Program Options

Full Time Study

On a full-time basis, the MBA program will take four terms, or two years, to complete. All students must complete required non-credit courses in business skills during the program. Students lacking requisite computer skills will also be required to complete non-credit computerized instruction modules.

Year 1

Terms 1 and 2 require a total of ten half courses (5 credits) that provide a foundation in the functional areas of business, economics, and quantitative analysis.

** Courses labeled 5P__ indicate a one semester course for credit weighted at 0.5 credits towards degree requirements. A minimum grade of 70 percent is required for a course to receive graduate credit.

Year 2

All students must complete the following courses in Year 2.

MBAB 5P20 Applied Business Research
MBAB 5P21 Business Strategy
MBAB 5P25 Business Ethics
MBAB 5P__ Specified MBA Elective*

*Specified MBA Elective is to be chosen from:

MBAB 5P23 Entrepreneurship
MBAB 5P24 Business Law

In Terms 3 and 4, the remaining six half credits will take one of the following forms:

• A specialization in one of the areas of :**
  • Accounting (CMA/MBA),
  • Finance,
  • Marketing, or
  • Human Resource Management, or
• A multi-disciplinary program drawn from the specialized courses in the fields of study as approved by the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business

Subject to the approval of the Associate Dean, students may choose to replace up to three of the specialty courses with MBAB 5P91 Research Project II, MBAB 5P92 Research Project III, MBAB 5P93 Research Project IV and/or MBAB 5F91 Research Project.

Students with an undergraduate degree in business who wish to continue a previous specialization will develop a program plan in consultation with the Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Dean. A research project normally covering one half credit may be expanded to three half credits in place of course work where the course work would substantially duplicate material in the student's undergraduate program.

** The availability of concentrations may be dependent on the extent of student interest in any given year.

Part Time Study

Part-time students are expected to complete the program within six years from the date of their first registration. Part-time students are advised to take two evening courses in each of the Fall and Winter terms, plus one evening course in the Spring term. If part-time students maintain the advised schedule, they could graduate in four years.