Master of Business Administration Professional Studies

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Customize your MBA to support your professional goals. In consultation with a dean or academic coach, you’ll choose three courses from the portfolio of MBA concentration courses. You may also opt to enroll in BUS 595: Business Experience Through Workplace Learning as one of your three courses.
This concentration is called the MBA Graduate Elective in North Carolina.

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The professional studies concentration provides students the opportunity to create a custom learning experience in business. Students will be able to choose three courses from the portfolio of MBA concentration courses that they feel best fit their learning needs. Students also have the option of taking the BUS 595 Business Experience through Workplace Learning course as one of their three courses in this concentration. Through the choice of three additional graduate courses, students will be able to acquire skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in their chosen careers within the business environment.

These courses are selected in consultation with a dean or coach. Courses may be selected from graduate-level courses in developing a curriculum that meets students’ educational and professional needs. Students are responsible for fulfilling any prerequisites associated with the graduate courses selected in the program.

In addition, students who complete this concentration may be prepared to:

• Carry out corrective action plans to fix problems within the organization or specific departments.
• Create and implement company policies to help increase productivity and maximize ROI.
• Guide managers on handling issues related to organizational policies, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment.
• Identify and fill open staff positions by interviewing and selecting applicants.
• Manage employee and staff work related to hiring, payment and employee relations.
• Monitor schedules, staffing and budgets throughout a project and update as needed.
• Organize and run orientation programs for new employees, trainings and more.
• Organize the creation or setup of systems to control budgets, keep records and manage administrative tasks.
• Oversee departments such as advertising, purchasing, credit or accounting.
• Perform difficult staffing tasks, like resolving understaffing issues, firing employees and enforcing disciplinary actions.
• Resolve any issues that come up throughout the course of a project.
• Select department heads or managers and delegate tasks and responsibilities to them.
• Supply employees and new candidates with details about job responsibilities, pay and benefits.