Online Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurial Leadership
More than a traditional MBA
The MBA is a time-honored milestone in the path to business leadership. But more and more, businesses are looking for skills that go beyond the traditional. They’re looking for entrepreneurial leaders who are driven to pursue growth in a business climate that is diverse, dynamic and demanding. These new skills include the ability and willingness to take calculated risks and build smart, agile teams that deliver results. You can expect to develop these talents as you complete the William Woods University online MBA in Entrepreneurial Leadership.
The MBA program at William Woods University is accredited by the ACBSP (Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs) as well as the Higher Learning Commission. It’s designed to fit the schedules of working professionals and can be completed in two years or less through online courses. To make this an investment you can count on, your tuition will not go up as long as you stay continuously enrolled.
In this program, you can expect rigorous coursework with real-world relevance, designed and taught by professionals who have proven their expertise in the corporate world. The online MBA degree’s strong theoretical background is balanced by an emphasis on practice that puts theory to work.
Your online MBA degree at work
The skills you develop in our online MBA program — leadership, financial competency, organizational theory, information systems and more — will show your organization that you are ready to take your place among its leaders. Chief among these skills is entrepreneurship, which will help you find new ways to lead and create solutions in a world of constrained resources, environmental challenges and competitive global markets.
$11,000Total cost of our MBA program
$65,000Average annual salary of our MBA graduates
$100,000 Annual salary earned by 18 percent of our MBA graduates
Business and managerial skills are in high demand in today’s job market, with many MBA students transitioning to an entrepreneurial program focus to broaden their career reach. Job opportunities for MBA graduates include:
Business partner
Entrepreneur
Financial manager
Health services manager
High-end management consultant
Marketing manager
Sales manager
Information technology director
Requirements/Curriculum
You will earn the degree by completing ten 3-credit courses, including a final applied case project where you will complete a written business plan and defend it in an oral presentation to an outside panel of business experts.
Courses you may take
BMT 517
Human Resources & Organizational Behavior
3.00
This course provides an overview of individual and group behavior within the context of an organization. The primary objective of the course is the development of each participants potential for becoming an effective member of an organization. The course will follow the basic outline of reviewing organizational behavior in general, examining individual behavior within organizations, investigating group and social processes and analyzing organizational processes Courses content also focuses on developing effective leadership skills, and provides students with the opportunity to begin to form the organizational framework for their proposed Capstone business.
BMT 524
Economics For Managers
3.00
This course will provide students with a general overview of basic economic concepts and their practical application to issues confronting them as managers, business leaders, business owners, employees, voters, and consumers in the marketplace. Throughout this course, students will practice the economic way of thinking by analyzing both micro and macro economic concerns of society as a whole. 3 Credits
BMT 538
Accounting For Managers
3.00
A study of financial statement preparation and analysis, accounting information systems and accounting principles as they apply to managers with emphasis placed on operations, investing and financial functions within the enterprise.
BMT 539
Legal Environment of Business, Goverment and Society
3.00
The law consists of rules that regulate the conduct of individuals, businesses, and other organizations within society. It is intended to protect persons and their property from unwanted interference from others. In other words, the law forbids persons from engaging in certain undesirable activities.
Law, in its generic sense, is a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority, and having binging legal force. That which must be obeyed and followed by citizens subject to sanctions or legal consequences is a law.
This course focus is that the legal environment of business and government, as well as business and society, takes an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility, and management. The material in this course is focused on the managerial issues confronting executives as they plan , organize, staff, and controll operations of a company.
BMT 545
Managerial Ethics
3.00
This course is designed to immerse the student in organizational ethical decision-making processes and issues, as well as an introduction to basic leadership theory and its role in ethical decision-making within organizations. This course is designed as an application-oriented ethics course.
BMT 552
Business Strageties
3.00
This course will help train the student to perceive and define problems and/or opportunities important to enterprises and to devise action plans for solutions and implementation. This course emphasizes the need for and execution research activities to answer business questions.
BMT 569
Entrepreneurial Planning and Design
3.00
We are living in a time of extraordinary change. The economic, technological and ecological threat is very clear. U.S. firms must not only design and produce better products and services, but also find innovative ways to market them. This demand challenges the way all firms define marketing management.
Today’s profit and non-profit firms face incredible challenges as they adapt to change. What once was “good enough” now is no longer competitive. What once were unlimited resources now must be used more efficiently. What once was contentment with domestic growth now dictates increased multi-national expansion for survival.
These changes have important implications on the marketing decisions of any organization, including decisions made on design of products and services, on prices, on promotional methods and distribution systems affected by new environmental constraints. This course will address these changes, putting you in the shoes of today’s marketing professional.
BMT 566
Financial Decisions
3.00
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with commonly used financial terminology, obtain a better understanding of the preparation and interpretation of financial statement data and to provide a foundation which will better enable the student to utilize quantitative methods for financial decision making within the firm. By the completion of this class the student will have a completed and final copy of the financial component of their capstone project.
Prerequisite: Finance at the Undergraduate Level
BMT 580
Management Systems
3.00
This course will provide an overall vision, framework and pedagogy to understanding information systems in the workplace. It will provide students an essential core of guiding Information Systems principles to use as they face the career challenges ahead. The application of these principles to solve real-world problems is driven home throughout each class. The ultimate goal of the course is to develop effective, thinking, action-oriented employees by instilling them with principles to help guide their decision making actions. In addition, the course will give students exposure to a number of online Web 2.0 tools. The goal is to allow students the opportunity to experience first hand how these tools could be effective communication devices for collaboration in business today.
BMT 590
Applied Case Project (Business Prj)
3.00
This course represents the capstone course for the MBA-Entrepreneurial Leadership program. The culminating project requires that each student complete and then defend their written business plan and Power Point presentation as critiqued by a panel of business professionals.
Official transcripts (2.5 GPA or higher) mailed from the college/university of which you graduated
You must have 3 hours of accounting, 3 hours of economics, and 3 hours of finance on an undergraduate level. (WWU provides these courses online.)
Your digital classroom. Available anywhere.
William Woods online graduate programs are available to students across the country. From our main campus in Fulton, Missouri and beyond, our online graduates hail from California, Illinois, Kansas, Washington, Arkansas and many more.
William Woods in the real world
94% of our MBA graduates are working or earning an advanced degree. You’ll find them in some amazing positions. Here are some examples:
Mardy Leathers, MBA ‘14 Accelerator & Founding Principal, ICS Advisors
Mardy describes himself as “Elected Official, Policy Wonk, Economic Developer and Planner.” He is the Founding Principal of ICS Advisors, a project management and business advisory firm specializing in financial analysis, business planning and development, M&A, economic planning and forecasting, and social media marketing.
Makele Ndessokia, MBA ’13 Human Resources Director at Missouri Department of Agriculture
Makele has 10 years of federal and state government experience in the area of Human Resources, collaborating with Missouri Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Services, Administrative Hearing Commission, and the Bureau of the Public Debt.
One more thing
It’s not always about being the next Warren Buffett. You may have a unique plan to serve the nonprofit world, or develop a social enterprise that does well by doing good. Bring it to us and see what happens. We’re not just committed to helping you move up the ladder; we are committed to creating pathways and possibilities for the most unique and exceptional career plans to flourish.
Admissions Information
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