Business Administration

Professor Angeline Lavin, Graduate Business Programs Director
The 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
http://www.usd.edu/business/master-of-business-administration/index.cfm

Degrees:

Master of Business Administration
Area of Specialization: Health Services Administration

Graduate Faculty

Professors:

CARPENTER, JON, 1989, Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute-Blacksburg, 1981.
DAVIES, THOMAS, 1987, Professor, Associate Dean and Chair, Division of Accounting and Finance; LL.M., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1992.
DYKSTRA, DE VEE, 1979, Professor of Business Law and Survey of Business Academic Program Coordinator; J.D., University of South Dakota, 1984.
LAVIN, ANGELINE, 1997, Professor of Finance and Graduate Business Programs Director; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1997.
MOEN, DAVID H., 1983, Professor of Decision Sciences and Division Chair of Economics, Decision Sciences & MIS; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1983.
RAGOTHAMAN, SRINIVASAN, 1991, Professor and Coordinator of Accounting Internships; Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1991.
SALAZAR, DIEGO, 1980, Professor of Decision Sciences; Ph.D. Oklahoma State University, 1980.

Associate Professors:

HUCKABEE, GREGORY, 2003, Associate Professor of Business Law and Chair, Division of Management, Marketing and Law, LL.M., George Washington University-Washington,D.C., 1994.
KORTE, LEON, 1992, Associate Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1992.
NAIK, BIJAYANANDA, 1991, Associate Professor of Decision Science and MIS, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1995.
RAMAKRISHNAN, KUMOLI, 1992, Associate Professor of Finance; Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 1985.
TRACY, DANIEL, Associate Professor of Decision Science; Ph.D., Washington State University, 2001.
YIP, YEWMUN, 2003, Associate Professor of Finance; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997.
YOCKEY, MARK, 2003, Associate Professor of Finance; Ph.D. University of Alabama, 2007.

Assistant Professors:

AN, HUNTER, 2008, Assistant Professor of Finance; Ph.D., University of Alabama, 2007.
CARR, DAVID, 2004, Assistant Professor of Economics and Academic Program Coordinator; Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, 1997.
KAMINSKI, KATHLEEN A., 2007, Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2002.
LIU, KAIYA, 2008, Assistant Professor of Marketing; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2008.
WHARTON, ROBERT, 2005, Assistant Professor of Business Management; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1989.

Program Description

The Master of Business Administration is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). The purpose of the M.B.A. 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 M.B.A. program is offered as a twelve-month, full-time, face-to-face program on the Vermillion campus. The program is also offered on a part-time basis to meet the needs of students employed during the day. The Cohort Express program is a part-time, face-to-face program offered in Sioux Falls. The Cohort Express program is a part-time, face-to-face program offered in Sioux Falls. Cohort Express participants progress through the program in a lock-step manner, taking classes one night a week in Sioux Falls and completing the degree requirements in as little as twenty-two months. The USD M.B.A. 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, and the program is enhanced by a rich, five-day residency experience which takes place each May 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, cohort, 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, and the timelines for completion discussed herein assume that all foundations coursework has been completed before the start of the program.

Admission Information

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 must have their transcript evaluated to US equivalency. Additional requirements exist for international students.
A resume and statement of purpose are required.
Additional requirements exist for international students.
The Beacom MBA curriculum is comprised of 18 hours of foundations courses and 33 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 already. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit their transcript 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 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 523 Foundations of Operations Management 3 credit hours
BADM 580 Foundations of Marketing and Organizational Behavior 3 credit hours
ECON 580 Foundations of Economics 3 credit hours

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 MPA students. Applications for graduate assistantships are due on April 1.