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Core and Preliminary Requirements
The Zicklin Full-Time Honors MBA Program features a challenging and competitive curriculum essential for a successful business career in today's marketplace. Central to this curriculum is an integrated set of core courses. Comprising the honor student's first year, the core also threads through the third and fourth semesters.
Waivers are not granted for MBA courses. Students who have completed 15 semester hours in a core course area within the seven years prior to enrolling in the MBA program can substitute an advanced-level course in the same area for the core requirement.
Core Requirements for the Full-Time Honors MBA
- Applied Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
- Business Policy
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Decision Making
- Information Systems for Managers
- International Business Analysis or International Economics
- Introduction to Operations Management
- Macroeconomics for Managers
- Management: A Behavioral Approach
- Managerial Accounting
- Marketing Management
- Microeconomics for Managers
- The Societal and Governmental Environment of Business
Preliminary requirements
Prior to their first semester, students are strongly encouraged to participate in the Quickstart program if they do not have previous undergraduate courses or strong work experience in accounting, Excel, finance, mathematics, and statistics. Students take self-administered exams to determine their proficiency in these subject areas. These intensive modules are offered in two formats - daytime or evening - and give students the basics necessary to succeed in their core courses.
International students may also be required to take courses in written and spoken English depending on their TOEFL, TWE, or GMAT scores.
Students majoring in accounting, economics, finance and investments, or decision sciences may be required to take additional math courses early in their program.
Typical Course Sequence
First Semester:
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Decision Making
- Microeconomics
- Marketing Management
- Applied Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
Second Semester:
- Information Systems for Managers
- Managerial Accounting
- Macroeconomics
- Management: A Behavioral Approach
- Major Course
Summer
- Graduate Internship (Optional General Elective)
Third Semester:
- Introduction to Operations Management
- The Societal and Governmental Environment of Business
- Major Course
- Major Course
- International Elective
Fourth Semester:
- Business Policy (Capstone)
- Major Course
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective