Curriculum
The Online MBA curriculum at Chico State offers the best of all worlds: mastering well-rounded business knowledge and leadership attributes, the opportunity to target your degree toward a specific career path, and immediately actionable professional skills delivered quickly and efficiently. Whether you plan to pursue one of our specializations or take a more general route toward broad business expertise, the Online MBA can get you where you need to go.
Explore the innovative, high-impact courses that comprise the Online MBA curriculum, and see how you can craft an MBA experience to help you excel in any career path.
→ Online MBA with Health Services Administration (HSA) Specialization
→ Online MBA with Project Management Specialization
Prerequisite Courses
To ensure preparedness for the course content of the Online MBA program, all students must either pass the following prerequisite courses or demonstrate sufficient professional experience to waive them:
- ACCT 201: Introduction to Financial Accounting (or equivalent)
Required for ACCT 615 and FINA 655 - ACCT 202: Introduction to Managerial Accounting (or equivalent)
Prerequisite: ACCT 201; required for ACCT 615 - MATH 108: Statistics of Business and Economics (or equivalent)
- ECON 103: Principles of Microeconomics Analysis (or equivalent)
Online students are strongly encouraged to take these courses prior to the beginning of their first term at Chico State, although students may begin taking Online MBA courses without having all prerequisite courses completed. Most students with an undergraduate business degree will likely have met all of these requirements.
To make this process more efficient and effective for you—as well as to save you time and money—the MATH 108 and ECON 103 requirements can be fulfilled by enrolling in online, non-credit bearing, self-paced leveling courses offered by Peregrine Academic Services. Leveling courses (also called modules) are meant to give non-business majors the basic information they need to succeed in our graduate courses. ACCT 201 and ACCT 202 must be taken as credit-bearing courses, either at Chico State or at another institution.
Courses for Online MBA Core & Specializations
Online MBA Core Coursework—All Students: 21 Units
- ACCT 615: Accounting for Managers
- BADM 693: Strategic Management and Decision-Making
- BSIS 610: Business Analytics
- MGMT 635: Managing People, Teams, and Organizations
- MGMT 647: Leadership, Global Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility
- MKTG 673: Strategic Marketing and Customer Value
- OSCM 607: Operations Planning and Execution
General Online MBA Specialization: 9 Units
- BADM 679: Competitive Business Simulation
- BCOM 504: Communication for Personal and Professional Success
- FINA 655: Corporate Finance
FAST Electives (Choose One)
- BSIS 501: Advanced Excel Analysis and Reporting
- MGMT 504: Everyday Project Management: Knowledge and Applications
Health Services Administration Specialization: 15 Units
- PHHA 631: Healthcare Delivery and Payment Systems
- PHHA 633: Healthcare Financial Management
- PHHA 634: Healthcare Quality Management
- PHHA 635: Healthcare Policy
- PHHA 638: Healthcare Law
- PHHA 695: Capstone Seminar in Health Services
Project Management Specialization: 13.5 Units
- BCOM 504: Communication for Personal and Professional Success
- FINA 655: Corporate Finance
- MGMT 644: Seminar in Project Management
- MGMT 645: Teamwork, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution
- MGMT 646: Optimizing Project Outcomes with Business Analytics