Program Overview

Naveen Jindal School of Management

The Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program that prepares students to think, plan, and develop business solutions by utilizing strong analytical problem-solving skills, team-oriented approaches, and strategic planning.

Faculty

The faculty at the Naveen Jindal School of Management includes:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Kyle Hyndman, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Amit Mehra, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Gil Sadka, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
• Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Dorothée Honhon, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Lívia Markóczy, Toyah Miller, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, Anyan Qi, Young U. Ryu, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors: Emily Choi, Joonhwi Joo, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Radha Mookerjee, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Serdar Simsek, Shervin Tehrani, Christian Von-Drathen, Steven Xiao, Zhe (James) Zhang
• Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk
• Clinical Professors: Abhijit Biswas, Larry Chasteen, David Cordell, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
• Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi
• Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Drew Peabody
• Professors of Instruction: Charles Hazzard, Chris Linsteadt, Luell (Lou) Thompson
• Associate Professors of Instruction: Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Hubert Zydorek
• Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah
• Associate Professors of Practice: Jackie Kimzey, Steven Solcher
• Assistant Professor of Practice: Edward Meda
• Senior Lecturer: Prithi Narasimhan

Degree Requirements

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a minimum 53 semester credit hours degree program. The School offers four MBA programs: MBA Full-Time Cohort, Professional MBA Evening Cohort, Professional MBA Flex, and Professional MBA Online.

Prerequisite

Students pursuing the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program are required to complete the prerequisites OPRE 6303 Quantitative Foundations of Business and MAS 6105 Communications for Management.

Course Requirements

• Core Courses: 32 semester credit hours
  • ACCT 6301 Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 6202 Accounting for Managerial Decision Making and Control
  • BPS 6310 Strategic Management
  • FIN 6301 Financial Management
  • IMS 6304 International Business Management
  • MECO 6303 Business Economics
  • MIS 6313 Managing IT in the Analytics Age
  • MKT 6301 Marketing Management
  • OB 6301 Organizational Behavior
  • OPRE 6301 Statistics and Data Analysis
  • OPRE 6302 Operations Management
• Elective Courses: 21 semester credit hours
  • Students may choose any graduate-level courses within JSOM to satisfy the elective requirement based on their interests and focus.

Concentrations

The MBA program offers various concentrations, including:

• Accounting: financial analysis, consulting, corporate governance, and tax management
• Business Analytics: decision and operations analytics, financial analytics, marketing analytics, healthcare analytics, or IT analytics
• Energy Management: supply chain, operations, finance, and risk management
• Finance: corporate finance, investment management, or the management of financial institutions
• Healthcare Management: leadership positions in healthcare organizations
• Information Technology Management: information technology to solve business problems and gain strategic advantage
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: successful business careers in entrepreneurial new ventures or innovation-related roles
• Internal Audit: internal audit and risk management
• International Management: international business environments
• Leadership in Organizations: management positions through the study of psychological, sociological, and organizational behavior disciplines
• Marketing: understand customers' needs and purchase behaviors
• Real Estate: practical and educational basis to become skilled decision-makers within the industry
• Strategic Management: corporate-level strategic management
• Supply Chain Management: leverage profits by continuously improving business processes
• Systems Engineering and Management: design, engineering, and management of complex systems involving a large number of interconnected components

Admission Requirements

To apply for this degree program, an undergraduate degree is required (all majors are considered). In order to graduate, students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in the core GPA, degree GPA (exclusive of prerequisite courses), and cumulative GPA (all courses taken at the graduate level).