Overview
Our students have big dreams. They arrive ready to work, eager to learn, and focused on career development. We help them harness that ambition to meet their goals. Whether you want to become a marketing manager or CEO, we have the tools to help you get there.
With a focus on global business and practical learning, the MBA curriculum can be tailored to meet your career goals. Choose from 11 MBA concentrations and 100+ electives.
Our small, diverse classes of 20-25 include students and professors from around the world. We understand that gaining a multicultural perspective is important in today’s global economy. That’s why our curriculum has a global focus and addresses changing business practices.
Courses
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MBA-001 NSO First-Time Online Users
Credits:
0.00
Description:
The New Student Orientation is designed to familiarized students with tools used in Suffolk online courses. Most importantly, it verifies that students have adequate connection and working audio equipment to participate in an online course and that they understand the synchronous classroom setup. It will be held the week prior to the start of the semester online. It is for graduate students who have never taken an online course before. This is a 0-credit and 0 fee session. Students only need to take it once. However, students may need to take it again if there is a change in the online learning platform or web conferencing tool. Headsets are required.
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MBA-600 Effective Career Planning
Credits:
1.00
Description:
A hands-on behavioral simulation run in teams, this course highlights the interpersonal dynamics that occur between people as they address strategic and operating issues; issues that often involve departmental interdependencies, power relationships, and judgment. MBA 600 emphasizes experiential learning through doing. Working in teams, students assume different roles in the organization. Each role contains extensive information on past business decisions and correspondence on current issues, problem symptoms, and decision situations.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
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MBA-610 Organizational Behavior
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course explores human behavior and the overall functioning of organizational structures on three levels: the individual, the group, and the organization. Theoretical bases of behavior are used to provide understanding of peoples attitudes, motives, and behaviors in group and organizational settings as they relate to leadership, motivation, power, perceptions, group dynamics, communication, diversity, organizational culture, and decision making.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-620 Statistical Methods
Credits:
1.50
Description:
This 7-week course is intended to provide students with an introduction to the knowledge and techniques for intelligent data analysis in business scenarios. Topics include the general concepts and managerial applications of descriptive statistics, basic probability theory, with applications of important distributions; and the use of contingency tables, and tests of statistical significance. It also introduces applications of linear regression. Excel is used throughout the topics.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-622 Operations & Data Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course covers topics of operations management in the services, manufacturing and distribution industries while introducing statistics and quantitative analytic tools relevant to all functional areas. Applications include supply chain management, total quality management, forecasting, inventory planning and control, project planning and management, risk analysis, process design, and human resources issues in a global economy. Analytic tools for these applications include descriptive statistics and graphics, uncertainty assessment, inferences from samples, decision analysis and models, simulation, and regression analysis.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-625 Operations Management
Prerequisites:
MBA 620
Credits:
1.50
Description:
This 7-week course is designated to overview the key operations issues in service and manufacturing organizations that have strategic as well as tactical implications. Students learn how operations management interfaces with global corporate structure and strategy. This course introduces concepts and analytical methods that are useful in managing an organizations operations. Topics may include manufacturing and service operations, supply chain management, total quality management, forecasting, inventory control, continuous improvement, and project management. The course develops teamwork skills while applying these concepts to problems and opportunities relevant to MBA students.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-630 Economic Analysis for Managers
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course develops the basic tools for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis with emphasis on business decision-making and the impact of economic policy on organizational performance and competitiveness with respect to global business.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-640 Corporate Financial Reporting and Control
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Explores the structure and information content of the three principal financial statements of profit-directed companies, namely the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Students learn skills in how to use accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company, facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. Students with no prior background in accounting complete a programmed instruction in the mechanics of double entry accounting at the start of the course.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-650 Value Based Financial Management
Prerequisites:
MBA 620, MBA 630, MBA 640
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return tradeoff. Topics to be covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-660 Marketing: the Challenge of Managing Value
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Marketing is changing - constantly driven by dramatic technology developments, globalization, and evolving consumption values, practices, and lifestyles. This course covers Marketing themes, theories, and trends that are critical for superior business performance in the 21st century. In this course, we will examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward thinking academics and new developments in todays business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in marketing principles and practices required in upper level elective courses.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-670 Information Management for Competitive Advantage
