Eastern Mennonite University

EMU educates students to live in a global context. Our Anabaptist Christian community challenges students to pursue their life calling through scholarly inquiry, artistic creation, guided practice, and life-changing cross-cultural encounter. Consistently ranked among the top liberal arts schools of the South, EMU is a warm and friendly community that takes both faith and academics seriously. In our various programs-undergraduate, seminary and graduate -- EMU promotes intellectual development, personal growth, social responsibility and church commitment. We challenge our students to answer Christ's call to a life of nonviolence, witness, service and peacebuilding.

The Department of Business and Economics

Our department emphasizes development of business skills in a Christian context. We will help you become flexible, marketable, and ethical in today's business world. We enable our students to be proactive participants in the marketplace. We place special emphasis on commitment to excellence, high ethical standards, and an understanding of the international business viewpoint.

Master of Business Administration

The graduate program in business administration at Eastern Mennonite University prepares students for leadership and management positions in an increasingly diverse and global marketplace. Through course work and interactions with faculty and peers, MBA students will develop skills and abilities preparing them to work and advance in businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Designed with the working professional in mind, the EMU MBA develops a perspective that advances the common good for all stakeholders in business and promotes high ethical standards, stewardship, and peace building. The MBA curriculum is designed to strengthen your abilities to analyze business situations and solve complex business problems, as well as provide strategic direction to your firm. The program is targeted toward mid-career individuals with a minimum of two to five years work experience and an undergraduate degree who are seeking advancement in their current career, or a change of careers. Most students will continue to work part- or full-time during the entire program.

EMU's MBA program assumes that students enter the program with some experience, skills and expertise. Regardless of the level of prior experience, students will continue the life-long process of strengthening the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values necessary to good business management and administration.

Core Curriculum

The MBA core program includes courses covering topics in:

• Accounting
• Business Law
• Economics
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Information Systems
• International Business
• Management
• Marketing
• Production and Operations
• Strategy

In addition to studying the traditional business disciplines, EMU's MBA core program goes "beyond the briefcase" to look at issues and questions regarding the proper role of business in society, as well as the role of faith in business. Throughout the Core, you will have the opportunity to reflect on and further develop your framework of beliefs, values and ethics to guide your business decisions.

MBA students join cohorts who take their core classes together one night a week. Classes are delivered in a variety of formats including lecture, case study, and group discussion. The program includes 12 prerequisite hours, a 32-hour core, and a 4-hour final project. The MBA is normally completed in two and a half years. Regular semester classes will be offered as one three-credit-hour subject over eight weeks, or two three-credit-hour subjects over 16 weeks, alternating subjects on either a weekly, or bi-weekly basis. Classes meet one night per week, four hours per night as a full cohort during the semester. In addition to the weekly cohort meetings, you meet approximately two hours/week in small study groups.

Information

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