Master's Degree — Business/Management

Executive Master of Business Administration

The Colorado Tech Online Executive MBA curriculum is designed to benefit professionals at a variety of levels. The emphasis is on real-world skills and knowledge that managers need to succeed in today’s business world. It’s structured to give students important management tools and basic concepts that can be built upon and applied to a variety of career fields. Unlike most other Executive MBA programs, it also incorporates information technology management and project management competencies. Colorado Tech Online features the project management coursework as a registered provider of The Project Management Institute (PMI®) — recognized as the global leader in the development of standards and practices for the project management profession.

Students earn CTU Academic Certificates as they work toward the completion of their Executive Master's of Business Administration degree. CTU Online students can complete this degree in 15 months.

Master of Science in Management
— Concentration in Business Management

Get your Master’s Degree in just 15 months! Students can develop both technical expertise and business savvy and can even learn to create new technology-based business paradigms to achieve organizational goals.

The Project Management Institute — registered project management component of this degree provides a solid base of knowledge to address today's most pressing management challenges using industry-recognized models and techniques.

You can earn CTU Academic Certificates as you work toward completing your degree.

Master of Business Administration
— Concentration in Environmental and Social Sustainability

This program is offered to students who are passionate about helping to build a better world. In addition to the foundations of sustainable business, this program provides students with the knowledge they will need to apply the principles of the Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, Profit). Course content will focus on making difficult decisions that attempt to simultaneously address economic, ethical, technological, social justice, and environmental concerns.

This Degree Program Includes 2 CTU Academic Certificates

CTU Academic Certificates are résumé-enhancing credentials built right into course content, so you can progressively add marketable skills to your professional qualifications as you study.

• Business Administration
• Environmental and Social Sustainability

Master of Science in Management
— Concentration in Homeland Security

The War on Terror has focused the nation's attention on homeland security, which has become a concern at all levels of government and in a wide variety of organizations. In this industry-current curriculum, students have an opportunity to fully address policy, organizational and substantive issues regarding homeland security. Students learn how to analyze models of Homeland Security and effectively communicate them, demonstrate an understanding of terrorism and the psychology of fear, evaluate technological solutions to problems of Homeland Security and much more.

When you graduate, you can pursue career opportunities such as:

• Homeland Security Coordinator
• Law Enforcement Management
• Emergency Management Administrator
• Program Manager
• Risk Management Specialist
• Senior Exercise Evaluator
• Business Resilience Consultant
• Disaster Recovery Specialist
• Senior Analyst
• Intelligence Analyst
• Military Planner
• Department of Safety Coordinator

Master of Business Administration
— Concentration in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

As the global marketplace grows more competitive, businesses with leaders who can make effective decisions and move products to market quickly and efficiently will gain an advantage.

At Colorado Tech Online, students can take advantage of this trend by acquiring the real-world knowledge and skills required to pursue exciting opportunities in purchasing, distribution, inventory control, labor relations and many other areas of the global marketplace.

Industry-Current Coursework

Required courses in the MBA with a concentration in Logistics and Supply Chain Management include:

• Applied Managerial Accounting
• Economics for Decision-Making
• Applied Finance for Decision-Making
• Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making
• Information Technology Management
• Applied Managerial Decision-Making
• Applied Managerial Marketing
• Inventory and Distribution Management
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Impact on Design and Production
• Logistics Cost Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management Capstone 1
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management Capstone 2

Master of Business Administration
— Concentration in Management

Today's increasingly complicated business environments demand existing and future professional leaders to have a comprehensive knowledge of the economic climate in the modern workforce. AIU Online created the MBA in Management degree to help prepare students to develop the managerial skills and professional competencies needed to compete in increasingly globalized markets.

The Management MBA program educates students with a unique, market-relevant combination of comprehensive business studies and real-world applications. The curriculum gives students the advanced knowledge, skills, and practical, experience-based education necessary to accelerate their careers in senior positions in business or management.

The program is constructed to help prepare students for jobs with great earning potential. The curriculum lends itself to change and allows professors to prepare relevant, timely coursework for students that will benefit them in the real world upon graduation, helping ensure that AIU Online graduates will be professionally up-to-date upon earning their degrees.

Master of Business Administration
— Concentration in Mediation and Dispute Resolution

The MBA with a concentration in Mediation and Dispute Resolution is offered by Colorado Technical University in affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Dispute Resolution (IADR). This industry-current course of study has been specifically designed to help graduates prepare to pursue careers opportunities such as Arbitrators, Legal Consultants, Labor Relations Managers, Conflict Management Specialists, Integration Managers and many others.

Courses in this industry-current MBA degree program are taught by experienced instructors. Students will have the opportunity to absorb relevant and current perspectives and professional insights from people with firsthand experience negotiating tacit or contractual agreements in the modern business world.

Developed with the direction of leaders in the management industry, the program emphasizes the application of mediation process skills in the workplace and reflects the balance needed for developing excellent mediation skills to provide and apply high-quality conflict resolution procedures. This program includes two integrative and interactive capstone courses:

• MDR Capstone I
• MDR Capstone II

Students can earn a CTU Academic Certificate in Business Administration as they work towards the completion of the MBA with a concentration in Mediation and Dispute Resolution. This résumé-enhancing credential is built into the degree program without adding any additional courses or cost.