Online Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)

Master of Business Administration

Planning for a career path change or looking to develop your leadership skills? Colorado Technical University’s Master of Business Administration degree program is designed to help motivated professionals like you prepare to pursue business challenges across industries and business disciplines. The outlook for MBA hiring continues to look bright, with nearly three-quarters of employers across industries hiring MBAs in the two years before a 2023 report from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).¹

¹https://www.gmac.com/-/media/files/gmac/research/employment-outlook/2023-crs-degree-profiles/2023_gmac_corporaterecruiters_report_degreeprofiles_mba.pdf (visited 11/6/24).

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5 Weeks

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Online Colorado Springs

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Program Concentrations

Program Overview

Effective August 2023, this program is no longer available for future enrollments at the Aurora Campus.

The Master of Business Administration is a 48-credit-hour program that is offered online and at the Colorado Springs campus. The program consists of 32 credit hours devoted to the business administration core and 16 credit hours for electives or a concentration of the student’s choosing.

CTU’s MBA programs are for students who have met the foundational business requirements and are seeking specialized fields and disciplines of interest. The MBA program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, and decision-making abilities in the fields of business or management. Core learning includes instruction in accounting , business decision-making, human resources management, leadership, logistics and supply chain, management, marketing, and organization and production. The CTU MBA offers concentration courses in select areas of business and management to help familiarize students with theory and concepts related to their area of interest. (1/14/2025)

This program does not lead to additional licensure or certification. As such, CTU has made no determination regarding prerequisites for licensure or certification in any state or jurisdiction.

The mission of the College of Business and Management is to offer professional market-driven business degrees that build business competencies transferrable to all industries. The College of Business and Management accomplishes this mission by offering curriculum that aligns to industry standards, remains relevant, and builds practical skills applicable to the competitive global business environment.

For the eighth consecutive year, CTU’s online Master of Business Administration degree programs are ranked among the Best Online MBA Programs by U.S. News and World Report.*

* CTU programs are ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Online Programs.

This program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

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Courses

Courses: Core		Credits
ACCT615 This course focuses on constructing and evaluating financial models to enhance profitability in the manufacturing environment. Students will evaluate the cost structures, pricing, and the role the balanced score card plays in purchasing and manufacturing decisions.	Advanced Cost Accounting	4
ECON616 During this course the student will study the practical aspects of both micro- and macroeconomics and how they are applied to the managerial environment. The students investigate the role of economic principles in management analysis and decision making: the study of demand, cost, and supply concepts from a business viewpoint; and the application of national income measures to strategic planning and the future.	Applied Managerial Economics	4
FINC616 This course gives students a chance to explore capital markets and understand the role of banking in the financial system. Students will be exposed to the various ways to attain financing and how to assess the risk associated with capital market financing. The course covers a wide range of debt instruments and the functions of various financial institutions, such as banks, credit unions, and other entities. By combining theory with practical applications, students will have the opportunity to develop the analytical skills needed to navigate and take advantage of financial markets effectively.	Capital Markets and Banking	4
HRMT620 Human capital management (HCM) is the process of aligning an organization’s most valuable asset, their people, with its strategic goals. This course provides a framework for students to integrate human capital management as part of the overall business strategy. By understanding, evaluating, and integrating human capital management practices, businesses apply these approaches both domestically and globally.	Strategic Human Capital Management	4
INTD600 This course analyzes the concepts of leadership and management for ethical behavior and legal compliance. It also evaluates ethical decision-making processes and cultural competence. A variety of complex ethical issues confronting industry leaders and professionals are explored. Additionally, a code of conduct at work, methods to implement a code of conduct, and issues related to managing conflicts of interest are reviewed.	Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making	4
MGMT601 This course emphasizes the application of descriptive and inferential business statistics to decisions made in a managerial role. Presented with a scenario, students focus on analyzing published research, databases, and statistics to recommend management strategies based upon business metrics.	Business Analytics for Management Decisions	4
MGMT691 This course is focused on advanced management strategies that can maximize opportunities in a changing dynamic environment. Strategic management is linked to successful global projects and is a key part of a sustainable competitive market profile. Course material includes strategies to understand growth and how to implement strategic plans to achieve and sustain a competitive profile in the emerging global marketplace. The balanced scorecard is presented as an approach to understanding an organization’s strategic objectives and performance measures.	Strategic Management in Dynamic Environments	4
MKTG632 This course emphasizes the analysis of marketing concepts, tools, and decision-making processes. It explores how managers use marketing plans, programs, and strategies from an international and culturally competent perspective. Within the marketing strategy framework, it also examines data analytics, digital marketing, brand awareness, promotion, and pricing strategies. As part of the course, a marketing plan will be designed that includes the mission, vision, audience, and promotional strategy of a brand.	Applied Managerial Marketing	4
	Total Credit Hours:	32

