Department of Business Administration
Dr. Chali Nondo, Associate Professor and Chair
P.O. Box 17760
Telephone: (601) 979-2534
Fax: (601) 979-2690
e-mail: chali.nondo@jsums.edu
Faculty
Dr. Okechukwu Anyamele, Professor
Dr. Jean-Claude Assad, Associate Professor
Dr. Young Rhee, Assistant Professor
Dr. Hyonsong Chong, Associate Professor
Dr. Edith Davidson, Associate Professor
Dr. Dal Didia, Professor
Dr. Sadia Khan, Associate Professor
Dr. Maury Granger, Professor
Dr. Fidel Ezeala-Harrison, Professor
Dr. Hyunseob Kim, Assistant Professor
Dr. Palaniappan Thiagarajan, Associate Professor
Goals of the Master of Business Administration Program
The MBA degree is designed to prepare working professionals for managerial and professional leadership responsibility in business, industry, and government.
The goals of the MBA program are:
- To develop advanced knowledge of business strategies and their application
- To apply global and ethical perspectives to business decision-making
- To build critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation skills
- To develop communication, leadership, and project management skills
Admission Requirements
Admission to the MBA, MBA Online, and MPA programs is competitive. Students seeking admission to the MBA or MPA program must apply to the Graduate School online and submit the following admission portfolio materials.
- Application to the Graduate School completed online;
- Official undergraduate and graduate transcripts sent to the Graduate School; JSU alumni transcripts can be accessed electronically and do not need to be sent;
- International applicants or those with degrees from international institutions must have their transcripts translated, if needed, and evaluated from a reputable international transcript evaluation agency;
- Statement of Purpose uploaded to the application portal providing background information, motivation for pursuing graduate business education, and how the degree will help achieve professional goals;
- Current professional resume uploaded to the application portal;
- 3 Letters of recommendation from academic and/or professional references sent directly to the application portal;
- Official GMAT score taken within the past five years;
- An interview is optional;
- Application fee of $25.00 for non-Mississippi residents;
- Official TOEFL scores or IELTS (for international students only)
The GMAT may be waived under certain conditions such as:
- 3.0+ undergraduate GPA from a regionally accredited institution; or
- 3-5 years of professional work experience; or
- a professional certification in a business field such as CFA, PHR, CPA etc.; or
- an earned graduate degree such as MS, JD, MD, PhD.
A prospective student’s overall application portfolio is evaluated to discern program fit and potential for success. A "cut-off" score for the GPA and GMAT are not used.
Regular Admissions
To be considered for Regular Admission into the MBA or the MPA program, an applicant must have at least a 3.0 cumulative undergraduate GPA from a regionally accredited institution.
Conditional Admissions
The College of Business may admit a limited number of students who meet with a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.5 - 2.99 whose application portfolio demonstrates strong potential for academic success. The number of students admitted in this category will not exceed 20% of the total number of students granted Regular Admission for the semester of application.
Scholastic Requirements
- The College of Business requires all MBA and MPA students to maintain a minimum cumulative 3.00 grade point average.
- A student who falls below 3.00 cumulative average (GPA) is placed on academic probation and will be requested to appear for counseling.
- A student who falls below a 3.00 average for two consecutive semesters will be dismissed from the program.
- No credit will be granted for any course with an assigned grade below "C" as applicable toward meeting the requirements for the MBA or MPA degree.
- Any course to be taken outside the College of Business to be applied toward the degree requirements must receive prior approval in writing from the Director of Business Graduate Programs.
- A minimum GPA of 3.00 is required overall and in required MBA and MPA courses for graduation.
Course Descriptions
A study of accounting transaction including the adjusting and closing process, financial statements preparation, and tools and techniques of financial statement analysis relative to financial position, results of operations, and cash flows as reported in corporate annual reports.
A study of advanced accounting issues concerning partnerships, consolidations, international operations, and International Financial Reporting Standards. Not open to those who completed ACC 436 at the undergraduate level.
Study of managerial uses of accounting information and trends in internal accounting functions.
A brief historical development of accounting thought followed by an intensive investigation of the theoretical framework on which accounting principles and procedures rest.
This course offers a study of the tools and techniques utilized to analyze financial positions, results of operations, and cash flows s reported in corporate annual reports.
Study and refinement of generally accepted auditing standards, procedures and extension of auditing procedures; study of special investigations and audit reports; review of recent auditing trends, research, and pronouncements.
A review of selected topics as tested on the Uniform CPA Examination.
A study of generally accepted accounting principles of state and local governments and selected nonprofit entities with an emphasis on current developments in these areas.
A study of federal and state income tax laws for fiduciaries, partnerships, and corporations utilizing modern research technology. Not open to those who completed ACC 473 at the undergraduate level.
A study of selected tax issues and the application of tax research methodology. Topics include the tax research environment, primary and secondary sources of federal tax law, and implementing tax research tools.
A study of theory and practice as applied to accounting information systems. The course examines the process for purchasing or designing accounting systems and a variety of topics dealing with the role of technology in building, implementing, controlling, and auditing accounting information systems. A secondary goal of the course is to help students become more comfortable using computer-based tools including e-mail, accounting software and the World Wide Web. Not open to those who completed ACC 492 at the undergraduate level.
This course introduces the students to contemporary issues in accounting education and accounting education research.
This course offers a study of the application of contemporary research methodology to selected subject areas in accounting including financial accounting and managerial accounting.
Students will complete doctoral level research which must culminate in the successful development and defense of the dissertation in the field of Management. Students may register for more than one section in a given semester. A minimum of 21 credit hours of Ph.D. Dissertation is required.
Macroeconomic concepts relating to the theory of income and employment. analysis of changes in the level of econoimc activity, economic growth and inflation.
