Bachelor of Arts/Master of Business Administration (B.A./M.B.A.)

Overview

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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

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The M.B.A. program is open to students from any undergraduate major. Prerequisite courses are required. Prospective M.B.A. students must complete ECON 010  and either

 ,  MATH 113 , MATH 119  or MATH 120  with a grade of B- or higher prior to the start of their senior year (students can be enrolled in these courses in the semester that they are applying or can take them in the summer before their senior year). If a student places higher than MATH 120  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 M.B.A. 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 B.A./Master’s Degree Program Application: Part 1 must be completed by April 1 of the junior year and submitted to the Academic Advising Center. The Accelerated B.A./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.

 

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 to seven units of graduate-level courses can be taken in the senior year. Management majors may be restricted in the number of graduate M.B.A. courses they can take during their senior year. Management majors should consult with Laura Burgess, (508) 793-7744, the Program Director for Academic and Student Services in the Graduate School of Management.

 

Program of Study

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Because the MBA program is highly structured, students must consider the BA/MBA option as early in their undergraduate careers as possible.  Since there are 17 units required, students must take MBA courses during their senior year.  Students are also encourated to take specific undergradaute courses in their first three years at Clark since they will waive MBA required courses. 

 

The following MBA courses are recommended for students to take during their senior year, although individual programs of study may vary depending on course waivers students received and a student’s MBA concentration plans.

• ACCT 4100 - Foundations of Accounting (1 unit)
• ECON 4004 - Management Economics (1/2 unit)
• MGMT 4302 - Creating Effective Organizations: Leadership (1 unit)
• MGMT 4708 - Business Law (1/2 unit)
• MGMT 4709 - Business in Society (1/2 unit)

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• MKT 4400 - Marketing Management (1 unit)

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• MKT 4402 - Marketing Strategy and Simulation (1/2 unit)

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• MIS 4500 - Management Information Systems (1 unit)

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• MIS Elective (1/2 unit)

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• STAT 4005 - Statistical Methods (1/2 unit)
• STAT 4006 - Management Decision Models (1/2 unit)

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Advice for prospective students

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Because the M.B.A. program is highly structured, students must consider the B.A./M.A. option as early in their undergraduate careers as possible. Due to the required units, students must take M.B.A. courses during their senior year. Students may choose to minor in management because certain undergraduate courses waive M.B.A. courses.

 

The following undergraduate courses (with a grade of B- or higher) will waive M.B.A. courses. Students should plan to take these courses prior to senior year. The number of waivers received determines how many M.B.A. units should be taken during the senior year.

• MGMT 101 - Principles of Accounting

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• MGMT 203 - Management Accounting

•   waive M.B.A.

• ACCT 4100 - Foundations of Accounting (1 unit)

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• MGMT 104 - Introduction to Management Information Systems

•   waives M.B.A.

• MIS 4500 - Management Information Systems (½ unit)

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• MGMT 230 - Marketing Management

•   waives M.B.A.

• MKT 4400 - Marketing Management (½ unit)

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• MGMT 240 - Corporate Finance

•   waives M.B.A.

• FIN 4200 - Financial Management (½ unit)

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• MGMT 250 - Operations Management

•   waives M.B.A.

• OM 4600 - Operations Management (1 unit)

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• MGMT 262 - Business Ethics and Law

•   waives M.B.A.

• MGMT 4708 - Business Law (½ unit)

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• ECON 160 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis

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• PSYC 105 - Statistics

•   waive M.B.A.

• STAT 4005 - Statistical Methods (½ unit) *

• *Other undergraduate statistics courses may also provide a waiver

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Program Advisor

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(Signature Required on Application: Part 1)
Laura Burgess
Graduate School of Management
508-793-7744
Lburgess@clarku.edu