Program Details
Total Credit Hours
36 credit hours
The MBA program requires 36 credit hours – The core requirements consist of ten courses that all MBA students must complete. You may then choose one of eight MBA specialization options in coordination with your faculty advisor to meet your individual goals.
Program Length
12 months
Students attend three semesters (Fall, Spring and Summer) split into two eight-week terms (A term and B term). This gives you six options in which to start the program. Students typically take one or two courses per term, depending on whether they want to graduate in one or two years.
Mode
You choose how you want to learn – fully online, face-to-face, or a combination of both
The requirements, faculty, and course content are the same no matter which method you select, so you can learn in the way that best fits into your life.
Required Core Courses
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MBA 5121 Managerial Accounting
A study of accounting information developed for managers within an organization. Analysis of accounting statements is emphasized for planning, decision making, and controlling purposes. Issues and trends in accounting are reviewed to complete the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Summer
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5131 Corporate Financial Analysis
A study of organizational financial management emphasizing shareholder value. Topics studied include liquidity management, budgeting, capital structure, forecasting, risk, and cost of capital. Trends in enterprise financing complete the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Summer
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5211 Managerial Economics
An application of microeconomic theory to business decision making. Economic concepts and quantitative methods are applied to managerial decisions regarding pricing, production service capacity, profit maximization and government restraints.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Fall
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5253 Applied Statistics
Concepts of statistical analysis and inference are studied, including descriptive statistics, probability theory, statistical estimation, tests of hypotheses, analyses of variance, and regression and correlation analyses. Emphasis is placed on applied regression analysis of service operations data.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Summer
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5141 Computer Information Systems
The information requirements of organizations are studied, with emphasis on the types of information needed at the operational, administrative, organizational and strategic levels. Topics include obtaining, installing and managing software, hardware, and networks systems, information security, managing Information Technology (IT) personnel and systems, and managing the rapidly changing IT environment. Global and ethical perspectives are included. Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Fall
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5273 Organizational Behavior and Theory
This course is a study of the creation, management and effectiveness of organizations as open systems. Central to the study are the internal and external environmental challenges to an organization’s domain and the management of change through innovation, control and efficiency. Organizational design, authority, culture, technology, conflict and competencies are included in the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Spring
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5161 Marketing Management
A study of strategic marketing planning and analysis of the marketing function in relation with various internal and external environments. Designing marketing programs for various demand segments constitutes the heart of the study. Issues of innovation, implementation and evaluation of programs complete the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: As Needed
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5316 Project Management
This course incorporates project management software in the study for project conception, plan and control. The course uses this software in a context of building team leadership and cohesion through organizational designs. Project objectives, change management and individual roles, risk and resource management, and management parameters are studied for efficient and effective results. Trends in project management complete the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Spring
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 550 Principles and Theories of Leadership
This course focuses on the scope and nature of leading in diverse organizational settings, with special emphasis on examining traditional and contemporary leadership theories, concepts and principles for their application in present organizational settings that are increasingly being affected by environmental complexities and globalization. A primary objective of the course is to enable students to evaluate past and present leaders, as well as reflect on themselves as leaders, in conjunction with findings from research, theory and experience.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Fall
Notes: Book Requirement
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MBA 5292 Strategic Management
This is a capstone course in the application and synthesis of business and economic concepts with a view toward evaluation of specific organization-wide situations. The focus of the course is on problem recognition, alternatives, recommendation and rationale. The use of policies and strategies to foster vision and mission to achieve organizational goals is included. Organizational leadership styles complete the study.
Fee: $30.00
Credits: 3
Offered: Spring
Notes: Book Requirement
Customize your focus
MBA students may choose from one of the eight specialization options listed below to complete the MBA graduation requirement.
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General Management
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Leadership
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Human Resource Management
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Marketing
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International Management
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Healthcare Administration
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Educational Leadership
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Thesis Option with Applied Research
Transfer of Course Credit into the MBA
No more than six (6) semester hours of credit can be transferred for graduation credit into the MBA Program. A transferred course must be a graduate-level course and have been earned by the requesting student at a regionally accredited college or university with a grade of B or better. The transferred course must be similar in content to a course offered in the Cumberland University MBA Program, and the transferred course can only be used as a replacement for the similar MBA course with the MBA Director’s approval. A minimum of thirty (30) semester hours of Cumberland University MBA courses must be successfully completed at Cumberland University.
Full-time status and academic loads
Full-time status for an MBA student is determined as enrollment for six (6) semester hours during the Fall, Spring, or Summer semesters. MBA students are expected to work while pursuing the MBA degree. The normal load is six (6) or twelve (12) semester hours, including the summer semester, in order to complete the 5000-level courses in six enrollments.