Mount St. Mary's College

Mount St. Mary's College
Mount St. Mary's College was founded in 1925 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a Catholic liberal arts college. Our graduate programs are a transforming experience where students explore a world of ideas while immersed in a richly diverse and close-knit learning community. Our measure of success is graduates who are committed to using their knowledge and skills to better themselves, their environment and the world.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
For more than 40 years, the Mount has successfully prepared undergraduate business students for professional careers in accounting, marketing, management and international business. We are now pleased to offer an MBA in a weekend format to individuals holding a bachelor's degree in any field.

This 4 semester program that spans 16 months is designed to meet the global need for effective leaders who can guide change by using value-based decision making. The Mount's outstanding faculty will prepare you to meet the challenges of today's business environment by offering an innovative, collaborative and globally oriented curriculum.

The program is designed with the understanding that managers face global and cross-disciplinary challenges on a daily basis. So that you can gain hands-on experience in other countries with international companies, you will participate in a minimum of one international study trip to prepare a country and industry analysis.

Each incoming class will form a cohort of 20 to 30 students, moving together through a richly integrated curriculum. A unique feature of the program is that it replaces the traditional course-by-course master's curriculum with theme-based modules. By blending business disciplines that are traditionally kept separate, like marketing, finance and business law, you will develop the big picture view of how disciplines come together in a real business environment.

Weekend MBA
The idea behind the weekend format can be simply put: the time it usually takes for students to learn material and concepts involved in a traditional college-level course can be organized in new ways so that classes which would customarily be spread out evenly over a 15-week semester are concentrated into 6 intensive weekends. These weekends are non-consecutive and are scheduled so that there are at least 2, and usually 3 weeks between each class weekend.

This unique program design enables working adults to perform comfortably and successfully as students and meet their family and personal obligations at the same time. Those who take a full-time load of 3 courses (9 semester units) per semester attend classes all day on both Saturday and Sunday of each of the 6 instructional weekends. They immerse themselves in intensive classroom experiences, putting their career and family responsibilities on hold for those 2 days in order to assume the role of full-time college students.

You will also have an opportunity in your final semester to choose a concentration in one of the following areas:

Entrepreneurship
Health Services Management
Non Profit Management
Organizational Leadership
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Entrepreneurship
Health Services Management
Not-for-Profit Management
Organizational Leadership

Entrepreneurship


The Entrepreneurship concentration focuses on preparing students for personal and financial success through the starting of their own firms, taking their place in the management of a family firm, or assuming a position of leadership as a corporate entrepreneur introducing new products or services. The concentration integrates the classroom and the real world through a dynamic mix of leading-edge knowledge, involvement with successful entrepreneurs, and hands-on development of the key skills of creativity, market focus, and business planning essential to successful ventures.

Students will be immersed in a program that focuses on unlocking their creativity and imagination to produce ideas that will translate into successful products or businesses. This method ensures students discover solutions to problems that are both personally appealing and have large market potential. The result will be a business plan presented to a panel of successful entrepreneurs. Students who choose this concentration will be known for their can-do attitudes, perseverance, innovative thinking, creativity, analytic skills, and ability to get the job done with superior results.


Health Services Management


The Health Services Management concentration emphasizes a set of skills and perspectives necessary to succeed in the increasingly fast-paced, global and technology-oriented healthcare environment. It does this by examining how critical issues in healthcare intersect with business. Skills such as leadership, management, critical thinking and strategy development are an integral part of the program. The ability to assess business opportunities in the healthcare field will be developed through cases studies and real world experiences. Additionally the student will explore the changes in industry standards through technology innovations, products and services, in health care worldwide. The role of government in health care will be examined in detail.

The concentrations prepares students with a solid foundation of knowledge enabling graduates to advance in healthcare careers such as business development, healthcare finance, policy, marketing, and information management. It is specially designed to meet the needs of healthcare administrators, health care consultants, nurses and other medical professionals who wish to obtain skills specifically tailored to the modern healthcare industry. The student will emerge from the program prepared to face the many challenges and opportunities that are available in the healthcare sector.

Not-for-Profit Management


A concentration in Nonprofit Management focuses on the business of running a nonprofit organization whether it is civic, philanthropic, environments, religious, cultural or educational. In addition to being knowledgeable about in all the functional areas of business individuals choosing this field must have strong communication and fundraising skills, think creatively and be able to mobilize public support for their causes.

The MSMC concentration prepares students to deal with unique challenges such as generating operating finance, grant writing, attracting high-caliber professionals, maintaining goodwill services and finding meaningful tools to measure success.

Now is a great time to in be the nonprofit sector. Jobs are increasing as Americans are giving more than ever to charitable causes and government is directing funds to nonprofits. Most projections show the sector continuing to grow for the foreseeable future. Graduates in this area go on to become administrators, executive directors, practitioners and consultants in organization as varied as museums, hospital foundation, agencies serving the homeless and churches.

Organizational Leadership


The concentration in Organizational Leadership is designed to develop the skills needed to be an agent of change in the 21st century workplace to promote positive growth. The field of organizational leadership is one in which effective interpersonal communication, innovative strategic thinking, and ethical behavior are emphasized to equip individuals with the skills necessary to successfully lead and develop others.

The concentration focuses on building leadership skills that are applicable across industries rather than a specific discipline. The curriculum is both strategically focused and innovative, matching contemporary leadership theory with today's best leadership practices.

Classes in Organizational Leadership develop leaders who are able to enhance the organizations and people with whom they interact through various methods of strategic planning and innovation, organizational diagnostic tools, and interventions. Organizational Leadership graduates are prepared to lead others in the private and nonprofit sectors, government and non- government agencies, health care, educational institutions, and organizations within numerous other fields. The expertise mastered includes decision making, problem solving, creativity, strategy, and various analytical methods.

Information
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