Academics
The Fisher College offers the Master of Business Administration (Full Time MBA, Part Time MBA, Executive MBA), Master in Labor and Human Resources (MLHR), Master of Accounting (MAcc), and Master of Business Logistics Engineering (MBLE) as well as doctoral programs in organizational behavior, real estate, strategic management, MIS, operations management, logistics, management science, insurance and risk, decision science, marketing, finance, accounting, labor and human resources, international business, and others, and joint degrees in law, healthcare administration, medicine and pharmacy. Other programs include a 3-2 degree, work-study, foreign exchange with 25 countries, and summer and international internships. The strongest areas of study are finance, marketing, operations and logistics, and accounting. The most popular courses are finance, operations and logistics, strategy, negotiations, and marketing (MBA). Regular programs bring distinguished speakers and visiting professors to campus. A Leadership and Professional Development Program brings in distinguished speakers and informational programs regularly. There is a different leadership or career-related theme each quarter. An Executive Luncheon Program allows small groups of students to dine informally with executives, Distinguished International Speaker Series brings in prominet international speakers twice quarterly. Departmental seminars bring in visting faculty regularly. Special programs run by the college centers and the Alumni Office usually allocate spaces for students to facilitate networking with executives and alumni.
Ninety-eight total credits are required to complete the MBA, including 56 elective credits. Required courses include:
- Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Enhancing Professional Interchange
- Organizational Behavior and Teamwork
- Managerial Economics
- Data Analysis for Managers
- Managerial Accounting
- Financial Management
- Marketing Management
- Decision Modeling
- Operations Management
- The Global Macroeconomy
- The Legal Environment of Business
- Strategy Formulation and Implementation
Required courses for the MLHR include:
- Conceptual and Historical Foundations of Labor and HR
- Staffing the Organization
- Compensation Theory and Practice
- Training and Development of Human Resources
- Organizational Behavior
- Organization Development and Change
- HR Negotiations
- Statistical Analysis of Labor and HR Management
- HR Research Methods
- Human Resoruce Information Systems
- Labor Law and Diversity
- Human Resources and Business Functions
- Economics and the Employment Relationship
- Contemporary Employment Practices and the Law
Required courses for the MAcc include:
- Foundations of Accounting
- Professional Research in Accounting
- Corporate Information Systems Management
Required courses for the MBLE include:
- Logistics Management
- Analysis and Design of Logistics Systems
- Logistics Decision Making
- Principles of Transportation
- Logistics Software and Technology
- Mathematical Programming
- Introduction to Discrete System Simulation
- Operations Research Models and Mehods
- Warehouse and Facility Design
Business students may take relevant nonbusiness courses in other departments. The minimum time permitted to complete the master’s degree program attending full time is 2 years; maximum, 2 years. For students attending part time, the minimum is 2 years; maximum, 5 years.
There are 106 total full-time graduate business faculty, of whom 93% hold a doctorate; there are 20 part-time faculty, of whom 5% hold a doctorate. Faculty salaries are rated above average for Category I institutions, based on the AAUP rating system. Average number of courses faculty teach is 4; average business class size is 35.