The MBA In Sustainable Energy Management program at Austin University develops the highest leadership skills for your success, taught by internationally recognized scholars.
You have a unique opportunity to work closely with diverse individuals, harnessing your intercultural skills throughout the MBA program. Our program prepares you with the necessary skills and knowledge to understand, manage or create business, leadership and financial careers at upper levels of management. Our program also provides the tools for business and leadership professionals to develop the right knowledge, attitudes and skill sets that will equip you to perform ethically, effectively and creatively in the entrepreneurial or corporate environment.
The curriculum comprises seven core courses including a capstone plus five concentration courses, totaling 36 semester credits.
The MBA in Sustainable Energy Management is one the twelve unique concentrations offered at Austin University, allowing professionals to target their course of study and meet their specific career goals.
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Dean’s Letter
Every day during your Austin University MBA experience, you will learn how to think critically, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with people very different from yourself to prepare you for business success. We call that the Austin University MBA difference. You will call it the opportunity of a lifetime.
A truly unique MBA experience
Within the Austin University MBA, you will find the ideal environment to realize your full potential and become a business leader for the 21st century. Working with other high-achieving participants, you will build your competencies in an energizing, collaborative community that mirrors the diversity of today’s global economy.
You will experience a perfect equation between our class size and an individualized approach to learning, ensuring that your ideas and input are valued and heard. This encouragement comes both from faculty and other students, in a supportive environment where everyone knows your name and participants form a close-knit community for life. Conversations with your peers from around the world will shape your viewpoint, enrich your experience and prepare you to work with people from many different backgrounds and cultures.
Student-oriented professors who are successful practitioners in their field will build upon your unique talents and shape your learning experience. Our faculty infuse a rare combination of broad experience, personal insights and the latest in advanced management thinking into their classes.
Armed with the latest knowledge of today, you will be well-prepared to solve the business problems of tomorrow. During our 12-month program for the Full-time MBA or 18-month program for the Part-time MBA, you will develop the core management skills needed to excel in any industry, anywhere in the world. And given our more personalized learning methodology, You will have the opportunity to go much deeper, with the flexibility to pursue specialized studies and hands-on learning in the sector of your choice.
The Austin University MBA program focuses on an entirely different approach to leadership. We believe that you must know yourself and your strengths to effectively lead others. After learning the theories of leadership, you will face your fears, develop critical thinking skills and challenge conventional wisdom in complex situations specifically designed to put those theories to the test. The result: newfound confidence in your abilities from applying what you learned to real life situations.
If you are a high achiever who dreams big, with the courage and passion to turn that dream into a reality, the Austin University MBA program is for you.
To your success,
Dr. Peter Alexander, Dean, Graduate School of Business
Strengths
A Unique Approach to Leadership Development
Current and future executives cannot just be distinct specialists in finance, marketing, strategy or operations. They need to have personal competencies that bridge functional expertise, displaying a comprehensive understanding of all areas of the organization and a capacity to work harmoniously across functions. Throughout your MBA year at Austin University, you are given a series of personal development workshops and seminars designed to allow reflection on your MBA experience, draw conclusions, and facilitate personal growth outside of the classroom. Leadership training requires a rigorous combination of academic theory and application. We teach you the theories behind successful leadership, and then provide you the ideal environment to put those theories to the test.
Concept
Becoming future business leaders entails more than being functional specialists in marketing, finance or operations. Today’s managers need a cross-functional perspective to bridge departmental, cultural and legal lines within a global organization. Our MBA program develops leaders through an innovative approach to theory, practice and personal development training that enables you to be successful in your business specialty.
Theory in Practice
What you learn from our faculty members will be instantly applicable in real-world situations. You will gain firsthand insights into their transformative research and a behind-the-scenes perspective from their extensive industry experience. With this knowledge in hand, you and your learning team will work to develop innovative solutions to real-world business problems. A series of hands-on opportunities develop your confidence to lead in a variety of circumstances, as well as teach you how to motivate others to work toward a common goal. These leadership opportunities prepare you for career success.
Entrepreneurship
At the very heart of our philosophy is the entrepreneurial mindset. Our courses will teach you to emphasize your individual initiative by identifying, valuing, and capturing opportunity no matter what field you choose.
