Curriculum

Business administration is about the management of four things: people, technology, process, and finances. Building a business is about developing these four areas into a cohesive, smoothly operating whole. When you complete the 15 courses that comprise our online MBA program, you gain a comprehensive understanding of these business areas and the practical skills useful in today's competitive corporate world.

The Business and Technology Connection

Where many online MBA programs cut corners, IWU has carefully developed a program that integrates traditional courses with studies in technology and information systems. Today's workplace runs on Internet technology, and a business executive that chooses an online MBA program such as IWU's gains an advantage from the start. Learning in the very environment in which business operates today gives you an advantage and demonstrates your foresight. To learn more about the IWU MBA Program, request our information packet.

About the Courses

The IWU MBA degree program requires the completion of 42 semester hours. You begin with the keystone course for our online MBA program: Business, Analysis, and Technology. Here you learn how to tap the Internet as a business resource and integrate it with traditional research, analysis, and decision-making tools. Later, traditional business disciplines, such as management, marketing, and economic theory are combined with quantitative courses that include managerial accounting, statistical analysis, and finance.

Unique to the online MBA program at IWU is our commitment to values-based education. We stress this dedication in every course in the MBA program. We highlight methods and means of dealing with, and resolving, ethical and legal dilemmas in today's business world. Our educational focus centers on how to make ethical and values-based decisions.

At the completion of the MBA core curriculum you will enter one of three specializations: Applied Management, Accounting, or Health Care Management. The Applied Management specialization is the general management track completed by the majority of MBA students. The Accounting track is designed to meet the 150 credit-hour academic requirement to take the CPA exam in most states. And the Health Care Management specialization prepares students for managerial and executive careers in a variety of health care fields.

IWU MBA Courses

	The MBA degree program begins with an 11-course core curriculum that is essential to all MBA specializations:

	MBA Core Curriculum
	ADM508		Business, Analysis, and Technology
	ADM510		Applied Management Concepts
	ADM471P		Essentials of Accounting
	ADM514		Applied Managerial Accounting
	MGT541		Applied Marketing Management
	ADM524		Managerial Economics
	ADM474P		Essentials of Finance
	ADM537		Applied Managerial Finance
	ADM545		Organizational Development and Change
	ADM515		Applied Business Statistics
	ADM534		Applied Economics

	At the completion of this MBA core curriculum, students then undertake one of the following specialization cognates:

	Applied Management
	ADM549		Intercultural and Global Issues
	ADM550		Ethics, Law, and Leadership
	ADM554		Operations and Strategy
	ADM560		Applied Management Capstone

	Accounting
	ACC549		Financial Statement Preparation and Analysis
	ACC552		Auditing and Fraud Detection
	ACC554		Business Structure and Taxes
	ACC556		Accounting Information Systems and Control

	Health Care Management
	HCM549		Health Care Systems
	HCM552		Health Care Policy
	HCM554		Health Care Finance
	HCM556		Health Care Issues