Master of Business Administration General Online
Gain an edge in your career by expanding your business knowledge and sharpening your managerial skills in the SOU online MBA.
Program Overview
Discover the SOU accelerated General MBA online
The Master of Business Administration General online program is designed to broaden your knowledge base in all the major functions and practices of a business (accounting, marketing, finance, operations management, organizational behavior, economics, and information systems) and to help hone core competencies essential for business leadership.
Critical topics such as leadership, teamwork, ethics, and effective communication are embedded in the program to further develop your ability to succeed in high-performing management roles. Plus, you can tailor this flexible online MBA to suit your goals with your choice of electives. Earn your master’s in as few as 16 months while you continue working by taking advantage of online courses that are seven weeks long with multiple start dates throughout the year.
In the general concentration program, you will learn to:
- apply critical-thinking and leadership skills to solving problems and conflict resolution,
- use organizational theory and policy implementation to facilitate and manage change,
- appraise and examine financial and managerial accounting information for planning, control, and decision-making,
- develop a framework to evaluate ethical and legal issues in the conduct of business activities,
- assess the impact of decisions regarding the selection and implementation of key information systems and emerging technologies,
- evaluate opportunities and challenges in global, economic, political, social, and technological environments using qualitative and quantitative techniques, and
- analyze and evaluate strategic business issues across business disciplines and conduct research-based plans for implementing solutions.
An online MBA that prepares you for any business challenge
“Getting an MBA for me was valuable because it gives me a better perspective on business challenges and business goals. As I progressed in my career, there were certain things that I knew I needed to understand better, and getting an MBA was the best way to go and do that.”
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SOU offers our online Master of Business Administration in a variety of concentration areas. Explore all of our online MBA programs.
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"We attract students that are not necessarily working in a corporate world, but also both in government and nonprofits."
– Rene Ordonez, PhD, Professor, SOU online MBA
Tuition
Our budget-friendly tuition is a great value
The SOU Master of Business Administration General online program features the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition whether you reside in Oregon or outside the state.
Tuition breakdown:
Master of Business Administration General Program Tuition and Fees
The following is the tuition breakdown for the MBA General degree program.
Program | Per Credit Hour | Per 3 Credit Hours | Per 4 Credit Hours | Per Program |
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MBA General | $430 | $1,290 | $1,720 | $19,350* |
Note: SOU credit hours are quarter hours. 45 SOU hours = 30 semester credit hours.
Fees: There is a $60 application fee, an $85 graduation fee, and a $65 course fee for the ETS Major Field Test in MBA 514. Proctoring fees, if required, are not included.
*Tuition and fees are subject to change.
Tuition breakdown:
Calendar
Our application deadlines and class schedules
The Master of Business Administration General online program is convenient and accessible for working professionals. All courses are seven weeks in length, with multiple start dates each year. View the calendar to see upcoming starts and related due dates.
Now enrolling:
Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline |
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Fall | 9/30/24 | 9/16/24 | 9/25/24 | 10/4/24 |
Winter | 1/6/25 | 12/23/24 | 1/2/25 | 1/10/25 |
Spring | 3/31/25 | 3/17/25 | 3/26/25 | 4/4/25 |
Summer 1 | 6/16/25 | 6/2/25 | 6/11/25 | 6/20/25 |
Summer 2 | 8/4/25 | 7/21/25 | 7/30/25 | 8/8/25 |
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Admissions
Qualifications for our General MBA online program
The Master of Business Administration General online admission process is streamlined to help you get started right away. Requirements for full admission include:
Admission Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- 2.75 GPA with three years relevant experience or 3.0 GPA
MBA General Online Admission Requirements
- Applicants with a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and transcripts verifying a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale are granted full admission status into the MBA General online degree program.
- Applicants with a minimum GPA of 2.75 qualify for full admission status by verifying three or more years of relevant work experience within the application.
- Provisional admission status is available for applicants with an undergraduate GPA lower than 2.75 who have three years of relevant work experience. Students admitted on a provisional basis must earn a B or better in courses taken during their first term in order to continue in the program.
- Applicants must submit transcripts from all previous educational institutions attended.
- International student applicants interested in enrolling in the SOU online Master of Business Administration program should contact the Office of International Programs for information related to international admissions and visa restrictions. Contact the Office of International Programs by emailing [email protected].
Southern Oregon University considers you an international student if you are NOT a:
- U.S. citizen or national;
- U.S. permanent resident or other eligible noncitizen.
Graduate Admission Requirements for International Students:
- Applicants must have a bachelor's degree equivalent to a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree from a recognized university in that country.
- Transcripts from all colleges and universities attended; documents must be official and include an English translation. Applicants are required to have documents mailed to SOU in a sealed envelope from the school, which has not been opened.
- SOU will not accept scans, faxes, photocopies, or already opened documents.
- TOEFL or IELTS score
- If English is not your native language, you will need to submit a TOEFL or IELTS score.
