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

1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of business knowledge (principles, concepts, theories, perspectives) and skills (procedures, methods, strategies, approaches) for each business function/discipline, and the interrelationships among business functions/disciplines.
2. Students will demonstrate the capacity to assess business environments and opportunities, and to align business activities in developing and implementing organizational strategy and change in complex and uncertain conditions.
3. Students will demonstrate the capacity to identify problems, define objectives, gather and analyze information, evaluate risks and alternatives, make decisions that are ethical and responsible, and to communicate clear, defensible ideas, goals and plans.
4. Students will demonstrate the capacity to acquire and manage organizations’ financial capital, human capital, assets, information, and technology.
5. Students will demonstrate the capacity to work effectively and communicate with others as a colleague and as a manager.
6. Students will demonstrate the capacity to collaborate and communicate effectively with others.
7. Students will demonstrate the capacity to manage, influence, and lead others, and facilitate their development.
8. Students will demonstrate the capacity to understand commonalities and differences in others’ values, styles, and perspectives, and how culture affects those commonalities and differences.
9. Students will demonstrate the capacity for continual self-managed learning for professional and career development.

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.

Candidates meet on Austin University’s Northern California campus in San Ramon. The next MBA program begins on January 5, 2018; participants will graduate by December 29, 2018. Please see the admissions details for module dates, deadlines and requirements.

Travel and Personal Costs

MBA – Degree Plan

Total Credits Required for the Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA): 36 Credits

MBA – Course Descriptions

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MBA 501         Artificial Intelligence Management

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers and the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior, Computing has fundamentally changed the human experience by allowing us to automate a wide range of routine tasks. The goal of artificial intelligence is to push back the boundaries of what qualifies as “routine”. Tasks that once required human judgment are steadily being handed over to computers.

This course involves implementing and applying key AI algorithms and explore techniques from a wide range of disciplines including logic, probability theory, statistics and control theory.

The emphasis of this course is on technical content, but we will also explore important ethical and philosophical questions raised by AI: Is it possible for machines to be truly intelligent? Who should take responsibility for decisions made by computers? What will be left for people to do when every task is “routine”?

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MBA 502        Quantitative and Business Research Methods

Social science research allows scholars to make sense of the social world, to discover why people think and act like they do and how important institutions act. The main purpose of this course is to provide student with a broad introduction to the methodological foundations and tools to study Business Administration with focus on the fundamentals of quantitative research and applied research.

This course focus on how to identify problems to study, develop hypotheses and research questions, specify independent and dependent variables, check for the validity and reliability of studies and design research projects. students will be exposed to the broad range of designs used in Business research from laboratory and field experiments, surveys, content analysis, focus groups and in-depth interviewing.

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MBA 505        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.

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MBA 510         Ethics and Corporate Governance

Corporate governance and ethical practices is the control of management in the best interests of the company, including accountability to shareholders who elect directors and auditors. How a company is governed influences rights and relationships among organizational stakeholders, and ultimately how an organization is managed, and whether it succeeds or fails. Corporate Governance gives corporate board members, officers, directors, and other stakeholders the full spectrum of knowledge they need to implement and sustain superior governance

This course outlines different regulatory processes and ethical practices essential to an understanding of the principles of corporate governance and ethics in the contemporary business environment, the course teaches the fundamentals of ethics and corporate governance from a variety of angles – the board of directors, management, shareholders, the media, proxy advisors, regulators and other stakeholders – and focuses on assessing the effectiveness and execution of governance roles and responsibilities.

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MBA 515         Management and Accounting Information Systems

Accounting and Management Information System is an essential part of the decision-making process, understanding Accounting and Management Software/ programs and how it works, functions and implementations help the managerial level to take better informed decisions, the course will focus on the design, integrity, and effectiveness of accounting and management information systems, the course will cover both Accounting and Managerial Skills, Manually and Automated. students enroll in this course will learn how to be proactive accountants and managers to improve the analysis and design of the Accounting and management Information Systems to add a real value to business organizations, protect business information and its net worth, and advise businesses about security risks.

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MBA 520        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. 

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MBA 525         Managerial Economics

Managerial Economics is the application of Economics concepts and theories to the managerial decisions in the Private, Public and Not for profit Organizations.  This course will focus on a problem-solving approach to improve company’s profitability and managerial decision making by assisting mangers in efficiently allocating the scares resources, planning and executing the corporate strategy.  The course will cover also Demand, supply analysis and estimation, production and cost analysis under different market conditions, forecasting and decision making under uncertainty.

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MBA 530        Legal Aspects of Business (Business Law)

The legal Issues of the business is the attitude of the government toward business, the main purpose of this class is to empower you to participate in legal matters, it will help you to understand your role and responsibility within the business environment, in addition you will be able to identify legal issues and to know how to solve It effectively and efficiently, also you will develop improved reasoning and problem- solving skills in an effort to better evaluate the legal, regulatory and ethical environment which help you to make a better decisions and improve your ability to recognize and manage legal risk in business decision making and enhance your analytical skills.

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MBA 535         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.

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MBA 536        Strategic Corporate Finance

This course examines important issues in corporate finance from the perspective of financial managers who are responsible for making significant investment and financing decisions. The concept of net present value, suitably adapted to account for taxes, uncertainty, and strategic concerns, is used to analyse how investment and financing decisions interact to affect the value of the firm. The course covers topics that are important to decision-making in marketing, operations management, and corporate strategy. A large portion of the course covers capital budgeting, first without uncertainty, and then in the presence of uncertainty. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the interaction between (corporate and personal) taxes and the cost of capital. Topics covered in this context will include leasing and leveraged buyouts. The course also includes a treatment of dividend policy and capital market efficiency, as they relate to the value-maximization objective of the firm. We emphasize the development of problem-solving skills based on a good understanding of the business environment as opposed to pure theorizing or mindless numbers exercises. Because of the practical importance of the material and as an illustration of the relevant theory, we will discuss examples and cases.

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MBA 541         International Business& Global Strategy Management

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.

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MBA 545        Capstone: Strategic Management (Simulation-based course)

This simulation-based course provides students with the opportunity to get the experience of running a business 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.

Notice to Prospective Degree Program Students

This institution is approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to offer degree programs. To continue to offer degree programs, this institution must meet the following requirements:

1.  Become institutionally accredited by an accredited agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, with the scope of the accreditation covering at least one-degree program.
2. Achieve accreditation candidacy or pre-accreditation, as defined in regulations, by (date two years from the date of provisional approval*), and full accreditation by (date five years from the date of provisional approval*).

If this institution stops pursuing accreditation, it must:

1. Stop all enrollment in its degree programs, and
2. Provide a teach-out to finish the educational program or provide a refund.

An institution that fails to comply with accreditation requirements by the required dates, shall have its approval to offer degree programs automatically suspended.

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.

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