Part Time MBA Concentrations

 A student can elect to earn a specialization in one of three fields currently offered by the school: Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurial Venture Creation, or Financial Management. A specialization consists of three required electives. A student may take four electives from any discipline for the general management track.

Marketing and Supply Chain Management

This specialization covers such topics as market research and analysis, new product and services development to production and final delivery. A cross-functional approach is utilized to teach students how to manage fundamental value processes involved in the production and marketing of goods and services. The specialization is unique in its integrative emphasis on meeting customer and market needs in an optimally effective and efficient manner given technological and operational constraints.

Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

This specialization is designed to promote an environment that produces an entrepreneurial culture and promotes learning through experiential, real-world, real-time learning. It provides a basis to learn about the high growth entrepreneurial venture process of value creation through an application of technology in a dynamic environment. Appropriate for students whose intent is to start a high growth business, work for a new venture, become involved in new venture creation within an established organization or are interested in the field of venture capital and other funding sources.

Financial Management

Designed for the student that wants to take a coherent set of finance courses offered within the general framework of the MBA. The study of finance provides students with opportunities in a wide variety of disciplines including banking, insurance, corporate finance, investment management, and risk management. The field of finance has become popular over the last few years due, in part, to the increased publication and growth of the stock and derivative markets.