GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Graduate Programs Master of Business Administration
Program Chair, Douglas K. Ross, Ph.D. Curriculum Development Team Douglas K. Ross, Ph.D. Gary Stroud, Ph.D., Lead Faculty Tom Hrubec, Ed.D., Lead Faculty Keith Groff, Ph.D., Lead Faculty Raymond L. Forbes, Ph.D., Lead Faculty Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., Lead Faculty Alper Camci, Ph.D., Lead Faculty Lou Anne Manning, Ed.D., Instructional Designer Advisory Board (listing on page 203)
Business and commerce have entered an era of unprecedented change. Advances in technology, the emergence of the global marketplace and other powerful forces are helping shape a business environment radically different from that of even a few years ago. Changes are more sweeping, more unexpected and occurring at a faster pace than ever before.
The MBA Program at Franklin University provides the graduate student with a unique learning experience that is both instructional - teaching essential business skills - and formational - instilling in the student the critical qualities required of the business professionals of the new age. The program emphasizes key themes throughout its courses and blends traditional business disciplines. Material based on the needs identified by business world experts is combined with conventional MBA instruction to prepare students for leadership roles in the companies of today and beyond.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE To prepare students for leadership roles to make beneficial contributions to their work, their organization, and to society.
The Franklin University MBA Program is designed for busy professionals who are interested in advancing their career while meeting the demands of a challenging workplace by increasing their level of competence and resolving increasingly complex business challenges. The program of study emphasizes theory to practice and the acquisition of lifelong learning skills essential in being personally and professionally effective in a world characterized by uncertainty and growing levels of complexity.
GOALS OF THE FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY MBA PROGRAM Provide a transformational process for students to: 1. Improve their effectiveness in their current work and life role. 2. Recognize and capitalize on their next major professional and personal opportunity.
3. Identify and develop their potential for meeting future leadership challenges and make meaningful contributions in a world characterized by uncertainty.
MBA PROGRAM OUTCOMES Graduates will be able to: 1. Communicate effectively in professional situations by applying appropriate written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
2. Lead, manage, and contribute as a member to project teams. 3. Employ tactical, operational, and strategic decision making and problem solving to organizational issues.
4. Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the workings of all aspects of an organization.
5. Analyze business issues by applying multi-functional theoretical and practical perspectives.
MBA PROGRAM CURRICULUM DESIGN Franklin University, an innovator in the development of higher education programs geared to the needs of working adults, responds to the forces reshaping today’s business environment with its MBA Program. Created with the input of the business and professional community, Franklin’s MBA program enables graduate students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to be personally and professionally effective in a world that is growing increasingly complex and unpredictable.
The program of study offers a “hand in glove” fit for contemporary graduate students, many of whom already have career and family responsibilities. Students may attend classes online or in-person, or through a combination of both. The 40-hour leadership oriented MBA program can be completed in as few as 16 months.
A special feature of the program of study involves a skills assessment feature. The assessment measures effectiveness in such areas as critical reasoning, writing, reading comprehension, analytics for risk and uncertainty, managerial economics, operations and project management, financial and managerial accounting, and corporate finance. For students whose proficiency in one or more of these areas needs strengthening, special modules, called SuccessPreps, are provided in conjunction with their MBA courses to help assure their success. The skills assessment and SuccessPreps combination makes it possible for the MBA program to be offered without time consuming and costly prerequisites.
The MBA Program enables students to draw upon their own practical work experience to develop both an understanding of key business theories and the ability to apply them in real-life situations.
ATTENTION TO STUDENT NEEDS The MBA Program is designed to not only satisfy the demands of current and future employers, but also meet the individual needs of our students, with their choice of learning formats and scheduling preferences. Students make decisions throughout the curriculum to customize the MBA Program to best meet the students’ individual educational and professional goals.
THE MBA FOUNDATIONS COURSE The course progression is intended to aid students in successfully tracking the demands of a graduate education. The entry course (MBA 707) assists students in transitioning to graduate studies and supports their ability to write and make effective executive presentations.
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