MBA Program
MBA Program
Master of Business Administration
Rowan MBA students enjoy the freedom to create customized degree pathways based on career goals and employer, workplace, and industry needs.
Join one of the most flexible and customizable MBA programs in the country to hone your skills in specific targeted areas of business – or explore building knowledge across sectors – to expand your insights and set yourself apart from the competition.
Rowan MBA students can choose two related Concentrations to build significant depth, two distinct Concentrations to build breadth, or even choose one Concentration and 3 elective courses across disciplines to gain a wide view from varying perspectives.
Program Overview
Offered in a variety of convenient formats tailored for busy, on-the-go professionals, 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 focused on their next career steps. Our alumni are prepared to assume managerial and leadership positions in commercial, not-for-profit, and government agencies.
The Rohrer MBA program is fully flexible - choose the course format that best fits your needs, and even change that format semester-by-semester.
- Evening classes on main campus in Glassboro (Fall and Spring)
- Eight-week courses online (Fall, Spring, and Summer)
What makes our MBA curriculum innovative?
Not only do you get the Rowan education you trust but we have been re-formulating our curriculum for all of our programs. With flexible formats of fully online, in-person, or a mix of both learning in the modern world has never been more possible. New concentrations based on industry trends and focuses in our classic programs on emerging information make us the best fit for MBA education in today's world!
MBA Curriculum
The Rohrer MBA program consists of 36 graduate-level credits courses (36 s.h.).
The MBA curriculum offers a flexible format where 50% of the curriculum is core (or required), and 50% will be customized based on career goals for each student.
The required core 18 credits is completed via four 3-credit and four 1.5-credit courses.
The flexible, customized 18 credits is pursued via six 3-credit courses: two areas of concentration or one area of concentration and three elective courses.
Details on the courses within the curriculum are below.
MBA Curriculum Details
Foundation Courses
Foundation Courses (Undergraduate-level):
The following foundation courses must be satisfied in order to complete the MBA program. Foundation-level courses can be taken simultaneously with some core MBA courses, although this option is limited and still 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 Courses
Graduate-Level Core Courses :
Core/Required Courses: 18 S.H.
- ACC 03500 Managerial Accounting (3 sh/credits)
- FIN 04500 Financial Decision Making (3 sh/credits)
- MGT 07550 Operations Analytics (3 sh/credits)
- MGT 06515 Employee Engagement and Performance (1.5 sh/credits)
- MGT 06567 Responsible Leadership: Aligning the Interests of Stakeholders, Profit, and Planet (1.5 sh/credits)
- MIS 02501 Information Systems for Managers (1.5 sh/credits)
- MKT 09511 Marketing Management Fundamentals (1.5 sh/credits)
- MGT 06629 Managing Organizational Strategy (3 sh/credits)
Graduate-Level Elective Courses :
Elective/Concentration Courses: 18 S.H.
- Two MBA Concentrations by choosing from specific concentration requirements, or
- One MBA Concentration and three electives (electives can be chosen from any concentration provided pre-reqs are met)
MBA Concentrations
With the most customizable MBA curriculum in the region, you’ll have the ability to hone your skills in specific areas of business – or explore building knowledge across sectors -- to expand your insights and set yourself apart from the competition. With options including Accounting, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, HR Management, Management, MIS, Organizational Leadership, Supply Chain and Logistics, and Sustainable Business.
Contact
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If you have questions or would like support regarding the MBA application system and process, please contact Tendai Vengesa at vengesa@rowan.edu for assistance.
