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Oklahoma City University • 2501 N. Blackwelder Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73106

Meinders School of Business • okcu.edu/business

International Admissions • (405) 208-5358 • [email protected]

Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business

ranks in the top 4.5% of business schools in the world.

Master of Business Administration

12 Integrated Courses | 36 Credit Hours | 1 Year

The Meinders Early Advantage MBA

The Meinders 1-year MBA program is designed for

recent graduates and career-changers. Small, cohort-

based classes unite the faculty and students in a close-

knit, dynamic environment. The exclusive integration of

the Authentic Leadership Course includes customized

leadership assessments, coaching, and continuous

development opportunities.

Acquire a Marketable Skill Set

The Meinders Early Advantage MBA curriculum is

designed to develop desired competencies employers

seek from MBA graduates. Learn important business and

management knowledge, complemented by activities

to strengthen leadership, communication, presentation,

analysis, negotiation, and collaboration skills. Students

begin the program with a leadership course that will

prepare them to begin the rigorous process of expanding

their business and leadership acumen throughout the

MBA program.

One-Year MBA Cost Estimates

Tuition ($590/credit hour) $21,240

University Fees $4,740

Estimated Living Expenses $10,000

Estimated Books $1,000

Estimated Health Insurance $1,459

Total estimated cost

for 36-credit-hour MBA $38,439

*Costs are subject to change without notice.

The Meinders Experience

AACSB accredited MBA ranked in the top 4.5% of

programs worldwide.

Active learning and collaboration outside the classroom

with employers and influencers in the business

community.

Guest lecturing gives students the opportunity to learn

from executives and elicit candid responses about their

professional experiences.

Faculty with outstanding academic and business

credentials maintain a contemporary, business-related

focus in the classroom.

Attend all Meinders-sponsored events and conferences

free of charge.

Access to premier financial and investment data

through the cutting-edge Chickasaw Nation Financial

Resources Center.

Opportunities for professional development including

Toastmasters International, Business Ethics Consortium,

and the Investment Club..

Admission RequirementsPrerequisites are not required. However, applicants must demonstrate a basic understanding of analytical techniques and have strong communication skills. Low-cost MBA prep courses are available to enhance the understanding of key subject areas. Applications are evaluated on an individual basis and consider the following factors:

Bachelor’s degree with a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or above.

Original responses to the three MBA program application questions. The application questions can be found in the online application instructions as well as on our website. Responses should be entirely original and draw from your personal experiences. Responses that are found to be copied from the internet will result in denial of application.

Two letters of recommendation from employers/professors

Professional resume including academic and professional accomplishments.

TOEFL/IELTS scores (international applicants).

Admission Checklist Choose August/January cohort start date Start your application: okcu.edu/admissions/graduate Write application question responses; request letters

of recommendation Consider enrolling in online MBA prep courses

1 Year | Course Schedule

Fall Semester

1 MBA 5123: Effective Leadership & Communication

2 ACCT 5213: Accounting for Business Decision Making

3 MGMT 5213: Business Strategy for Creating Value4 ECON 5313: Data Analysis for Business Decisions

Spring Semester

5 ECON 5413: Managing at the Crossroads: The Global Economic Environment

6 MKTG 5103: Strategic Marketing for Creating Value7 FIN 5303: Financial Strategy & Decision Making8 IT 5603: Technology and Operations

Management

Summer | Cycle 1 (May - June)

9 MGMT 5703: Ethical, Societal, and Legal Environment of Business

10 MGMT 5713: Strategic Leadership of the Organization

Summer | Cycle 2 (June–August)

11 MBA 5113: Special Topics in Business12 MGMT 6643: Capstone Experience: Integrating

& Applying Business Knowledge

Course DescriptionsMBA 5123 – Effective Leadership & CommunicationFacilitates the development of interpersonal and team skills leaders need to function effectively. Focuses on integrated behavioral competencies demanded in organizations today: self-awareness, communication, negotiation, collaboration, and relationship building. Students will work through individual leadership profile assessments, evaluate effective leadership behaviors, and explore techniques and processes to communicate and negotiate effectively within organizations.

