International Master of Business Administration
Learn international management theories and techniques
The International Master of Business Administration of Stratford University aims to help managers gain a distinct advantage in their profession, whether they are in industrial, financial, global, government or non-profit institutions. To achieve this goal, Stratford University offers a broad-based program curriculum which hopes to strike a balance between technical training and practical problem-solving that is founded on current management theories and approaches. It is complemented by case analyses, company/industry studies, business games and other experiential learning methods. If you want to earn your degree in international business administration, request more information about our International Master of Business Administration program.
A conscious effort has been made to develop a curriculum responsive to the unique features of global environments. Our International Business Administration college degree helps students engage in an intensive study in current management concepts and techniques through a core curriculum covering the functional areas in business as well analytical decision making. MBA students gain added functional expertise by selecting specialization courses.
Business Focus:
- Finance
- Information Technology and E-Commerce
- Global Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
International MBA Program Requirements and Online Options
Students can complete our international business program through classroom instruction at our locations in Virginia, online instruction through our online MBA school, or a combination of both.
| Credits Required | Number of Classes |
|---|
| Core Component |
45 |
10 |
| Electives |
9 |
2 |
| Total Required for Graduation |
54 |
12 |
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Core Requirements
Research Methods
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course focuses on methods for the conduct of research and development projects. Specifically, students learn about the scientific method, as well as research/design requirements and objectives. Course work involves qualitative, quantitative, and case studies; performance metrics; design procedures and control; sources of error and bias. In addition, evaluation tools and formal validation methods are discussed. Prerequisite: None.
EBM502
Research Methods
4.5
Organizational Behavior
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course analyzes both the formal and informal aspects of the management process. Topics include: human behavior in an organizational environment, individual behavior patterns, superior/subordinate relationships, group dynamics, communication, motivation and decision-making, and the impact of innovation and change on the organization. Prerequisite: None.
EBM504
Organizational Behavior
4.5
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course focuses on an integrative approach to organizational concepts, management principles, and the effects of leadership styles and human resource policies and practices on organizational performance in a global and competitive work environment. Prerequisite: None.
EBM505
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise I
4.5
Business Law
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the legal environment in which businesses operate. In particular, torts, contracts, government regulation, types of businesses and formulation of companies are covered. This course also considers topics related to legal concepts of commercial transactions. Specifically addressed are: collection of debts, sale of goods (warranties, product liability), secured transactions and bankruptcy. Prerequisite: None.
EBM530
Business Law
4.5
IT & Corporate Transformation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines how organizations are dependent on information technology not only for management of operations, but more also as a key enabler of competitive advantage. Also examined is the growth in corporate spending on IT components such as hardware, software, telecommunications, and for information systems (IS) personnel. Specific topics to be discussed include strategic planning for IT activities and projects, project-level planning and management, the role of the IT leader or chief information officer, and achieving the balance between insourcing and outsourcing of various IS functions. Prerequisite: None.
EBM535
IT & Corporate Transformation
4.5
International Managerial Accounting
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents generally accepted accounting principles which are used by other countries and the United States to report financial information to global users. The course familiarizes the student with the knowledge needed to analyze and interpret consolidated financial statements that are presented by local, multinational, and transnational corporations. The course content includes international accounting regulations and practices, as well as some of the current research on the application of worldwide accounting standards. Prerequisite: None.
EBM562
International Managerial Accounting
4.5
International Economics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines key dimensions of the global economy and global economics, including international business opportunities and risks, trade theory and policy, the balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate systems and risks, and international payment systems. The role of multinational corporations and elements of international corporate strategies and direct investment are also covered. Students are required to follow current events in the global economy and discuss how these events impact managerial decision-making. Prerequisite: None.
