Master of Business Administration
Business Administration (Cohort) Degree
Take an accelerated path toward your MBA degree, one course at a time.
Business Administration (Cohort) Degree
Learn in an accelerated MBA program designed for busy professionals.
As the world of business continues to evolve, so do the demands of leaders. Bellevue University’s MBA cohort program (where you learn with a consistent group of peers) prepares you to stay on your toes, with critical business skills and the knowledge to leverage them into results. Decision making, team building, and organizational behavior are just some of the skills you’ll sharpen in the MBA cohort in areas including:
- Finance and accounting
- Marketing and media
- Operations and logistics
- Strategy and performance
- Opportunity and innovation
Benefit from MBA faculty with years of experience.
The Bellevue University online MBA cohort program offers a faculty with years of experience in the field to mentor and guide you. Their experience includes work at Cox Communication, Union Pacific, and many major auditing firms and provide a valuable layer of perspective you can apply to create change in your current role.
Enjoy flexibility in a cohort master's of business program.
As an accelerated path, the MBA cohort program allows you to simplify your study experience. You’ll register for classes once at the beginning of the program with a clear degree plan, so you’ll know exactly how each course fits into your schedule, and when you’ll be ready for graduation.
Looking for a more traditional course structure? Consider another MBA program.
Start sooner. Finish faster. No GMAT or GRE required.
Enroll in our MBA cohort program without the cost and hassle of admissions tests. Our admissions team is here to help you apply and enroll so you can get started quickly on the education you want.
Take the next step in your MBA program. We’re ready to help you get there.
Courses
What You’ll Learn
As a graduate of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) cohort, you will have built a substantive portfolio and be prepared to:
- Use problem solving skills to critically assess business performance in an international context.
- Analyze human capital dynamics and management tactics used to achieve business strategies.
- Integrate industry and discipline-specific problem solving skills to analyze targeted business sectors and problems.
- Apply ethical analyses to business decisions.
- Deliver well-formulated appropriate verbal and written communications on business performance, requirements, and outcomes.
Business Administration (Cohort) Degree Courses
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Requirements (36 credit hours)
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Students develop their knowledge of fundamental business functions and processes, including management of human capital, marketing, operations, and finance, applying this knowledge to realistic business problems in a variety of organizational settings. These business problems address ethical, economic, social, and other environmental factors that impact the creation of value for customers, markets, and society, both domestically and globally. Emphasis is placed on developing effective strategic decision making and communication skills. MBA 500 Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Skills learned in this course include:
- Budgeting
- Business Communication
- Business Concepts
- Business Ethics
- Communications
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Economics
- Marketing
- Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain Management
Emphasis is placed on understanding reported financial information used to assess a company’s current performance, future risks, and business opportunities. Students develop skills necessary to understand the performance impact on financial statements and how economic events such as operating activities, corporate investments, and financing transactions affect the three main financial statements - the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Cross-listed with MSF 520 MBA 520 Prerequisite: Graduate standing
Skills learned in this course include:
- Accounting Cycle
- Equity Issuance
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Statements
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Internal Controls
- International Financial Reporting Standards
- Ratios Analysis
- Revenue Analysis
This course focuses on the human and structural aspects of organizational management at the individual, group, and organization levels. Students assess, evaluate and apply evidence-based management practices and theory that can lead to tangible organizational performance outcomes, such as increased job satisfaction and organizational commitment, increased revenue and profits, improved motivation and conflict resolution techniques, greater work-life balance, and enhanced leadership effectiveness. Prerequisite: MBA 500 Prerequisites for MSM program only: MSM 500, MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.
Skills learned in this course include:
- Change Management
- Communications
- Decision Making
- Emotional Intelligence
- Employee Satisfaction
- Performance Management
- Positive Reinforcement
- Problem Solving
- Social Perceptiveness
- Socialization
The use of a variety of business analytics techniques, including quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis tools, to support informed decision-making serves as a major focus of this course. Techniques addressed include tabular and graphical displays of data such as the bar chart and histogram, numerical measures such as the mean and standard deviation, and linear regression. Critical evaluation of actual business scenarios will be conducted during this course. Cross-listed with MSF 624. MBA 624 Prerequisite: MBA 500 and MBA 520 Prerequisites for MSCM program only: MBA 500 and MBA 520 or MSCM 500 and MBA 520.
