4+1 Bachelors/MBA Option

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4+1 Bachelors/MBA Option

Considering a career in business, government or the non-‐profit sector? Shepherd’s 4+1 option for current students, regardless of background, provides a pathway for you to:

•Complete your undergraduate liberal arts, professional or business degree; •Master contemporary business knowledge and skills;

•Be a stand out in today’s global and competitive job market.

Apply for the fifth-‐year MBA

Apply to the 4+1 Bachelors/MBA program when you have completed 90 undergraduate hours and met other requirements of the program, such as the minimum GPA

requirement. Students must also provide the additional materials required for MBA admissions requirements: C.V., letter of intent and two recommendation letters.

Build your business foundation

Students without a business background can take the three MBA foundation courses (9 credits) during the senior year. These credits will (can?) count as undergraduate

electives, but are also applied toward the MBA. You’ll pay for these senior-‐year credits at undergraduate tuition rates.

• MBA FDA Foundations of Accounting*

• MBA FDE Foundations of Economics*

• MBA FDS Foundations of Statistics*

*Foundations courses may be waived based on relevant undergraduate courses in these areas. If any of the foundations courses are waived, students may take an MBA core course during the senior year.

*4+1 students must earn at least a “B” grade in each foundation course in order to matriculate into the MBA program. Students who earn less than a “B” will need to retake the course.

*Students already in the undergraduate business programs should work closely with their advisor and department chair for the appropriate courses to use at the

undergraduate level.

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Catalog Description:

The Shepherd University 4+1 program for the master of business administration (MBA) degree allows interested and qualified students to complete a bachelor’s degree (BS-‐ BADM) and an MBA in five years. Students in the 4+1 program focus on their bachelor’s degree requirements during their first three years, a mix of bachelor’s and MBA

requirements in the fourth year, and mostly MBA requirements in the fifth year. Each degree is awarded once the specific degree requirements are successfully met.

Students need to work closely with their advisor to make sure they are selecting coursework that covers both degree requirements. Additionally, students are

encouraged to meet with the University's Financial Aid Office since financial assistance (whether in the form of grants, scholarships, loans, etc.) is unique to each

student/family situation.

Justification:

An accelerated graduate program allows students to save time and money by having them spend less time in school than in a traditional MBA program. By providing an accelerated pathway to a graduate degree, students in Shepherd’s business degree programs fulfill necessary foundational course work and pre-‐requisite knowledge for the MBA, and, by taking graduate-‐level courses avoid duplication of some material that is common to the business program at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Note: Students may choose up to 4 courses or a total of 12 credits

CORE

• MBA 500 -‐ Challenges to Modern Business (3 cr)

• MBA 510 -‐ Advanced Management Theory (3 cr)

• MBA 520 -‐ Leadership and Ethics (3cr)

• MBA 540 -‐ Advanced Marketing Theory (3 cr)

• MBA 560 -‐ Managerial Economics (3 cr)

• MBA 570 -‐ Managerial Accounting (3 cr)

• ELECTIVES

• MBA 501 -‐ Entrepreneurship (3cr)

• MBA 502 -‐ Business Law (3cr)

• MBA 503 -‐ Fundraising and Grant Writing (3cr)

• MBA 504 -‐ Non-‐profit and Service Marketing (3cr)

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• MBA 508 -‐ International Business (3 cr)

• MBA 509 -‐ Statistical Analysis (3 cr)

• MBA 517 -‐ Human Resources (3 cr)

• MBA 545 -‐ Professional Selling and Sales Management (3 cr)

• MBA 548 -‐ Select Topics Applied Business I (3 cr)

• MBA 549 -‐ Select Topics Applied Business II (3 cr)

• MBA 572 -‐ Personal Financial Planning (3 cr)

• MBA 575 -‐ Advanced Auditing (3 cr)

• MBA 576 -‐ Advanced Tax Strategies (3 cr)

• MBA 579 -‐ Advanced Financial Management (3 cr)

• MBA 580 -‐ Introduction to Networking (3 cr)

• MBA 581 -‐ Web Programming (3 cr)

• MBA 582 -‐ Management Information Systems (3 cr)

• MBA 588 -‐ Database Management Systems (3 cr)

• MBA 600 -‐ Study Abroad (3cr)

• MBA 599 -‐ Special Topics: M.B.A. Seminar (3 cr)

• MBA 699 -‐ Special Topics: M.B.A. Seminar (3 cr)

Accounting Concentration (all accounting courses have pre-‐requisites)

• MBA 575 -‐ Advanced Auditing (3 cr)

• MBA 576 -‐ Advanced Tax Strategies (3 cr)

• MBA 577 -‐ Accounting Ethics (3 cr) Health Administration Concentration

• MBA 511 -‐ Health Administration and Strategy (3 cr)

• MBA 512 -‐ Healthcare Policy (3 cr)

• MBA 513 -‐ Health Economics and Finance (3 cr)

• MBA 514 -‐ Healthcare Law (3cr)

• MBA 515 -‐ Introduction to the U S Healthcare System (3cr) Public Management Concentration

• MBA 517 -‐ Human Resources (3 cr)

• MBA 531 -‐ Organizational Development (3cr)

• MBA 532 -‐ Project Management (3cr)

• MBA 533 -‐ Public Policy Analysis (3cr)

• MBA 534 -‐ Public Budgeting and Financial Management (3cr) Sport Management Concentration, 15 Hours:

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• MBA 521 -‐ Sport Management (3cr)

• MBA 522 -‐ Sport Marketing and Sales (3cr)

• MBA 523 -‐ Sport Law and NCAA Compliance (3cr)

• MBA 524 -‐ Sport Administration (3cr)

Shepherd University • Division of Graduate Studies 4+1 Bachelors/MBA Program • Permission to Enroll

The Shepherd University 4+1 Bachelors/MBA Program allows interested and qualified undergraduate students to complete a bachelor’s and an MBA degree in as little as five years. Students in the focus on their bachelor’s degree requirements during their first three years, a mix of bachelor’s and MBA requirements in the fourth year, and mostly MBA requirements in the fifth year. Each degree is awarded once the specific degree requirements are successfully met.

No more than (12) credits of graduate credit may be taken by an undergraduate student for this accelerated program. The student must be in good academic standing, with a minimum 3.0 GPA, and must have earned a minimum of 90 undergraduate credit hours. Credits appear on the undergraduate transcript, fulfill the undergraduate requirement and calculate in the undergraduate GPA. The courses taken at the graduate level count toward the fulfillment of the necessary hours (36) for the MBA degree. The student at the end of the MBA program will have accrued a minimum of 144 credits.

*Approval to take graduate courses in the 4+1 program does not constitute a guarantee or promise of future admission to the Shepherd University graduate program. Students must meet the requirements for admission to the graduate program and fill out the admissions application found here: http://www.shepherd.edu/wordpress-‐1/wp-‐ content/uploads/2015/04/application.pdf

The application fee is waived for the graduate application.

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Shepherd University • Division of Graduate Studies 4+1 Bachelors/MBA program • Permission to Enroll

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