Curriculum

The Executive MBA program is built on the strength of the cohort concept—a group of professionals moving through the program together, learning from and supporting one another, all the while building a network of friends and peers they can call on throughout their professional careers.

However, within that framework, we’ve designed a curriculum that allows students to specialize in their second year and take specific electives that are of more interest or relevance to their careers. Students can choose to electives in Leadership, Operations, Healthcare or Cybersecurity Management.  

• Leadership

  Includes courses in:

  BUSI 7970—Global Financial Markets (3) 
  Provides an overview of the structure and function of financial markets in countries throughout the world.  Increases awareness of issues affecting globalization and provides the ability to respond to financial issues regarding international activities.

  ACCT 6700—Advanced Business Law (3)
  Learn legal aspects of engaging in business and business transactions, including contract law, business organizations, debt/equity financial, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection, and corporate governance and fiduciary duty.

  BUSI 7970—Strategic Leadership (3)
  Strategic Leadership is about seeing the organization through the eyes of the CEO. Students will learn to develop an organization's vision and monitor progress to ensure it is progressing toward those ends.

• Operations

  Includes courses in:

  SCMN 7770—Supply Chain Management (3)
  Problems and analysis in the design and management of the retail, industrial and service supply chain.

  ISMN 6370—Project Management (3)
  In-depth study of the planning, scheduling and control processes in projects. Students completing this course will have met the classroom requirement for Project Management Professional Certification through the Project Management Institute.

  SCMN 6720—Quality and Process Improvement (3)
  Concepts and methods of quality assurance, quality control techniques for quality control and improvement; control charts in statistical process control; quality management systems. This course awards a Green Belt in Quality.

• Health Care

  Includes courses in:

  FINC 7630—Healthcare Finance (3)
  (3) Techniques and analysis of financial management in a healthcare setting.  Emphasis on financial planning and forecasting, budgeting, capital investment analysis in the regulated healthcare marketplace.

  ACCT 6700—Advanced Business Healthcare Law (3)
  The core purpose of the course is to prepare the student to engage in and understand business transactions, with particular emphasis on how state and federal statutes and regulations are applied to business transactions in the healthcare industry. 

  BUSI 7970—Healthcare Policy (3)
  This course provides students with the opportunity to gain a general understanding of the U.S. federal policy and legislative rulemaking process as it relates to health care, and in-depth knowledge of selected policy issues that are currently affecting the funding, provision, and delivery of healthcare in the United States. Central to the educational experience of this course is a residency in Washington D.C. 

  These courses are taken with students in the Physicians Executive MBA program. Students must have healthcare experience to register for any of these electives.  

• Cybersecurity Management

  This concentration focuses on the management of cybersecurity risk within an organization.  Students take courses in:

  ISMN 6730—Security and Information Assurance (3)
  The course covers the fundamentals of computer security and information assurance from a management perspective.  The student will be exposed to security and information assurance topics such as security policies, confidentiality and ethics.

  ISMN 6740—Information Risk Analysis (3)
  In-Depth instruction on the range of skills required of persons engaged in the performance of risk analysis functions.

  ISMN 6750—Information Technology Auditing (3)
  This course presents in-depth instruction on the range of skills required of persons engaged in the performance of an IT audit.  The skills include those required by but not limited to technology analyst, data scientist or CIO. 

  Completion of these three courses can lead to a Graduate Certificate in CyberSecurity Management.  Students will have to apply through the Graduate School for this Certificate prior to starting the sequence.

EMBA Curriculum (for students starting in Fall 2025)
(Degree Total: 39 hours)