Admission Requirements for Master of Business Administration
To qualify for admission into the Master of Business Administration degree program, the following conditions must be satisfied:
An applicant must meet the following conditions:
- Have a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
- Provide official transcripts of any college-level coursework completed for a baccalaureate degree during the last 60 semester hours taken as well as proof of the successful completion of the pre-requisite courses listed below in item #3.
- Provide proof of the successful completion of a statistic course or exam.
- Have three years of relevant business experience.
- Submit two letters of recommendation from persons qualified to judge the applicant’s professional expertise, character, and capacity for college-level study. Note that one recommendation must be from a supervisor.
- Applicants may transfer a maximum of six (6) semester hours of graduate course work into the MBA core. All transfer credit must have been earned at a regionally accredited graduate program and must be at the same level and duplicate the content of the Montreat College MBA course. It is the responsibility of the student to provide any needed documentation (i.e., course descriptions, syllabus) The student must have an earned grade of “B” or above for the course.
- Applicants must fulfill all undergraduate business prerequisites before taking the MBA courses. (Individuals with a bachelor degree from Montreat College School of Professional and Adult Studies will have already completed all the necessary undergraduate prerequisites.) Candidates for the MBA degree who possess undergraduate degrees in areas outside business will be required to successfully complete (with a grade of “C” or higher) the following prerequisite undergraduate business courses*:
- BS 362 Financial and Managerial Accounting 4 credit hours
- BS 422 Issues in Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
- BS 351 Economics: Theory, Concepts, and 3 credit hours Issues of Micro and Macro
- BS 422 Issues in Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
- BS 351 Economics: Theory, Concepts, and 3 credit hours Issues of Micro and Macro
- Prerequisites for the MBA program are offered through the School of Professional and Adult Studies in an accelerated evening format.
Applicants are eligible for admission if they meet the following standard:
- Montreat College waives the GMAT entrance examination for any graduate of a regionally accredited college or university with an undergraduate degree in Business and a 3.0 grade point average (last 60 hours) who begins the program within one year of degree conferral, OR
- Has a grade GPA (grade point average of student’s last sixty hours of bachelor’s work) that meets the following formula: (GPA x 200) GMAT>950.
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score must be official and completed with the last five years.) An applicant whose first language is not English must demonstrate the ability to read, write, and understand English and submit evidence of proficiency in English by scoring 500 or above on the Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) or 173 on the computer-based test.
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