Business Administration (MBA)

Ball State’s MBA includes 24 credits of core courses and 6 to 9 credits of MBA electives covering in-depth knowledge of entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, sales, and more.

Also, if you don’t already have equivalent undergraduate business course work on your transcript, you might need to take certain foundation courses.

• You have a business degree—30 to 33
• You do not have a business degree—up to 51 (depends on how many foundation courses you need and which concentration you choose)

Core courses are the heart of a Ball State MBA and will give you the advanced skills you need for strategic thinking, decision-making, leading, and communicating. You will take eight core courses for a total of 24 credits.

• MBA 601 Entrepreneurial Leadership
• MBA 611 Statistics and Quantitative Methods
• MBA 621 Information Systems
• MBA 631 Accounting and Decision Making
• MBA 651 Economic Analysis for Managers
• MBA 661 Managerial Finance
• MBA 671 Marketing Management
• MBA 691 Global Strategic Management (or MGT 649 Entrepreneurial Strategy for students in the entrepreneurship concentration)

If you do not have an undergraduate degree in business or certain undergraduate courses in business-related topics, you will need to take up to six courses designed to give you foundational business knowledge that will prepare you for the rigorous courses that are within the Ball State MBA program.

You may need all or only some of the following courses, depending on your academic background. After you apply, your transcript will be reviewed and you will be notified which foundation courses you may need.

• ACC 501 Financial Accounting
• ECON 509 Survey of Economic
• FIN 500 Corporation Finance
• MKG 505 Survey of Marketing
• MGT 500 Managing Organizational Behavior
• ISOM 551 Operations Management