Business Administration, MBA

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Take your career to the next level with Lenoir-Rhyne's ACBSP-accredited, 36-credit hour MBA program, which provides exceptional opportunities for professional development and advancement in a wide range of areas in business, commerce, and organizational leadership.

Designed for Working Professionals

Balance work and life on the path to completing your MBA degree. Take classes at your own pace and on your terms—full-time, part-time, on-campus, online or hybrid.

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Take the next step toward completing your MBA degree at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

You may begin program studies any semester—summer, fall, or spring term. The MBA program is offered at LR’s Hickory and Asheville campuses and online through synchronous course delivery. Full-time students generally can finish their degree in four semesters. Any practicum experiences can be completed close to home at your convenience.

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Join the MBA program for an online information session with the program coordinator and graduate admission counselors. During the session, you will have an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the admission process, financial aid and program requirements.

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Choose from Multiple MBA Concentrations

All MBA students complete a thorough core in business, including coursework in accounting, management, marketing, organizational behavior, supply chain operations, communication, and managerial economics.

You can choose to complete a general MBA or specialize in a specific area of interest that matches your career goals and aspirations.

Accounting

This concentration exposes students to coursework in several areas of accounting, which allows them to broaden their perspectives of accounting theory and application. Students who complete the Accounting concentration will be eligible to sit for the CPA and Certified Management Accounting examinations upon graduation.
Business Analytics and Information Technology

With the increasing importance of data analysis and information technology in the business world, this concentration trains students in the technology and quantitative skills needed for the ever-growing and constantly-converging fields of Business Analytics and Information Technology. Emphasis is placed on data analysis, project management, and business systems. Students who complete the BAIT concentration will be eligible to sit for the PMP® examination upon graduation.
Entrepreneurship

This concentration is designed to provide students with the tools and experience necessary to facilitate development not only as leaders, but also as an innovators, in their chosen business fields. Students will immerse themselves in a curriculum tailored to enrich their learning and cultivate both an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindset.
Executive Management

A concentration designed for mid-level managers with prior business or military experience, the Executive Management program is focused on growing careers. This concentration offers flexible courses taught by expert faculty and includes learning and networking opportunities from leading business executives.
Healthcare Administration

In a fast-paced industry that has growing demand for competent, well-qualified managers, the Healthcare Administration concentration will teach students to distinguish, understand, and differentiate key concepts which serve as the underlying foundation to be productive in the healthcare arena. Students will earn expertise and competencies grounded in strong, select Healthcare Administration courses that are essential in building robust applications in the healthcare landscape.

The business administration major attracted me because it included a great mix of classes that lined up with my future goals and aspirations.

Alston Robinson '20, MBA'22

Why Choose Lenoir-Rhyne University

Student-Centered Approach
The MBA program takes a student-centered approach by focusing on application-based instruction that directly relates to your areas of interest and future career goals. The program is designed to provide you with direct contact and a close professional relationship with faculty members who bring real-world experience to the classroom setting.
Relevant to Today's Business Needs
Learn decision-making skills and tools. Faculty are professionals with work experience in their field. Class simulations take you from the classroom to real business projects. Work with your professors on projects with local businesses and organizations, including conducting audits of businesses under the supervision of your professor.
Start Your MBA as an Undergrad
The Accelerated Master's Degrees program provides an opportunity for LR undergraduates to seamlessly matriculate into graduate programs by beginning coursework toward their master’s degree during their senior year, earning their master’s degree in a shorter period of time and saving money.

Program Philosophy & Emphasis

The MBA program features a managerial orientation with a focus on decision-making and not mere analysis, an emphasis on individual creative problem-solving skills, a global business perspective, and an emphasis on ethical conduct in management.

The MBA program focuses on five core beliefs that constitute the program's educational emphasis.

Managerial Emphasis
Provide you with lessons and applications that help you manage people and resources to achieve results.
Decision-making Orientation
In an environment of imperfect and incomplete information, you must be prepared to understand the risks and rewards of decision-making and to be responsible for the consequences that ensue.
Creative Problem-Solving
Business leaders must engage individual creativity and innovation; more importantly, they must be able to develop the creative abilities of those in their employment.
Global Perspective
As the world's economies grow ever more closely linked, thinking globally enhances opportunity and confronts competitive realities.
Ethical Leadership
Quality decision-making requires that business leaders always consider the ethical components for all stakeholders, cultivated by means of a reflective and thoroughly considered set of moral principles.

The College of Business and Economics is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Program Accreditation

Lenoir-Rhyne is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

The Master of Business Administration degree is also accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), a leading specialized accreditation association for business education supporting, celebrating and rewarding teaching excellence. ACBSP accredits business, accounting and business-related programs at the associate, baccalaureate, master and doctorate degree levels worldwide.

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Program Requirements

Graduate students in business may choose to focus at least twelve (12) hours of elective courses in a concentration. The following MBA concentrations require the general MBA core and degree electives from the approved list as follows: