Master of Business Administration General Online

Rise as a well-prepared leader with advanced business acumen. Learn real-world practical insights from experienced faculty and tailor your degree to your interests by choosing from a wide range of electives.

Apply by: 12/30/24
Start class: 1/13/25
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Program Overview

Discover the advantages of an online Master of Business Administration

Develop advanced leadership expertise with a Master of Business Administration General from Texas State University online. This MBA program features a diverse selection of electives that can be used to tailor your degree to your professional interests. Curriculum emphasizes community engagement and incorporates experiential learning.

The general MBA program, part of the McCoy College of Business, explores strategic management, organizational behavior, marketing, and financial decision making while preparing you for leadership opportunities across a wide range of industries. Develop a global perspective on business as you progress through 100% online course work that empowers you with the expertise to make data-driven decisions. Take advantage of our vast alumni network and powerful business connections.

As a student of this Master of Business Administration, you will learn how to:

  • Lead and manage teams effectively
  • Enhance strategic planning and decision-making skills
  • Analyze business problems and develop data-driven solutions
  • Improve written and oral communication skills for business contexts
  • Understand ethical implications and responsibilities in business decisions
  • Acquire a global outlook on business operations and markets.
  • Understand financial management and accounting
As a student of this Master of Business Administration, you will learn how to:
  • Lead and manage teams effectively
  • Enhance strategic planning and decision-making skills
  • Analyze business problems and develop data-driven solutions
  • Improve written and oral communication skills for business contexts
  • Understand ethical implications and responsibilities in business decisions
  • Acquire a global outlook on business operations and markets.
  • Understand financial management and accounting

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We offer a variety of student-centered online degrees that can help you advance. Explore other MBA programs.

Total Tuition $23,364*
Duration As few as 14 months
Credit Hours 36

Accreditation

aacsb accredited

The McCoy College of Business at Texas State University is an accredited member of AACSB International. For more than a century, AACSB accreditation has been synonymous with the highest standards in business education. McCoy College's Department of Accounting also holds an additional AACSB accreditation. Fewer than 200 universities worldwide earn AACSB accreditations in both business and accounting.

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Tuition

Our MBA online program fits your budget

Tuition for the general MBA online program is affordable and paid by the course, so you can achieve your academic goals while remaining within your budget.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
MBA General $649 $1,947 $23,364*

*Tuition and fees are subject to change by legislative or Board of Regents action; changes become effective on the date of enactment. For more information, please visit https://onestop.txst.edu/cost-payments/cost-attendance.html.

Tuition breakdown

Total Tuition $23,364*
Per Credit Hour $649

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Calendar

Find the important dates and deadlines for your online general MBA program

The Texas State MBA General is delivered in a convenient online learning format that offers maximum flexibility for working adults like you. Choose the start date that fits your goals.

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Spring 1 20251/13/2512/30/241/6/251/13/251/13/253/3/258 weeks
Spring 2 20253/4/252/18/252/25/253/4/253/4/255/7/258 weeks

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Apply by 12/30/24
Start Class 1/13/25

Admissions

Here’s what you need to apply for this online degree

Apply to the online MBA program quickly and easily with our streamlined admission process. Review the admission requirements below and take the next step toward your professional goals.

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    To be eligible to earn your MBA General online from Texas State University, you must have the following:

    • Two years or more of professional business experience
    • Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
    • Completed online application
    • $55 non-refundable application fee
    • Official transcripts from each institution where course credit was granted
    • Resume/CV outlining education, professional and technical achievements, scholarships/grants, publications/presentations, other accomplishments
    • Statement of purpose outlining the applicant’s interest in the program and a description of the applicant’s three most significant accomplishments
    • Two letters of recommendation from sources able to assess the student’s ability to succeed in graduate school
    • GPA and GMAT/GRE Requirement:
      • GMAT/GRE not required for applicants with a GPA of 3.5 or higher
      • For applicants with GPA below 3.5, official GMAT or GRE (general test only) with competitive scores will be required for consideration
    • Approved English proficiency exam score:
      • Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.
      • Official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall and minimum individual module scores of
        • 19 listening
        • 19 reading
        • 19 speaking
        • 18 writing
      • Official PTE scores required with a 52 overall
      • Official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and minimum individual module scores of 6.0
      • Official Duolingo scores required with a 110 overall
      • Official TOEFL Essentials scores required with an 8.5 overall