Courses: Concentration		Credits
MGMT665 This final course allows MBA students to demonstrate competency of integrating applied research by synthesizing ethics, leadership, strategy, critical thinking, and reasoning skills taught throughout the program.	MBA Capstone	4
	Select 12 credit hours of Business and Management courses from the list below	12
	Total Credit Hours:	16

Courses: Concentration Choices		Credits
ENTR606 This course presents digital media to students of entrepreneurship. The course offers a practical look at marketing in terms of tools that were used in the past and tools that are effective in reaching customers today for marketing success in an entrepreneurial setting. This course focuses on digital communication including: social media, wikis, blogs, audio/video, podcasts, viral content, and content-rich web sites that could be used by an entrepreneur. A key element of the course is creating a digital marketing strategy and integrating it into a business venture to reach a wide and diverse customer base.	Integrated Marketing for Entrepreneurs	4
ENTR610 This course will shape students’ business plans through market analysis, financial analysis, and an analysis of support organizations. This course will address the various sources and uses of funding, including a look at the processes, risks and rewards of working with venture capital, angel investors, private equity groups and various loan origination organizations. At the conclusion of this course, students will have the strategic and financial components of their business plans articulated and included in the framework of their business plans.	Entrepreneurial Strategy, Planning & Leadership	4
ENTR616 This course is designed to help students build the attributes of an entrepreneur/intrapreneur. The course covers how to evaluate the existing market when planning an entrepreneurial /intrapreneurial venture. Venture products or services are created using a development process and an operational plan is necessary to understand how to run a business. In the course, cultural competence is employed in the development of an entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial venture.	Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship: Skills for Success	4
FINC600 In this course, students have the opportunity to dive into the world of advanced financial statements analysis. The topics include applying managerial accounting tools, evaluating a company's financial performance, and suggesting ways for improvement. The course exposes students to financial data to assess a company's position, operational effectiveness, and how to apply resources to enhance future financial performance.	Financial Statement Analysis	4
FINC610 Within the context of the multinational firm (MNF), the course examines the development of policy, financing options for international business, and the making of standard financial management decisions.	Financial Management for Multinational Enterprises	4
HCM612 This course focuses on health care leadership and management practices. Students will examine the current structure, operation, and regulation of the U.S. health care system, and discuss the factors influencing the future direction of healthcare in the United States. Students will apply essential management concepts and professional competencies and behaviors to the unique social, physical and emotional environments of healthcare organizations.	Managing the Healthcare Organization	4
HRMT655 Organizations change to improve and meet the needs of consumers and employees. This course is designed to provide a foundation for managers, organization development (OD) consultants, and human resource (HR) professionals to manage organizational development and change from an informed, ethical, and culturally competent perspective. This foundation includes change management principles, the benefits, and the challenges of organizational change.	Managing Organizational Development and Change	4
IT600 Information Technology Management explores the use of information technology to achieve competitive advantage, efficient operations and effective decision-making. This course also analyzes the functions of information technology and its impact on competitive strategy and organizational operations.	IT Management	4
MGMT607 The course analyzes the concepts of organizational behavior and how to integrate socio-technical concepts and tools in organizational settings. As part of the course, students consider the cultural norms and behaviors necessary to help the organization succeed. The course also reviews organizational behavior concepts and infrastructure, which includes people, processes, and the technology inherent in contemporary organizations.	Organizational Behavior in a Socio-technical Environment	4
MGMT647 Operations strategy deals with innovative solutions to operational problems. It includes a systematic examination of alternative operating models. The course provides a methodology for evaluating a company’s operations strategy, strategies for improving operating systems, and tools for managing growth. This course will discuss issues related to the creation and delivery of goods and services. Topics include the design of production processes, the layout and location of facilities, forecasting, scheduling, inventory control, queuing, materials planning, and quality control. Analytic techniques such as linear programming are used in studying these problems.	Operations Strategy	4
MKTG629 This course explores how e-business can transform traditional marketing concepts and functions and examines the advantages and disadvantages of digital marketing. It focuses on how businesses are capitalizing on various forms of digital media in order to increase or create their marketing presence. Products, services, and information-based marketing strategies are explored. Topics include ecommerce, brand development, the digital marketing mix, advertising, competition, and pricing implications. Successful strategies for Customer Relationship Management, Customer Experience Management, relationship marketing, and mass customization will be evaluated. It explores the topic of digital marketing using a lens of ethical and cultural competence.	Marketing in the Digital Age	4
MKTG638 This course examines issues involving trends, factors and forces (such as institutions, culture, politics, law and the environment) that affect global marketing activities. In this course, students study the decision-making process in marketing products and services across national boundaries and explore the design and modification of marketing strategies for international, multinational, and global markets. This course is designed to provide the background to make marketing decisions at the international level. This course introduces methods of adapting marketing efforts with consideration of product, price, promotion, and distribution decisions within the restraints of particular cultural, economic and political environments.	International Marketing	4
PM600 This course emphasizes the development and integration of project management in organizations. It provides an overview and introduction to the discipline of project management, coupled with an examination of the techniques that project managers use to complete their projects on schedule, within budgeted cost, and according to specified scope and quality. With materials presented by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in its Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), students explore the theoretical and operational framework of project management relating to the project life-cycle of project initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.	Project Management Processes in Organizations	4

Total Credit Hours: 48

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Learning Outcomes

MBA Program Learning Outcomes

Evaluate ethical dilemmas to make informed business decisions.
Develop business communication skills to support organizational interaction.
Interpret data using multiple modalities to solve business problems.
Examine current strategies and methods applicable in major business disciplines.
Review global perspectives used in a diverse business environment.