Skills learned in this course include:
- Analytical Techniques
- Business Statistics
- Data Analysis
- Decision Making
- Descriptive Statistics
- Forecasting
- Linear Regression
- Prediction
- Project Management
- Quality Management
This course examines how to discover and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. Attention will be given to both consumer and business markets and the identification of market segments in order to identify target markets which present opportunities for high growth. Issues concerning the creativity needed to develop innovative value propositions to access these opportunities will be given particular focus. Prerequisite: MBA 500
Skills learned in this course include:
- Competitive Analysis
- Creativity
- Entrepreneurship
- Global Marketing
- Innovation
- Internet Marketing
- Marketing Strategies
- New Product Development
- Promotional Mix
- Retailing & Logistics
Students develop the knowledge of accounting information concepts that enable them to develop recommendations for improving the performance of the firm. Students gain skills and knowledge in topics such as cost-volume-profit analysis and the balanced scorecard to support budget preparation and variance analysis to improve company performance. Students with undergraduate degree or 21 credit hours of accounting: A graduate level accounting elective may be substituted for MBA 641 if students have an undergraduate degree in Accounting or 21 credit hours in accounting and have taken an undergraduate Cost or Advanced Managerial course and have earned at least a C or better in all of these courses. Cross-listed with MSF 641 Prerequisite: MBA 624
Skills learned in this course include:
- Activity-Based Costing
- Budgeting
- Cost Accounting
- Cost Volume Profit Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Lean Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Microsoft Excel
- Performance Management
- Regression Analysis
Students integrate classical marketing theory with innovative marketing techniques and tactics to support a firm’s overall marketing and business strategies. Students will learn how to assess, select and integrate digital technologies, analytical approaches, and social media in concert with a firm’s overall marketing strategy. Prerequisite: MBA 500 Prerequisites for MSM program only: MSM 500, MSM 510, MSM 520, MSM 610, MSM 620, and MSM 630.
Skills learned in this course include:
- Application of Knowledge
- Communications
- Critical Analysis
- Marketing Management
- Marketing Planning
- Marketing Strategies
- Problem Solving
- Situational Analysis
- Social Media
- Target Audience
This course examines how the design and context of organizations influence the functions within them. Students will become familiar with the historical background and theory related processes and strategies for studying organizational characteristics and environmental conditions that impact the formation, growth, survival and decline of organizations. Students will learn how size, structure, technology, life cycle, globalism, and organizational culture affect a firm’s ability to address problems through change and development. Prerequisite: MBA 500
Skills learned in this course include:
- Global, internal and external forces
- Knowledge Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational design principles and criteria
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Organizational Ethics
- Organizational growth and decline forces
- Organizational Innovation & Intrapreneurship
- Organizational structural and process problems
Students acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate financial performance and strategies to utilize limited resources to optimize the financial value of a business. Key elements of the course include assessing financial performance, understanding financial and economic markets, computing the value of money and cash flows over time, performing risk analysis and project valuation. Cross-listed with MSF 655 MBA 655 Prerequisite: MBA 624
Skills learned in this course include:
- Capital Budgeting
- Communications
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Risk Analysis
- Valuation / Time Value Of Money
This course provides a framework for management students to become more proficient in recognizing, understanding, predicting, and controlling the dynamics and outcomes of organizational culture and competitiveness. Accordingly, this course is designed to introduce students to a variety of contemporary leadership theories and provide some suggested methods for developing leadership capacity at the individual and organizational levels. Topics include, leadership selection, succession planning and leadership styles and effectiveness under various market conditions. Effective communications and the role of personality types are also considered. Prerequisite: MBA 615, MBA 634
Skills learned in this course include:
- Business Ethics
- Communications
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Decision Making
- Global Leadership
- Leadership Development
- Leadership Styles
- Organizational Performance
- Team Leadership
- Transformational Leadership
Emphasis is placed on the operational activities that successfully create and deliver products and services across the entire supply chain from the raw material to the final product. Included is the development of those performance skills which enhance the supplier and customer relationships and the order fulfillment activities. Techniques addressed include demand forecasting, quality performance analysis, and productivity measurement. Prerequisite: MBA 641 and MBA 655; Prerequisite for SCMTMS: MBA 670 and MSCM 550; Prerequisite for MAQC: MBA 641 only; Prerequisite for MSBAN: MBA 520 and BAN 600; Prerequisite for MSA: MBA 624.
