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Accelerated MBA
LeadershipRealize your leadership potential and take the next step in your career
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30 credit hours
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Total Tuition: $15,000
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Cost Per Course: $1,500
Apply By
Dec.23, 2024
To Start
Jan.06, 2025
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Meet the challenges of modern business with a fully flexible MBA program
Oklahoma City University’s 100% online MBA Leadership program focuses on cultivating leadership and communication skills, preparing students for principal roles in C-suites, boardrooms, or management positions where scientifically tested leadership practices are essential. As a student you will enhance your knowledge in economics, decision-making, financial management, operations, marketing, an d organizational management through the program’s core modules. You will then learn how to develop business strategies and analyze data for informed decision-making, as well as management techniques, and the fundamentals of organizational behavior through the program’s leadership specialization modules. Personalized coaching is also integral to the program, ensuring you receive tailored guidance to help you excel in your career.
Learning outcomes
Graduates of this degree will be equipped to:
- Effectively motivate and lead others in culturally diverse environments.
- Communicate effectively to lead initiatives and share solutions to complex problems in global business.
- Formulate innovative solutions leveraging technology and core business skills to increase firm value and enhance operations in global business.
- Understand the role of leadership in the strategic direction of the organization by connecting the skills, competencies, and points of view needed by individual leaders as they relate to the larger picture strategic positioning of the organization.
- Evaluate global economic and regulatory factors to grow business operations ethically and sustainably.
- Analyze data using quantitative techniques to mitigate risk and support operational efficiency and strategic decision-making.
Career opportunities
Advance as a professional with the in-demand skills needed for careers such as:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Marketing Director
- Financial Manager
- Operations Manager
- Sales Director
- Business Development Manager
- Project Manager
- Human Resources Director
- Management Consultant
- Entrepreneur
Flexible learning
With a flexible degree program designed for learning alongside earning…
Oklahoma City University’s 100% online MBA Leadership program is designed to accommodate the schedules of working professionals aiming to advance into leadership roles. The program equips you with the necessary skills and competencies to excel as a business leader in areas such as strategy, marketing, and finance, all within the framework of a fully online, part-time format that offers the flexibility to manage your studies alongside your professional and personal commitments.
Admission requirements
To study Oklahoma City University’s 100% online MBA you will need to have completed:
- An undergraduate degree with a GPA of 3.0 or above for full admission.
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- An undergraduate degree with GPA between 2.5–2.99 for provisional admission. You will gain full admission upon successful completion of your first course with a B or better.
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- Official transcripts from all universities attended must be received by the university to receive full admission and to qualify for financial aid.
Why Oklahoma City University?
Highly qualified teaching staff
78% of faculty members hold the highest degrees in their fields
AASCB-Accredited MBA Programs
MBAs in a range of disciplines to suit your career ambitions
Top 4.5% of Business Schools worldwide
AACSB accreditation places Business School in top 4.5% globally
A flexible learning path
100% online, full or part-time with five starts per year
Accelerated time to completion
Complete an Accelerated MBA in as little as 12 monthsCourses
Accounting for Business Decision Making
This course provides students with a strong knowledge of the application of accounting information for financial reporting and managerial decision making.
Business Strategy for Creating Value
Students will gain an understanding of organizational, competitive, and environmental issues confronting organizations and how firms identify, seize, and defend opportunities in today’s dynamic and rapidly changing global economy.
Data Analysis for Business Decisions
This course focuses on the identification and access of information sources and analyzing the information to make informed decisions and solve managerial problems. Topics include 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.
Managing at the Crossroads
Emphasizing the perspective of managers in the private sector, this course focuses on interactions of economic principles at work at the interfirm, intra-industry, and inter-industry levels (microeconomics), at the economy-wide level (macroeconomics), and at the global level (international economics).
Strategic Marketing Decisions for Creating Value
This 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
Financial Strategy and Decision Making
Fundamental 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.
Ethical, Societal, & Legal Environment of Bus
This 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, consumer protection, employment practices, business organizations, and the legal and ethical responsibilities.
Effective Leadership & Communication
Based on the established foundations of the Authentic Leadership Model and utilizing the in-depth CDR Assessment Group program for self-assessment and leadership coaching, this course facilitates the development of interpersonal and team skills leaders need to function effectively. The primary focus is on integrated behavioral competencies demanded in organizations today: self-awareness, communication, negotiation, collaboration, and relationship building. Students will work through their own, individualized leadership profile assessments, evaluate effective leadership behaviors, and explore techniques and processes to communicate and negotiate effectively within organizations.
Strategic Leadership of the Organization
This course enhances the student’s ability to manage organizations and their members. The primary objective is to increase understanding of organizational behavior theory, research and practice at the individual, intragroup, and intergroup levels.
Capstone Experience: Integrating & Applying Business Knowledge
Using a combination of simulations, cases, and/or live-case client projects this course integrates principles 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.