Faculty

Catherine McBride, DBA

Executive Program Director

Dr. Catherine McBride has been at CTU since January 2021, serving as an Executive Program Director for the College of Business and Management. Catherine has been in higher education for 22 years, with 18 years of online education experience across a variety of institutions in varying capacities but always serving non-traditional learners.

Dr. David Gliddon

Executive Program Director

Dr. Gliddon is an Executive Program Director in the College of Business and Management. In previous roles at CTU, he was a Program Chair and Lead Faculty. He has taught over 20 courses in the undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs. He has provided service to the university on a number of committees and special projects.

For more faculty profiles please visit our Leadership and Faculty page.
For more information visit the College of Business and Management.

Admission Requirements

MBA Foundation Requirements

The Masters of Business Administration (MBA) is built upon the expectation that students will enter the program with a solid business background to succeed in some of the core MBA courses. Therefore the MBA requires students to have prior foundational knowledge in all core business disciplines to be successful. Students entering in the MBA program without an undergraduate degree in business will be required to successfully complete two MBA foundation courses (MGMT502 and MGMT503) covering the following areas of business: accounting; economics; finance; marketing; statistics; management; business law; ethics; business policy; business strategy; information technology; operations management; and global leadership.

If the student can show evidence of a GMAT score of 500 or above the foundation requirements may be waived. Students continuing from any of CTU’s non-business bachelor programs must complete the MBA Foundation Requirements. The foundation courses are also available to students with an undergraduate business degree who wish to refresh their knowledge in these subject areas. MBA foundation courses must be completed prior to respective MBA required courses that hold MGMT502 or MGMT503 as a prerequisite. Students must successfully complete and pass MGMT502 and MGMT503 prior to the end of the first quarter. Students who do not meet the MBA foundation requirements will be withdrawn, canceled or transferred from the MBA program. Students must be able to exhibit proficiency by successfully completing the foundation course with a minimum 70% passing score. If after 5 attempts (applies to each course separately) students do not pass the foundation course, students are encouraged to work with the Student Advising department if they have questions regarding these foundation courses, timeframes for completion, or for alternative programs of study as needed.

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FAQs

What is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree?

CTU’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree Program is designed to provide knowledge, skills, and abilities relevant for pursuing potential opportunities in the workforce. With 12 concentrations for students to choose from to elevate their studies, CTU’s MBA programs are for students who have met the foundational business requirements and are seeking specialized fields and disciplines of interest. The MBA degree program is designed to provide students with core competencies in accounting, business decision-making, human resources management, leadership, logistics and supply chain, management, marketing, and organization and production.

What will I study in this MBA degree program?

As you work to complete your MBA, you will be immersed in courses where you will study these topics and much more: micro- and macroeconomics and how they are applied to the managerial environment; management decision making utilizing accounting and finance concepts; and human capital management as part of an overall business strategy.

When and where can I begin my classes?

Courses for the Master of Business Administration in Operations Supply Chain Management start Online and at our Colorado Springs campus approximately every five weeks. Completion of the CTU admissions process will depend on how quickly you complete the steps in the CTU online application process. You may complete the application process over the phone with an advisor or you may go online. Once you’ve completed the online application, you may hear from an advisor within the following 24 hours to discuss the next steps toward starting your degree program. Master’s programs may have additional entrance requirements that take additional processing time

How many credits are required to graduate from a master’s degree program?

The Master of Business Administration degree program consists of 48 credits. You may be eligible for transfer credit, which is evaluated on an individual basis. Not all credits are eligible to transfer.

Why should I pursue an MBA degree at CTU?

As you study topics in business that are always being evaluated and updated to reflect industry-relevant trends, you will experience a curriculum through classroom learning and hands-on experience that aligns to industry standards and helps you work to develop skills that are applicable to the competitive global business environment.

Is this Master of Business Administration degree program accredited?

The Master of Business Administration degree program at CTU is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Are there any requirements for pursuing an MBA at CTU?

Students entering in the MBA program without an undergraduate degree in business will be required to successfully complete two MBA foundation courses (MGMT502 and MGMT503). The foundation requirements may be waived if the student can show evidence of a GMAT score of 500 or above. Students continuing from any of CTU’s non-business bachelor programs must complete the MBA Foundation Requirements. MBA foundation courses must be completed prior to respective MBA required courses that hold MGMT502 or MGMT503 as a prerequisite. Students must successfully complete and pass MGMT502 and MGMT503 prior to the end of the first quarter.

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