Business Administration

Graduate Business Programs Director: Angeline Lavin, Ph.D.
Beacom School of Business
Master of Business Administration Program
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
(605) 677-5232 or (866) 890-1MBA
mba@usd.edu
www.usd.edu/business/mba

FACULTY

Professors:

Davies, Thomas, 1987, Associate Dean and Chair, Division of Accounting and Finance, LL.M., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1992.
Dykstra, De Vee, 1979, Business Law and J.D., USD Technology Transfer Officer, University of South Dakota, 1984.
Lavin, Angeline, 1997, Finance and Graduate Business Programs Director, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1997.
Moen, David H., 1983, Decision Sciences, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1983.
Ragothaman, Srinivasan, 1991, Accounting and Black Hills Corp. Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1991.
Tracy, Daniel, 2007, Decision Science, Ph.D., Washington State University, 2001.

Associate Professors:

Allgrunn, Michael, 2006, Economics, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2009.
Butler, Stephen, 2013, Accounting, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982.
Carlson, Greg, 2013, Health Services Policy and Management, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2008.
Carr, David, 2004, Economics and Division Chair of Economics, Decision Sciences & MIS, Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, 1997.
Huckabee, Gregory, 2003, Business Law and Chair, Division of Management, Marketing and Law, LL.M., George Washington University-Washington, D.C., 1994.
Korte, Leon, 1992, Accounting, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1992.
Yip, Yewmun, 2003, Finance, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997.
Yockey, Mark, 2003, Management, Ph.D., Washington State University, 2006.

Assistant Professors:

Barney, Chet, 2013, Management-Organizational Behavior, Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2013.
Birkeland, Kathryn, 2011, Economics, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2007.
Clark, Brent, 2013, Strategic Management, Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2013.
Ghosh, Suvankar, 2011, Information Systems and Decision Science, Ph.D., Kent State University, 2009.
Jeutang, Pavel, 2014, Finance, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014. #Pending approval
Jones, William, 2012, Marketing: Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2009.
Lonsdale, Damian, 2011, Management, Ph.D., University of Akron, 2010.
Stoddard, Brock, 2013, Economics: Ph.D., Indiana University, 2013.
South-Winter, Carole, 2014, Health Services Administration, Ed.D., St. Cloud State, 2012. #Pending approval
Tiahrt, Thomas, 2014, Decision Science and Statistics, Ph.D., University of South Dakota, 2011. #Pending approval
Wergin, Rand, 2009 Marketing, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2009.

DEGREE

Master of Business Administration

SPECIALIZATION

Business Analytics
Health Services Administration

Program Description

The Master of Business Administration is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). The purpose of the program is twofold: 1) to develop current and future executive leadership for business, industry, and government; and 2) to encourage those students who have an interest in college teaching and an aptitude for an academic career to continue their work at the doctoral level. The emphases in this program are on decision making, problem solving, understanding the role of business in society, and developing leadership ability and social responsibility to progress to positions of executive responsibility.

The program is offered as a twelve-month, full-time, face-to-face program on the Vermillion campus. The Hybrid program is offered on a part-time basis face-to-face in Sioux Falls to meet the needs of students employed during the day. Students in the Hybrid program can “mix and match” face-to-face Sioux Falls classes with online classes for added flexibility. The program is also offered online to meet the needs of those living throughout the state as well as worldwide. The online courses are offered so that students can complete the program in as little as two years if they have completed the foundational business courses, and the program is enhanced by a rich, five-day residency experience which takes place each spring in either Sioux Falls, SD or Rapid City, SD. Students have flexibility with respect to when they complete the residency portion of the program. The full-time, hybrid, and online programs all have identical entrance and graduation requirements, and the courses are taught by the same faculty. Graduation requirements are identical for all modes of delivery.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS

Two letters of recommendations.
A satisfactory score on the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) is required.
Each applicant must have a baccalaureate degree or an equivalent degree from an institution with full regional accreditation for that degree (minimum GPA of 2.7). International students may be asked to have their transcript evaluated to US equivalency.
A resume and statement of purpose are required.
Additional requirements exist for international students and applicants with degrees from other countries.
The curriculum is comprised of 18-21 hours of foundations courses and 33-39 hours of advanced business coursework, as indicated below. All foundations and advanced courses are offered online. Students possessing an undergraduate degree in business may have fulfilled some or all of the foundations coursework requirements. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit transcripts to the Graduate School for review to determine if they have fulfilled the foundational requirements of the program. Applicants who enter the program with the foundations courses (or their baccalaureate-level equivalent) completed will be given “advanced standing” and will only need to complete the 33-39 hours of advanced courses.
Students who do not have the prerequisite undergraduate courses may complete the following foundation courses:
ACCT 520  Foundations of Accounting 3 credit hours
BADM 505  Foundations of Finance 3 credit hours
BADM 520  Foundations of Calculus and Statistics for Business 3 credit hours
BADM 525  Production Operations Management 3 credit hours
BADM 580  Foundations of Marketing and Organizational Behavior 3 credit hours
ECON 580  Foundations of Economics 3 credit hours
BADM 523  Foundations of Information Systems 3 credit hours (Business Analytics specialization only)

Foundation Courses

The design of foundation courses for the Beacom School’s graduate degrees is based upon a changing market where an increasing number of students enter graduate school with years of business experience, baccalaureate degrees in many fields, and a stronger commitment to scholarly activity. Foundation courses differ from their undergraduate counterparts in several ways, including: 1) content is compressed into a smaller time frame; 2) different instructional strategies are used in order to better utilize the student resource base of experience; and 3) higher-order thinking skills are fostered, namely, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

SCHOLARSHIPS

A limited number of graduate assistantships are awarded each year on a competitive basis to fully admitted, full-time, on-campus MBA students. Applications for graduate assistantships are due on April 1.