Master of Business Administration MBA
Student must complete 36 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 27 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 451502 | Entrepreneurship and Innovation | 3 |
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| 451503 | Supply Chain Management | 3 |
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| 451513 | Advanced Financial Management | 3 |
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| This course looks at how to deal effectively with financial managers of different firms. Topics to be discussed include long term financing, the valuations of bonds and stocks, dividend policy, cost of capital, capital budgeting, capital structure, mergers, financial distress and restructuring, leasing as a long source of financing and venture capital, options, convertibles and warrants. | |||
| 451515 | Economic Management | 3 |
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| The course covers necessary economic concepts and theories and applies them to real business cases. The course covers many topics mainly including the demand analysis and estimation, production economics, theory and estimation, cost analysis, pricing techniques, promotional decisions, long-term investment analysis and decisions under risk and uncertainty. Students will apply statistical tools using a variety of computer applications with SPSS. | |||
| 451530 | Strategic Theories in Management | 3 |
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| This course includes understanding the strategic position of the organisation through analysing the environment, the resources and competencies and expectations of stakeholders. It also includes strategic choices for the future at the corporate level strategy, the business level strategy and development directions and methods. Finally it deals how to put strategy into action through organising, enabling and managing change. | |||
| 451560 | Consultancy Project / Seminar | 3 |
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| 451575 | Advanced Marketing Management | 3 |
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| This course is intended to give students solid background about building a market driven economy. Not only will it give graduates a theoretical idea of the market-driven economy, but also a practical one about the benefits of implementing the new marketing concept. Some of the topics that would be considered is, building customer satisfaction, value and retention, gathering information and measuring market demand, analysing consumer and industrial markets, market segmentation, positioning and differentiation and so on. | |||
| 451598 | Comprehensive Exam | 0 |
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| A graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students). | |||
| 452512 | Advanced Managerial Accounting | 3 |
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| This course assumes that students have learned the basic elements of managerial accounting during their undergraduate study. However, the course will begin with a short review of such elements in order to enable students who have no previous business administration background with the necessary basic knowledge in this field of study. The course will then provide an “in-depth” understanding of several contemporary issues in management accounting. The primary goal is to develop the students’ knowledge and appreciation of how managerial accounting helps managers to operate efficiently and effectively. Accordingly, students will be exposed through this course to the following fundamental areas of managerial accounting: basic management accounting concepts, product and service costing, activity-based accounting, planning and controlling routine operations, non-routine decisions for short and long-range planning, cost valuation and income determination, organisational design and financial controls, motivating behaviour in management accounting and control systems, and capital budgeting and forecasting. | |||
| 459500 | Scientific Research Methods & Its Statistical Tools | 3 |
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| The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the concepts, principles and techniques used in gathering, analysing, interpreting, and communicating information for business decision making. Topics covered include: problem definition, research design, measurement, data collection, surveys, questionnaires, sampling, filed work, data preparation and data analysis including: descriptive, ANOVA, correlation, regression, cluster, factor analysis, discriminant and logistic analysis and report preparation and presentation. Students will apply research skills using a variety of computer applications with SPSS and real business cases. | |||
Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 9 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 451511 | Organizational Theory | 3 |
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| The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the organisational theory through exposing them to the theories of classical and modern management, principles of organisation, design and installation of the organisation, the external and internal environment of organisations, the delegation of authority and responsibility, the source of power, formal and informal groups, conflicts, organisational development and the sustainability of the organisation during change. | |||
| 451520 | Leadership | 3 |
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| 451521 | Business Information Systems | 3 |
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| This course provides an understanding of the information needs of management, information technology used by various business subsystems and how technology can be utilized for competitive advantage. This course is designed to help graduate business students to learn how to apply information systems in reconfiguring organisations and the extended enterprise through the application of e-business, e-commerce, internet and other information technologies for better decision-making and for gaining competitive advantage. The course also addresses some of the ethical issues created by the overwhelming influence of IT in every aspect of people’s lives including business, educational, and social transactions. | |||
| 451555 | Investment Analysis | 3 |
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| 451556 | Financial Analysis | 3 |
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| 451557 | Project Management | 3 |
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| 451558 | Electronic Business | 3 |
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| 451559 | Business Intelligence | 3 |
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| 451577 | Human Resources Management & Development | 3 |
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| This course examines a host of various issues pertaining to the nature of personnel management, the sources of labor force, the quest for and selection of competencies, recruitment, motivation and reward, performance appraisal of individuals as well as introducing students to the definition of training and development program evaluation, planning, organising the training and management and studying some international experiences in this context. | |||
| 451583 | International Business Management | 3 |
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| This course deals with the nature of international business in terms of entering the foreign markets, knowing the environment of the international market, the risk involved in the international markets, multinational companies, the methods of cooperation, negotiation and the selection of the state that will work and any other entity being linked with multinational companies. | |||