Business Administration (MBA)

Master of Business Administration

The MBA program at American International College is designed to develop future managers through an emphasis on academic excellence and business effectiveness. Offered in both online and hybrid formats, the curriculum provides students with an understanding of the economic, functional, behavioral, legal, ethical and quantitative aspects of the practice of business administration in a competitive market economy. Students are exposed to the common body of knowledge and the concepts and techniques involved in the various areas of business. The program stresses development of decision-making skills, analytical approaches to solving business problems, and an appreciation of the relationships between technology and people in profit-seeking and non-profit organizations. The curriculum prepares students for managerial positions and enhances the managerial skills of senior or general managers.

The MBA program is a structured 12-course, 36-credit program that operates on a cohort-based model. Students enter the program as a group or cohort in September, January, or May and attend classes with the same group of students until they graduate from the program. Students typically complete the MBA program in one or two years. The culmination of the program is the MBA Capstone, in which students pull together the knowledge gained in the program by creating a comprehensive business plan to start their own business.

Designed for Working Professionals

The MBA program at AIC was structured to provide much-needed flexibility to working professionals. AIC’s online/hybrid model allows students to customize their experience in a way that best suits them. With one-year, 18-month, or two-year completion times available, you can complete the program your own way, at your own pace.

 

Mission of AIC’s Business Programs
Mission Statement of AIC’s Business Programs:

The mission of the AIC Business Program is to foster academic excellence and student achievement at both the undergraduate and graduate levels within a supportive community of teachers and learners.

Learning Outcomes for Master of Business Administration
The following are learning outcomes for successful completion of the Master of Business Administration. Students will be able to:

  • Critique problems in business situations
  • Formulate plans based on integrated business theory and practice
  • Apply quantitative techniques to make better financial decisions
  • Create effective written documents
  • Compose and deliver clear, compelling oral presentations
  • Interact professionally as members of teams
  • Critique social responsibility issues in business contexts
  • Differentiate plans based on cultural/global differences
Accreditation

The School of Business, Arts & Sciences at American International College have received specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Accreditation  Council for Business Education (IACBE) located at 11960 Quivira Road, Suite 300, Overland Park, KS 66213.

School of Business Administration Accreditation Status

Report of Outcomes Assessment Results

To see a report of student learning and program assessment please view the International Accreditation Council for Business Education’s Interim Quality Assurance Report.

Graduation Rates

Please view this report to see graduation rates for this program.

 

In the classroom. In the workforce.

What You'll Learn

As a student in our MBA program, you’ll gain knowledge of key business disciplines and analytical tools needed to analyze business problems and develop effective, integrated solutions, and will learn to demonstrate communication, motivation, and influencing skills at the level of a professional manager.

Future Studies

The program is designed for recent college graduates, current business professionals and experienced, mid-career managers who seek a graduate business degree to advance their careers, but also prepares students to be able to pursue doctorate degrees if desired.

Career Opportunities

As a graduate of the program, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to advance your career as a leader in a variety of industries including entrepreneurship, finance, private banking, marketing/advertising, technology, and more.

The Curriculum for the MBA includes the following 12 courses:

  • MGT5210: Organizational Behavior
  • MKT5210: Marketing Management
  • ECO5210: Managerial Economics
  • ACC5300: Managerial Accounting
  • FIN5210: Managerial Finance
  • IBS6110: International Business
  • MGT5230: Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making
  • MGT5240: Operations Management
  • MGT5250: Human Resource Management
  • MGT6410: Strategic Management
  • MGT5270: Information Systems for Business Strategy
  • MGT6999: The MBA Capstone

All Courses

This course provides a systematic analysis of the strategic and human functions of a business enterprise. The responsibilities of manager for anticipating changes in the business environment, for cautiously adapting goals and policies to environmental opportunities, constraints and adverse pressures, and the search for new combinations of activities that will have favorable results for the organization and the economy will be examined.

This course investigates the process that organizations use to identify the needs of their customers and to create the products and services that meet these needs within the resource constraints and strategic objectives of the organization. The course examines market research, target market selection, market segmentation, position, and branding. It covers all the elements of the marketing mix, showing how they are being transformed by the Internet and the global economy.

This course reviews major topics in microeconomics in combination with recent mathematical developments examined as aids to the decision maker in the solution of problems faced by both public and private enterprise. It introduces the student to an analysis of demand, supply cost, prices and market structure from the point of view of the firm and the industry operating in a mixed enterprise system. The principles of intelligent economic planning involving the determination of the most economical combination of productive inputs and outputs are examined in detail.

This course studies accounting as it pertains to the needs of management; principally planning, controlling and decision making. Topics covered include: financial statement analysis; funds flow; cost terms, concepts, classifications, and behavior patterns; cost-volume-profit relationships; job order, process and standard costing; flexible budgets, profit planning, non-routine decision-making; pricing; and capital budgeting.

This course analyzes the internal financial problems of a business enterprise. Topics include capital budgeting; evaluation of capital projects using discounted cash flow (internal rate of return and present value) and non-time-adjusted methods under conditions of certainty and uncertainty; capital structure theory and management; determining the cost of capital; the effect of leverage and dividend policy on cost of capital and firm policy; working capital management; liquidity structure of assets and liabilities; management of cash, marketable securities, receivables and inventories; financing, investment banking and the issue of long-term debt, preferred stock, common stock, convertible securities, and warrants; short and intermediate debt and lease financing, and short and long-term financial forecasting.

This course is an introduction to the international business environment and how it affects multi-national corporations. Topics include investigation of marketing techniques and programs as developed and implemented on an international scale; evaluation of international marketing strategies, special goals and decision-making processes that are part of marketing internationally; examination of policies and strategies of international finance, analyzing those problems confronting multi-nationals; balance of payments, foreign exchange market and risk, cash flow operations, and evaluations of international economic problems and policies.

This course covers the elements of statistics and management science. It deals with the principle methods that business researchers use to analyze and understand data-central tendency, variation, probability, hypothesis testing and forecasting. It also deals with management science models and techniques for optimization, network design for project management, queuing, managing risk and uncertainty. The emphasis is on providing students with the practical skills and techniques that can be applied to improve the effectiveness of managerial decision making.

This course shall enable the student to learn and understand the importance of operations management, both for service and production processes. The student will gain an appreciation of the scorecard of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the business to build sustainable competitive advantages. Lectures include discussion of strategy, process, supply chain design and planning and controlling the supply chain. Emphasis is placed on current trends in operations – especially quality, technology and inventory management.

Topics include executive decision making in dealing with formal employee-employer relationships; human resources development; line and staff relationships; job description and analysis; recruitment training and performance appraisal; collective bargaining process; labor-management relations; and wage and salary policies and administration.

This course defines the information management needs of an organization in the knowledge economy. It also looks at information technology – both hardware and software – from the perspective of the manager and the customer and the key role that digitization and the Internet play in developing and implementing any successful business strategy. Special topics include: computer security, privacy, enterprise systems, e-commerce, and supply chain management.

This course examines the process of entrepreneurship from the conception of a new idea through the steps of research and market testing to the crafting of a complete business plan. It focuses on the many ways that entrepreneurs create value and the central role of new venture creation in a free market economy. In this capstone course for the MBA program, students are asked to apply their knowledge. The capstone course for the MBA asks students to apply their knowledge of each business area to putting together and presenting, in the most persuasive but honest manner, an integrated plan for a new venture. For those students who prefer to relate the course to their current workplace, they have the option of preparing an in-depth study of a proposed solution to an existing problem.

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