The general Master of Business Administration degree is awarded after the successful completion of the requirements listed below.

A thesis option to the MBA degree is available. Students interested in this option should see the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the Business School.

All course work must be in graduate level courses.

Resident study of at least nine months at Baylor University is required. Not more than six hours of work may be transferred from another college or university. No credit will be given for work done by extension or correspondence, or for courses counted already toward a bachelor’s or another master’s degree.

All MBA candidates must earn an average grade of “B” (3.0) or higher in all courses. If course substitutions are made for any of these core courses, the substituted course grade is included in the average. Students not having an overall average of 3.0 or higher in the core courses are required to repeat one or more of the courses in which a grade below “B” was earned in order to increase their average to 3.0. When a core course is repeated, the new grade substitutes for the old grade in the core calculated GPA. In some cases, more advanced work may be prescribed in place of the course on which a grade below “B” was earned. Both the original grade and the new grade for a repeated course will be included in the overall GPA for graduation purposes.

Early in the semester in which the degree is to be awarded, candidates must complete an application for graduation found in BearWeb. Instructions for this form can be found on the Graduate School website.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Framework Course
BUS 5401	Business Frameworks	4
Required Core Courses
ACC 5300	Accounting Tools for Management Decision Making	3
BUS 5101	Focus Firm I	1
BUS 5111	Professional Career Development for First Semester Graduate Students	1
BUS 5112	Professional Career Development for Second Semester Graduate Students	1
BUS 5390	Management Communication	3
ECO 5340	Economic Tools for Management Decision Making	3
FIN 5360	Seminar in Corporate Finance	3
MGT 5310	Management of Organizational Behavior	3
MGT 5320	Manufacturing and Service Operations	3
MGT 5325	Leadership in the Global Marketplace	3
MGT 5385	Strategic Management and Business Policy	3
MKT 5310	Seminar in Marketing Strategy	3
QBA 5330	Business Analytics for Decision Making	3
Select one course from the following:		3
MIS 5342	Business Intelligence
MIS 5345	Decision Making Using Excel
MIS 5346	Data Warehousing
MIS 5355	Management of Information Systems
ISEC 5305	Seminar in Information Security Foundations
Other Requirements
1-hour internship required for students without 2 years of full-time work experience		1
Total of 12 hours of electives or in combination of above		12
Students who do not have an undergraduate degree in Business Administration will be required to take the following:
BL 5104	Business Foundations - Business Law	(1)
Total Hours		53