Executive Master of Business Administration

The Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree intended for those who aspire to increasing levels of responsibility in business and industry. An MBA is an investment in your future.

The MBA degree program is designed to provide you with a breadth of skills ranging from accounting to project management. The program revolves around managerial skills required in planning, organizing and controlling work in organizations.

It focuses on directing, coaching and motivating people for effective performance. In addition, this program is designed to help you understand various management theories, essential management functions and their interrelationships, and the global environment of today's business.

The MBA program at CTU Denver offers concentrations in the following areas of study:

Accounting

Students who successfully complete the MBA with a concentration in Accounting should be able to:

• Perform an audit review with the documentation that goes with it.
• Describe how accounting information is used in implementing management policy.
• Utilize accounting information to evaluate how to organize the business for managerial control.
• Discuss the ethical implications of taxation and business decisions.
• Develop a practical understanding and application of specific actions, processes and techniques needed to move into the "next generation" of organizations.
• Develop financial reports to meet business expansion needs.
• Apply product costing techniques in the development of a master budget from a strategic perspective.

Business Administration

Students who successfully complete the MBA degree program should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of effective, ethical leadership strategies and skills.
• Conduct professional applied research.
• Demonstrate competence in a chosen field.
• Communicate information effectively.
• Work effectively as problem-solving team members.
• Understand the implications of the Internet on today's business.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major functional areas of business administration, including the critical skills necessary to analyze and solve business problems.
• Show a mastery of mathematics, statistics, accounting, finance and economics to a sufficient degree to apply quantitative reasoning and analysis to business and management problems.

Finance

Employment growth for financial managers is expected to be about as fast as the average for all occupations. However, applicants will likely face strong competition for jobs. Those with a master's degree and a certification will have the best opportunities.**

Colorado Technical University's Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program offers a career-focused concentration in Finance that focuses on helping students understand how to analyze financial information to make decisions to enhance business success. Ethical issues in finance and financial management for multinational enterprises are also covered.

Human Resource Management

Students who successfully complete the MBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management should be able to:

• Develop change agent skills, especially related to critical and creative thinking, regarding human resource management issues.
• Discuss the importance of strategic human resource planning and be able to participate in futuring, forecasting, and strategic planning processes.
• Apply knowledge of the legal and ethical principles to human resource management decision making and policy development.
• Resolve operational problems using knowledge and understanding of principles and various functions of human resource management, including models of compensation and benefits, selection, recruitment, succession planning, equal employment opportunity, employment rights, training, employee and organizational development.
• Explain the impact of current trends in legal decisions on organizational policies and human resources.
• Apply the management, legal, and ethical issues of diversity, affirmative action, and employee and labor relations to the design of organizational decision models and policies.

Insurance and Risk Management

This career-relevant MBA program is designed to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and credentials to pursue such interesting and in-demand positions as:

• Risk Managers
• Compliance Directors
• Claims Managers
• Actuaries
• Loss Control Consultants
• Many other related occupations

Marketing

Marketing research is crucial to analyzing and understanding data and trends. As increasing numbers of companies look to expand into global markets, individuals with a grasp of cultural, ethical, and legal implications of international marketing will be in high demand. The field of marketing has been, and is being, transformed by technology; successful leaders need to be ready to adapt and leverage this technology to gain competitive advantage.

College graduates with related experience, a high level of creativity and strong communication skills should have the best job opportunities. In particular, employers will seek those who have the computer skills to conduct advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations and sales activities on the Internet.**

Colorado Technical University's Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program offers a career-focused concentration in Marketing focused on providing students with the skills needed to make critical marketing decisions for businesses and organizations.

Operations Management

This degree program can help you acquire the qualifications to pursue executive-level career opportunities in a wide range of fields that require people with the ability to oversee the operations aspect of a company or organization. Its purpose is to offer you a solid foundation of industry-current knowledge and management skills necessary to pursue positions responsible for directing the operations of large and small corporations, public sector organizations and nonprofit institutions.

Technology Management

The technology management degree program can prepare you with an understanding of:

• Information technology management systems
• Networking architecture
• Data communications design
• Database management

Project management fundamentals can prepare you with industry-recognized approaches for organizational efficiency. Topics also include management-level finance, economics and decision-making strategies.

Master of Science in Management - IT/Project Management

Increasing demand for professionals who can integrate and manage a company's information and technology tools has created an emerging new field in information technology. In the next decade, the demand is expected to double.

To help meet the need for this competitive new breed of management professional, Colorado Technical University has introduced this exciting new concentration in Information Technology/Project Management within the Master of Science in Management (MSM) degree program.

Course content includes a solid core of project management curriculum plus courses in computing platforms and network architecture designs. Software systems, both application and development, are covered with emphasis on relational database and client/server technology. Graduates of the program should be prepared to design, build, integrate and manage the information technology systems and programs associated with today's organizations.