    You have the opportunity to upload copies of your official transcripts during the application process (not print-outs, grade reports, advising transcripts or transcripts stamped "unofficial"). You can accomplish this by ordering or requesting your official transcripts from your university registrar, opening the documents, and scanning them into one PDF file. Please follow the instructions below when uploading your documents:

    • Redact your social security number every time it appears, but do not make additional alterations
    • Include front pages and back pages as well as the transcript legend
    • Combine multiple pages and/or multiple transcripts into one PDF
    • Arrange all pages in the correct order
    • Remove any encryption/password protections

    Electronic transcripts can be sent to Texas State University graduate admissions at [email protected].

    Official transcripts can be mailed to:

    Texas State University
    Graduate Admissions
    429 N. Guadalupe St.
    San Marcos, TX 78666-4684

Admission Requirements

  • Minimum 2.75 GPA
  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university
  • Resume detailing professional experience

Courses

Explore the curriculum for your online MBA

To graduate from the general MBA online degree program, you must complete a total of 36 credit hours, including 30 credit hours of core courses and six credit hours of electives.

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Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to provide an integrative understanding of the firm. A variety of organizational models and perspectives will be incorporated to facilitate understanding of the complexities of the firm, its environments, and its relationships with stakeholders. Includes focus on case analysis issues and communication skills.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides the quantitative foundation for business analysis and decision making. Topics include inferential statistics, regression analysis, and other analytical/modeling techniques with wide applicability in decision-making and problem solving in all functional areas of business.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to the major considerations in financial decision making. These considerations are analyzed by exploring the role of financial managers in creating value and maximizing shareholder wealth within the constraints of legal and ethical behavior. The development of critical thinking, quantitative applications, and analytical skills are major goals of this course because the topics require knowledge of specialized problem-solving techniques. 
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Organizational behavior and structure as influenced by environmental variables and system relationships
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces the processes and strategies to create, produce, and deliver goods and services that drive organizations' overall success. It will highlight operational and tactical problems organizations typically confront and introduce the concepts and analytical tools (both process and systems based) used to deal with these problems.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the planning and coordination of marketing functions, marketing policies, and the analysis of marketing administration.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Use of accounting information for improving managerial decision making. Emphasis is on understanding the practice of business management, budgeting, cost behavior, and operational, internal, and management control. 
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The application of economic theory and analysis to the formulation of business policy, including demand analysis, production theory, linear programming, and pricing policy
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to contribute to the development of the business professional. Academic content is supplemented by training in soft skill topics to better prepare the students for a successful business career. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An integrative approach to policy formulation and administration (decision making) to achieve organization objectives. Should be taken the last semester of student’s MBA program

Students must select 2 of the following:

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the methods involved in recruitment and selection of employees with an emplasis on measurement, job analysis, performance appraisal, legal issues, and the role of human resource planning and strategy. This course relies on statistics to teach students to make reliable and valid employment decisions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of theoretical and applied perspectives on needs assessment, design, development delivery and evaluation of training and development as well as organizational change and development.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of challenges that decision makers consider when managing their human resources across the globe. Drawing on theories and models from cross-cultural and international management areas, this course covers such topics as globalization, culture, emerging international assignments, and expatriate recruitment, selection, training, repatriation, and career management.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course develops advanced information technology skills, focusing on office productivity software. Primary emphasis is placed on spreadsheet, database, and presentation software. Advanced techniques are presented for use in data analysis and decision-making. Students will be expected to demonstrate mastery of these techniques in a hands-on environment.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a study of the scientific approach that connects customer data and competitive information to drive marketing decision-making. The course explores customer data analysis techniques and their theoretical foundations that are applied to real world business problems. Students will learn software, conduct data analysis and communicate the results.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a study of the scientific approach that connects customer data and competitive information to drive marketing decision-making. The course explores customer data analysis techniques and their theoretical foundations that are applied to real world business problems. Students will learn software, conduct data analysis and communicate the results.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An advanced study of the marketing research process to include problem formulation, determination of sources of information and research design, design of data collection forms, design of the sample, collection of the data, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation of the research report, and oral presentation of the research findings
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines marketing strategies in the digital environment. It examines the latest technology and analytical tools used in e-marketing and e-commerce, including online advertising, mobile marketing, social media marketing, search marketing, email marketing, and web analytics.

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