This program, offered in both blended (a combination of face-to-face and online) and online-only formats, is designed for students who are current or aspiring managers or those professionals who take on management functions in their organizations. Students gain experience necessary to create and maintain strategic advantage of an organization through leveraging human, fiscal, and information resources.
Required Courses
Research Methods
| RES 200 | Research, Writing, and Analysis | 1 |
Note: RES 200 is required for students completing a fully-online program.
Student Success Seminar
Note: GEN 103 may be waived for on-campus students who (1) enter NLU with an associate’s degree or 90 or more quarter credit hours of transfer credit; and (2) have maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.000 or above in their previous undergraduate studies. Students will be required to complete or transfer in additional coursework in general education to meet the 60-quarter credit hour requirement. Fully-online students are required to complete this course.
Communications
One written communications course and one oral communications course
| ENG 101 | Beginning English Composition | 5 |
| and | |
| ENG 203 | Effective Speaking for the Undergraduate | 5 |
Humanities
| PHI 107 | Ethics, Logic and Critical Inquiry | 5 |
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in humanities.
Fine Arts
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in fine arts.
Quantitative Reasoning
Physical and Life Sciences
| SCI 101 | Physical Science | 5 |
| or | |
| SCI 102 | Survey of Biological Science with Lab | 5 |
| or | |
| SCI 225 | Human Impact on Environment | 5 |
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in physical and life sciences.
Social Sciences
| HIS 102 | Introduction to Political Science | 5 |
| or | |
| HIS 203 | Survey of U.S. History | 5 |
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in social sciences.
Behavioral Science
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in behavioral sciences.
Additional General Education
Choose additional coursework in any general education area or other courses consistent with the integrated general education competencies of information and technology literacy, analytical skills, and ethics, values, and respect for human diversity (including Student Success courses) to bring total general education courses to 60 quarter hours.
Management Core - 54 QH
| BUS 430 | Management and Leadership | 5 |
| BUS 431 | Professional Communication for Managers | 5 |
| BUS 450 | Data Analysis for Managers | 5 |
| BUS 452 | Legal and Corporate Governance Issues in Management | 2 |
| BUS 453 | Ethical Conduct and Social Responsibility in Management | 2 |
| BUS 499 | Strategic Management | 5 |
| ECO 440 | Economics for Managers | 5 |
| FIN 444 | Finance and Accounting Concepts for Managers | 5 |
| MIS 436 | Technology Applications in Management | 5 |
| MKT 458 | Marketing for Managers | 5 |
| OBD 432 | Organizational Behavior | 5 |
| PJM 454 | Project Management | 5 |
Electives - 66 QH
Choose elective courses to meet the minimum degree requirement of 180 QH.