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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
MBA in Business Administration (Taught in English and Spanish)
MBA with a major in International Banking (MBA-IBK)
Master of Business Administration in International
Trade (MBA-IT)
Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcc)
Master of Science in Information Systems (MS-IS)
Master of Science in International Logistics (MS-IL) (Thesis
and Non-Thesis)
Doctor of Philosophy in International Business (Ph.D.-IB)
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
In addition to its academic programs, The College of Business Administration
has several related entities designed to encourage research by both faculty
and students. Among them are: The Institute for International Trade;
The Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development; The
Office for the Study of U.S. - Mexico Trade Relations; The Center for
the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade - Laredo; and The International
Trade Journal.
GRADUATE DEGREES REQUIREMENTS
See Academic Regulations for Graduate Degrees for specific TAMIU
Regulations.
GRADUATE ADMISSION PROCEDURES
Regular semester | 12 SCH |
Each summer session | 6 SCH |
Any SCH load in excess of the above must be approved by the Dean of the College of Business Administration.
- Graduate-Level Courses: Courses numbered 5000-level or above.
- Independent Study: Independent courses taken under course number 5399 have a varying degree of semester credit hours (SCH). The independent study can be set up for one, two or three semester credit hours.
- S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory): This grade can be given for only predesignated courses and may be used to satisfy degree requirements (e.g., business internships). For graduate students, a grade of “S” indicates achievement of 80 percent or greater for the course requirements. This grading criteria applies only to courses in the College of Business Administration.
- Academic Probation: If at the end of any semester, a graduate student’s GPA for that semester is below 3.0, the student will be placed on academic probation.
- Additional Master’s Degree Policy: A student seeking a second master’s degree from the College of Business Administration must complete twenty-one (21) semester credit hours of graduate-level business courses beyond the course work in the degree plan(s) for all prior master’s degrees taken from the COBA and must meet all other requirements for the additional master’s degree.
- International Students Language Requirement: International students who do not meet language requirement for admission to the College of Business, may apply to the University’s International Language Institute (ILI). Upon the ILI’s certification of English proficiency or receiving a score of 550 in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), students will be permitted to pursue regular COBA degrees.
- No credit more than seven (7) years old, counting from the catalog year in effect at registration, will be recognized as graduate credit applicable toward a master's level graduate degree unless validated by a qualifying examination conducted by the appropriate department.
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The following courses make up the MBA Business Foundation courses
that must be taken for the MBA degree offered by the College of Business Administration.
These courses must be taken by all students enrolled in the following
degrees: Master of Business Administration (MBA), the Master of Business Administration
in International Banking (MBA-IBK), and the Master of Business Administration
in International Trade (MBA-IT).
The MBA Business Foundation courses do NOT count toward the
thirty/thirty-three hours needed to complete the MBA degree. However, they do count toward
the overall graduate grade point average required for satisfactory progress.
MBA BUSINESS FOUNDATION
ACC | 5300 | Accounting Concepts |
MIS | 5300 | Information Systems Concept |
DS | 5300 | Business Quantitative Methods |
ECO | 5300 | Economic Concepts |
FIN | 5300 | Business Finance Concepts |
MGT | 5300 | Management Concepts |
MKT | 5300 | Marketing Concepts |
POM | 5300 | Production and Operations Management |
Students may be waived from the MBA Business Foundation courses by either:
All course work used for waiver from a particular course must have been
taken within the past seven (7) years or be validated by the department
in which the course is normally offered. The student must have received
a grade of “C” or better in each course applied towards a waiver.
Applications for course waivers must be completed during the first in-residence
semester of work on the MBA program.
Students requesting a waiver must get approval from the Chair of the department
for which the course is assigned. The Department Chair has the responsibility
for ensuring that the student has the appropriate prior course work and
knowledge as set forth in this policy before approving the waiver.
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