Master of Business Administration
The online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program offered by Excelsior University is International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) accredited and is specially designed for executive managers driven to grow their careers in strategy, global development, operations, human resources, and digital transformation.
Excelsior’s unique core courses start you off with the high-level collaborative skills and integrated strategic mindset that employers from start-ups to multi-national corporations are looking for in an MBA graduate. You’ll learn with fellow students from across disciplines to begin your graduate education, building your network and expanding your worldview. Gain practical knowledge you can use today as you develop your leadership, analytical, and strategic skills.
Deepen your professional expertise by completing up to three concentrations, choosing from finance and accounting, health care management, cannabis control, human resource management, marketing, or leadership. You can also create your personalized course of study by choosing the general business option.
Course Information
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethical Leadership
- Strategic Talent Management in a Complex World
- Data Driven Decision Making
- Technology and Project Management
- Finance
- Marketing
- Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Strategy and Policy MBA Capstone
Choose up to three:
9 Credits
Finance and Accounting
Master accounting principles and tools and learn how to prepare and evaluate financial statements and reports for corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Coursework covers financial statement analysis, corporate disclosure, and nonprofit accounting. This concentration prepares you to sit for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examinations.
- Accounting for Managers
- Corporate Financial Reporting and Disclosure
- Financial Statement Analysis
Cannabis Control
The growing cannabis industry is going to impact all aspects of our current societal process. The regulation of cannabis spans from growing, transportation, public health, and city services to new businesses, financing, and supply chains that cross jurisdictional lines. The concentration in Cannabis Control will give you a solid foundation in compliance, risk assessment and cannabis as commerce.
- Policy and Compliance
- Commerce
- Risk Assessment
General Business
The General Business concentration allows students to develop a personalized concentration area that spans multiple business concentrations. Students can tailor their concentration to their specific life and career goals, providing them with flexibility in developing their knowledge and skills. Choose three business electives that connect to your career goals.
Health Care Management
Gain the skills to manage a diverse workforce providing health care for an increasingly heterogeneous population. This concentration also prepares you to analyze and interpret health care funding and delivery trends to provide recommendations for organizational action.
- Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations
- Communication Strategy for the Health Care Leader
- Approved health care management elective
Human Resource Management
Gain the knowledge and skills required of human resource managers. Learn how to analyze legal requirements and apply resource management principles to support organizational objectives in staffing, employee development, labor relations, conflict resolution, compensation, and benefits practices.
Choose one course from each category:
Staffing and Development
- Employee Staffing and Development
- Training and Career Development
- Change Management
Total Rewards
- Compensation and Benefits
- International Human Resources
- Employment Law
Maintaining High Performance
- Labor Relations and Conflict Resolution
- Principles and Practices of Performance Improvement
- Conflict Management and Alternative Dispute Resolutions
Leadership
Develop your skill at managing organizational changes and applying leadership strategies to manage conflicts in the workplace. This concentration prepares you to design creative solutions and impactful courses of action that support the organization’s employees and mission.
- Leading Teams
- Contingency Planning
- Leadership Elective
Marketing
This concentration allows students to learn and apply advanced constructs in digital marketing with a focus on brand development, launch and management. The concentration traverses the private and public sector industries in the application of business-to-business and business-to-consumer centric marketing methods.
- Social Media Marketing
- Strategic Brand Marketing
- Marketing Elective
Ask an Excelsior Advisor
Have questions about earning your degree?
Get in touch with Excelsior’s program advisor.
Bernard C. Austin II
Associate Director of Partnership Development
Mobile: 518-227-1225
Email: [email protected]
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Learn Now, Pay Later with Deferred Tuition Program
Excelsior offers a deferred tuition program for those utilizing tuition reimbursement or GI Benefits. This means instead of paying at the time of registration or using a payment plan, payment is deferred until after the course is completed. This allows ample time for you to submit your tuition reimbursement paperwork for a refund.