Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

The Master in Business Administration (MBA) program is designed to prepare students to apply reliable social science disciplinary theory and research methods to the demands of current management and leadership challenges in the public and private sectors. It provides students with advanced academic and professional knowledge, skills, competencies, and strategies in leadership and management that will enable them to lead organizational change. Its result-driven curriculum aims to equip students with critical, analytical, and innovative business skills that will make them more reflective, self-aware, resilient, articulate, innovative, ethical, and adaptive to cope with the changing business world and its real-world business challenges.

Objectives of the Program

1. To develop managerial and entrepreneurial skills

2. To enhance competencies for effective participation in management teams

3. To develop skill in applying quantitative analysis in decision making

4. To enhance competencies in conducting research in the field of business administration

General Provisions

1. If the student has not taken undergraduate courses in a field of specialization, he is required to take eighteen (18) units of qualifying courses to be determined by the Academic Program Chairperson unless otherwise specified in the curriculum;

2. The student may take more than the prescribed units in any distribution in the curriculum to meet his career objective and professional needs;

3. Free electives may be chosen from among the courses offered which are outside the required subjects in the student's curriculum;

4. If the student has completed courses substantially equivalent to the required courses, he may waive the latter by application to the Dean.

Curriculum

1.Foundation/Core Subjects – 12 Units

• MBA 601 Business Research and Statistics

• MBA 602 Production and Operations Management

• MBA 603 Financial Management

• MBA 604 Supply Chain Management

2. Major (18 units, choose an area of specialization)

Specialization: Financial Management

• MBA 605 Managerial Economics

• MBA 606 Financial Controllership

• MBA 607 Global Trends and Issues in Financial Management

• MBA 608 Investment Management & Capital Markets

• MBA 609 Strategic Financial Management

• MBA 610 Business Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Finance

Specialization: Human Resource Management

• MBA 617 Global Trends and Issues in Human Resource Management

• MBA 618 Organization Development

• MBA 619 Human Resource Management

• MBA 620 Industrial Relations/ Labor Laws

• MBA 621 Strategic Human Resource Management

• MBA 622 Business Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Human Resource Management

Specialization: Marketing Management

• MBA 611 Global Trends and Issues in Marketing

• MBA 612 Integrated Marketing Communication

• MBA 613 Strategic Global Marketing

• MBA 614 Marketing Management

• MBA 615 Strategic Marketing Management

• MBA 616 Business Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Marketing

3. Comprehensive Examination

4. Graduate Seminar (1 unit)

• RSH 639 Graduate Seminar 1

5. Practice-Based Research (6 units)

• MBA 623 Practice-based Research 1

• MBA 624 Practice-based Research 2

Bridge Subjects (must be completed within the first 3 semesters of residency in the program) 

• MBA 001 Management Science

• MBA 002 Management Principles and Dynamics

• MBA 003 Economic Analysis

• MBA 004 Financial Accounting

• MBA 005 Fundamentals of Marketing

• MBA 006 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship

Enhancement Subject

• ENG 505 Advanced English Grammar

Retention Requirements

1. The College being a branch of the University and in consonance with the academic rules, the students must comply the following:

2. No failures of grade equivalent to 75% on the total units enrolled in the previous semester;

3. With good moral character;

4. And finished the course in the prescribed number of years or with an extension of one year on a case to case basis.