Master of Business Administration

Offered through a Partnership Between
Northwest Missouri State
Missouri Southern State University

About the Program

Taught in conjunction with Missouri Southern State University, this program is designed to be completed in two years. Two courses will be offered each fall, spring and summer term. >Graduates will receive a degree which lists both Northwest Missouri State University and Missouri Southern State University on the diploma.

>Application and enrollment in the program is processed through Northwest Missouri State University according to Northwest policies. Tuition is charged at the Northwest rate

Online students should note that Executive Seminar is a capstone course which must be taken during the last term of enrollment. Please check the schedule to determine when Executive Seminar will be taught.

* Proposed Schedule of Online Courses

Fall 2011	Information Systems Advanced Human Resource Management
Spring 2012	Macroeconomics for Business Managers Strategic Marketing
Summer 2012	*Executive Seminar Continuous Quality Improvement
Fall 2012	**International Business Investments
Spring 2013	Organizational Behavior Financial Management
Summer 2013	*Executive Seminar Managerial Accounting
Fall 2013	Information Systems Advanced Human Resource Management
Spring 2014	Macroeconomics for Business Managers Strategic Marketing
Summer 2014	*Executive Seminar Continuous Quality Improvement

The courses required for the MBA degree are:

Information Systems
Managerial Accounting
Financial Management
Organizational Behavior in Administration
Strategic Marketing
Managerial Economics OR Macroeconomics for Business Managers
*Executive Seminar
**Electives to equal 33 hours

*Executive Seminar must be taken during your last term of enrollment. Please note: this course is offered online once each academic year, during the summer term.

**International Business must be taken as a required elective if the student has not completed a course in international business at the undergraduate level.

You may transfer up to 9 hours into your program. Transfers must be approved by the Dean of the Melvin D. and Valorie G. Booth College of Business and Professional Studies prior to enrollment in the course. A course syllabus or catalog description of the requested course must be submitted with your petition for transfer.

Information regarding syllabi and a link to the instructor’s Northwest e-mail is available here.

All course schedules are tentative and subject to change.

Missouri Southern State University Liaison - Dr. Nichols

Plaster Hall Office 310G

417-625-9599 Nichols-B@mssu.edu