Accelerated B.A./Master's Degree Program:
Management

Overview

The Master of 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

The MBA program is open to students from any undergraduate major. Prerequisite courses are required. Prospective MBA students must complete ECON 010 and either MATH 113, 119 or 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 MATH120 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 MBA 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.

B.A./M.B.A. Timetable

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.

Program of Study

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 encouraged to take specific undergraduate courses in their first three years at Clark since they will waive MBA required courses.

The following undergraduate courses (with a grade of B- or higher) will waive MB.A. courses:

MGMT 101 AND MGMT 203 waive MBA Foundations of Accounting (1 unit)
MGMT 104 waives MBA MBA Management Information Systems (½ unit)
MGMT 230 waives MBA MBA Marketing Management (½ unit)
MGMT 240 waives MBA Financial Management (½ unit)
MGMT 250 waives MBA Operations Management (½ unit)
ECON 110 & 011 or ECON 205 & 206 waive MBA Management Economics (½ unit)
ECON 160 or PSYC 105 waives MBA Statistical Methods (½ unit)*
*Other undergraduate statistics courses may also provide a waiver

Depending on possible course waivers that a student can receive, students can and should plan on taking 3-7 units of graduate course work during their senior year. Students should ideally plan their course work so that they have 10 units remaining for the MBA following the completion of the their senior year.

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 a student's MBA concentration plans.

ACCT4100 - Foundations of Accounting (1 unit)
ECON4004 - Management Economics (½ unit)
MGMT4302 - Creating Effective Organizations: Leadership (1 unit)
MGMT4708 - Contemporary Business Law (½ unit)
MGMT4709 - Business in Society (½ unit)
MKT4400 - Marketing Management (1 unit) OR MKT4402 (½ unit)
MIS4500 - Management Information Systems (1 unit) OR MIS elective (½ unit)
STAT4005 - Statistical Methods (½ unit)
STAT4006 - Management Decision Models (½ unit)

Students take the remaining units in their 5th/graduate year. If a student has more than 10 units remaining, he/she may need to remain at Clark an additional semester to complete program requirements. Students in that situation will need to discuss enrollment and payment issues with the Dean of Graduate Studies and GSOM.

MBA students choose a concentration, which is comprised of three to four units of upper-level electives. In addition, free choice electives outside the concentration are required to complete a total of 5½ elective units. Concentration options include Accounting, Expanded Accounting, Finance, Global Business, General Management, Marketing, Management Information Systems and Social Change. Students may also choose to do a dual concentration.

A Graduate Internship is required of all MBA students who have less than three years work experience in the United States. No academic credit is awarded for the internship requirement.

Program Advisor

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

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