Curriculum
About Our Curriculum
Our program features a focused 30-credit curriculum consisting of ten 3-credit courses.
These courses can be completed through in-person classes held in the evenings at our Alexandria location or in a virtual, asynchronous format. Students may take courses fully in-person, entirely online, or through a mix of both formats. We give our Flex MBA students the opportunity to alternate between course formats during their time in our program.
The curriculum features a strong quantitative core as well as advanced courses in technology and leadership, preparing students for high-level roles where they can leverage their strategic decision-making acumen.
By taking two courses each fall and spring and one course in the summer, students can earn their degree in just 24 months.
Flex MBA Courses
Fundamentals of accounting systems as they relate to decision making. Attention is directed toward accounting for the core of management control and financial reporting systems, and as integrally related to the information system.
This course examines the determinants and consequences of human behavior in formal organizations. The specific graduate focus is on understanding the individual, interpersonal, and group processes which underlie all human dynamics.
Explores the basic concepts underlying the finance function, relevant to finance and non-finance majors. It provides an understanding of the firms decision-making framework in the context of the economic environment (financial markets) in which the decisions are made. The specific topics covered, at a basic level, include investment decision under uncertainty, valuation, risk and return, market efficiency, portfolio theory, asset pricing, cost of capital, capital investment decisions, and futures and options markets.
Principles and processes of strategic marketing planning. Emphasis on development and implementation of marketing plans and programs. Comprehensive case studies are used as the basis for analysis.
BIT 5724: Managerial Statistics
Introduction to basic statistical (inference) tools necessary in managerial decision-making. Topics include, but are not limited to, descriptive statistics, elementary probability theory, sampling and sampling distributions, portfolio management, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, quality improvement, and Six Sigma concepts and methodology.
BIT 5534: Applied Business Intelligence & Analytics
Development of business intelligence and analytics solutions and applications to various types of decision- making problems. Analytics software and techniques. Data preparation, data exploration and visualization, predictive analytics techniques, text analytics, spatial analytics.
Principles and techniques for information visualization and reporting for business analytics. Covers principles of human perception and application of information visualization software for preparation, exploration, synthesis, interpretation, and presentation of business data to support decision making.
The management control process is designed to influence managers and other employees of an organization to implement the strategies of the organization. The activities of management control include: planning, coordinating, communicating, and evaluating. This course addresses the important role that accounting and other information play in this process.
Provides a broad coverage of the major policy making areas of a corporation. The course covers topics in capital investment policy, financing and capital structure policies, dividend policy, financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, and the basics of working capital management.
This course focuses on the role of the leader in crafting corporate and business strategies where technology provides the basis for the firms competitive advantage.
Examines business policy through a study of general managements task of strategy formulation and implementation. Comprehensive case studies concerning a variety of organizations serve as a basis for analysis.