Skills learned in this course include:
- Demand Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Just In Time Methodology
- Operations Management
- Performance Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Product Design
- Project Management
- Quality Management
- Supply Chain
The capstone course provides an opportunity to integrate and apply strategic performance principles presented in the MBA program. Experience is gained in formulating key strategic, financial, marketing and operational decisions necessary to operate a successful business and measure their success in doing so. MBA 680 Prerequisite: MBA 615, MBA 635 and MBA 675
Skills learned in this course include:
- Analysis
- Competition
- Creativity
- Ethics
- Evaluation
- Forecasting
- Identification
- Imagination
- Innovation
- Organization
University Accreditation
Bellevue University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org).
Whether a college, university, or program is accredited is important to students with financial aid, employers who provide tuition assistance, donors, and the federal government.
This program is considered a non-licensure degree/certificate program and is not intended for those seeking licensure or the practice of licensed profession. This program may be relevant to multiple occupations that do not require licensure and was not designed to meet educational requirements for any specific professional license or certification.
*Consult with an admissions counselor to determine your eligible credits, as well as to verify minimum graduation requirements for this degree. Transfer credits must be from a regionally accredited college or university. Bellevue University makes no promises to prospective students regarding the acceptance of credit awarded by examination, credit for prior learning, or credit for transfer until an evaluation has been conducted.
Format
100% Online learning that works for your life and your goals.
Our flexible online courses are designed to bring quality learning into a format that fits your schedule, without sacrificing meaningful faculty feedback and collaboration with peers across the country. Stay on track with the help of your Student Coach — with you from day one to graduation.
On-campus classes offered on a convenient schedule.
If you prefer an in-person learning experience, our Omaha-area campus offers classes that accommodate the working professional’s schedule.
Graduate with a stronger professional network.
Get to know a consistent group of peers as you earn your MBA degree. As a master’s cohort program, you’ll move through courses on the same schedule as your classmates—making it possible to develop a stronger network and enjoy a more collaborative learning experience along the way.
Tuition & Financial Aid
Graduate degrees can be more affordable than you think.
Earning a degree is an investment in yourself. We want to help you make sure it’s a wise one.
2024 / 2025 Academic Year
$660 In-Class or Online Cost Per Credit
(Additional fees may apply to individual courses within your major requirements)
Curious about financial aid? We’ve got the answers.
As a graduate student, you may be eligible for up to $20,500 per year in unsubsidized Direct Student Loans.
And, students often apply for graduate program scholarships through Bellevue University or tuition reimbursement through their employers. Talk to us and we’ll help you explore your options.
Admissions
Start on the path to your master’s. No GRE or GMAT required.
We believe in reducing roadblocks to education. That’s why our admissions requirements focus only on what matters—helping hardworking students access the education they deserve.
For admission to Bellevue University, applicants must:
- Possess a bachelor’s or master’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university, or a U.S. equivalent degree from a nationally or internationally accredited college or university.
- Have maintained a GPA of 2.5 or better from the most recent 60 credits of coursework earned toward the bachelor’s degree or have maintained a GPA of 3.0 or better in previous graduate level coursework earned toward the graduate degree.
If you haven’t already, take a moment to request information about your masters program and get in touch with our admissions team. We’ll help make sure you have what you need and answer your questions.
When you’re ready to apply, start your application online. You’ll then:
- Submit your deposit to Bellevue University. (You can do this at any point in the process.)
- Submit your transcripts from past institutions and any other required documentation.
- Complete the FAFSA and see what grants and loans you’re eligible for.
If you are an international student, please see the following specific information: International Student Master Admissions.
You'll just need to create an account and complete a pre-application to Bellevue University through Guild. Once you receive confirmation that your pre-application to Bellevue University has been approved, you'll need to complete the required steps to get fully accepted and registered. These include:
- Submitting transcripts from past institutions
- Submitting related documentation
Ready to get started?
Reach out to admissions.
- Get your questions answered about the Business Administration (Cohort) Degree
- Understand your financial aid and scholarship options
- Map out a schedule that fits with your priorities
