Master of Business Administration

Admission is rolling, and you may begin the program in the fall or winter semesters. Summer semester admission is also usually possible for part-time students. 

Learn more about our admission criteria and process.

University of Michigan-Dearborn students who have been admitted to the MBA program may take up to 6 graduate credits during the final semester of their undergraduate program.

You can complete the MBA at the University of Michigan-Dearborn online, in the evenings on campus, or in a hybrid format. You may enroll on a full- or part-time basis during the fall and winter semesters, and many courses are often available during the summer. Most students can complete the program within two-and-a-half years of part-time study, depending on their eligibility to receive core course waivers.

(9 courses/27 credits)

ACC 505 - Developing and Interpreting Financial Information
BE 530 - Economic Analysis:  Firm and Consumer
BPS 516 - Corporate Social Responsibility 
DS 520 - Applied Statistical Modeling
FIN 531 - Financial Fundamentals and Value Creation
ISM 525 - Computer and Information Systems
MKT 515 - Marketing Management
OB 510 - Organization Behavior
OM 521 - Operations Management

(4 courses/12 credits in three areas)

International Business 
Choose one course from:

BE 583 - The Global Economy:  Crisis and Growth
FIN 655 - International Financial Management
MKT 622 - Global Marketing
OB 610 - International Dimensions of Management

Capstone
BPS 535 - Strategic Planning and Decision Making

General AIM Elective Courses
Choose two courses from:

BA 605 - Managerial Decision Making: the Pitfalls of the Human Mind and what to do about them
BA 607 - Business Disruption in the Digital Age:  Machine Learning, Platforms, and the Crowd
BA 611 - Organizational Dysfunction and Wealth Effects
BA 616 - Firm Value and Market Reactions

(3 courses/9 credits)

Tailor the degree to your own interests with an optional concentration (see below) in Accounting, Business Analytics, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Information Systems Management, Marketing, or Supply Chain Management. Several of the concentrations may be completed fully online, while others require a campus presence.

Alternatively, you may elect courses from our extensive list of graduate business courses. Students may count up to 3 credits in non-business graduate courses or Business Internship (BI 500) toward the MBA electives with the approval of the COB Graduate Office.

• Complete AIM courses in at least 3 different disciplines
• Complete no more than 4 AIM, Concentration, and Elective courses (12 credits) in any one discipline
• Complete graduate business courses in at least 5 different disciplines
• No single course may be counted toward more than one MBA requirement or concentration (for example, you may not use the same course to fulfill both an AIM and a concentration requirement).

Students may waive any or all of the core courses if they have equivalent courses in an AACSB business program completed within the previous 10 years and have earned at least a 3.2 post-60 GPA (that is, your GPA in courses taken after your first 60 undergraduate credit hours). 

Students who do not meet these criteria may request to have their courses evaluated for waiver credit at the time of admission. Students must have earned a B or better in equivalent courses as a part of a degree program completed within the previous 10 years.

Regardless of waiver credit granted, students must earn at least 36 credits in the MBA program.

In addition, up to 6 transfer credits for previous equivalent graduate coursework can be applied to the degree if those credits have not been counted toward a degree.

Waivers and transfer credit are granted at the discretion of the program faculty.

Goal 1: Students will have an understanding of the core business disciplines and be able to apply this knowledge to global business situations.

Objectives: MBA students will:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of disciplinary concepts, terminology, models, and perspectives.
2. Identify business problems and apply appropriate solutions (problem-finding/problem-solving).
3. Integrate knowledge across disciplinary areas (integrative thinking).
4. Apply knowledge in a global environment.
    

Goal 2: Students will be effective communicators.

Objectives: MBA students will:

1. Demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate in a manner that is typically required of a business professional.
    

Goal 3: Students will appreciate the importance of ethical/corporate social responsibility principles.

Objectives: MBA students will:

1. Identify and explain alternative approaches to ethical/corporate social responsibility issues.

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose any 3 graduate ACC courses beyond ACC 505

The College of Business partners with UWorld, a private sector CPA exam preparation firm, to offer student discounts aimed at enhancing student success on the CPA Exam. 

(3 courses/9 credits*)

DS 570 - Management Science

Choose two from the following:

DS 630 - Applied Forecasting
DS 631 - Decision Analysis
DS 632 - System Simulation
DS 633 - Data Mining for Business Applications

* Business Analytics concentrators must have completed a degree program which includes extensive coursework in statistics in order to waive the MBA core course DS 520, Applied Statistical Modeling. As a result, most business analytics concentrators should plan to complete DS 520 as a part of their MBA program.

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose one from the following:

FIN 581 - Topics in Corporate Finance
FIN 651 - Investment Process, Analysis and Management

Choose two from the following:

BE  583 - The Global Economy: Crisis and Growth
FIN 581 - Topics in Corporate Finance
FIN 650 - Corporate Valuation and Strategy
FIN 651 - Investment Process, Analysis and Management
FIN 652 - Derivatives and Risk Management
FIN 653 - Topics in Investments and Capital Markets
FIN 654 - Banking, Insurance, and Fintech
FIN 655 - International Financial Management
FIN 656 - Fixed Income Securities
FIN 657 - Investment Fund Management

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose three from the following:

HHS 503 - Medical Information Systems
HHS 504 - Financing Health and Medical Systems
HHS 515 - Healthcare Administration
HHS 556 - Health Care and the Law
HHS 610 - Healthcare Leadership
HIT 500 - Economics of Healthcare

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose three from the following:

HRM 561 - Human Resource Management
HRM 580 - Compensation and Human Resource Analytics
HRM 613 - Legal Issues in Managing People
OB 610 - International Dimensions of Management

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose any 3 graduate ISM courses beyond ISM 525

(3 courses/9 credits)

Choose three from the following:

BE 583 - The Global Economy: Crisis and Growth
FIN 655 - International Financial Management
MKT 622 - Global Marketing
OB 610 - International Dimensions of Management
OM 571 - Supply Chain Management

(3 courses/9 credits)

MKT 565 - Advanced Marketing Management

Choose two from the following:

MKT 534 - Sales Management and Personal Selling
MKT 564 - Graduate Marketing Research
MKT 620 - Understanding Customers
MKT 621 - Advertising and Promotion
MKT 622 - Global Marketing (evenings on campus only)
BA 691 - Graduate Seminar (requires department approval; limited to relevant topics)

^ These courses are available on campus only.

(3 courses/9 credits)

OM 571 - Supply Chain Management (online only)

Choose two from the following:

OM 660 - Supply Chain Analytics
OM 661 - Supply Chain Logistics Management
OM 662 - Product Development and Technology Management
OM 663 - Lean and Six Sigma
OM 664 - Strategic Sourcing
OM 665 - Enterprise Resource Planning in Supply Chain Management