The Accelerated (one-year) Full-time MBA Option (39 credit hours):
The accelerated MBA option at WSU provides a business experience that can be completed within a 12 month period. Like the full-time (two-year) program, the accelerated program features nationally prominent faculty and encourages frequent and personal interaction among faculty and students.
Unlike many other MBA programs, the College of Business at WSU offers a high-quality, intense MBA curriculum in a small, cohort-based format. MBA students are enrolled in cohorts of approximately 30 students each year and complete coursework and outside activities with the same group of students throughout their time in the program. The smaller class sizes enable more individual interactions with professors and graduate programs staff including career placement professionals. Students also participate in a required, supervised internship and an international elective.
Prior to starting the summer semester in the program, students must have completed the following prerequisite Business foundation courses from an AACSB accredited or approved business program and have earned an average of a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale with no more than two grades below a B in the following courses:
Business Foundation Courses
Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting (Acctg 230 and 231)
Managerial Economics for Decision Making (Econs 101 and 102)
Business Law and Ethics (BLaw 210)
Advanced Financial Management (Fin 325)
Operations Management (MgtOp 340)
Statistics (MgtOp 215)
Survey of Marketing (Mktg 360)
**Contact the Office of Graduate Programs with questions regarding course equivalencies.**
This program is located on the Pullman campus and includes a comprehensive graduate business curriculum including the following content/experiences:
Summer (6-9 credits)
MgtOp 591: Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
MgtOp 593: Managerial Leadership and Productivity
Optional: Study Abroad, 3 weeks (IBus 580: Study in Switzerland, 3 credits), Internship (BA 600: Independent Study, 1 credit), or additional coursework
Three-week Orientation
August Before Fall Semester:
Case Analysis Preparation, Oral Presentations, Interviewing, Business Writing, Challenge Course Teamwork Development, Business Writing, Multi-cultural communication, Spreadsheet Design and Modeling in Excel, Calculus, Research Skills, and Using Library Resources
Year One Fall Semester (16 credits)
Fin 526: Problems in Financial Management
HBM 581: Services Management
BA 702: Executive Education Seminar Series (1 credit)
Elective Course
Elective Course
Elective Course
Year One Spring Semester (16 credits)
Acctg 533: Administrative Control
MgtOp 590: Strategy Formulation and Organizational Design
MIS 580: Information Systems Management
Mktg 506: Marketing Management and Administrative Policy
Entrp 501: Business Plan Competition
BA 702: Executive Education Seminar Series (1 credit)
*One elective may be dropped if IBus 580 is taken over the summer
**Recently offered electives:
Entrp 588
Fin 527
Fin 581
IBus 580 (International Human Rights)
Accelerated (one-year) MBA Program Fact Sheet
Academics
