Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Description

The MBA is designed to accommodate the career needs of professionals across a wide variety of work organizations: business, health care, industrial, educational, and governmental. The program offers a personal academic approach to help you prepare for a rapidly evolving business world.

Your education is enhanced through personal contacts with our highly experienced faculty, many of whom serve as consultants in the private and public sectors. Our business alumni tell us that their Detroit Mercy experience made a significant impact on their professional development.

Distinctive Features

  • Broad-based Integrative Management - The University of Detroit Mercy's MBA program is designed to enable students to draw on all perspectives of business to effectively solve multifaceted business problems. While the curriculum is divided into courses, the overall program stresses the integrative nature of management and the links between various courses and concepts. Students learn and apply knowledge across all disciplines.
  • Program Themes - The MBA program focuses on four major themes: global competitiveness; emerging business challenges; organization creation and development; and awareness of and responsibility to self and others. Each of these themes provides a thread to connect the major elements of the curriculum.
  • Global Perspectives are represented throughout the MBA curriculum. Detroit's position as a global city and the center of the world automotive industry provides numerous opportunities to draw on local resources for global perspectives. Typically, students from more than 20 countries, including nearby (Windsor) Canada, are enrolled in the College's programs each semester.
  • Strong Ties to the Business Community - Detroit Mercy's graduate business programs have an excellent reputation in, and strong ties to, metropolitan Detroit's business community. Employees from more than 200 businesses and professional organizations have enrolled as degree candidates at Detroit Mercy. Many students take advantage of full- or part-time, career-related assignments available through Detroit Mercy's Cooperative Education and Career Center. Detroit Mercy has alumni in leadership roles in more than 60 countries around the globe.
  • Quality and Convenience - Detroit Mercy's MBA degree program is designed to accommodate the career needs of professionals in a variety of work organizations. Depending upon academic background, it is possible to complete the degree requirements in one year on a full-time basis. A student faculty ratio of 15:1 assures small classes and individual attention. Faculty members often act as academic advisors to students and assist with research projects and career objectives. Classes are conveniently offered on our main campus with evening schedules. In addition to fall and winter semesters, two accelerated seven-week summer sessions are offered.
  • Students at University of Detroit Mercy bring a wide variety of work experiences and academic and cultural diversity to the MBA program. The average age of our student body is approximately 30: approximately 35 percent of our students are women; 25 percent are minorities; eight percent are international students. The average length of work experience is seven to eight years. Ninety-five percent of our students are working professionals who matriculate on a part-time basis.
  • College of Business Administration faculty are highly qualified with superb academic and professional backgrounds. Many have lived, worked, and studied abroad bringing global perspectives to the classroom. Faculty accomplishments include consulting for Fortune 500 corporations, scholarly contributions to the business literature, and editing major academic journals. The faculty engages our MBA students to develop business skills, vision, and ethical perspectives necessary for leadership in today's complex business environment.
  • Member of The Network of MBA Programs at Jesuit Colleges and Universities - The majority of Jesuit colleges and universities across the United States participate in the MBA Multilateral Agreement. This understanding provides students with unparalleled flexibility to transfer graduate credits and to complete their MBA degree at another Jesuit university in the event they relocate to another region of the country. For more information, visit: jesuitmba.org.

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    Admission Requirements

    The MBA program is open to students of high promise who have earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. No prior academic work in business is required. Admission decisions are based on undergraduate grade point average (GPA), work experience, post graduate studies, and recommendations, and GMAT (if needed).

    Admission Materials

    Admission decisions are based on an undergraduate GPA, GMAT score (if needed), work experience, and other degrees.

    • Complete the Online Application (application fee is waived);
    • Official transcripts for all previous academic work;
    • A resume;
    • Letter of Recommendation (included in the online application); and
    • Applicants are welcome to include any other information they feel is important to the admission consideration. This information can be uploaded while completing the online application.
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    Requirements for the Master of Business Administration (33 credits)

    The basic requirements for University of Detroit Mercy's MBA program involve a 33 credit-hour structure that includes the following set of core courses and a set of post-core courses. Core courses serve as the heart of a common educational experience for all students who seek the MBA degree. Post-core requirements include an integrated capstone course, MBA 5900.

    Core Courses

    • ACC 5200 Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
    • MBA 5200 Modeling, Analytics, and Operation Decisions (3 credits)
    • MBA 5210 Personal Development, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
    • MBA 5220 Strategic Financial Management (3 credits)
    • MBA 5240 Marketing Management and Planning (3 credits)
    • MBA 5250 Teamwork and Shared Leadership: Enhancing the Creative Process in Organizations (3 credits)
    • MBA 5260 Systems and Technology (3 credits)

    Post-Core Courses

    • MBA 5900 Strategic Management and Innovation in a Global Economy (3 credits)
    • Advanced Electives* (9 credits)

    * The nine hours of advanced electives (beyond foundation and core) are aimed at providing an elective route for all MBA students. Core electives shall consist of selecting three (elective) courses from the following:
    ACC 5300 – ACC 5950
    BTM 5000 – 5999 (excluding BTM 5500)
    MBA 5270– MBA 5990 (excluding MBA 5900)
    MBA students may petition the director of Graduate Business Programs and assistant dean to take a maximum of one elective course outside of the College of Business Administration. Students should consult dual degree and certificate options within the graduate business programs as it pertains to possible electives.

    Such an elective route may be utilized by the student in the following ways:

    • To seek a mixture of advanced electives that the student desires as a means of enhancing specific career objectives, or
    • To seek a concentration in which the student desires to focus post-core electives within a specific field (beyond foundation and core courses), or
    • To seek a Certificate in Ethical Leadership and Change Management, or
    • To seek a Certificate in Finance, or
    • To seek a Certificate in Health Services Administration, or
    • To seek a Certificate in Business Turnaround Management.
    • To seek a Certificate in Forensic Accounting.

    Foundation Courses

    Foundation requirements include a set of courses designed for those applicants who have had no exposure or limited exposure to business courses in their academic background and/or limited work experience. These courses, up to a maximum of 12 credit hours, may be required to guarantee preparedness for the program's core and post-core requirements.

    • ACC 5100 Corporate Financial Accounting (3 credits)
    • MBA 5100 Legal Issues in Organizational Strategy (3 credits)
    • MBA 5120 Data Analysis for Decision Making (3 credits)
    • MBA 5180 Fundamentals of Financial Management (3 credits)

    Each applicant's program requirements are determined immediately following the admission decision. Foundation requirements may be waived, in any number, depending upon the applicant's academic background. The mere fact that a student has completed coursework in one or more particular disciplines or had extensive work experience does not imply that any waiver will be granted. Prior academic work must be of sufficient quantity and quality as to satisfy the specific criteria established. Each student's specific requirements are determined individually with the objective of ensuring the overall quality of that student's degree program.

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    Program Contact Information

    Graduate Admissions Counselor: Corinne Foote


    Director of Graduate Business Programs: Omid Sabbaghi, Ph.D.


    Coordinator of Student Services: Carrol Parris

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