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Business Administration, MBA (Worldwide)
Program Overview
The GGU Master of Business Administration (MBA) program will advance your leadership skills and business knowledge using an activity-based learning approach. Our faculty members are seasoned professionals in their respective fields and will prepare you to lead in today’s complex business environment.
The GGU MBA builds business decision making and leadership skills that provides an integrated perspective of management and allows you to tailor your program with one of several concentrations to meet your interest and goals.
Since the founding of its MBA program over half a century ago, GGU has pioneered evening and online programs for working professionals to achieve their career objectives. You will proceed at your own pace in deciding how many courses to take in a given trimester and study fully in-person, completely online or a combination of both.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the Master of Business Administration program will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Demonstrate a general management “holistic” perspective.
- Demonstrate managerial and leadership skills, such as teamwork, critical thinking and problem solving, communications and presentations, self-awareness
- Master and apply general management analytic processes and tools for decision making.
- Integrate strategic business objectives within competitive industry dynamics.
- Integrate strategic business objectives within the socio-political-economic-ecological-global context.
- Understand functional areas’ impact on business and departmental interaction issues.
- Demonstrate integrated business level planning.
- Demonstrate an understanding and ability to identify the ethical, environmental, and social implications of business issues and formulate appropriate responses.
Curriculum
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) requires completion of 27 units in the Directed Elective program and 9 units in the concentration for a total of 36 units. Students must earn a grade of “C-” or better in each course and cumulative gradepoint average of 3.00 or better. Study abroad program students who are unable to obtain a visa to study in the U.S. may request a program change to the  upon completion of the online portion of the program.
The Directed Elective courses are taken by all MBA students. This ensures that all MBA graduates have an understanding of the important skills for effective management and an integrative knowledge of the core area of business, regardless of their area of concentration.
To progress to the concentration directed elective courses, students must have successfully completed the first eleven courses in the program with a grade of “C-” or better and have earned a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or better.
Select three courses from any of the concentrations listed above.