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

This degree program offers the following features:

• Complete your degree in as few as 3 years; with a qualified associate's degree, you can complete in as few as 18 months
• Qualified course transfer, life experience and military credits accepted
• Earn high-demand CTU Academic Certificates with no added time nor tuition cost
• Gain industry-current, real-world skills and knowledge

Human Resource Management

Colorado Technical University's concentration in Human Resource Management is designed to prepare the aspiring human resource professional to participate as an integral member of an organization's management team. The complexities of today's legal environment, together with increased emphasis on customer service and competitiveness through effective personnel management, have dramatically affected the role and responsibilities of the human resource manager. Program curriculum is designed to develop insight into management structures and processes and to help build professional skills in communication, human resources and systems management.

Management

Colorado Technical University's College of Business and Management is dedicated to helping tomorrow's successful business professionals develop their capabilities so that they may assume positions of leadership and responsibility at all levels of management in our society.

Marketing

The marketing concentration focuses on the crucial interface between an organization and its customers. Topics include research, analysis, decision-making and application, consumer behavior, strategic marketing planning, and the tools and methods of communication.

Bachelor of Science in e-Business

The Bachelor of Science in e-Business degree program introduces you to the evolving electronic business paradigm. It is designed to prepare you for a professional career managing the technologies that enable an organization to engage in business between businesses and consumers.

An integrated curriculum enables you to develop the ability to design, implement and manage applications dealing with e-business. You are exposed to the conventional and electronic marketplace, including the global marketplaces surrounding the e-business environment.

Courses include legal and regulatory issues, and security techniques and technologies. Program content is designed to develop business management ability, customer relationship management and technological skills, which are complemented by courses in humanities, social science and professional communication.

Bachelor of Science in Health Services Administration

The Bachelor of Science in Health Services Administration (BSHSA) degree program is designed for students with an associate's degree in a health services field. In addition, those with an associate's degree in another unrelated program but are working in the health care field may be eligible for admission. This program is designed to prepare the student to become a leader in a health services organization.

The BSHSA degree program also includes a unique opportunity to spend two quarters in a health care organization exploring the intricacies of health services administration. During these two quarters, you will be asked to identify and implement a performance improvement or management project that can enhance your understanding of the field while offering a tangible benefit to the health care organization. At the completion of the externship, you will be expected to make a professional presentation to the host organization and your peers.

Bachelor of Science in Project Management

The project management degree program is based on the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)--the recognized industry standard. You can build a strong base of practical, real-world applications and undergraduate foundational studies in areas including English, math, social science and technology.

You can learn:

• Real-world project planning
• Time and conflict management
• Human resource management
• Risk analysis and management
• An understanding of organizations, teams and processes
• Budgeting and cost control systems
• Contracting
• Negotiating

Associate of Science in Accounting

In the Associate of Science in Accounting (ASACC) program students are expected to develop a base of practical, real-world skills from professors who are accounting professionals. Building on a foundation of communication interpersonal and math skills, you will have the opportunity to learn all aspects of the accounting cycle, including analyzing and interpreting the various financial statements. Courses in business and managerial accounting give students the tools for making basic decisions in organizations.

Associate of Science in Business Administration

The Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA) degree program is designed to provide a strong base consisting of business fundamentals that can prepare students to enter today's competitive business world. The program focuses on teaching students key business administration techniques, including critical-thinking and decision-making skills, and incorporates that knowledge with the communication skills every student needs to be successful.

Students enrolled in the program will have the opportunity to gain practical, real-world knowledge from our professors--all of whom bring real-world business experience to the classroom.

The Associate of Science in Business Administration satisfies the course requirements for the first 2 years of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree program.

Students can choose to concentrate their studies in the following areas:

Management

With this degree program, you can prepare for a position as an account executive, credit manager, employment counselor, stock broker, office manager, real estate professional or customer support representative.

Since general business managers plan, organize, direct, control and coordinate the operations of an organization and its major departments of programs, they are found in nearly all organizations.

Marketing and Sales

The Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA) with a concentration in Marketing and Sales is designed to prepare you to understand and apply marketing, sales and management principles in order to contribute to organizational success.

The program emphasizes a strong base of business fundamentals and provides important undergraduate foundation studies in such areas as English, math, social science and technology. Courses are taught by faculty members who bring real-world business experience into the classroom.

Associate of Science in E-Business

The Associate of Science in E-Business degree program introduces you to the evolving electronic business world. It is designed to prepare you for a professional career implementing the technologies that enable an organization to engage in business between businesses and with consumers.

An integrated curriculum enables you the opportunity to develop the ability to create applications dealing with E-Business. Program content is designed to develop technological skills, which are complemented by courses in humanities, social science and professional communication.

A CTU degree in E-Business could prepare you for positions including:

• Account executive
• Marketing coordinator
• Customer service representative
• Website administrator
• Website designer

*Programs and availability are subject to change.

**Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos020.htm (visited February 6, 2008).

Colorado Technical University does not guarantee employment or salary.