Program Details

Curriculum

Mays Business School offers the 36-credit hour MS Business program as a single-cohort, action-based, purposely designed curriculum intended to develop core business acumen, cultivate leadership skills, and dynamically enhance your professional marketability in an increasingly competitive job market. Our students learn business by doing business, together, from some of the best faculty Mays has to offer.

Full MS-Business Curriculum:

• ACCT 705 Accounting for Business Results (2 hours)
• ACCT 710 Accounting for Managerial Decision Making (2 hours)
• BUAD 700 Value Creation (2 hours)
• BUAD 701 Business Collaboration (1 hour)
• BUAD 702 Career Management (2 hours)
• BUAD 705 Business Communications and Professional Presence (3 hours)
• BUAD 710 Ethical Decision Making and Conduct (2 hours)
• BUAD 715 International Business Environment (2 hours)
• BUAD 720 Integrated Business Experience (4 hours)
• FINC 705 Corporate Financial Decisions (2 hours)
• FINC 710 Entrepreneurial Finance (2 hours)
• ISTM 705 Information Management for Decision Making (2 hours)
• MGMT 705 Strategic Human Capital (2 hours)
• MGMT 710 Crafting Business Strategy (2 hours)
• MKTG 705 Market and Customer Insights (2 hours)
• MKTG 710 Strategic Marketing Decisions (2 hours)
• SCMT 705 Global Operations (2 hours)

Program Courses

Mays Business School offers this 36-credit hour program as a single-cohort, action-based, purposely-designed curriculum intended to help students develop core business acumen, cultivate leadership skills, and dynamically enhance professional marketability in an increasingly competitive job market.

The required international trip occurs in the spring semester.

Block 1 (Summer)

• BUAD 700 Value Creation (2 hours)
• BUAD 701 Business Collaboration (1 hour)
• BUAD 702 Career Management (1 hour)
• MKTG 705 Market and Consumer Insights (2 hours)

Block 2 (Fall)

• BUAD 702 Career Management (1 hour)
• ACCT 705 Accounting for Business Results (2 hours)
• MGMT 705 Strategic Human Capital (2 hours)

Block 2 – 3 (Fall)

• BUAD 705 Business Communications and Professional Presence (3 hours)
• BUAD 720 Integrated Business Experience (4 hours)

Block 3 (Fall)

• ACCT 710 Accounting for Managerial Decision Making (2 hours)
• FINC 705 Corporate Financial Decision (2 hours)

Block 4 (Spring)

• BUAD 715 International Business Environment (2 hours)
• MGMT 710 Crafting Business Strategy (2 hours)
• ISTM 705 Information Management for Decision Making (2 hours)
• MKTG 710 Strategic Marketing Decisions (2 hours)

Block 5 (Spring)

• BUAD 710 Ethical Decision Making and Conduct (2 hours)
• FINC 710 Entrepreneurial Finance (2 hours)
• SCMT 705 Global Operations (2 hours)

Integrated Business Experience

A focal theme of the MS Business program is learning business by doing business. In addition to a program-wide emphasis on experiential and team-based learning, the Integrated Business Experience (IBE) course brings to life the process of launching and running a small business including valuable lessons in teamwork and leadership.

Students work in assigned teams of 4 – 5 to form companies. Each company develops product ideas they would like to sell, conducts market research, develops a business plan for a new company, and pitches loan officers at Aggieland Credit Union to get start-up funding.

Once funded, teams manage every aspect of their venture—sourcing materials, building websites, developing an online presence, dealing with global supply chain issues, planning and executing in-person sales, paying vendors and creditors, and delivering products.

Teams form dynamic relationships with their chosen non-profit partners. Leveraging these relationships is beneficial to both entities, with students volunteering their time and non-profits offering sales opportunities at their events.

In the final semester, each company closes their business and donates earnings to their partner. Integrating their academic courses with insight into the full life cycle of a business provides a singular learning experience.