Since entrepreneurship is most closely associated with starting a new business, you will learn key traits such as creativity, the ability to keep going in the face of hardship, and the social skills needed to build great teams.
Career Management
With an newly minted MBA from Austin University, your career prospects multiply exponentially. You begin the transformation of your professional life at Austin Career Management Center (ACMC). The ACMC is here to help connect you with opportunities, from internships to full-time employment, and provide guidance throughout the cycles of your career.
If you are dedicated, tenacious, and innovative, with an endless curiosity for uncovering savvy business solutions, you’re ready to take on an MBA program that’s just like you.
Program Objectives
The MBA in Sustainable Energy Management from Austin University helps you gain the real-world experience needed to succeed in this globally fast-growing field. It is the vehicle for changing the mindset of citizens to move away from an oil and gas dependency. It encourages living in harmony with the environment in a sustainable fashion. It is a unique, innovative and student-focused program, that is rigorous and relevant to the international sustainable energy movement.
As sustainability issues move to the forefront of businesses and governments worldwide, there is a growing need for energy systems professionals—in particular, those with the expertise to excel at the intersection of technical principles, business strategies, and public planning.
With this program, you will have the unique opportunity to:
- Learn directly from business and energy experts, many of whom have successfully implemented energy systems, devices, and policies.
- Develop a solid business and engineering foundation, while accessing a range of specialized and related renewable energy.
- Contribute meaningfully to the planning, execution and monitoring of micro to large energy projects and organizations at local, regional, and international levels.
- Establish a framework for the development of regional clusters and diversification of the economy, especially in the context of reduced dependency on oil and gas economy.
Program Prerequisites
To be considered for the MBA program at Austin University, you need to have:
– A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
– Minimum GMAT score of 550 or minimum GRE score of 300.
– For non-native English speakers, TOEFL scores (95 minimum) or equivalent. Please ask our admissions office whether you qualify for a TOEFL waiver based on your professional or academic exposure to English.
– Completed online application.
– Personal interview on campus or by video conferencing.
Program Dates
Austin MBA is a 12-month, full-time, modular program.
Candidates meet on Austin University’s Northern California campus in San Ramon. The next MBA program begins on January 5, 2020; participants will graduate by December 29, 2020. Please see the admissions details for module dates, deadlines and requirements.
| Academic Period | Courses | Registration Open | Start Date | Last Day to Register/Add | Payment Due | End Date | Grades Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring |
520 Strategic Marketing Management 505 Accounting and Finance for Decision making 501 Artificial Intelligence Management |
Jan 15 | Mar 05 | Mar 12 | Mar 19 | Jun 29 | Jul 09 |
| Summer |
502 Quantitative and Business research methods 510 Ethics and corporate Governance 515 Management and Accounting Information Systems |
May 14 | Jul 09 | Jul 16 | Jul 23 | Aug 31 | Sep 10 |
| Fall |
525 Managerial Economics 530 Legal Aspects of Business 535 Entrepreneurship Management |
Jul 10 | Sep 05 | Sep 15 | Sep 22 | Dec 22 | Jan 08 |
| Winter |
536 Strategic corporate Finance 541 International Business & Global Strategy Management 545 Capstone: Strategic Management |
Dec 04 | Jan 02 | Jan 12 | Jan 19 | Feb 23 | Mar 05 |
Travel and Personal Costs
You should budget enough to cover your travel to/from San Francisco and the accommodation in the San Francisco area.
You should budget enough money to cover your apartment, insurance, public transportation or bicycle, food, and entertainment. We recommend budgeting $2,000 to $3,000 a month.
MBA – Degree Plan
| Course Number | Course Name | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MBA 501 | Business Communications | 3 |
| MBA 502 | Accounting and Finance for Decision Making | 3 |
| MBA 504 | Organizational Leadership and Behavior | 3 |
| MBA 506 | Strategic Marketing Management | 3 |
| MBA 508 | Entrepreneurship Management | 3 |
| MBA 509 | International Business & Global Strategy | 3 |
| MBA 580 | Supply Chain Management in the Energy Industry | 3 |
| MBA 581 | Energy Law and Regulatory | 3 |
| MBA 582 | Leadership Styles and Development | 3 |
| MBA 583 | Off-grid Renewable Energy | 3 |
| MBA 584 | Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| MBA 545 | Capstone: Strategic Management (Simulation-based course) | 3 |
Total Credits Required for the Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA): 36 Credits
MBA – Course Descriptions
MBA 501 Business Communications
This course is designed to improve students’ practical business communication skills. It introduces students to the implications and consequences of good and poor communication and offers valuable ways to optimize interpersonal interactions. This course will develop the student’s ability to use clear, concise and unambiguous communication styles. The course also introduces students to a variety of different writing challenges including minutes, technical writing, web page design and sales and promotional material generation.
