M.B.A from Pamplin School of Business

The Master of Business Administration program offered by?University of Portland?will help you start developing the critical thinking skills needed to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex business problems, navigate an ever-changing environment, and hone the global perspectives needed by 21st century managers today.

Thirteen courses (39-semester hours) make up the flexible MBA program. Students have the option to test out of the prerequisite statistics course, resulting in a twelve course (36-semester hour) program. Evening classes are taught once a week to balance the commitments of school and work.

Program Highlights:?

• Flexible evening program designed for experienced and working professionals?
• Develop the critical thinking skills needed to identify, analyze, and evaluate complex business problems
• Features six areas of concentration: entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, operations and technology management, sustainability, and strategy
• 39 semester hours with the option to test out of the prerequisite statistics course?
• Opportunity for an international experience?

Degree Outcomes

The M.B.A. curriculum focuses on contemporary leadership by challenging graduate students to think cross-functionally about a variety of large and small business issues. To operationalize these objectives, the basic structure of our M.B.A. program consists of the following components:

• A prerequisite class in statistical and quantitative analysis.
• Values perspective courses introducing students to issues of leadership, sustainability, understanding cultural differences and developing multicultural skills, and the role of business in society.
• Core courses exploring the application of analytic tools in economic analysis, marketing, finance, operations and technology management, and accounting to identify and solve contemporary business problems.
• A concentration component allowing students to specialize in an area of interest in entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, operations and technology management,?strategy, or?sustainability. Students may also choose to design their own concentration by selecting courses from more than one field.
• A capstone course providing a final integration of the themes covered in the M.B.A. program with an emphasis on the strategic role played by top management in integrating corporate policies.