1. In addition to applying to TAMIU, students interested in graduate business degrees must also apply to the College of Business Administration.
2. The College of Business Administration requires the GMAT or GRE from all applicants. Students pursuing the MBA taught in Spanish may choose to take the Examen de Admisíon. No admission decision will be made prior to receipt of an official GMAT, GRE or Examen de Admisíon scores. Admissions recommendations are made by the Graduate Admissions Committee based upon review of the applicant's portfolio, which must include, at a minimum, the applicant's upper level grade point average, standardized test scores (e.g., GMAT/GRE/Examen de Admisíon), statement of purpose, resume, and two letters of recommendation. Students admitted with conditions must satisfactorily complete those conditions to remain in graduate school.
   1. Workload Regulations: The maximum number of semester credit hours (SCH) that a graduate student can take is:

Any SCH load in excess of the above must be approved by the Dean of the College of Business Administration.

2. Graduate-Level Courses: Courses numbered 5000-level or above.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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 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

1. successfully completing the corresponding undergraduate courses at TAMIU as indicated below, or
2. successfully graduating with a business bachelors degree from a university in which the business program is accredited by the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB International), or
3. presenting evidence of equivalent course work at an accredited institution at either the undergraduate-level or graduate-level.

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.