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Online MBA Courses

Curriculum Details

  • 14 – 19 Courses
  • 30 – 51 Credits
  • 8-Week Courses

DSU’s online MBA combines AACSB-accredited business expertise with real-world cultural awareness, so you emerge as a well-rounded, strategic leader ready to advance in your current role or pursue new opportunities.

In addition to the general MBA, the program offers four optional concentrations to tailor your experience to your goals:

If you’re pursuing the full-time accelerated program, you can complete the online MBA in 12 months by taking 15 credit hours per semester. If you’d like to study in a regular full-time format, you can complete the program in around 18 months by taking two courses per term. If you study part time, you can finish within two years by taking at least one summer session.

Foundation

Credits

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to basics of accounting, the language of business. It will help students understand some common accounting terms, what goes into presenting financial information into financial statements and how managers analyze performance from inside the firm. The course takes a user’s perspective and will help students understand how to use accounting information rather than how financial testaments are prepared.
This is a general introductory course on the fundamentals of Microeconomic and Macroeconomic theories, market models, and principles and their application to national and international economics systems.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to corporate finance. Since finance is the cornerstone of the free enterprise system, a good understanding of finance foundations is necessary to become good managers. The course takes a manager’s perspective and will help students understand how to use accounting and economic information to make sound financial decisions.

The role of Information Systems (IS) in business and management is getting more important than before because of the growth of information systems, the internet, electronic commerce, and globalization. Thus students will learn what the information systems are, how they affect organizations and their employees, and how they can make business more competitive and efficient to make firms competitive.

This course is a general review course on the principles of marketing. This course addresses concepts and issues underlying the modern practice of marketing, including the following: the environmental forces affecting the marketing decision-maker, organization, and planning of the market function; market segmentation; marketing mix; and other relevant topics.

This is a general review course on the fundamentals of mathematical theories, concepts, and applications as they pertain to business. It facilitates students to learn a Value-Driven Approach which presents an overview of fundamentals of Operations Management, the challenges facing today’s Operations Managers, the need for a change from a cost orientation to a focus on value, and the place of OM within the corporate and competitive world. It helps to understand values and attributes that are associated with value such as speed, quality, cost, and flexibility.

MBA Core Courses

Credits

This is a practical course that prepares students to better understand IT-business relationships. The objective of this course is to provide the students with an overview of organizational and managerial revolution caused by information systems, information technology infrastructure, redesigning the organization with information systems, various decision support systems, and managing knowledge and international IS. Students will assess business-related problems using information systems and knowledge established by information systems. This course utilizes Excel and other computer platforms
The course is designed to teach managers the practical utility of basic economic tools such as present value analysis, supply and demand, regression, production cost, and the basic models of perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition. Topics such as oligopoly, penetration pricing game theory, and bargain predatory pricing are covered. Students will expand their knowledge of excel and other analytical platforms.

 The course covers major trends in the managerial practice of marketing. Topics include the impact of a pandemic on supply chain and crisis management, influencer marketing, consumer marketing with attention to diversity equity and inclusion, gender-based segmentation, disruptive innovation and the marketing influence of Gen Z. The class will include marketing analytics and application-based assignments and projects.

This course is designed to help you think through how you would manage the strategic implementation dilemmas in which operating managers find themselves. The course is designed to allow you to gain knowledge, insights, and analytical skills related to how corporation senior executives design and implement formal accounting and financial systems used to plan and control the firm’s performance.
This course describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Students will discover the importance of how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and what financial managers should do to increase company value. Topics covered are valuation Risk and capital budgeting, financial analysis and corporate control, and governance.
The course concentrates on the behavior of individuals in small, informal groups, and formal organizations. The course examines the following topics: leadership in the context of group behavior, job satisfaction, supervision, planning, and conflict resolution. Prerequisites: Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) requirements in Management.

The course focuses on the key strategic decisions of operations managers. Students will combine their quantitative and qualitative skills in the areas of operations, and sustainability in the supply chain. Students will evaluate and manage operations utilizing business analytics such as decision-making tools, learning curves, simulation, and applying analytics to big data in operations management.

Capstone

Credits

The course is a study of policy formulation and implementation by middle- and senior-level management. The course integrates previous coursework in the other core courses. The Capstone (integrated management course) is intended to apply theoretical concepts to a variety of organizational situations from a top management perspective. The concepts and techniques of strategic management in organizations will be the focus of the course. Topics include developing a strategic vision, setting objectives, and crafting a strategy. Students will be expected to develop a competitive analysis portfolio; match strategy to an organization’s situation; build resource capabilities, support systems, manage a budget, align culture and strategy; and structure the organization to implement the organization’s strategic vision in a dynamic global marketplace. Prerequisites: Completion of all other core course requirements.

Electives for General MBA (2)

Credits

Students will work with their advisor to choose MBA electives.

Concentrations

Credits

Gain executive-level decision-making skills by pairing analytical training with foundations in leadership, strategy, finance and management.

MBA – Business Analytics Concentration Courses

  • MBA 681 Database Management Systems (3 credits)
  • MBA 682 Data Analytics (3 credits)
  • MBA 683 Data Visualization & Analysis (3 credits)

Business Analytics details

Develop strategic financial analysis skills and prepare to make financial decisions within complex global markets.

MBA – Finance Concentration Courses

  • MBA 617 Financial Statement Analysis (3 credits)
  • MBA 641 Investments & Portfolio Management (3 credits)
  • MBA 643 Domestic & Global Financial Markets & Institutions (3 credits)

Finance details

Apply management principles to industry-specific issues in service operations, customer experience, tourism development and hospitality strategy.

MBA – Hospitality and Tourism Management Concentration Courses

  • MBA 671 Global Contemporary Issues in Hospitality & Tourism Management (3 credits)
  • MBA 672 Financial & Cost Analysis Management in Hospitality & Tourism Management (3 credits)
  • MBA 673 Research & Technological Advancements in Hospitality Operations & Management (3 credits)

Hospitality and Tourism Management details

Blend managerial and technical perspectives, emphasizing how information systems support operations and enhance decision-making.

MBA – Information Systems Concentration Courses

  • MBA 631 Strategic Information Systems (3 credits)
  • MBA 632 Managing Electronic Commerce (3 credits)
  • MBA 651 Supply Chain Management (3 credits)

Information Systems details

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