Specializations in:
-Accounting
-Finance
-Healthcare Management
-Human Resource Management
-International Business
-Management
-Operations Management
-Project Management

This Master of Business Administration degree program is a 48-credit program designed to give students the knowledge, skills and decision-making ability to accelerate their careers in the fields of business or management. The program culminates in a capstone experience from a business research perspective.

Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)

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Upon completion of the MBA program, the student should be able to:

1. Develop organizational and operational plans to solve problems and improve the business environment and performance.
2. Analyze various leader, follow, cultural, and situational characteristics that contribute to leadership, and adapt to the needs of situations, employees, and co-workers.
3. Apply qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate the quality of decision making and research to solve problems.
4. Use knowledge of economic concepts, principles, and theory to critically analyze and evaluate economic problems and opportunities.
5.  Evaluate the opportunities provided by technology for businesses.
6.  Recognize, evaluate, and manage potential ethical and legal conflicts.
7.  Communicate effectively in business situations.

AIU has developed a unique assessment process to assess the quality of student work in four major areas throughout our program. Every class has one common assignment that is used to rate each student's abilities in Business Program Content, Effective Communication, Critical Analysis, and Research and Information Literacy. These criteria are linked to course, program, and institutional level learning outcomes. The data from these assessments are used to gauge the progress of learning within our program.

Business Program Content: This assessment measures the mastery of appropriate, relevant, and innovative content in the fields of functional areas that include, where applicable: Leadership, management, innovation and teambuilding, operations and marketing, finance, economics, qualitiative and quantitative tools, technology and internet, ethical and legal issues, and international issues.

Effective communication: This assessment measures the mastery of appropriate approach and purpose, organization, style, grammar, mechanics, format, presentation and delivery (where applicable).

Critical Analysis: This assessment measures the mastery of the ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence, complexities of issues, and alternatives and to use creativity and originality in problem solving.

Information Literacy and Research: This assessment measures the mastery of the ability to select and use high quality, credible, and relevant sources to support the ideas that are appropriate for research papers, cited under required documentation (APA).

The results shown below reflect student achievement for all courses within the Master degree of Business Administration (MBA). The figures represent the percentage of students who received above average (exemplary or accomplished) ratings for rubric criteria. The results are for the second quarter of 2010, with a total of 75 students in 3 course sections.

Program Content = 79%
Effective Communication = 79%
Critical and Creative Thinking and Problem Solving = 73%
Information Literacy and Research = 73%

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