MBA 502 Accounting and Finance for Decision Making
Accounting and Finance is the language of business, to be effective, everyone needs to be financially literate and able to interpret figures and understand what lies behind it. This course focuses on understanding how economic events like corporate investments, financing transactions and operating activities are recorded in the three main financial statements (i.e., the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows). Also, how to develop the technical skills needed to analyze corporate financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis. An essential part of the course is Understanding and analyzing actual annual reports, periodic public filing of financial statements by firms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) in forms such as 10-K (annual statements), other corporate disclosures, and analysts’ reports. We will analyze actual corporate financial statements almost every class.
MBA 504 Organizational Leadership and Behavior
This course provides students with an overview to the approach to organizational behavior as a whole. Its structure emphasizes the scope of theory, research and practice on organization behavior, culture and ethics. Students will also be exposed to the basic definition of a board of directors and to distinguish between different types of boards and understand what the role, functions and responsibilities of the board in an organization entail. This course helps the student to determine how the board of directors can assist the management with strategic planning to distinguish the difference between the daily management of a business and the strategic responsibilities of the board of directors. It will guide students to understand how coaching can be used to develop the team members and to develop the coaching skills that help improve individual performance.
MBA 506 Strategic Marketing Management
This course educates students to better understand unambiguous logics behind marketing strategy which ultimately can increase the profit of organizations. Strategic Marketing Management sketches the proper philosophy and practical procedures that tackles the challenges corporations are facing in such competitive market. The impact of an effective strategy is to reduce or resolve issues that corporations are facing.
Strategic decisions come from competent decision makers. Diagnosing and forecasting needed changes and implementing them effectively, contributes significantly to overall success of a company. Strategic Marketing Management is an important part of the core principles that brings much success to an organization. Students through this course will notice and discover the winning formulas for the market, learn how to use analyses to find preeminent solutions that can fulfill the unmet needs of the organization.
MBA 508 Entrepreneurship Management
Establishing new businesses, capturing new markets, and enhancing organizational effectiveness can happen only by improving productivity and innovation. New technologies, new discoveries, competition, and globalization force both entrepreneurs and existing firms to foster innovation and agility, Entrepreneurship Management has three different aspects: The process of entrepreneurship, the finance of entrepreneurship, and the context of entrepreneurship.
This course examines the theory and practice of promoting and managing innovation in start-ups and existing firms. It explores successful frameworks, strategies, funding techniques, business models, risks, and barriers for introducing break-through products and services. Topics include business model innovation, design-driven innovation, leadership, strategy, information technology, knowledge management, process improvement, performance measurement, and change management.
MBA 509 International Business & Global Strategy
Globalization is a necessity and not a luxury. It is a force based on the customer demands for a large number of products and services, especially for vital and critical ones. Global operations have direct or indirect impact on domestic practices, performance and even job market. The needs of customers worldwide for various products and services next to unevenness of products and services quality around the globe are continuously forcing the businesses to make changes. These dissimilarities in their operations and inventions create a gap and make it more difficult to satisfy the customers. Multinational corporations play a vital role in changing the situation and creating a more dynamic global market.
Our MBA students need to become sound educated in order to comprehend the vital function of international business operation. Our students also need to learn why and how senior management of corporations especially the multinational corporations (MNEs), make their important decisions based on a global strategy. A dynamic strategy and tactical blueprint will certainly strengthen the outcome of their businesses. This class is complementing the remaining MBA courses and broaden their understanding of this degree program.
MBA 580 Supply Chain Management in the Energy Industry
This course will enable you to fundamentally grasp the economic nature and structure of the renewables energy sector and explore the intricacies associated with sourcing energy, energy distribution, and sustaining energy supply chains. It offers a theoretical and practical examination of the factors necessary for effective operations and supply management in today’s global and highly competitive markets.