- You do not need to submit a score if you earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a U.S. college/university or completed your education in a native English-speaking country.
If you need to submit official documents by mail, send them to:
SOU Admissions Department1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
Have a question? Call us at 800-490-7974800-490-7974.
Courses
Read about our online business classes
In order to earn the Master of Business Administration General online, you must complete 13 courses (45 credit hours), covering 33 credit hours of core courses (including a capstone course) and 12 credit hours of electives.
Course learning objectives:
- Write clear and concise summaries of topical information
- Demonstrate knowledge of triple bottom line and corporate responsibility trends
- Evaluate alternative marketing strategies and make recommendations for change based on research
Course learning objectives:
- Correctly apply concepts and vocabulary of the cost environment
- Organize accounting information properly for planning and control, decision-making, performance, evaluation, and reporting purposes
- Employ management accounting techniques and concepts to enhance organizational strategies
Course learning objectives:
- Develop understanding and appreciation of current ethical and legal concepts/issues in business/management
- Effectively discuss the importance of ethics in the organizational decision-making process
- Become familiar with business law concepts/issues and be able to develop a proactive and preventive organizational culture and strategy
- Effectively express and support a socially responsible and ethical organizational structure
You must take three of the following courses.
Course learning objectives:
- Become familiar with the knowledge and skills needed within multiple accounting information systems and computer applications
- Learn how to be proactive and improve the analysis and design of the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) to:
- Add real value to business organizations
- Protect business information and its net worth
- Advise businesses about security risks which affect the business internal control systems over financial documentation, record keeping, and reporting
Course learning objectives:
- Examine the business consequences of pricing, distribution and logistics decisions and develop skills to create plausible distribution and pricing plans for an organization
- Compare and contrast the value-pricing approach to the cost-recovery approach and understand the significance and complexities of pricing products and services in the marketing process
- Assess how true economic and perceived values are determined and be able to identify all costs relevant to pricing decisions
- Become familiar with pricing tools and processes, map the relationship between price and demand, and understand concepts of price customization
- Compare and contrast the increasing role and power of online channels to traditional stores
- Construct a channel value chain with an aptitude to manage issues and conflict as well as techniques for influencing channel decisions within the distribution system
Course learning objectives:
- Gain ability for marrying geographic information to data to identify opportunities, analyze data, explore issues, problem solve, and evaluate situations in a geographic and business context
- Develop knowledge of GIS and how it has had a profound impact in business, government, and nonprofits
- Explore mapped data and manage geodatabases
Course learning objectives:
- Introduce the different types of Investments and the markets (if any) in which they trade
- Employ the CAPM framework at a basic level to understand expected return, risk, and the benefits of diversification
- Understand the options at a level that enables implementation of at least one option strategy
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of an investment in real-time
Course learning objectives:
- Describe the international financial environment including the international flow of funds, international financial markets, exchange rate, and risk faced by multinational firms
- Apply the principal financial management techniques to analyze financial decisions undertaken by multinational firms
- Examine the challenges and develop strategies of firms going international
Course learning objectives:
- Apply common elements of contemporary quality management frameworks to describe problems and identify possible improvements
- Implement management and analytic tools and techniques from the Six Sigma Body of Knowledge at an introductory level
- Demonstrate hands-on skills using statistical software to summarize quality improvement data
- Describe the interaction between the human side of change and analytic tools to achieve continual improvement
Course learning objectives:
- Understand and apply data visualization best practices
- Create Tableau data visualizations, including dashboards
- Extract and summarize data from a relational database using the SQL SELECT command
- Critique benefits and limits of descriptive and predictive analytics using readily available business data
- Assess the design and utility of static and interactive dashboard displays
Course learning objectives:
- Understand and describe the formation of the US healthcare system and identify and describe major US healthcare providers
- Ability to distinguish between various types of health insurance and financing plans in the US
- Identify and analyze health disparities in the US
- Understand the role of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the US, and examine telehealth and telemedicine process in the US
- Attain knowledge of different national and state level healthcare policies
Course learning objectives:
- Evaluate best practices in communicating with patients and families
- Identify communication and related challenges inherent to healthcare organizations, such as ethics, stress, burnout, and changing technology, and apply understanding by creating plans to address such challenges
- Apply communication skills (orally and in writing) by creating messages for a variety of stakeholders
- Analyze a specific healthcare organization’s practices and apply knowledge to make recommendations to improve those practices
Course learning objectives:
- Apply analytical tools necessary to understand and interpret corporate financial statements and their related footnotes
- Understand vertical and horizontal analysis, ratio analysis, strategic analysis, and prospective analysis
- Effectively evaluate quality of financial information
Course learning objectives:
- Explore business enterprises from a financial perspective
- Apply critical thinking skills to analyze financial data and draw conclusions about the health of business entities
- Analyze business entities from a valuations standpoint
*Tuition and fees are subject to change.
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