Administración de Empresas
MBA Business Administration with Specialization in:
Program Description |
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A program of studies leading to the Master’s Degree in Business Administration is offered. The curriculum has a General Program and six specializations: Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Industrial Management, Marketing, and Managerial Information Systems. |
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Students desiring a second specialization in the Master’s Degree in Business Administration must take fifteen (15) credits in addition to those required for the first specialization. They must also pass the Integration Seminar corresponding to the second specialization.
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El currículo de Maestría en Administración de Empresas tiene como objetivo proveer una base amplia y una preparación sólida en el campo de la gerencia y en la organización de las actividades comerciales. Además, el programa brinda la oportunidad a los estudiantes para especializarse moderadamente mediante la especialidad en una de las muchas áreas funcionales existentes dentro de esta disciplina. |
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The core courses required of all students stress the general principles and training applicable to all organizations. They cover a wide spectrum of disciplines such as decision theory, management processes, application of quantitative analysis to management problems, contributions of the behavioral sciences to functional areas of business management and relations of business organizations to socio-economic and political environments. Reference to special problems of business management, in areas like Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, is an additional objective.
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For the Master’s Degree in Business Administration, students must take 42 graduate credits, 15 of which must be in the area of specialization. The 15 specialization credits include the corresponding Integration Seminar. If students do not choose a specialization, they must select 18 credits from the specialization and elective courses.
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(The requirements of admission, Core Courses and Prescribed Distributive are the same for both masters; the difference is in the specialization requirements.)
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
- Own a bachelor from an accredited university .
- Present evidence of having passed the following courses at the Bachelor’s level with a minimum grade of C:
Statistics (descriptive and inferential) |
6 credits |
Economics (Micro and Macro) |
6 credits |
Accounting I and II |
6-8 credits |
- Tener un índice académico mínimo de 2.50 en los últimos 60 credits de trabajo académico.
- Have approved the EXADEP Test (before PAEG) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).
- Demonstrate skills to interpret professional material in Spanish and English and express properly in written form in one of the two languages.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Core Course Requirements |
24 credits |
Specialization Requirements |
15 credits |
Prescribed Distributive Requirements |
3 credits |
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Core Course Requirements
(24 credits)
BADM 5010 Quantitative Methods in Decision Making
BADM 5020 Managerial Economics
BADM 5040 Accounting for Managers
BADM 5070 Public Policy toward Business
BADM 5090 Marketing Management
BADM 5100 Organizational Theory and Behavior
BADM 5190 Managerial Finance I
BADM 6500 Integration Seminar in Entrepreneurial Strategies
Prescribed Distributive Requirements
(3 credits)
Students must take three (3) credits selected from among those that are below or between courses of any specialty or any area related to business administration with the approval of your academic counselor.
BADM 5060 Management Information Systems
BADM 5030 Entrepreneurial Research Methodology
BADM 6945 Small Business Institute Seminar
BADM 6700 Global Business
BADM 6060 Banking Administration
BADM 6210 Financial Administration of Retirement Plans
Industrial Management Specialization Requirements
(15 credits)
Required Courses:
BADM 6100 Introduction to Industrial Management
BADM 697D Integration Seminar in Industrial Management
And three of the following courses:
BADM 6110 Work Measures and Methods of Improvement
BADM 6120 Analysis of Production Systems
BADM 6130 Production Planning and Control
BADM 6140 Industrial Plant Management
BADM 6170 Advanced Methods in Planning Production and Control
BADM 6290 Logistics of Transportation Systems
BADM 6295 International Operations
Marketing Specialization Requirements
(15 credits)
Required Courses:
BADM 6350 Strategic Marketing
BADM 697E Integration Seminar in Marketing
And three of the following courses:
BADM 6160 Marketing Research
BADM 6360 Marketing Communications
BADM 6370 Sales Forecasting and Analysis
BADM 6380 Consumer Behavior
BADM 6390 Global Marketing
BADM 6550 Seminar in Current Topics in Marketing
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