Online Master's Degree in Business Administration

As an MBA student, you’ll collaborate on practical resume–building projects that focus on developing valuable business and management decision-making skills. The online MBA program is also designed to foster thought leadership, innovation, and corporate social responsibility on a global scale. You will study how  to:

• Create value in production and distribution of goods, services, and information throughout the supply chain
• Apply business knowledge to take well-reasoned action in diverse situations
• Address  business issues or establish new procedures within an existing process
• Generate a new business or establish new procedures within an existing business
• Demonstrate the leadership necessary to accomplish business goals and maximize organizational performance
• Evaluate the ethical and social implications of business decisions in a global context.

The concentration in human resources is acknowledged by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Specialized knowledge and expertise can prepare you for leadership roles in today’s competitive business environments. Purdue Global’s online  MBA program allows you to complete four or more additional courses in one of six designated concentrations:

• Finance: Study how to analyze strategies for investing in various markets, and develop an understanding of the real and financial assets that comprise corporate balance sheets. Explore mergers and acquisitions and financial management issues for international businesses such as foreign exchange risk, hedging strategies, and global positioning of assets. Acquire the knowledge and skills to prepare and interpret financial statements.
• Health Care Management: The health care industry is experiencing advances in treatment, rigorous patient-privacy regulations, staffing challenges, and issues of cost control. Our program focuses on how to navigate the changing health care field, as well as developing the knowledge to solve real-life business problems.
• Human Resources: Explore recruitment and hiring practices, employee training, corporate policies, and executive leadership. Analyze labor laws and topics such as wrongful termination, employment at will, and collective bargaining. Focus on change management and the relationship between pay structures and organizational performance.
  
  The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has acknowledged that the Master of Business Administration with a concentration in human resources fully aligns with SHRM’s HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates.
• Information Technology: Prepare yourself to pursue IT leadership and management-level positions in service organizations or business, health care, military, government, and nonprofit settings. Study methods for finding innovative solutions to an ever-increasing array of business and IT challenges. Courses examine critical concepts and competencies for the IT professional such as principles of information technology, systems analysis and design, and the management of technology in a business environment.
• Marketing: Apply marketing research methods and techniques to analyze and implement strategic advertising. Explore how buyer behavior and consumer protection issues affect marketing strategies, and analyze factors that affect purchase decisions in the marketplace. Develop the skills to manage a sales force, with a focus on training, motivation, compensation, and performance evaluation.
• Project Management: Study how to analyze and streamline complex, large-scale endeavors and turn them into efficient project plans. You will be taught to strategize, plan, schedule, implement, and determine project deliverables, milestones, and responsibilities, making sure to expertly address business needs and manage costs.