EBM572
International Economics
4.5
Corporate Finance
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course is an in-depth analysis of financial considerations relating to maximizing the value of a corporation. It examines the setting of financial and corporate goals in terms of maximizing shareholders' equity, optimal financing policy and relationships among dividend policy, debt levels, capital costs, return on investments, and growth. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM558
Corporate Finance
4.5
Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of financial management, with an emphasis on analysis of financial decisions pertinent to management of a business firm. The course identifies the responsibilities of financial managers, financial problems facing firms, and the various approaches to financial decision making. Specific topics covered include capital acquisition, working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation theories, and dividend and long-term financial policies. Prerequisite: EBM560 or EBM562.
EBM610
Financial Management
4.5
Managerial International Business
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course explores the issues which face managers when operating in international environments. The course exposes students to strategic and operational aspects of international business management. Topics include: an overview of global management; cultural, legal, and political influences on international management; international trade and investment; transnational operations and marketing; international human resource management; cross-cultural communication and decision-making; international strategies; and organizing international enterprises. Prerequisite: None.
EBM642
Managerial International Business
4.5
International MBA Capstone
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This capstone course provides the International MBA student the opportunity to draw upon their education and experience in the major to further their understanding of issues of critical importance to the administration and development of business in a global economy. In this course students discuss current complex business problems and enduring issues and cases found in international business management studies and provide scholarly analysis to defend positions and recommendations. Prerequisite: This course must be taken in the final quarter of enrollment, but may be taken along with another course which will led to the completion gof the program.
EBM692
International MBA Capstone
4.5
Finance Specialization
Int'l Money, Banking, & Financial Market
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course explores the role that international finance markets play in the business environment. Students study principles and applications of international financial markets and their impact on the world economy. The course also addresses currency exchange mechanisms in theory and practice, including international monetary systems; offshore financial markets and currency risk management, including interest rate and currency futures, options, and swaps. Prerequisite: None.
EBM590
Int'l Money, Banking, & Financial Market
4.5
Int'l Managerial Financial Decision Mkng
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course discusses the theory and practice of international managerial finance decision-making,
emphasizing the impacts of long- and short term uses and sources of funds on the firm’s value. Students learn to evaluate international business opportunities, compare financial alternatives, and identify and solve problems related to the use of funds. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM622
Int'l Managerial Financial Decision Mkng
4.5
International Financial Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides theories and concepts that form the basis for financial decision making. Topics included advanced case studies in financial management, including: working capital policy, capital budgeting, financing with debt and equity, project finance, dividend policy, valuation, and investment banking in the contexts of private equity, venture capital, initial public offering, leveraged buyout, and management buyout. Topics also include hedging and risk management. Prerequisite: EBM558 or EBM610.
EBM627
International Financial Management
4.5
IT and e-Commerce Specialization
Business Applications over the Internet
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The purpose of this course is to analyze how computer communications, data storage, and data analysis technologies have caused strategic shifts in company operating practices. Students learn that information technology is a tool that can facilitate valuable changes in business processes. This course reviews software that is available for customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, enterprise application integration (EAI), business intelligence (BI), data warehousing, and decision support. The course consists of case studies of successful and unsuccessful e-business process improvement projects. Prerequisite: None.
EBM500
Business Applications over the Internet
4.5
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course presents the state-of-the-art in electronic commerce. Its focus is on the current and future impact of e-commerce on the student’s organization, industry, and professional activities. Specific topics include creating new business opportunities; identifying new customers and additional value in existing customers; realigning the organization for the new environment, addressing contemporary uncertainties, for example, government regulation, taxation, security, privacy, and intellectual property rights; creating a market presence; measuring success, return on investment, and profitability; and sustaining the pace of change through appropriate staffing, hiring, outsourcing, and partnering. Students examine recent successes and failures in e-commerce through case studies and other readings and will develop an e-commerce business plan for their organization. Prerequisite: None.
EBM515
E-Commerce: Business Models & Strategies
4.5
Internet Marketing Strategies
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the student to concepts, tools, and techniques as they apply in business-toconsumer (B2C) and business- to-business (B2B) electronic marketing. Specific topics include: branding and recognition; consumer and organizational behavior in an e-market place; channels and relationship marketing; tools and techniques in the B2B market; and assessment of e-market opportunities. Prerequisite: EBM515.