ACCT 5213 – Accounting for Business Decision MakingEmphasis on the application of accounting information for financial reporting and the use of accounting information in managerial decision making. This course is for M.B.A. students only and cannot be credited toward the M.S.A. degree.

MGMT 5213 – Business Strategy for Creating Value Focuses upon organizational, competitive, and environmental issues confronting organizations and how firms identify, seize, and defend opportunities in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing global economy. Empha-sizing the agility of strategic thinking as key to creating value, the course integrates concepts from strategic management, marketing, accounting, finance, and economics to develop understanding and applied mastery of related concepts such as environmental analysis, strategy formulation, sustainable competitive advantage, value-chain analysis, critical success factors, and tactical implementation.

ECON 5313 – Data Analysis for Business Decisions Focuses on the identification and access of information sources and analyzing the information to make informed decisions and solve managerial problems. Among the topics included are numerical and graphic description of data, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression analysis and predictive modeling, linear allocation models and allocating resources, forecasting, and decision analysis. The course utilizes spreadsheet, statistical, and simulation software.

ECON 5413 – Managing at the Crossroads: The Global Economic EnvironmentEmphasizing the perspective of managers in the private sector, this course focuses on the interactions of economic principles at work at the inter-firm, intra-industry, and inter-industry levels (microeconomics), at the economy-wide level (macroeconomics), and at the global level (international economics). This integrated framework is used to explain the effects that micro, macro, and international economics have on the growth and prosperity of individual business organizations and how managers make adjustments to create and capture value.

MKTG 5103 – Strategic Marketing Decisions for Creating ValueThis course is concerned with crafting marketing strategies and making marketing decisions. At the end of the course, students should be able to structure and solve rather complex marketing problems. Faced with a business situation, students learn to sort through the myriad facts and data, structure a decision framework of relevant information, and develop a strategy that is comprehensive, detailed, and workable. Students learn to communicate their strategies both in writing and orally. The course relies not only on the decision tools of marketing (concepts, theories, analytical methods, etc.), but also on decision tools from other areas such as statistics, accounting, finance, economics, psychology, and communications.

FIN 5303 – Financial Strategy and Decision MakingFundamental concepts such as time value of money and risk-return relationships in finance are presented in detail. Financial decisions faced by modern business enterprises are analyzed in the framework of financial theories. These decisions include capital budgeting, long-term financing, dividend policy, short-term financial management, and performance evaluations.

IT 5603 – Technology and Operations ManagementThis course seeks to expand student’s knowledge of the role of technology in the planning and management of organizations and covers both information technology topics and operations management topics. Stu-dents gain understanding of management information systems, decision support systems, expert systems, database management systems, and enterprise systems. These systems facilitate the effective management and control of an organization’s operations. Operations management topics include materials requirement planning, enterprise resource planning, quality assurance, supply chain management and decision theory.

MGMT 5703 – Ethical, Societal, and Legal Environment of BusinessThis course examines areas of law and ethics that relate to the contemporary business environment. Areas of study include contracts, torts, white collar crime, product liability, anti-competitive practices, consum-er protection, employment practices, business organizations, and the legal and ethical responsibilities of business.

MGMT 5713 – Strategic Leadership of the OrganizationThis course enhances the student’s ability to manage organizations and their members. The primary objec-tive is to increase understanding of organizational behavior theory, research and practice at the individual, intragroup, and intergroup levels. Topics covered in the first module include individual differences; values, attitudes, and the perceptual process; motivation theories; and learning and reinforcement theories. Module two includes interpersonal communication, group behavior, leadership, decision-making, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation. The third module comprises organizational structure and design, organizational culture, and organizational change and development.

MBA 5113 – Special Topics in BusinessRotating variable topics course allowing students to develop expertise in a current business topic.

MGMT 6643 – Capstone Experience: Integrating and Applying Business Knowledge Using a combination of simulations, cases, and/or live-case client projects, this course integrates princi-ples and concepts from all earlier course work. Emphasizes management of the enterprise as a process of integration using strategic processes and bound by the resources, environmental constraints, and ethical considerations of the enterprise.