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For four decades, Ball State has been providing top-notch preparation for graduate business students, and through the years we have been doing so in innovative ways. It’s a hallmark of the Miller College of Business to provide education that’s packed with real-world experience and that reaches students in ways that are convenient to them.

Among other things, that has meant offering you options. You choose the place, on campus or off. You choose the schedule, full time or part time. We’ve delivered graduate business programs through distance education, beginning at a time when most people had never even heard the term.

We also provide a background in business for students whose undergraduate studies were in some other field but who have advanced to the point in their career that an understanding of business concepts is needed for success. You can complete a business essentials certificate after taking four courses.

LMU’s MBA program is designed to assist young professionals achieve their career objectives. An MBA degree is becoming an increasingly beneficial asset for professionals in today’s competitive employment market. LMU’s MBA program begins with specific core coursework that builds the foundation for you to understand and then apply the principles of accounting, finance, economics, information technology, management, marketing and business ethics within today’s contemporary global business environment. You will then have the opportunity to select from electives which can lead to a specific concentration area, or a general business degree.

You will enjoy and benefit from LMU’s small class sizes, knowledge and experience of the faculty, and the curriculum which emphasizes case studies, group work, presentations, and special projects. You will have access to a faculty advisor the entire time you are in the program.

Degree Offered

Master of Business Administration

Program Highlights

LMU’s MBA program is primarily a part time program, which allows young professionals to continue working while also obtaining their degree. However, an individual wishing to take 9 hours in the fall and spring semesters and some work in the summer sessions can complete the degree in 2 years.

The faculty in the MBA program combines extensive academic preparation, professional experience, and a student-centered approach. The result is an open and interactive learning environment. Students are encouraged to select the Business Research Project as one elective in their particular are of interest. This elective allows you to select a particular issue in your workplace or simply an issue of interest, and use the knowledge you have gained to address the problem and develop recommendations. Faculty members provide support and guidance at every stage in the process.

Welcome to Baker College Center for Graduate Studies. I would personally like to congratulate you for deciding to continue your education! While there are many MBA programs available, Baker College is uniquely positioned to help you succeed. We have a variety of majors, flexible schedules and both on-ground and on-line delivery options. In addition, we have an amazing group of instructors that make a real difference in our student’s lives.

Our faculty are well known experts and researchers in their field, presenting at conferences around the world, publishing research, and authoring textbooks. They are developing the latest methods and strategies to help businesses compete in the 21st century. We also have instructors who are senior business executives with years of experience and knowledge in leading businesses in a wide variety of industries. The one thing all of our instructors have in common is their desire to help students as they pursue their MBA. Our faculty are not just instructors, but often are mentors, advisors and enthusiastic motivators.

Whether you want to gain the skills necessary to help you earn a promotion where you currently work, or want to change careers or industries, Baker College Center for Graduate Studies is here to help you succeed. I invite you to contact one of our admission advisors to get more information and answer any questions you have. Best of luck to you as you start this exciting journey.

Further development means exploring new worlds.

People in leadership positions are successful when they gain trust because of their solution-finding competence. The further development of company leaders in all three dimensions: knowledge, personality, dealing with people, our holistic perspective with an international orientation, and our strongly practice-related focus make this further education at the LIMAK so unique. With an enthusiastic faculty consisting of acknowledged academics and scientists, highly regarded consultants and managers, as well as highly qualified participants who learn from each other.

Professor Franz Strehl, MBA, Academic Director
Barbara Peyrer, Program Director

Today, most MBA students get little exposure to social and environmental issues in their graduate curriculum and consequently tend to view them as peripheral to business success. BGI’s unique program preserves the academic rigor of a traditional MBA program, while infusing sustainability throughout every course. The program’s focus on entrepreneurship for sustainability prepares students to start their own sustainable enterprises or to be effective change agents within existing organizations.

Our MBA in Sustainable Business is a 2- or 3-year, part-time program designed for working individuals. Students and faculty meet in intensive classroom sessions for a 4-day weekend once a month, October through June, at the IslandWood environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island, 35 minutes by ferry from downtown Seattle. The academic year is kicked off with a 5-day orientation at Channel Rock, our eco-retreat center on Cortes Island in British Columbia.
MBA Program Categories

