BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The Business Administration Programs offers advanced and specialized instruction, including skill-building, with an emphasis on launching, investing in, and developing innovative companies and businesses. Program graduates will have acquired the knowledge, skills, and resources central to successfully launching, investing in, and developing businesses. The international business track adds a multicultural and global context, with special emphasis on issues relating to doing business in and with China.MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The San Diego University for Integrative Studies offers the Master of Busines Administration degree program, designed for mid-career business managers, multicultural organizational leaders, educators, investors, entrepreneurs, and other mature adult learners who are seeking to broaden and deepen their knowledge and skill in launching new businesses, investing in them, and developing them. The MBA program is designed to prepare graduates for managerial or entrepreneurial involvement in business, either in the US or in businesses with an international focus. The program offers two tracks. The first is a general track focusing on business in a US context, and the second focuses on the global and multicultural context of US and international business, and includes a special emphasis on doing business with China.Participants in the Master of Business Administration program must complete 14 courses from the following (all courses are 5 quarter units each and are at the graduate level). Courses BUS 601 and BUS 602 are required for all students. General track students must also complete courses BUS 610 through 618, and international business track students must complete courses 620 through 628. An additional 3 courses must be chosen from the list of elective courses (numbered BUS 650 through 656).
REQUIREMENTS:
The MBA program requires the participant to successfully complete a total of 70 quarter units (generally 14 courses) of graduate-level coursework in business administration. The sequence of available courses for each of the two tracks includes both required courses (11 courses) and electives (3 courses). In addition, students must pass a comprehensive examination.BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The San Diego University for Integrative Studies offers the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree program, designed to provide the student with a foundation and marketable skills in business administration, organization, management, and communication guided by international and multicultural applied perspectives. A logically sequenced curriculum presents a practical orientation for developing and implementing effective entrepreneurial systems and administrative strategies targeting the needs, issues, and trends of the 21st Century global marketplace. The student completes core courses in business administration in tandem with the fulfillment of lower and upper division general education courses from the University's approved undergraduate completion program in Humanistic Studies. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program in Business Administration may enrich the breadth of their undergraduate major by completing an additional Specialty curriculum in either Communications or Information Technology Systems, respectively. The Specialization curricula consists of seven (7) courses in either Communications or Information Systems Technology, and are designed as supplemental professional skills training logically integrated with and directly relatable to the organized sequence of studies comprising the major in Business Administration.PREREQUISITES:
High school diploma or the equivalent (GED) are minimum requirements for admission. Students having earned an Associate of Arts degree, or the equivalent, from a state approved or regionally accredited institution may transfer a maximum of one hundred thirty-five (135) quarter or ninety (90) semester units. The B.A. program in Business Administration requires all transfer students to complete a minimum of sixty (60) quarter units.REQUIREMENTS:
The Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree program requires the completion of one hundred eighty (180) quarter units at the undergraduate level. The student completes one hundred five (105) quarter units in basic collegiate education and seventy-five (75) quarter units in Business Administration. This includes twenty-one (21) lower and upper division courses logically sequenced from the University's approved undergraduate curriculum and fifteen (15) specialty courses in Business Administration. Completion of this program also requires the student to fulfill a capstone Senior Research Project relative to applied topics in Business Administration and allied fields such as international marketing and finance, for example. Students majoring in Business Administration have the option of pursuing additional specialty instruction in either Communications or Information Technology Systems, and each specialty curriculum consists of thirty-five (35) quarter units, which is the equivalent of seven (7) courses beyond the minimum graduation requirement of one-hundred eighty (180) quarter units. As such, students fulfilling either Specialization course sequence complete a total of two-hundred fifteen (215) quarter units in completing all graduation requirements.The Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration degree program offers basic education and specialty curricula to provide the student with marketable business skills relevant to the contemporary multicultural, global workplace. The program's emphasis on Humanistic values strives to address shortcomings currently found in 'corporate culture'.
Certificate in International Business Administration.