Master of Business
Administration
Concentrations Available In:
Accounting | Finance | Leadership
Public Administration | Sport Management
Program Overview
Program Objectives
Ohio Dominican University’s MBA program provides a comprehensive business education that
stresses ethical leadership and strategic agility, and prepares you for career advancement in a
dynamic and competitive industry. ODU’s MBA is highly customizable to help you achieve your
career goals – you can choose to earn a general MBA, concentrate in one of five areas of study,
or pursue your degree entirely online. An MBA from ODU will prepare you to serve in middle- and
senior-level leadership roles in a wide variety of corporations and organizations.
Graduates are able to:
• Lead efforts to develop and implement ethical, creative and comprehensive solutions to complex organizational challenges.
• Lead strategically and ethically in the face of environments characterized by change, uncertainty and complexity.
•Analyze the critical partnerships between information technology and the user community to assure automation,
organizational learning and strategic advantage.
• Apply business models and analytical tools to decision-making.
•Analyze the impacts of changes in the economic and global business environments on decision-making.
•Apply analytics to financial decision-making.
•Analyze financial and accounting information, while recognizing its value, uses and limitations.
Admissions Requirements
•Overall GPA of 3.0 in your bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
OR
•Overall GPA of 2.75 in the last 60 semester hours of bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution and must
meet one of the following criteria:
–A score in the top 50th percentile in each section of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT).
–Completion of coursework in all foundation course knowledge areas, earning a B or better. Knowledge areas include
accounting, finance, economics and statistics. Eligible coursework must have been completed at a regionally accredited institution.
–Minimum of two years professional-level work experience.
How to Apply
•Apply online at ohiodominican.edu/Grad.
•Submit a graduate application with a $25 fee.
•Provide official transcripts from all postsecondary institutions.
•Write a minimum 500-word essay highlighting an economic or business problem, and explaining how a decision-maker
can resolve the problem while addressing ethical ramifications for the organization and society.
•Provide three professional or academic letters of recommendation.
•If seeking transfer credit, you must request a transfer credit evaluation when submitting your transcripts. A student can
receive as many as nine semester hours in transfer credits.
•TOEFL score of 550 or equivalent electronic score, if applicable.
MBA Delivery Formats
Face to Face
•Concentrations available in
Accounting, Finance, Leadership,
Public Administration and Sport
Management.
•Flexible scheduling – Take one or
two courses at a time. Program
can be completed in as few as
16 months.
Online
•Earn your degree completely online.
both
Choose the
format that fits
you best on
a course-bycourse basis.
•Each course meets once per week
from 6-9 p.m.
•Concentration available in Leadership.
•Access the same resources as
on-campus students.
• Video chat with professors and other
students.
• Post messages and questions on an
interactive discussion board.
FOUNDATION COURSES
You may waive from the foundation course(s) if you have acceptable transfer credit or coursework in accounting, finance,
economics and/or statistics from a regionally accredited institution.
MBA – 502 Survey of Business Statistics
MBA – 503 Survey of Economics
MBA – 504 Survey of Accounting
MBA – 505 Survey of Finance
CONCENTRATION COURSES
Leadership (Complete any two courses.)
622 – Conflict Management and Negotiation Strategies for Leaders
624 – Advanced Readings and Practices in Leadership
680 – Leadership and Change Management
Finance (Complete any two courses.)
648 – Financial Modeling
662 – International Financial Management
645 – Behavioral Finance
665 – Investment Analysis
Accounting (Complete any two courses.)
635 – Accounting for Government and Nonprofit Organizations
636 – Financial Statement Analysis
638 – Contemporary Issues in Accounting
Public Administration (Must complete all four courses.)
554 – Public Administration
635 – Accounting for Government and Nonprofit
Organizations (Instead of MBA 630 core)
655 – Public Budgeting and Finance (Instead of MBA 650 core)
657 – Public Policy
Sport Management (Complete any two courses.)
