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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

Management, M.S.

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Minimum number of credits required to complete the program:  32

Minimum cumulative GPA required:  3.0

 

School: Girard School of Business

Learn more about the program

 

The M.S. in Management provides a pathway for students who wish to acquire advanced management and leadership skills to either enter or advance their careers within the broad field of management. Courses are delivered 100% online or hybrid where a percentage of courses can be taken on campus.

The program is designed for business and non-business majors as well as skilled professionals looking to enhance and expand their business insight and expertise. The curriculum combines an overview of key management concepts, approaches and techniques and integrates industry specific elective courses in the business areas of Business Analytics, Marketing Management, Organizational Leadership, Product Management, and Quantitative and Digital Finance critical to today’s business environment. The overall goal of the program is to equip students with creative problem-solving skills, integrity and responsibility and a global perspective essential for personal and professional success. For students interested in an internship experience, a full-semester internship with a career management course is available. 

Core Business Skills

  • Interpret the complexities of the business environment.
  • Develop advanced skills in interpreting and utilizing information to make informed managerial decisions.
  • Acquire a macro and global perspective of the interconnections related to economies and business.
  • Construct a personalized communication plan in verbal and written communication formats.

Learning Goals and Objectives

1. Business Proficiency

1.1 Business Literacy - The ability to comprehend and communicate key business terms.

1.2 Cross-Functional Interconnectivity - The ability to understand and apply how decisions in one functional area of a business may impact the performance in other functional areas.

1.3 Global Interconnectivity - The ability to understand the interconnectivity between business decisions and the global economy.

2. Professional Skills

2.1 Communication, Oral and Written - The ability to articulate and deliver a business proposal, recommendation, or analysis for a particular purpose in both a written document and in a presentation format.

2.2 Leadership - The ability to engage in the process of influencing others and facilitating their individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.

2.3 Teamwork - The ability to collaborate effectively with other team members to enhance the quality of the interaction, interdependencies, cooperation, and coordination of teams.

3. Knowledge Application

3.1 Problem Definition - The ability to identify a key problem in a business context.

3.2 Analyses - The ability to interpret and synthesize information and to draw reasoned conclusions.

3.3 Decision-Making - The ability to make choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs.

Program Requirements

Curriculum for Students with an Undergraduate Business Degree

The M.S. in Management for students with a business undergraduate degree, is composed of 12 credits of core courses and 20 credits of electives for a total of 32 credits.

Core Course Requirements

Complete the following four required courses (12 credits):

Elective Courses

Choose 20 credits of electives from the following OR 12 credits of a concentration and eight credits of electives:
(Note: Concentrations are listed at end of the page) 

Curriculum for Students with a Non-Business Undergraduate Degree

The M.S. in Management for students with a non-business undergraduate degree, is composed of 20 credits of core courses and 12 credits of electives for a total of 32 credits.

Core Course Requirements

Complete the following seven required courses (20 credits):

Required Electives

Choose 12 credits of electives from the following OR 12 credits of a concentration: 
(Note: Concentrations are listed at end of the page) 

  • Any FIN5000 level courses or higher 
  • Any MGT5000 level courses or higher 
  • Any MKT5000 level courses or higher 
  • Any BUA5000 level courses or higher

Concentrations

Students pursuing the M.S.M. have the option to complete a 12-credit concentration in one of the follow four areas:

  • Business Analytics
  • Marketing Management
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Product Management
  • Quantitative and Digital Finance

Business Analytics

The Business Analytics concentration equips students with introductory knowledge and skills in extracting decision-guiding insights out of data, and synthesizing the resultant insights with related theoretical and experiential knowledge. Students are introduced to core elements of data management, preparation, analysis, visualization, and result interpretation and communication, in a theory and application context. 

Choose 12 credits from the following: 

Marketing Management

The Marketing Management concentration provides students with a comprehensive and analytical understanding of how marketing impacts business decisions. Students will gain insight into the marketing function and will be exposed to core elements such as digital and social media marketing, marketing analytics and strategy and how aspects of marketing contribute to practices of management.

Choose 12 credits from the following: 

Organizational Leadership

The Organizational Leadership concentration offers a dual focused management approach that combines theories and strategies around managing individuals while encompassing what is best for an organization as a whole. Through the concentration in organizational leadership, students are exposed to core elements of leadership such as ethics, motivation, creativity, vision, teamwork, managing teams, leading organizations through change, and understanding and managing stakeholders. 

Complete the two required courses (eight credits) and two elective courses (four credits) as outlined below: 

Product Management

The Product Management concentration is designed to help graduates become specialists in creating and developing innovative products, seeing this process advance from the initial design of innovative solutions that meet customer needs to the successful production of products in the market. It will be aimed at equipping a diverse audience with the skills necessary to develop, launch, and successfully scale products and services in industries such as Life Sciences, Software/Web/Mobile, and Complex Technological Products.

Complete the two required courses (eight credits) and four credits of electives as outlined below:

Quantitative and Digital Finance

Understanding and comprehending the language of finance and business performance is essential for professionals at any level within an organization. By completing the Quantitative and Digital Finance concentration, students are introduced to topics such as quant and factor investing, corporate finance and other innovative trends in the finance industry. 

Choose 12 credits from the following: 

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