MBA in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The MBA with a major in business administration prepares students for professional career opportunities in today’s dynamic, challenging, and complex world of global business. The program equips its graduates with the knowledge, skills and competencies necessary to achieve their professional business goals and objectives. The program prepares students to be managers and leaders within a broad range of organizations. Students may also do the concentration on accounting, or energy management, or both.
MBA in BUSINESS ANALYTICS (STEM)
The MBA with a major in business analytics is a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program. The STEM designation allows international students to have access to a 3-year OPT. Students learn from an intensive curriculum that includes a range of business and data analytics courses. Students apply the latest technology and methods to explore, analyze, visualize, and explain data to make wise decisions and solve business problems. Specific tools include Tableau, Python, R, SAS, SQL, and Excel. Students may also do the concentration on accounting, or energy management, or both.
MBA with ACCOUNTING CONCENTRATION
The accounting concentration in the Dillard MBA is ideal for individuals with an undergraduate degree in accounting from an AACSB accredited institution who wish to become a certified public accounting (CPA). It is possible for highly motivated individuals without an accounting degree from an AACSB-accredited institution to use the accounting concentration to complete the educational requirements to sit for the CPA. Doing so would require the individual to first complete about 27 hours of upper-level accounting coursework at the undergraduate level before entering the MBA accounting concentration coursework.
MBA with ENERGY MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION
The Energy Management (Oil & Gas) concentration is available to all MBA students regardless of their undergraduate degree/major. Students learn the worldwide dynamics of supply and demand that drive the price of energy. Students also learn how the oil and gas industry works, the critical processes of finding, drilling for and producing oil and gas, how to evaluate whether or not to drill a well, and how to raise funds needed to discover and drill.