Master of Business Administration

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  Graduate Program Concentrations

  Accounting Analytics

  Accounting information systems play an essential role in organizing, analyzing, and safeguarding financial data. This concentration prepares managers to use accounting data, information systems, and analytics software to identify patterns, assess risk, support decision-making, and address issues related to auditing, fraud, and organizational controls.

  Artificial Intelligence

  AI is among the most disruptive technologies ever developed; it has the potential to increase productivity exponentially and also introduces social and environmental concerns. Learn how to effectively harness its power and limit risk to gain a competitive edge, while earning our nationally ranked MBA.

  Business Intelligence

  In a world of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, businesses need to carefully manage data and decision-making processes; learn how this can be accomplished efficiently and effectively.

  Business Turnaround Management

  Managing and reviving an organization in distress requires different skills and techniques, and brings different rewards, than managing a stable or growing institution. This concentration focuses on making firms sustainable and positioning them for success.

  Financial Accounting

  This concentration strengthens managers’ understanding of accounting principles and their application in complex business settings. It prepares MBAs to interpret financial information, support sound business decisions, and pursue roles that require advanced financial accounting knowledge.

  Human Resource Management

  An essential asset of any organization, and a crucial input to any production process, is personnel. Learn how to effectively hire, professionally develop, promote, compensate, and incentivize employees to achieve organizational goals, in both unionized and nonunionized environments.

  International Business

  Nearly all modern organizations operate in a global environment, with raw materials, production, employees, and/or customers abroad, and they are influenced by trends and fluctuations in populations, exchange rates, investment opportunities, geopolitical constraints, tariffs, and cultural differences. Become adept at managing an organization in the global context, bridging differences in languages, time zones, social norms, and laws.

  Management

  Gain expertise in establishing a clear organizational mission and vision, competitive analysis, strategic planning, executing goals and objectives, progress tracking, innovating, and celebrating achievements, all while navigating a complex and changing economic, legal, regulatory, political, and social environment.

  Marketing

  Learn to use best practices and emerging technologies to conduct market research, develop products and services that resonate with consumers, establish appropriate pricing, promote products and services successfully, and track sales to achieve organizational objectives.

  Supply Chain Management

  Learn the logistics of bringing raw materials from widely dispersed locations into a common production process, and distributing output through various channels (direct-to-consumer, through wholesalers and/or retailers, etc.) to end users who may also be geographically dispersed.

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  Admission Requirements

  The MBA Program is open to students of high promise who have earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. No prior academic work in business is required. Admission decisions are based on undergraduate grade point average (GPA), work experience, post-graduate studies and recommendations, and GMAT or GRE (if needed). MBA admission materials include:

  • A University of Detroit Mercy Graduate Online Application Form, (application fee is waived);
  • Official transcripts for all previous academic work;
  • An official report with the scores earned on the GMAT or GRE (if needed);
  • A resume;
  • A letter of Letter of Recommendation;
  • Applicants are welcome to include any other information they feel is important to the admission consideration. This information can be uploaded while completing the online application  

  Do I need the GMAT?

  1. Was your undergraduate grade point average 3.0 or above?
  2. Do you have 7 or more years of professional experience?
  3. Have you already earned a graduate or professional degree?

  If you can answer “YES” to at least two of these questions, then you have an excellent chance to gain admission to the AACSB accredited MBA program at University of Detroit Mercy WITHOUT TAKING THE GMAT! Otherwise, you should plan to submit official scores from either the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Exam (GRE). 

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  Degree Requirements / Accelerated Curriculum

  The basic requirements for University of Detroit Mercy's MBA Program involve a 33-credit-hour structure which includes the following set of core courses and a set of post-core courses. Core courses serve as the heart of a common educational experience for all students who seek the MBA degree. Post-core requirements include an integrated capstone course, MBA 5900.

  Foundation requirements include a set of courses designed for those applicants who have had no exposure or limited exposure to business courses in their academic background and/or limited work experience. These courses, up to a maximum of 12 credit hours, may be required to guarantee preparedness for the program's core and post-core requirements.

  Each applicant's program requirements are determined immediately following the admission decision. Foundation requirements may be waived, in any number, depending upon the applicant's academic background. The mere fact that a student has completed coursework in one or more particular disciplines or had extensive work experience does not imply that any waiver will be granted. Prior academic work must be of sufficient quantity and quality as to satisfy the specific criteria established. Each student's specific requirements are determined individually with the objective of ensuring the overall quality of that student's degree program.

  Course Curriculum

  Foundation Courses

  Students who enter the program without undergraduate business courses will be advised about the necessary foundation courses they are required to take prior to taking the core classes.

  ACC 5100 Financial Accounting
  MBA 5100 Legal Issues
  MBA 5120 Data Analysis for Decision Making
  MBA 5180 Fundamentals of Financial Management
   

  Required Courses

  ACC 5200 Managerial Accounting
  MBA 5200 Modeling, Analytics, & Decision-Making
  MBA 5210 Personal Development, Ethics, and Social Responsibility in Organizations
  MBA 5220 Strategic Financial Management
  MBA 5240 Marketing Management and Planning
  MBA 5250 Teamwork & Leadership
  MBA 5260 Systems and Technology
  MBA 5900 Strategic Management

  Frequently Offered Electives (Must pick 3 courses)

  MBA 5305 Global Sustainable Development
  MBA 5320 e-Business Strategies
  MBA 5370 Project Management
  MBA 5400 Capital Expenditure Analysis
  MBA 5420 Investments
  MBA 5450 Global Finance
  MBA 5480 Debt, Equity, and Financing Structuring
  MBA 5500 New Product Management
  MBA 5510 Marketing Communications
  MBA 5520 Marketing Research
  MBA 5530 Consumer Behavior
  MBA 5580 Global Marketing Management
  MBA 5620 Entrepreneurship
  MBA 5640 Business Turnaround Management
  MBA 5680 Diversity in Management and Marketing
  MBA 5720 Human Resources Management
  MBA 5760 Critical Issues in Labor
  MBA 5850 Organizational Change and Development
  MBA 5890 Managing the Global Firm
  MBA 5920 Emerging Trends in Business
  MBA 5940 International Studies in Business
  MBA 5950 Directed Study and Research
  MBA 5990 Master's Thesis

  CBA Graduate Thesis Guidelines