The course is designed to examine the field of supply chain management in an energy context. Study procurement and distribution strategies, concepts, tools and techniques that support energy operations. Course activities and case studies will address the effective execution of these strategies and the appropriate supporting activities. The global virtual classroom in which you study enables you to understand the practical and strategic implications of multinational supply chains and to learn directly from your professional counterparts in other parts of the world.
MBA 581 Energy Law and Regulatory
This course provides an introduction to sustainable energy law and regulation in the United States. It covers basic principles of rate regulation and public utilities; the division of jurisdiction between federal and state governments; the key federal statutes and regulatory regimes governing natural gas, electricity, and nuclear power; and the implications of new climate change and renewable energy mandates for the electric power sector. The first half of the course will focus on public utility regulation and the basic regulatory frameworks for natural gas and electricity regulation, with an emphasis on understanding the messy and uneven transition to wholesale competition in these sectors and, in the electricity context, the experience with state restructuring and retail competition.
The second half of the course will introduce students to the distinctive regulatory regime for nuclear power and explore in some depth the challenges and opportunities that come with new policies seeking to promote renewable energy and transition to a low-carbon electricity system. This course does not cover traditional oil and gas law.
MBA 582 Renewable Energy and Other Alternative Fuels
This course focuses on the energy industry of the future, with a particular emphasis on the convergence of energy and environmental issues. The course includes renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biofuels); “clean” energy sources (nuclear, coal and natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration); energy efficiency; demand response and smart grid technologies; renewable portfolio standards; and climate change and carbon markets.
MBA 583 Off-grid Renewable Energy
In this course we will focus on exploring the off-grid, stand-alone systems. You will learn the key components of photovoltaic, wind, and hydroelectric systems. You will foundation of photovoltaic (PV), system components and the scientific laws essential to understanding how renewable energy systems work. You will learn about wind energy and low-head hydroelectric systems, focusing on small-scale implementations, as well as the safety and regulating bodies that guide proper system design. After the completion of the course, you will be able to apply what you have learned by conducting an energy audit to analyze power consumption, identifying essential system components of small-scale systems, building a budget for a small-scale system design, and creating a design for implementing a small-scale system.
MBA 584 Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship
The Sustainable Energy Entrepreneurship course is where you learn to launch a new business in the renewable energy, finance, real estate, design, engineering, or environmental sectors, while also helping you create positive environmental and human health impacts around the world.
We will integrate tools, trends, and tips from the field of entrepreneurship as a career path for making a difference and generating wealth in the sustainable energy. In this course, we focus on real world application, step-by-step advice, and case studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: –
- Define key business opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions in the renewable energy and green building sectors. – Analyze a successful business in renewable energy or green building.
- Identify common problems you might solve with sustainable energy.
- Plan for engaging with investors who might finance a new business.
- Learn how to take real world first steps towards launching a new business or corporate initiative.
MBA 545 Capstone: Strategic Management (Simulation-based course)
This simulation-based course provides students with the opportunity to get the experience of managing a Real Estate business or as a member of the company’s top management team. Class will be divided into teams, each team will formulate and implement strategies that require the effective integration of various business functions – production, marketing, R&D, HRM, and finance – within a practical strategic decision-making framework. students will be able to experience decision making under conditions of uncertainty, the trade-offs necessary among different business functions, and the impact of decisions on the company’s performance in a highly competitive marketplace.
Tuition and fees
MBA tuition and fees at Austin University
Becoming future business leaders entails more than being functional specialists in marketing, finance, or operations. Today’s Managers need a cross-functional perspective to bridge departmental, cultural, and legal, and lines within a global organization. The Austin University MBA programs develops leaders through an innovative approach to theory, practice, and personal development training.
MBA tuition and fees: $ 42,000
The program tuition and fees include teaching fees, required cases and books, e-learning resources, lunch, snacks, and coffee while on campus.
Significant scholarships available. To learn more, please click here >
Dr. Peter Alexander
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Phone 925.272-7370
Email pa@austin.university
“We believe that we are all in this together is a far better philosophy than you are on your own.”
– Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America
“We believe that we are all in this together is a far better philosophy than you are on your own.”
– Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America
PROGRAM CORE VALUES
Firsthand insights | Behind-the-scenes perspectives | Innovative solutions | Real-world business problems