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 five 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
ECO 640	The Economics of Organizations	4
FIN 611	Financial Management and Strategy	4
ITM 608	Information Systems and Operations Management	4
MGT 609	Leading for Competitive Advantage	4
MGT 615	Strategic Management	4
MKT 610	Strategic Marketing Analysis	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
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