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course focuses on exploiting information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) for a competitive advantage. It explores the impact of IS and IT on the internal and external environments of organizations. It examines decisions needed for effective deployment of IS and IT, such as IT infrastructures selection, valuation of IT business models, and analysis of the operational benefits and risks. The course also introduces students to the opportunities and challenges of managing technology activities to meet the needs of business executives, IT executives, users, and IT partners.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-680 Managing in the Ethical & Legal Environment
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course explores multidisciplinary analytical techniques and case analysis as strategic management tools to assist executives in successful navigation of an increasingly complex, evolving, and highly competitive business environment in which ethical, legal, economic, and regulatory forces are continuously reshaping the global marketplace both to create and limit competitive opportunities.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-780 Managing in Global Environment
Prerequisites:
All MBA core courses except MBA 670 and MBA 680 Students seeking special permission to take MBA 780 (concurrent with pre-req, above capacity, etc.) should contact the MBA Programs office at 617-573-8306
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of the global business environment and the cross-cultural factors that affect management practice in this environment. Topics covered include: economic environment, free trade and regional integration, foreign direct investment, exchange rate determination and relevant government policies; the decision to go international; the multinational firm and its business functions.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
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MBA-800 Strategic Management
Prerequisites:
All MBA core courses and MBA 780 Students seeking special permission to take MBA 800 (concurrent with pre-req, above capacity, etc.) should contact the MBA Programs office at 617-573-8306
Credits:
3.00
Description:
In this course, students will develop a multi- functional general management perspective. Students will be required to integrate and apply knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the MBA program. Students will also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management, they will develop the capacity for strategic thinking, and they will examine the organizational and environ- mental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students will achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
Curriculum
Full-time: 10 to 16 months
Part-time: 16 to 28 months
Total Credits: 31 to 55
Total 3-Credit Equivalent Courses: 10 to 18
Required Introductory Business Simulation (1 Credit)
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MBA-600 Effective Career Planning
Credits:
1.00
Description:
A hands-on behavioral simulation run in teams, this course highlights the interpersonal dynamics that occur between people as they address strategic and operating issues; issues that often involve departmental interdependencies, power relationships, and judgment. MBA 600 emphasizes experiential learning through doing. Working in teams, students assume different roles in the organization. Each role contains extensive information on past business decisions and correspondence on current issues, problem symptoms, and decision situations.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
MBA Core Courses* (24 Credits)
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MBA-610 Organizational Behavior
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course explores human behavior and the overall functioning of organizational structures on three levels: the individual, the group, and the organization. Theoretical bases of behavior are used to provide understanding of peoples attitudes, motives, and behaviors in group and organizational settings as they relate to leadership, motivation, power, perceptions, group dynamics, communication, diversity, organizational culture, and decision making.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-622 Operations & Data Analysis
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course covers topics of operations management in the services, manufacturing and distribution industries while introducing statistics and quantitative analytic tools relevant to all functional areas. Applications include supply chain management, total quality management, forecasting, inventory planning and control, project planning and management, risk analysis, process design, and human resources issues in a global economy. Analytic tools for these applications include descriptive statistics and graphics, uncertainty assessment, inferences from samples, decision analysis and models, simulation, and regression analysis.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-630 Economic Analysis for Managers
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course develops the basic tools for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis with emphasis on business decision-making and the impact of economic policy on organizational performance and competitiveness with respect to global business.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-640 Corporate Financial Reporting and Control
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Explores the structure and information content of the three principal financial statements of profit-directed companies, namely the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Students learn skills in how to use accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company, facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. Students with no prior background in accounting complete a programmed instruction in the mechanics of double entry accounting at the start of the course.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-650 Value Based Financial Management
Prerequisites:
MBA 620, MBA 630, MBA 640
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return tradeoff. Topics to be covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-660 Marketing: the Challenge of Managing Value
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Marketing is changing - constantly driven by dramatic technology developments, globalization, and evolving consumption values, practices, and lifestyles. This course covers Marketing themes, theories, and trends that are critical for superior business performance in the 21st century. In this course, we will examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward thinking academics and new developments in todays business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in marketing principles and practices required in upper level elective courses.