EBM552
Internet Marketing Strategies
4.5
Project Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course focuses on the effective organization of projects, tracking of costs and time expenditures, management of quality and risks, evaluation of human resources requirements, and the overcoming of potential obstacles. Prerequisite: None.
EBM680
Project Management
4.5
Global Leadership Specialization
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise II
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course is a continuation of EBM505. This course will discuss case studies in leadership and addresses problems that organizations go through because of the leadership flaws. Prerequisite: EBM505.
EBM525
Global Leadership in Bus. Enterprise II
4.5
Corporate Governance
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course introduces the students to corporate governance as a means of ensuring that companies are able to achieve strategic objectives, and to analysis techniques to assess how well companies are performing. Corporate governance is introduced as a system of many components, including regulators, boards of directors, corporate officers, and internal control systems. The course teaches students about specific governance and internal control systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership. Additional topics include leadership development, managerial succession, management and board relations, acquisitions and takeovers, and boardroom conflict. Prerequisite: None.
EBM557
Corporate Governance
4.5
Geopolitics
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the complex and turbulent international environment. A manager requires both a basic conceptual framework that can inform and order political and economic events, and an understanding of how the international political economy actually affects strategy. Geopolitics explores the structure and evolution of the inter national political-economic system, and then looks at several critical issues areas, such as economic and currency unions, technological advances, strategic alliances, and national competitiveness. Current events and issues are introduced as appropriate. The emphasis of the course is on implications for domestic and global strategy. Prerequisite: None.
EBM645
Geopolitics
4.5
Entrepreneurship Specialization
Growth Strategies for Emerging Markets
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines how firms conduct an analysis and select new international markets for entry, how fir ms develop strategies for successfully entering these markets, and how firms manage these markets for growth and subsequent expansion. Prerequisite: None.
EBM662
Growth Strategies for Emerging Markets
4.5
New Venture Creation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
An introduction to the entrepreneurial process from conception to birth of a new venture, attributes of successful entrepreneurs, business planning, innovation and creativity, opportunity recognition, venture screening, identification and financing of resources, staffing, feasibility analysis, marketing, and growing a business into a sustainable enterprise. The course includes case studies of successful and unsuccessful ventures. Prerequisite: None.
EBM670
New Venture Creation
4.5
Int'l Competitive Strategy & Innovation
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines the innovation process, appropriation of economic value from innovation, competition between technologies, strategies for competing against established firms, and management of innovation. Prerequisite: EBM670.
EBM672
Int'l Competitive Strategy & Innovation
4.5
Marketing Specialization
Managerial Marketing & Market Research
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course provides an overview of marketing, with special focus on market research as a means of determining or validating strategy. The course is aimed at the manager, who is the ultimate user of the research and who is responsible for determining the major scope and direction of marketing activities. Techniques of data collection, evaluation of alternative sources of information, methods of evaluating data, and methods of presenting the results are covered. The course also addresses: how to define information needs; how to test marketing procedures; forms of analysis applicable to market research information, and the role of models in decision making. Prerequisite: None.
EBM580
Managerial Marketing & Market Research
4.5
Strategic Business Marketing
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
This course examines marketing variables and marketing strategy in developed and developing countries The importance of differences among nations in language, culture and social forces, politics and laws, values, channels or distribution, and buyer behavior is examined. The course also emphasizes the importance of the marketing orientation in the present global competitive environment and the relationships between marketing and business development and strategy in an international setting. Prerequisite: None.
EBM587
Strategic Business Marketing
4.5
International Marketing Management
Credits:: 4.5
Prerequisites:
The course examines international market segmentation, product attributes, cultural differences, economic differences, differences in product and technical standards, global advertising, and international pricing in transnational business operations. It stresses application of marketing concepts, principles and procedures for planning, development, implementation and control of marketing programs. Course emphasis is on the matching of organization resources and strengths with global marketing opportunities, and strategies to overcome environmental threats. Central to the course is a team project involving the development of a marketing plan for a product or service to be marketed in at least two countries. Prerequisite: EBM587.
EBM650
International Marketing Management
4.5