Grantham University

The Grantham Business Administration program is a part of The Skousen School of Business. This program is designed as a modern business administration curriculum. It should prepare adult learners for their entry into technical and service-based industries. It accomplishes this by providing a strong academic foundation in a number of areas. Among them are management and accounting principles, business theories and practices, e-commerce, microeconomics and macroeconomics, entrepreneurship, marketing, and behavioral science. Grantham's math and statistics classes will also improve the undergrad's capacity to render worthwhile business decisions by forming the sound analytical abilities required in the contemporary business sector.

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Business Administration

The Bachelor of Business Administration course of study will ready graduates to join an array of technical and service-oriented fields. By successfully completing lower- and upper-division requirements, it is expected that graduates will be able to comprehend and apply the principles of business ethics. Furthermore, they should be able to obtain the quantitative knowledge and skills they need in order to make sound business decisions. They will have to integrate this knowledge, and use it to analyze a business. The student will then identify the strengths and weaknesses of the business and determine what changes should be made to bring about improvement. Students will be required to conduct independent research. This research must be relevant to business-related issues.

Business Management

The Business Management program is available under The Skousen School of Business, and it offers a complete environment of managerial concepts, techniques, and processes applicable to any industry. While the building blocks of theory of business and management are taught in both the Business Administration and Business Management programs, the management program also works with the student to develop their knowledge of human capital areas of the workplace through real-world foundations in employment law, human resource management, and labor relations. This program will also cover public relations, marketing communications and marketing analysis techniques in addition to the evolution and methodologies of Total Quality Management tools like Six Sigma, and Just In Time management strategies that afford today's manager the competitive edge to stay relevant.

Marketing Managers

As a marketing manager it is your responsibility to determine what products are in high demand, and to know what your competitor is up to. While satisfying the customer, they are also in charge of maximizing profits and market sharing. They will study the trends of new products and services and supervise product development.

Grantham's world-wide MBA approach stresses meeting the needs of present and rising executives and military service members who may possess a range of work experience, and different and complex work related schedules whose desire it is to understand the business world in practical terms. In addition, this program stresses the MBA core content that involves finance, financial and managerial accounting, human resource management, information management, macroeconomics and microeconomics, marketing, organizational behavior, and quantitative analysis.

Master of Business Administration Specialties: MBA-Project Management

The Project Management program affords MBA professionals with theory and practical application as recommended in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide.

Project Management

Students learn to formulate and use computerized mathematical modeling and other optimization methods to develop and interpret data related to management decision and policy formulation as well as other managerial functions:

• May create similar software, services, or items.
• Concentration on analyzing and development of support software.
• Development in supplying optimal time, cost, or logistics for the evaluation, review, or implementation of a program.

MBA-Information Management

The Information Management concentration is intended to improve the managerial expertise, business strategies, and decision-crafting abilities -- the cornerstone of the MBA program -- amid the emerging technology trends prevalent in corporate operations nowadays.