510 – Sport Psychology
520 – Sport Sociology and Ethics
610 – Sport Marketing and Consumer Behavior
620 – Organizational Behavior in Sport Systems
630 – Human Resource Management in Sport
640 – Sport Law
650 – Sport Economics and Finance
CORE COURSES
MBA 510 – Management Skills Portfolio
This is an integrated course focusing on personal
skill and management competency assessment
and development. This course utilizes a set of
assessment instruments and techniques to help
students identify areas for personal development
and growth. The assessment process culminates
in the creation of a personal development plan
that will be revisited in the final course of the MBA
program in order to determine progress and recast
an updated plan. Additionally, the course contains
multiple skill modules addressing capabilities
relevant to academic success in the MBA program.
Skills addressed include team, writing, creativity,
research, presentations, project management,
software, and citation skills.
MBA 540 – Management Information Systems
This course examines the use of information
systems and their impact on service business
processes. The course covers the management
of the flow of information and services across the
information systems user-producer interface. The
course looks at the users of information systems
and at the producers of information systems.
The course approaches such topics as systems
development, assessment of systems performance,
and discussion of trends in the corporate
application of developing technology from
a managerial perspective.
MBA 550 – Global Business Enterprise
and Trade Issues
This course addresses important issues pertaining to cross-border operations and practices of
multinational enterprises, as well as trade issues
between nation states. Cultural, political, environmental, fair labor practices, regional integration
and trade restrictions issues all impinge upon
management decisions. The course integrates
basic trade theories underpinning multinational
business with case studies that illustrate
real-world applicability of these theories and
making them more transparent to the students.
It also incorporates the ethical dilemma and the
social responsibility concerns faced by multinational
corporations in their international operations.
MBA 570 – Quantitative Business Analysis
This course deals with rational applications to
decision-making through the study of quantitative
models. It emphasizes analysis of data, interpretation of model results, and their implications for
managerial decisions. Topics include decision
analysis, probability relations and distributions,
regression models, and forecasting, project
analysis, queuing, and linear programming.
MBA 620 – Marketing Management
This course focuses on managing the marketing
function. The emphasis is on the nature and scope
of the marketing manager‘s responsibilities and on
marketing decision-making. Topics include market
and environmental analysis, marketing planning,
and the development and management of
marketing programs.
MBA 630 – Accounting for Managers
The emphasis of this course is to provide a
framework to learners so that they may
demonstrate the ability to analyze the financial
statements of an organization operating in our
society and understand how financial information
can be used in the management, planning, control,
and decision-making process. This course offers
methods for determining the optimal volume and
composition of firm assets, liabilities, and equity.
This course will also cover theories and practices
of capital budgeting and financing of assets.
MBA 640 – Managerial Economics
This course is a study of the applications of
economic theory and principles to decision-making
in organizations. The course utilizes concepts from
economic theory to ascertain the different dimensions of problems faced by managers and to derive
alternative solutions to those problems. It focuses
on the interactions that lead to price determination
in output and input markets, and how they could
be employed by managers to form general
strategies that will enhance the value of
their respective entities.
MBA 650 – Managerial Finance
This course is a study of traditional and contemporary theories of finance as applied to the solution of
management problems identified in selected cases.
The focus of the applications activity is on policy
formulations and decision-making under conditions
of uncertainty. The course builds upon concepts
from financial management and managerial
accounting courses. This course offers methods
for determining the optimal volume and
composition of firm assets, liabilities, and equity.
The theories and practices of capital budgeting
and financing of assets are emphasized.
MBA 660 – Ethics and Social Responsibility
This course includes a systematic overview of
normative ethics and a comprehensive discussion
of contemporary moral and legal issues in a
business context. Ethical problems, presented
by case studies, are analyzed and applied to
business and public issues. The course is
designed to ground students in the fundamental
principles of the law that impact the day-to-day
affairs of business and provide a framework for
future case analysis and ethical decision-making.
Not open to students with credit for MBA 560
MBA 690–MBA Capstone
This course is a capstone, integrative course
for graduating MBA students at Ohio Dominican
University. This course provides students an
opportunity to develop, implement, reflect upon,
and present an integrative learning experience
aligned with their professional interests. The
Capstone learning project will be a collaborative
learning experience and will provide students an
opportunity to apply cross-disciplinary learning
to a significant project. Prerequisites: Completion
of all Core Courses (27 credit hours).
All programs accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
Contact Us
Graduate Admissions
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