Bentley MBA
The Bentley MBA Program
The Bentley MBA program is designed for students with at least one year of full-time post-graduate work experience who want to be ready for the management challenges of today’s technology-driven workplace.
First Year: Foundations
Five Business Fundamental courses are among the ten courses that make up the first year of the program. All students take a course in IT, analytical skills, and business processes to insure understanding of how all aspects of a business organization fit together. The team effectiveness course prepares groups of five or six students to complete projects for corporate clients in the Business Process course.
[read more]First-year courses meet once a week Monday through Friday morning. Afternoons are used for team meetings, attending executive guest lectures, skill-building workshops, fieldwork and other company visits, career development workshops and conducting the summer job or internship search.
Students acquire a valuable understanding of working in an international economy through the Global Business Experience. This required course, between the fall and spring semesters of the first year, comprises a ten day trip to an international country where students visit with a series of companies and meet with business and government officials to further their global mindset and cultural awareness.
Second Year: Applications
Four required courses provide a firm grounding in business and technology. Two courses (Global Strategy and Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities) prepare students for the year-long program capstone: Management Consulting Teams. In that course, faculty-supervised teams build upon their first-year fieldwork and courses as they learn and apply consulting skills to define, analyze and recommend solutions for clients’ strategic management problems.
A hallmark of the Bentley MBA is field-based learning. The experience in a professional setting readies students to make an immediate impact for their employer upon graduation. The Bentley MBA is only one of a few in the nation that requires students to work in a consulting capacity with two different client organizations. The first-year project focuses on business processes; the second emphasizes strategy and management consulting skills. Working in teams with a faculty adviser, students identify and address relevant issues, offering recommendations to support managerial decisions.
Business Process Management
Successful organizations rely on cross-divisional collaboration to reach their objectives. To prepare students for such interaction, the Bentley MBA focuses on business process management and examines how all aspects of an organization – operations, marketing, accounting and finance – fit together. Students learn the tools and how-to of process mapping and measurement, benchmarking, problem identification and process improvement; all reflect Six Sigma standards used at leading companies worldwide.
Management Consulting Teams
This capstone course of the Bentley MBA builds on the skills that students have gained throughout the program; the focus is on project management techniques and consulting strategy. Using state-of-the-art software, students work together and with their clients in real time, day or night, from any location. Group projects involve reviewing current information and collecting new data through surveys and interviews. After subjecting the data to multiple levels of analysis, student teams summarize findings and deliver action-ready recommendations for the client.
Students in the Bentley MBA program choose five electives from more than 100 courses offered at the McCallum Graduate School. Most students select a concentration of four courses to focus their experience in a way that best suits their career goals, and then choose another course from a different academic discipline. The Bentley MBA offers an expanded menu of discipline-based concentrations, which emphasize a specific business field, or theme-based concentrations, which examine topics and trends that cut across industries. Select from the list below:
Discipline-based:
Accountancy
Economics and Financial Markets
Finance
Financial Planning
Human Factors in Information Design
Information and Process Management
Information Technology
Management
Marketing
Taxation
Theme-based:
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Entrepreneurship
Global Business and Markets
Management of Operations and Technology
Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions
Real Estate Management
Risk Management
Service Management and Science
Year One
Required Courses
Eleven Courses (33 credit hours)
| BF 501/GR 521 | 3 credits | Statistics (fall) |
| BF 502/GR 522 | 3 credits | Economic Environment of the Firm (fall) |
| BF 504/GR 523 | 3 credits | Marketing Management (spring) |
| BF 506/GR 524 | 3 credits | Accounting for Decision-Making (fall) |
| BF 507/GR 525 | 3 credits | Financial Statements Analysis for Decision-Making (spring) |
| GR 610A&B | 6 credits | Business Process Management I and II |
| GR 620A | 3 credits | Information Technology for Competitive Advantage I |
| GR 620B | 3 credits | Information Technology for Competitive Advantage II |
| GR 630 | 3 credits | Team Effectiveness: Theory & Skills |
| GBE 790 | 3 credits | Global Business Experience |
Year Two
Required Courses
Four Courses (12 credit hours)
| GR 730A&B | 6 credits | Management Consulting Teams I and II |
| GS 603 | 3 credits | Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities |
| GS 604 | 3 credits | Global Strategy |
Elective Courses
Five Courses (15 credit hours)
Students in the Bentley MBA program choose five electives from more than 100 courses offered at the McCallum Graduate School. Most students select a concentration of four courses to focus their experience in a way that best suits their career goals, and then choose another course from other academic disciplines. The Bentley MBA offers an expanded menu of discipline-based concentrations, which emphasize a specific business field, or theme-based concentrations, which examine topics and trends that cut across industries. Students also have the option of taking a range of courses for a general MBA (five courses), but permission from the MBA Program Director is required.
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