Program Overview

Business Administration, Energy Management Track, M.B.A.

The Collins College Working Professionals MBA program is designed for full-time employees who wish to sharpen their business skills and enhance career advancement opportunities. The program arranges classes with your work schedule in mind. Classes are small, resulting in an extremely personal environment. Real-world cases and current events are incorporated into classes, which assist you in developing critical thinking skills and teach you new ways to think about and solve problems. Completion of the MBA will set you apart in the workplace and prepare you to take a leadership role in business.

The MBA energy management track is a 37-hour program. It can be completed in a two calendar-year period. However, given that the typical student is employed full-time, he/she may opt to stretch the courses over a longer period.

Learning Outcomes

• Goal 1: Communication: Graduates of the MBA program will be effective communicators.
  • PLO 1.1-Communications: Create a professional document and deliver a professional presentation.
• Goal 2: Business Ethics: Graduates of the MBA program will be knowledgeable of ethical factors and how they relate to business decisions.
  • PLO 2.1-Ethics: Apply ethical decision-making models to issues impacting an organization and demonstrate the capacity to analyze the underlying factors that lead to the ethical dilemmas.
• Goal 3: Functional Business Analyses and Applications: Graduates of the MBA program will be knowledgeable in the functional areas of business, their application, and their integration.
  • PLO 3.1-Accounting: Analyze financial statements; analyze and evaluate various costing methods to select the most appropriate method, apply cost-volume-profit analysis and use accounting data to evaluate potential business choices.
  • PLO 3.2-Computer Information Systems: Develop a database, analyze organizational choices of tools to provide the information needed to support the strategic objectives of the entity and evaluate infrastructure choices in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
  • PLO 3.3-Marketing: Apply marketing concepts to the analysis of business issues and synthesize market information to develop a viable set of solutions for solving marketing problems facing an organization.
  • PLO 3.4-Leadership & Management: Analyze, diagnose, and manage organizational behavior in order to improve the performance of individuals and teams in organizations.
  • PLO 3.5-Business Strategy: Synthesize strategic management concepts and analyze complex business situations to create solutions that address the needs of the various stakeholders of the organization.
  • PLO 3.6-Finance: Analyze various types of investments and make investment decisions, assess risk as it relates to corporate valuation, evaluate businesses using financial theory and quantitative methods.
  • PLO 3.7-Business Analysis: Create and apply the appropriate quantitative decision model to solve an operations problem, analyze quality control initiatives, and evaluate the effectiveness of supply-chain management strategies.

Admission Requirements

Requirements for admission to the Graduate School, including English language proficiency, may be found in the Admission section of this bulletin. Requirements for admission to graduate business programs may be found on the Collins College of Business page in this bulletin.

Prerequisite Courses

To determine if a student will need to take prerequisite courses, a transcript evaluation is conducted at the time of application. A plan for completing prerequisite deficiencies must be developed in consultation with the program director. Deficiencies should be completed prior to entry into the program.

Satisfactory Progress

A candidate for a Master of Business Administration degree is expected to complete the program in a timely manner. All requirements for the degree must be completed within six years from the date of enrollment in the program with a minimum cumulative graduate G.P.A. of 3.0. Students who do not make satisfactory progress may be dismissed from the program.

Curriculum Requirements

In addition to demonstrating knowledge of and competency in the basic skills and areas of business through completion of or waiver from prerequisite courses, candidates for the Master of Business Administration degree must complete 37 credit hours of advanced study in business. A minimum of 25 hours must be in 7000-level courses reserved exclusively for graduate students. A thesis is not required for the Master of Business Administration: Energy Management Track.

Recommended Sequence of Study (37 hours)

Students in the MBA Energy Management Track should follow the recommended sequence of courses. A personalized plan of study will be developed in consultation with the program advisor prior to the student’s initial enrollment. Students are strongly advised to meet with their advisor prior to enrolling each semester.

• MBA 7003 Preparing, Understanding and Using Financial Statements
• MBA 7023 Leading and Managing Organizations
• MBA 7053 Marketing Management
• MBA 7111 Issues in Business Ethics
• MBA 7273 Business Information Systems
• MBA 7013 Financial Management
• MBA 7033 Operations Management
• MBA 7043 Corporate and Business Strategy
• Elective (3 hours)
• MBA 7063 The World Economy
• Elective (3 hours)
• Elective (3 hours)
• Elective (3 hours)

Elective Courses

Four of the following courses:

• MEB 7063 Energy Policy, Climate, and Sustainability
• MEB 7073 Legal and Regulatory Environment of the Energy Industry
• MEB 7083 Renewable Energy Business Dynamics
• MEB 7153 Energy Transactions in the International Arena
• MEB 7183 Energy Economics
• MEB 7243 Energy Mergers, Acquisitions, and Valuation
• MEB 7323 Petroleum Refining and the Petrochemical Business
• MEB 7973 Energy Transition Strategies

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