Courses / Degree Requirements for the MBA in Sustainable Business
Students must successfully complete all general requirements for a master’s degree and can graduate with an MBA in Sustainable Business by completing a minimum of 58 credits, including:
MBA Foundation Requirement (18 credits)
As preparation for meeting the requirement of a track or several concentrations, each MBA student must demonstrate basic competence in the foundational fields of business. This is demonstrated by having a total of 16 MBA course credits earned including at least 2 semester-hour credits in any four of the following seven fields:
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Finance
- Business law
- Management: organizational behavior, human resource management, leadership
- Operations or quality management
- Management information systems
Students may fulfill the MBA Foundation Requirement in whole or in part by having
completed equivalent undergraduate coursework at an accredited university and earned a grade of at least B.
Students who have taken graduate coursework in business administration at another
university and have not used those credits for a degree may apply to have those credits transferred to Maharishi International University and used as specialization,
concentration or elective credits, up to a maximum of 20 credits.
Sustainable Business Requirement (at least 16 credits)
Capstone courses are designated by an asterisk (*)
- MGT 5010 Organizational Change for Sustainability (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5165 Metrics for Sustainability (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5310 Sustainable Technologies (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5313 Socially and Environmentally Responsible Management (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5552 Employee Health and Wellness (2 credits)
- MGT 5681 Socially Responsible Investing (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5682 Green Investing (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5781 Green Marketing (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5881 Sustainable Community Development (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5952 Strategies for Sustainable Business (4 credits)
- MGT 5020 Business Process Improvement (4 credits)
- MGT 5180 Operations Management for Sustainable Business (2–4 credits)
- MGT 5240 Statistics for Business Process Improvement (4 credits)
- * MGT 5090 Performance Improvement Project (4 credits)
- * MGT 5312 MBA Capstone Project (2–4 credits)
Electives (at least 16 credits)