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    Nov 23, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Management, MBA


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The MBA in Management is a rigorous full-time program designed to prepare a selective cohort of students for leadership in their careers. The curriculum relies heavily on experiential learning, industry interaction, and team collaboration. The intensive cohort structure is built around industry interaction, and the larger goal of the program is to nurture future business leaders who become change agents. The program exposes students to explicit knowledge about various aspects of business (across all sectors) and helps students translate this knowledge into tacit capabilities.

Designed for students who hold degrees from any major, the ideal candidate will be academically curious and professionally motivated. While many students are recent graduates, any candidate seeking a full-time MBA is welcome and encouraged to apply.  

Admission standards


Step 1: Apply to the University of North Texas Toulouse Graduate School

Complete and Submit your Application

  1. Please complete the Texas Common Application at www.applytexas.org. The application fee is $75.
  2. Request official academic credentials from all colleges and universities you have attended. Official transcripts are required from every college or university you have attended and must arrive by the application deadline. Contact the colleges and universities you have attended about their processes for providing official transcripts. The transcripts must show you have earned a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution (or equivalent).

Step 2: Submit Materials to the G. Brint Ryan College of Business

1.  Submit Official GMAT/GRE Scores. GMAT/GRE Waivers do exist:

  • A waiver of the GMAT/GRE will be considered for applicants who have an earned doctoral or professional doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution, or its equivalent.
  • A waiver of the GMAT/GRE will be considered for applicants who have an earned master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution, or its equivalent, with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher on the master’s degree.
  • A waiver of the GMAT/GRE will be considered for UNT Honors College graduates with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.
  • A waiver of the GMAT/GRE will be considered for students with a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution, or its equivalent, with a cumulative, or last 60 hour GPA, of 3.5 or higher.

2. Submit Essay:  Essay should consist of unique events, life experiences, and qualifications that you feel distinguish your candidacy and will add to the value of the class. This should not exceed 600 to 700 words.

3.  Submit Resume:  The G. Brint Ryan College of Business requires submission of a standard resume detailing work and academic experience.

4.  Submit Three (3) Letters of Recommendation:  Recommendations must be signed, dated, and submitted on company or university letterhead. Alternatively, recommendation forms can be downloaded or picked up in BLB 201. Recommendations must be professional or academic in nature (i.e. written by college professors and/or supervisors and managers). Recommendations are not acceptable from family, friends, clergy, high school teachers/administrators, subordinates, co-workers, etc.

5.  Personal Interview.

Degree requirements


Course requirements for the MBA with a major in management include the MBA core courses and 18 hours of courses in the major.

Background requirements


A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and admission to the Toulouse Graduate School are needed for graduate standing.

Students may have acquired this background in their undergraduate programs by the completion of courses equivalent in content to UNT’s business foundation requirements for the bachelor’s degree in business administration. In addition, students are required to have a working knowledge of computer-based business tools. The G. Brint Ryan College of Business Graduate Programs Office works with students to determine if background deficiency courses will be necessary. Background content might include Financial and Managerial Accounting, Business Information Systems, Statistics, Business Law, Finance, Marketing, Micro and Macro Economics, Operations Management and Calculus. Deficiencies can be completed via traditional academic coursework or through Ivy Software and Responsive.net. Ivy Software and Responsive.net deliver self-paced online learning modules that provide the needed background content without the need to formally enrolling in courses at UNT. For more information go to cob.unt.edu/masters.

Additional requirements


The nature of the MBA program requires that the student possess a proficiency in computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheet and database software. Finally, the program requires students to possess communication skills that allow one to identify relevant information and, in turn, to provide that information to others in written or verbal format. It is the student’s responsibility to acquire these competencies prior to taking courses in the program of study. These competencies will be assumed. However, the departmental advisors will recommend courses for students not possessing these competencies.

Additional advanced undergraduate courses in the proposed major field may be required as prerequisite work of students who have a different specialization at the undergraduate level or who hold a bachelor’s degree in some area other than business.

Background requirements must be removed prior to enrollment in courses that count as part of the 36 semester hours required for a master’s degree, unless the consent of the departmental advisor is first obtained.

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