Master of Business Administration

Program Overview

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Rowan University’s Rohrer College of Business provides contemporary graduate business education to professionals from diverse fields and academic backgrounds. The program will prepare you to be a team leader, with effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and group process skills. The Rohrer MBA curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, quantitative analysis and computing applications, and the technological and international nature of business.

The Rohrer MBA program offers small class sizes with an average student/faculty ratio of 25 to 1. You will be among students of varying professional and academic backgrounds who are focusing on their next career steps. Alumni of the MBA are prepared to assume managerial and leadership positions in commercial, not-for-profit, and government agencies.

Format Options

The Rohrer MBA program is flexible and you can choose from course formats that fit your needs:

• Evening classes on main campus in Glassboro (Fall and Spring)
• On-site at Cooper Hospital in Camden (Fall and Spring)
• Eight week courses online (Fall, Spring, and Summer)
• Hybrid: 50% online and 50% at the Rowan College at Burlington County campus in Mount Laurel (Fall, Spring, and Summer)

The opportunity for flexible scheduling was designed with working professionals in mind. 

MBA Curriculum

The Rohrer MBA program consists of 12 graduate courses (36 s.h.) with nine required (27 s.h.) and three elective (9 s.h.) courses. The three elective courses allow you to tailor the academic program to meet your specific career development needs. These three electives can be used to pursue a Concentration.

Undergraduate-Level Foundation Courses:
The following foundation courses must be satisfied in order to complete the MBA program. Foundation-level courses can be taken simultaneouslywith some core MBA courses, although this option is limited and requires students to follow course sequencing requirements.

• FC-1. Calculus Techniques & Applications
• FC-2. Statistics I
• FC-3. Foundations of Accounting OR Principles of Accounting I and II
• FC-4. Principles of Econ: A Survey OR Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
• FC-5. Principles of Marketing
• FC-6. Principles of Finance*
• FC-7. Operations Management*

*Must be taken at a 4-year university or college.

View the Foundation Fact Sheet for more information. 

Graduate-Level Core Courses: 

• ACC 03500 Managerial Accounting
• FIN 04500 Financial Decision Making
• MGT 04510 Professional, Legal and Managerial Responsibilities
• MGT 06500 Designing, Developing and Leading High Performance Organizations
• MGT 06502 International Business and Society
• MGT 07500 Managerial Decision Making Tools
• MIS 02500 Issues in Management Information Systems
• MKT 09500 Marketing Management
• MGT 06629 Managing Organizational Strategy

Graduate-Level Elective Courses:

• Graduate-level business elective or concentration course
• Graduate-level business elective or concentration course
• Graduate-level business elective or concentration course

Choose three graduate elective courses to satisfy the 9 credit requirement. Concentrations are available and can fulfill the elective requirement.