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Business Administration - MBA

The John L. Grove College of Business Master in Business Administration degree program offers high quality and outstanding value. Our AACSB-accredited MBA program is designed to help you to succeed in a rapidly changing global economy. Our graduate students find the Ship MBA reputable, affordable, and convenient.

Ship delivers its MBA degree program in two convenient formats in addition to MBA full-time (taking evening and/or online courses):

• Ship MBA-Professional: A part-time, evening hybrid format designed for working professionals and offered at multiple sites including Harrisburg and Shippensburg.
• Ship MBA-Online: A convenient, 100 percent online format that can be completed in two years.

The Program

Ship's 30-credit MBA consists of 8 required core courses (3 credits each) and 2 elective courses (3 credits each). The requirements are the same in each of the delivery formats. You may choose 7 of the following 8 core courses:

• MBA 502 Managerial Accounting
• MBA 529 Corporate Financial Management
• MBA 548 IT Management and Innovation
• MBA 554 International Business
• MBA 556 Organizational Leadership
• MBA 565 Contemporary Decision Making
• MBA 570 Marketing Management
• MBA 577 Supply Chain Management

The following capstone course is required. You must have completed four core courses (12 credits). It is highly recommended that you have taken MBA 502 and MBA 529.

• MBA 593 Strategic Management

Business Analytics Concentration

In this 36 total credit option, students take the eight MBA core courses and take the following four management information systems specific courses.

• MBA 506 Data Mining for Predictive Analytics I (Summer A 2018, Online)
• MBA 507 Data Mining for Predictive Analytics II (Summer B 2018, Online)
• MBA 511 Marketing Analytics (Winter 2017, Online)
• ISS 550 Database Design (Fall 2017, Available at Ship & Dixon University Center)

This concentration is delivered in a hybrid format in Harrisburg and Shippensburg. It is not available online.

Admission Requirements

Undergraduate coursework and degree, relevant work experience, and goals statement will be evaluated and form the basis for admission. To be eligible for admission to the MBA Program applicants must:

• Have a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Present a current résumé.
• Submit a goals statement. This should be 500 words or less indicating your reasons for pursuing an MBA, your future goals, and why you chose Shippensburg's MBA program.
• Complete and submit the MBA Track selection web-form
• Take the GMAT and achieve a score of 450 or higher if an applicant has less than five years of mid-level experience, including management experience, or for whom additional evaluation is needed. GMAT may be waived for Beta Gamma Sigma members. Verification is required; send scanned documentation to gradadmiss@ship.edu.

Applicants will be evaluated on grade point average, course content, work experience, job level, leadership ability, team skills, suitability of goals, and whether they graduated from an AACSB-accredited college.

Applicants who have completed coursework in accounting, economics, finance, organizational behavior, marketing, and operations management may begin taking MBA core courses immediately. Applicants lacking coursework in one or more of these areas will need to take appropriate prerequisite MBA foundations courses before proceeding to core courses.

Faculty

• Robert Neidigh
• Azim Danesh
• David Hwang
• Michael Coolsen

The John L. Grove College of Business , established in 1971, is one of the premier business schools in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Since 1981, our college has been internationally accredited by the most prestigious business-accrediting agency, AACSB International.

Shippensburg University's Grove College of Business provides a high-quality and high-value comprehensive educational experience that prepares you to excel as a principled leader in the global business community. The business programs at Shippensburg are relevant and challenging.

Grove Hall features modern classrooms designed with a 21st century education in mind. Small classes allow faculty to work closely with you to develop strong communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills, which are vitally important in today's business world.

We are proud of providing International accredited business programs at low cost. In addition to excellent academic programs, I would like to also introduce you to our faculty, student organizations, services, and student related programs. We have an excellent faculty with diverse professional, research, and teaching interest. Classes are held in smaller settings with state-of-the-art facilities, which support our efforts to serve your educational needs. Explore the possibilities of our nationally acclaimed Grove College of Business where "Our Goal is Your Success!" ~ Dr. John Kooti, Dean