Master of Arts in Leadership/Master of Business Administration

DUAL DEGREE

The Master of Arts in Leadership and Master of Business Administration Dual Degree is a 60-hour program. The program is designed to provide students with an integrated approach to leading and managing in an organizational context. Students will have the benefit of learning both management and leadership theory, as well as practical applications for the real world. The combined course load for the program will give students a strong foundation in key management skills (such as accounting, finance, and management information systems) as well as soft skills (such as leadership communication, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and leading change) required for effective leadership in organizations. Additionally, a key focus of this dual degree will be to teach students how to effectively apply principles of Christian leadership in their professional careers.

ADMISSION

In order to pursue a Dual Master’s Degree program, the applicant must apply to, meet the existing admission requirements for, and be accepted into each of the master’s degrees which comprise the dual degree program.

Master of Arts in Leadership must have a conferred bachelor’s degree.

MBA FOUNDATIONAL REQUIREMENTS 

As the MBA is a generalist master's business program designed to meet the further educational needs of the broadest range of working professionals with potentially non-business-related undergraduate degrees, no foundational courses are required.  

Nevertheless, three-session self-study requisite courses are included with certain MBA courses and are designed to specifically prepare non-business graduates for the requirements of the MBA level course. The requirement for a student to complete a requisite course is determined by the MBA Program Director. All requisites must be completed by the end of the third semester and before continuation to the balance of the MBA program.  The requisite courses carry no credit or tuition fees. The pass to proceed threshold is 85%. 

BASIC CONCEPT REQUISITES POLICY

The following table indicates the criteria by which decisions are normally made in relation to prerequisite exemptions. 

	BUSINESS GRADUATE APPLICANTS		NON-BUSINESS GRADUTE APPLICANTS
	Business Experience Accounting/Finance	Business Experience Non-Accounting/Finance	Business Experience Accounting/Finance	Business Experience Non-Accounting/Finance
Basic Concepts in Accounting	Exempt	Exempt/Non-Exempt*	Exempt/Non-Exempt*	Non-Exempt
Basic Concepts in Finance	Exempt	Exempt/Non-Exempt*	Exempt/Non-Exempt*	Non-Exempt
Basic Concepts in Quantitative Analysis	Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt
Basic Concepts in Business Economics	Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt
Basic Concepts in Business Law	Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt	Non-Exempt
*Subject to an evaluation of the particulars of both education and experience.

PROGRAM CONTINUANCE

Continuance in each program past the first 12 hours is pending submission of a satisfactory score on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) or Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®).

MA IN LEADERSHIP REQUIRED CURRICULUM - 30 hours (excluding requisites)

COURSE	CREDIT HOURS
Required Curriculum	30
MAL 5301 - Introduction to Leadership MAL 5302 - Vision-Casting and Leading Change MAL 5304 - Crisis Leadership MAL 5308 - Great Leaders in History MAL 5309 - Leadership Across Boundaries: Travel Study MAL 6301 - Christian Worldview of Leadership MAL 6303 - Leadership in Conflict and Adversity MAL 6305 - Relational Leadership and Emotional Intelligence MAL 6306 - Cross-Cultural and Global Leadership MAL 6307 - Mentored Leadership Internship (S-L)*

MBA REQUIRED CURRICULUM - 31.5 hours (excluding requisites)

COURSE	CREDIT HOURS
Required Curriculum	31.5
Basic Concepts Courses as required ACCT 6321 - Managerial Accounting (Requisite: see Foundational Requirements. Self-study three-week requisite course passed with a minimum of 85% course grade.) FINA 6301 - Corporate Finance (Requisite: see Foundational Requirements. Self-study three-week requisite course passed with a minimum of 85% course grade.) MANA 51.523 - Critical Thinking, Research, and Writing MANA 6302 - Quantitative Analysis and Modeling for Decision-Making (Requisite: see Foundational Requirements. Self-study three-week requisite course passed with a minimum of 85% course grade.) MANA 6310 - Leading Innovation MANA 6341 - Strategic Management Decisions (S-L)* (MBA Capstone course - must be taken in the last core semester in the program.) MANA 6344 - MBA Program Capstone Course (Requisite:  Course may not be started until beginning of next to last semester of the program. Completion of 25.5 credit hours at a minimum mean of 3.0 GPA.) MISM 6314 - Management Information Systems MRKT 6301 - Advanced Marketing Strategies (S-L) Select two courses from MBA concentrations with approval of Program Director

TOTAL HOURS
30 hours	MA in Leadership Required Curriculum
31.5 hours	MBA Required Curriculum
61.5 hours	TOTAL Dual Degree (excluding requisites)

*(S-L)=Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.

Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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