Traditional MBA
Prospective Students
Thank you for your interest in the JMU MBA program. If you have questions or would like an information packet sent to you please send your name and mailing address to mba@jmu.edu. Application deadline is June 1.
Program Length
The core MBA program consists of 12 courses (36 credit hours) of advanced work at the graduate level. All candidates are required to take a common core of ten courses and two additional courses selected from electives in each of the functional areas. Full-time students can expect to complete a degree in 16 months. Part-time students can expect to finish in 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years.
While applications are accepted all year, students may begin the program during the fall semester only. To remain on schedule, it is recommended that students take four courses per calendar year. Classes meet one evening per week during the fall and spring semesters and two evenings per week during each of the six-week summer sessions.
Prerequisite Courses
Students who do not hold an undergraduate business degree must take certain prerequisite courses to be eligible for admission into the MBA Program. These prerequisite courses can be taken on campus at JMU (or at other accredited institutions of higher education including community colleges) or they can be taken through JMU over the Internet. Additional information about these two methods is shown below.
Undergraduate Courses
The completion of the following courses at the undergraduate level will fulfill the prerequisite requirements:
- Principles of Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Statistics
- Financial Accounting
- Managerial Finance
- Micro Economics
- Macro Economics
- Business Law
These courses are each three credit hours and can be taken at JMU or any accredited institution of higher education that offers an equivalent course. At JMU, these courses may or may not be offered at night and available seats may be scarce. In all cases, the courses are geared toward undergraduate students with no business experience. Further, each requires a full semester, which is usually sixteen weeks, to complete.
Online Courses
The completion of six courses offered by JMU over the Internet will fulfill the prerequisite requirements. These courses are the equivalent of three credit hours.
- MBA 501. Management and Organizational Behavior
- MBA 502. Statistics and Management Science
- MBA 503. Financial Accounting
- MBA 504. Managerial Finance
- MBA 505. Foundations of Economics
- MBA 506. Legal Environment of Business
Each course is offered three times a year and is 100% self-paced. Further,
each course requires eight weeks to complete.
The advantages of this option are: (1) Each course consumes only half the time of its undergraduate equivalent so that two MBA 500-level courses can be completed in the same time it takes to complete one undergraduate course; and (2) Students who are employed full-time can work on these courses at their convenience rather than having to come to campus at times that may conflict with their travel or work schedules.
Register for Online Pre-requisite 500-Level Courses
With the MBA Program
Students need to take certain steps to gain access to this online program. If a student fails to follow these steps, he or she will not be able to start his or her online prerequisites at the beginning of the limited allotted time.
To register for an online prerequisite course, please e-mail the MBA
Program Office at mba@jmu.edu
and include the following information:
Name
Course Requested
Semester Requested
The MBA Program Office will then provide you with the link to the College of Graduate and Outreach Programs page to fill out the correct form. Once the form is completed and paid for(a $15 fee) the MBA Office will recieve the form, we will sign it and forward it to the correct office and you will be registered. When this is completed, the student will be contacted. At this point, it is the student’s responsibility to contact the Univertisy Business Office to make arrangements to pay tuition. Please phone (540) 568-6505 or mail the payment to the University Business Office, James Madison University, MSC 3516, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.
The following credit cards are allowed for payment:
Discover
MasterCard
American Express
Important note - Include the credit card expiration date and a daytime phone number when mailing payment information.
With the JMU College of Graduate and Outreach Programs
Students who are not accepted into the MBA Program need to fill out
a Special Student Form with the College of Graduate and Outreach Programs.
Please go to http://www.jmu.edu/cgop/forms
and complete this form.
Important note - You can access your JMU e-mail account and password only after this process is completed.
Register for Blackboard Software
(used in 500-level prerequisite courses)
Step One
You need a JMU e-mail account and password. Go to http://www.jmu.edu/accounts
to establish your e-mail account. Your JMU password allows you to access
Blackboard, the online software program used with classes. If you have
difficulties with this procedure, contact our JMU Help Desk at (540)
568-3555. Please wait about 24 hours after you have completed this step
before starting the next step.
Step Two
When you are registered for the 500-level prerequisite course, you are
automatically enrolled in Blackboard. To access a course, type http://blackboard.jmu.edu
into your browser and login using your Blackboard userid and password.
Your Blackboard userid is the same as your JMU e-mail userid. If you
have never logged into Blackboard before, or you have forgotten your
password, click the button "Forgot Your Password?" and follow the directions
to make your Blackboard password the same as your JMU e-mail password.
Once you have done that, click the link that says "Back to Blackboard"
and on the resulting page click the button that says "Login." Enter
your username and password and click OK. You will now see your “My Blackboard”
homepage. The course name should be listed under "My Courses." Click
on the course name to access the course.
MBA 500 Level Class Information
Course Number and Name |
Professor |
Textbook |
MBA 501. Management and Organizational Behavior |
Carol Hamilton |
To Be Announced |
MBA 502. Statistics and Management Science |
Scott P. Stevens |
Introduction to Statistical Reasoning by Gary Smith, McGraw Hill 1998 |
MBA 503. Financial Accounting |
Michael P. Riordan |
Financial Accounting Concepts, by Edmonds/McNair/Milam/Olds 4th Edition Irwin, McGraw ISBN: Waiting on Info. |
MBA 504. Managerial Finance |
Hugh Hobson |
To Be Announced |
MBA 505. Foundations of Economics |
Phil Heap |
Essentials of Economics, Gregory Mankiw, ISBN #0-324-17191-9, Southwestern. |
MBA 506. Legal Environment of Business |
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Fall 2007 Course Schedule
On-Line Pre-Requisites 1st six weeks |
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MBA 501 Management
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MBA 502
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MBA 503 |
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MBA 504 |
MBA 505 Foundations
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MBA 506 |
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Summer 2006 Course Schedule
On-Line Pre-Requisites 1st six weeks |
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MBA 501 Management & Organizational Behavior |
MBA 502
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MBA 503 |
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MBA 504 |
MBA 505 Foundations of Economics |
MBA 506 |
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Fall 2006 Course Schedule
On-Line Pre-Requisites 1st six weeks |
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MBA 501 Management & Organizational Behavior |
MBA 502
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MBA 503 |
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On-Line Pre-Requisites 2nd six weeks |
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MBA 504 |
MBA 505 Foundations of Economics |
MBA 506 |
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Core Courses
The 2005-06 Graduate Catalog contains detailed information about the required core courses.
Tuition
Please see the University
Business Office site for tuition fees.
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