Program Profile

Students seeking the Master of Business Administration degree complete foundation courses (0-15 hours) and core courses (24 hours) in areas such as economics, accounting, business law and corporate responsibility, management information systems, marketing, finance, operations management, and ethical leadership. Additionally, students are required to take 12 elective hours and the MBA capstone for a total of 39 - 54 program hours.

Foundation Courses* (0-15)

BAA 505 Micro and Macro Economics (3 hours)
BAA 510 Accounting and Finance (3 hours)
BAA 515 Management and Marketing (3 hours)
*Students may waive this foundation work with the satisfactory completion of equivalent undergraduate courses as evidenced by their official transcripts.

Core Program (24 Hours)

BAA 601 Managerial Economics (3 hours)
BAA 603 Managerial Accounting (3 hours)
BAA 604 Issues in Business Law and Corporate Responsibility (3 hours)
BAA 605 Marketing Concepts and Practices (3 hours)
BAA 607 Management Information Systems (3 hours)
BAA 609 Corporation Finance (3 hours)
BAA 611 Operations Management Science (3 hours)
BAA 613 Ethical Leadership (3 hours)

Electives (12 Hours)

Each student in the program is required to take 12 semester hours (four courses) beyond the MBA core. One of these courses must be an international elective.

MBA Capstone –– BAA 699 (3 Hours)

The MBA Capstone is the culmination course for the MBA program. The course provides students with the opportunity to correlate, integrate and apply the concepts and principles that have been learned in the core and concentration courses of the MBA program. The course is normally taken as the final course in the MBA program. The concluding case seminar must be taken in residence at Mercer.

TOTAL 39-54 hours