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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Business Administration, M.B.A.


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Arcadia University offers an M.B.A. program in a fully online format. Students take one course at a time, in an accelerated eight-week course period, a model that is particularly valued by working professionals. With a fully asynchronous mode of delivery, students have the flexibility to pursue each course at their own pace during the week.

The MBA program consists of a business core and students must choose one of the three concentrations as a specialization. Concentrations are offered in – Healthcare Finance, Financial Analysis and Organizational Leadership.

The 30 credit MBA program can normally be completed in a 19-to-22-month period.

Arcadia’s M.B.A. enables students to:

  • Analyze emerging global trends affecting business today.

  • Develop expertise within a specialized area of business through a concentration

  • Enhance skills associated with data gathering, analysis and evaluation to design and implement more effective strategic plans.

  • Demonstrate critical thinking and multi-disciplinary problem solving

  • Apply technology to improve areas such as management information, communication, and productivity.

  • Lead organizations in achieving their goals and objectives through effective delegating, team-building, and motivating practices.

  • Integrate cultural awareness and diversity in implementing ethical decisions.

Requirements


Concentration


(12 credits minimum)

Students have to choose between courses from at least 1 group

Healthcare Finance Concentration

  • BA 562 Human Resource Management (3 credits)

  • BA 5XX Healthcare Financial Management I: Reimbursement Models (3 credits)

  • BA 5XX Healthcare Financial Management II: Financial Decision Making (3 credits)

  • CHS 602 Healthcare Economics and Policy (3 credits)

  • PBH 510 Health Care Systems and Public Health Policy: An Integrated Approach to Population Health (3 credits)

 

Financial Analysis Concentration

  • BA 580 Shareholder Value Management (3 credits)

  • BA 681 Securities Analysis (3 credits)

  • BA 682 Mergers and Acquisitions (3 credits)

  • BA 683 Investment Banking (3 credits)

 

Organizational Leadership Concentration

  • BA 562 Human Resource Management (3 credits)

  • BA 600 Leadership for Effective Organizations (3 credits)

  • BA 602 Power and Politics (3 credits)

  • BA 603 Contemporary Issues in Leadership (3 credits)

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