The MBA course offerings fall into four categories that cover the program goals of the academic program.
The MBA Core covers specific, traditional MBA topics, with an infusion of environmental responsibility and social justice in every course.
Business & Sustainability is taught more explicitly in the Foundations, Systems Thinking, Social Justice, and Dal LaMagna Series courses.
Management and Leadership courses, inspired by the work of co-founder Sherman Severin, cover the human side of business from the individual level to the organizational and societal levels, with an emphasis on methods and capacity for productive change.
Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship & Innovation covers the process of developing a business from the creative vision of the individual through team-building and maturation into a business plan presented to potential investors.
Program Highlights
Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship & Innovation

The fourth category of the MBA Program Goals is a unique offering at BGI, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship series in the final year. These courses build on insights from our co-founders Gifford and Libba Pinchot on the process of change initiatives in large corporations, including the relationship of intrapreneuring to entrepreneuring. Building from the individual level up, students start with personal experience in Creativity & Right Livelihood, move into building a specific creative business plan with a team in Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship I, then develop the plan fully for a culminating presentation to potential investors at the close of Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship II.
Learning Community

The most commented-upon feature of BGI’s education is the learning community. BGI students are, literally, a community of adult learners committed to changing the world. Students consult each other widely to leverage the value of their diverse experiences. The learning community feeds and shapes the academic experience and continues to provide a framework for lifelong learning among the alumni and extended BGI community.
Course Delivery

To develop the learning community to best advantage, BGI MBA courses are delivered through a hybrid format of online and in-person experiences. In-person classes are held in the monthly 4-day intensives, and online structured distance learning activities are hosted on the Channel, BGI’s powerful collaborative learning platform. This format optimizes a combination of personal relationships, teamwork and community, together with the flexibility, focus and self-paced engagement afforded by distance learning.
Elluminate

A new feature on the Channel is Elluminate, a collaborative software environment that allows professors to meet with students online to present lectures, guests, slide shows, or consultative sessions between intensives. These sessions can also be recorded so that students who may need to miss a session can review the sessions later. With Elluminate, students are able to interact with exceptional thought leaders who prefer to spend their time teaching rather than traveling.
Leaders in Residence

BGI hosts a variety of leaders-in-residence during intensives. Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs) have built their own companies, sometimes with sustainability as part of the design from the beginning, like Chris Van Dyke of Nau, Inc. Executives in Residence (ExIRs) have proven track records in the business world, often leading or initiating sustainability efforts at their companies. And Change Agents in Residence (CAIRs) may represent a social justice or non-profit effort that aligns with BGI’s sustainability goals.
Action Learning Projects

In the first year, the capstone ALP is a year-long project for an existing organization. In addition to orienting students to the current milieu of sustainable business, the Foundations of Sustainable Business introductory class supports students in developing their Action Learning Projects. These projects, where a team of BGI students works with an existing company on a sustainable business effort, continue throughout the first year. Past projects have included work for ClifBar, BC Hydro, Nature’s Path, REI, and others.
Industry Concentrations

Joining an industry concentration gives BGI students the opportunity for focused learning and greater impact in selected critical industries. Students enrolled in a concentration work with BGI’s regular faculty and a committed Industry Advisory Council to analyze challenges and implement on-the-ground solutions to sustainability within a particular industry. Industry concentrations allow interested students to come together for industry-specific workshops, mentoring from industry leaders, and access to industry internships and placements.

Licensing
Bainbridge Graduate Institute is authorized by the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) and meets the requirements and minimum educational standards established for degree-granting institutions under the Degree Authorization Act. This authorization is valid until November 5, 2010, and authorizes Bainbridge Graduate Institute to offer the following program: Master of Business Administration. Any person desiring information about the requirements of the Act or the applicability of those requirements to the institution may contact the HECB office at P.O. Box 43430, Olympia, WA 98504-3430.

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The M.B.A. course aims at providing inputs to the students relevant to the business industry and trade so that they can function in different organizations and face the challenges arising there from. The course not only aims at providing knowledge and skills in different areas of management, but also provides inputs necessary for the overall development of the personality of the students.

The structure of the Course is designed in a way that students have to study the core courses from different functional areas of management that are made compulsory. Later on, specializations are offered in functional areas where the students can opt for two specializations out of the four offered: Marketing, Finance, IT and HR Right from the beginning of the course, the focus is on providing relevant inputs through case discussion/ analysis, simulation games, note plays etc. keeping in mind the current business scenario.
Broadly, the course is of two years divided into four semesters, each semester having eight compulsory papers of 40 sessions each of one-hour duration. There is a system of dual specialization of equal weightage. The students will have to opt for two functional areas for their specialization, each having four papers (two in third semester and two in the fourth semester).

Summer Training for 8/10 weeks is compulsory for every student pursuing the course, which they have to undergo between second and third semester. Comprehensive viva and Research project are part of the course.