Detailed analysis of traditional microeconomic theory, including consumer behavior theories, theories of production, cost curves, market structure and factor price determination.
Economic tools of analysis in the operation of a business; applied microeconomic, to solve selected business problems and to aid decision making in business firms and other organizations.
Guided individual research in current economic problems, including research methodology.
This course offers an analysis of static and dynamic theories of income, employment, and the price level. Other topics include analysis of real and monetary influences on economic growth, theories of investment and consumption, money demand, and stabilization theory and policy.
This course offers an advanced analysis of microeconomic theory. Topics include consumer and producer behavior and determination of market prices, resource markets analysis, analysis of game theory, theories of uncertainty, general equilibrium, and welfare economics.
This course offers a comprehensive study of various aspects of monetary theory and fiscal economics, as well as the development and implementation of monetary and fiscal policies and their implications for economic growth and stability.
This course offers a review and analysis of major theories and current econoimc philosophy. Topics of coverage include the study of the contributions of the classical school, the marginalists, the neo-classicists, the institutionalist, the keynesians, the neo-keynesians, the modern school, and the new classical school.
This course offers an analysis of the theory of urban and regional development and growth; economic analysis of urban problems and their solutions, analysis of land use, transportation, industrial development and urban planning models.
This course offers an analsis of microeconomic theory as it applies to business operations. Topics include demand theory and estimation; production and cost theories and estimations, capital budgeting theory and analysis, pricing policies, and production under uncertainty.
This course offers an analysis of selected problems of contemporary cities in housing, transportation and industrial development. Topics include analysis of costs and benefits of housing programs, distribution and use of transportation facilities and services, and analysis of economic implication of public policy initiatives pertaining to urban transportation.
This course offers an analysis of theory and practice of international trade and finance. Topics of discussion include advantages and disadvantages of foreign trade, analysis of effects of tariffs and other restrictions on the flow of trade, and analysis of international commercial and monetary policies between countries.
This course offers exposure to the fundamental elements of economic modeling, construction, estimation and testing. It will cover; simple and multiple regression analysis, use of dummy variables, testing for multicollinearity, autocorrelation, heteroscedasticity, etc. Extensive use of statistical software is required.
This course offers a continuation of Econometrics (ECO 760). Topics of discussion include multicollinearity, autoregressive and distributive lag models, autocorrelation problems and their correction, measurement errors problems, simultaneous equations models, identification problems, etc. Extensive use of statistical software is required.
Sutdents will complete doctoral level research which must culminate in the successful development and defense of the dissertation in the field of Economics. Students may register for more than one section in a given semester. A minimum of 21 credit hours of Ph.D. Dissertation is required.
A study of capital budgeting techniques, methods of determining a firm's cost of capital, valuing stocks and bonds, and international finance.
Prerequsite: 24 hours of MBA course work. Requirement: Supervised individual research relative to the student's research project required for completion of the degree program.
A study of organizational theory, group behavior, motivation, and systems applications to organizational management.
A study o data collection, presentation, and analysis including interval estimation, hypothesis testing, Bayesian analysis, regression, and correction techniques.
Planning, organizing, and controlling production with emphasis upon contemporary quantitative techniques and their applications.
The task of business ethics is the systematic study of ethical values that ought to guide human conduct; the study of what constitutes the obligations and responsibilities of agents and institutions; the examination of predictable outcomes in human costs and benefits; the study of character traits or dispositions--all in the interest of promoting human welfare.
Requirement: This course is to be taken after the student has completed at least 27 hours in the MBA Program. Business policy is an interdisciplinary capstone course which focuses on all aspects of business.
This course offers a thorough coverage of univariate statistical inference. Topics include simple regression, analysis of variance, multiple regression and correlation, and moving average time-series models.
This course offers a continuation of MNGT 710. Topics to be covered include concepts and techniques of non-parametric statistics, advanced topics in regression, time series analysis, autocorrelation, auto-regressive moving average models, identification, fitting and forecasting.
This course offers the doctoral students a thorough analysis of the theory and applications of multivariate methods. Topics to be covered include matrix algebra, factor analysis, canonical correlation, discriminant analysis and multivariate analysis of variance.
This course focuses on social and behavioral research methods to explore business and organizational problems. The course provides the student with theory, research, and techniques associated with the investigation of specific research problems in functional areas of business.
This course offers alternative theoretical approaches useful for analyzing organizational environment and intra-organizational relations. The course emphasizes understanding of macro-organizational behavior concepts and empirical research related to design, structure, and functioning of organizations.
This course offers an analysis of techniques involved in the development of computer-based systems designed to help managers in decision making and problem solving processes. Topics include assessment of technology available, discussion of the design and implementation of such systems.
This course offers special topics dealing with important isses in strategic management. The course emphasizes global and technological perspectives of strategic management issues.
This course offers an in-depth study of problems of operating across multiple political and cultural boundaries. Topics include theory and practice of the international business, global competition, organizing for global operations, market entry, innovations, and comparative management.
This course focuses on the human aspects of problems arising in technical, social, and organizational arenas faced with the need to change. The course includes detailed analyses of organizations as systems, organizational leadership and change.
This course offers an overview of the theory and research in strategic management with a scholarly research orientation on issues of both strategic content and process. The empirical study of these issues is emphasized.
This course offers discussions of special topics dealing with important issues pertaining to efficient management of organizations. Issues dealing with production and inventory management, and the development of leadership skills are to be addressed. Specific topics are to be selected by the instructor and may vary each semester.
Students will complete doctoral level research which must culminate in the successful development and defense of the dissertation in the field of Management. Students may register for more than one section in a given semester. A minimum of 21 credit hours of Ph.D. Dissertation is required.