Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Course details

The MBA program is a 48-unit curriculum that provides a comprehensive framework for providing knowledge, tools and skills of entrepreneurship and initiative ability of today’s business leaders to manage business organizations in an increasingly competitive business environment. The CBA program is designed for the experienced practitioner and planned around case studies, business simulations and small-group seminar sessions. There are two options to acquire a degree from this program. The first is to acquire an MBA degree in General Management by earning 48 credit hours of the available courses without any special concentration on a certain area of study. The second option is to acquire an MBA degree with concentration on one of the available 8 fields or areas of concentration by earning 48 credit hours divided into 36 hours of Core Courses and 12 hours of Selected Field or Area of Concentration. Regardless of the specialization or area of concentration, all students are required to complete the following Core Courses:

• FIN 511 Financial Management (3 Credit Hours)
• ACCT 511 Financial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
• HRM 512 Human Resources Management (3 Credit Hours)
• MIS 511 Management Information Systems (3 Credit Hours)
• ECON 511 Managerial Economics (3 Credit Hours)
• MKT 511 Marketing Management (3 Credit Hours)
• MGT 511 Advanced Quantitative Business Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
• IBM 511 International Business Administration (3 Credit Hours)
• EPR 511 Entrepreneurship (3 Credit Hours)
• OPM 511 Operations Management (3 Credit Hours)
• HRM 511 Organizational Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
• MGT 581 Business Strategies (3 Credit Hours)

Areas of Concentration

• Accounting (12 Credit Hours)
• Entrepreneurship (12 Credit Hours)
• Finance (12 Credit Hours)
• Human Resources Management (12 Credit Hours)
• IBM International Business Administration (12 Credit Hours)
• MIS Management Information System (12 Credit Hours)
• Marketing (12 Credit Hours)
• OPM Operations Management (12 Credit Hours)

Admission Requirements

1. A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
2. A Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.25 or higher on a 4.0 Scale or 3.25 or higher on 5.0 Scale in previous university work
3. Student should not be graduated from Bachelor degree for more than 10 years but if he/she has been graduated for more than 10 years the Board of MBA may look at the case and take a decision in this case.
4. A minimum of 1 year of professional experience
5. At least one personal interview is required: a preliminary interview with Executive MBA Admission Committee
6. Two letters of nomination and recommendation from senior business associates that objectively assess the applicant’s strengths, weaknesses, potential, and suitability for the Executive MBA program are required
7. All students are required to obtain a minimum TOEFL score of 61 in IBT or 5.5 on IELTS and for those who had their bachelor degree in English they are not requested to facilitate TOEFL or IELTS
8. The CBA reserves the right to require an applicant to attain an acceptable score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GLAT).

NOTE: The Admission Office will inform the applicant of the status of the application, but it is the applicant’s responsibility to be certain that all necessary documents are on file by published deadlines for admission. While acceptance to the program may allow a student to enrol for 45 days as an unclassified student, admission to the EMBA program will not be considered official until the application file is complete. No amount of credit taken while on Unclassified Status will assure a student of full admission. Admission will be confirmed by a letter from the Vice Dean for Higher Studies and Research.