Master of Science in Business: Administration

Course details

The Master of Science program in Business: Administration is broad-based with due emphasis on theoretical constructs and practical applications. It is a program designed for professionals or para-professionals who are often employed as managers or management trainees in business organizations.

Students develop, hone and refine and acquire decision-making skills that are crucial to effective management of an organization and its personnel. They will learn to apply sophisticated quantitative and analytical tools, and how to assess and act on complex financial and economic indicators. Strategic planning will also be explored, and program participants will come to understand how the amalgam of sub-fields studied combine to influence organizational structure, culture, and linked control systems.

Program curriculum is also designed to provide a global management perspective for managers and leaders operating in an international environment. Among the topics considered are political, cultural, legal and technological forces in the competitive environment.

Course Content

• Prepare for leadership and service within a broad spectrum of business and business-related arenas, by demonstration of process and organizational mastery.
• Hone formerly-acquired tools specific to business processes and procedures and manifest the capacity to understand the principal theory, significance and practical applications related to a broad range of complex issues within the business sector.
• Evidence a comprehensive, nuanced understanding of the functional components of business - economics, marketing, accounting, finance, law, management, thus enabling the holder of the Master’s degree to assume managerial and leadership positions and like positions in which they will have the occasion to contribute to the development, sustenance or growth of the organization.
• Develop and be prepared to articulate and contextualize a significant understanding of ethical situations commonly encountered in business environments. Such an understanding should allow for solution-centered contributions.
• Prepare to embrace and oversee global, political, social, legal, regulatory, and technological issues as they relate to business: knowledge put into applied use.
• Demonstrate preparedness for technical and professional requirements of the workplace, including, where requisite, certification examinations and other formalized verifications of competency and knowledge acquisition.
• Demonstrate an understanding of economic and business theories which, via critical thinking and systematic, informed analysis, allow for strategic contributions that will advance an organization.
• Demonstrate a substantial level of technical skills acquisition – in order to ensure the ability to create an array of documents and to produce data analysis reports, as needed or desirable.
• Further hone communicative skills, which underpin the ability to conduct independent research and to formulate documents, reports, and publications that manifest mastery of content and execution.