 | Macroeconomics for Managers | 2 |
| FIN 500 | Foundations of Finance | 2 |
| MKT 500 | Introduction to Marketing | 2 |
| QMB 500 | Statistics for Decision Makers | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
All Business Essential requirements must be met prior to taking the PMBA core. See Business Essentials section of the catalog for more information.
Required PMBA Courses
| ACC 610 | Accounting and Value Creation | 4 |
| or | |
| ACC 612 | Accounting for Decision Makers | 4 |
| and | |
| ECO 603 | Applied and Behavioral Economics for Effective Business Strategy | 4 |
| or | |
| ECO 640 | The Economics of Organizations | 4 |
| and | |
| FIN 611 | Financial Management and Strategy | 4 |
| or | |
| FIN 612 | Strategic Financial Innovation and Implementation for Business Leaders | 4 |
| and | |
| MGT 614 | Strategic Decision Making | 4 |
| or | |
| MGT 615 | Strategic Management | 4 |
| and | |
| MKT 610 | Strategic Marketing Analysis | 4 |
| or | |
| MKT 618 | Marketing Strategy for Managers | 4 |
| And both of the following | |
| ITM 608 | Information Systems and Operations Management | 4 |
| MGT 609 | Leading for Competitive Advantage | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 28 |
Decision Analysis Elective (one of the following)
| ACC 625 | Advanced Accounting Analytics | 4 |
| ECO 611 | Econometrics | 4 |
| FIN 617 | Analytics in Finance | 4 |
| FIN 645 | Advanced Portfolio Management | 4 |
| ITM 615 | Data Mining for Business | 4 |
| MGT 628 | Sustainability Strategy for Competitive Advantage | 4 |
| MGT 667 | HR Metrics and Analytics | 4 |
| MKT 612 | Business Research Methods | 4 |
| MKT 617 | Marketing Analytics | 4 |
| QMB 612 | Decision Modeling and Analysis | 4 |
| QMB 660 | Advanced Forecasting and Predictive Analytics | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Elective Requirements (8 credit hours)
| Electives (8 credit hours) | |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Total Credit Hours: 40-56