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-670 Information Management for Competitive Advantage
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course focuses on exploiting information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) for a competitive advantage. It explores the impact of IS and IT on the internal and external environments of organizations. It examines decisions needed for effective deployment of IS and IT, such as IT infrastructures selection, valuation of IT business models, and analysis of the operational benefits and risks. The course also introduces students to the opportunities and challenges of managing technology activities to meet the needs of business executives, IT executives, users, and IT partners.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
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MBA-680 Managing in the Ethical & Legal Environment
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course explores multidisciplinary analytical techniques and case analysis as strategic management tools to assist executives in successful navigation of an increasingly complex, evolving, and highly competitive business environment in which ethical, legal, economic, and regulatory forces are continuously reshaping the global marketplace both to create and limit competitive opportunities.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Core
Global Requirement (3 Credits)
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MBA-780 Managing in Global Environment
Prerequisites:
All MBA core courses except MBA 670 and MBA 680 Students seeking special permission to take MBA 780 (concurrent with pre-req, above capacity, etc.) should contact the MBA Programs office at 617-573-8306
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of the global business environment and the cross-cultural factors that affect management practice in this environment. Topics covered include: economic environment, free trade and regional integration, foreign direct investment, exchange rate determination and relevant government policies; the decision to go international; the multinational firm and its business functions.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
MBA Electives (24 Credits)
Must be chosen from courses numbered 800 and above. One must be in the international business area. Electives may not be waived.
Required MBA Capstone (3 Credits)
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MBA-800 Strategic Management
Prerequisites:
All MBA core courses and MBA 780 Students seeking special permission to take MBA 800 (concurrent with pre-req, above capacity, etc.) should contact the MBA Programs office at 617-573-8306
Credits:
3.00
Description:
In this course, students will develop a multi- functional general management perspective. Students will be required to integrate and apply knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the MBA program. Students will also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management, they will develop the capacity for strategic thinking, and they will examine the organizational and environ- mental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students will achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Type:
MBA & Global MBA Required
*MBA 800 should be taken at the end of the program of study.
Waiver Policy
Core courses may be waived. Required MBA Courses (MBA 600, MBA 780 and MBA 800) cannot be waived.
To waive a Core Course a student must successfully complete equivalent academic coursework at the undergraduate/graduate level in the seven years prior to MBA matriculation (“B”or better).
All waiver requests are evaluated upon a student’s acceptance into the MBA Program and are waived during the student’s first semester. A student receives credit for each course waived, thereby reducing the total number of courses for the MBA degree. You may also elect to take a proficiency exam to gain a waiver. Proficiency exams must be taken in the first semester. All MBA students must, however, complete a minimum of 31 credits (10 courses and MBA 600) in the Sawyer Business School.
Internship
Start building your resume today. Internships and co-ops give you the chance to test your business skills in the real world.
For many students, including Sarjita Patel (MBA '09), internships lead to full-time positions after graduation. Patel interned at State Street Global Advisors and was hired with the Portfolio Administration group.
“The MBA helped me clarify my interests, define my career aspirations, and land an excellent internship that turned in to a full-time job,” she said.
Suffolk University’s Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education and our EDGE Professional Development workshops can help you develop a resume, write a cover letter, polish your interview skills, and more.
An MBA internship also counts as a three-credit academic elective and require a faculty mentor and corporate sponsor for a specific project in a Boston-based company, working approximately one day per week.
Waiver/Transfer
Waiver Policy
Core courses may be waived. Required MBA Courses (MBA 600, MBA 780 and MBA 800) cannot be waived.
To waive a Core Course a student must successfully complete equivalent academic coursework at the undergraduate/graduate level in the seven years prior to MBA matriculation (“B”or better).
All waiver requests are evaluated upon a student’s acceptance into the MBA Program and are waived during the student’s first semester. A student receives credit for each course waived, thereby reducing the total number of courses for the MBA degree. You may also elect to take a proficiency exam to gain a waiver. Proficiency exams must be taken in the first semester. All MBA students must, however, complete a minimum of 31 credits (10 courses and MBA 600) in the Sawyer Business School.
Students Entering the Suffolk MBA or Global MBA
Six credits of elective courses, taken at the graduate level from an AACSB-accredited MBA program, may be transferred if the credits do not apply to a previously completed degree. Transfer credits must have an earned grade of "B" or better and be taken within five years prior to entering the Suffolk MBA programs. Transfer credits apply only to electives.
Students Who Leave Boston Before Their Degree is Complete
Occasionally, Suffolk MBA students must leave the Boston area having not yet completed their degree. The Business School has several options available to insure completion of the Suffolk MBA. You may be able to transfer in six credits of elective courses from an AACSB-accredited MBA close to your new place of residence. Courses must be pre-approved by Suffolk’s Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and have a grade of B or better.
Students who leave the area may also complete their Suffolk MBA online.
Regardless of proficiency exams and waiver or transfer credits, all students must complete a minimum of 31 credits (10 courses and the one-credit Effective Career Planning course) in the Sawyer Business School to earn the Suffolk MBA. Global MBAs must earn at least 33 credits within the Sawyer Business School. In some instances, students may have to substitute Sawyer Business School electives for waived core courses.
