MBA 507 or equivalent knowledge and HCMT-527
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As the pace and complexity of modern business environments grow, employers recognize the need for a new type of business professional: one who is more agile, reflective, can leverage one's own strengths and those of the team, and uses systems thinking to inform organizational decisions. Take the next step in your career and learn how to strategically affect change and drive organizational results with Champlain's online master's in business administration.
Differentiate Your MBA
You can earn an MBA without a specialized certificate, or differentiate your degree and earn a graduate certificate along the way in a business concentration of your choice. To earn the MBA without a specialized certificate, complete the core courses, as well as Current Issues in Business, Project Management, Managing Risk and then choose from the first course of any of the certificates of specialization.
To earn a specialized certificate to set your MBA apart from others, choose one of the following:
- Business Analytics: Develop the skills needed to organize and explore data, assess the value of information in an organization, and apply business analytics techniques to meet your organization’s objectives. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Fundamentals of Data Management, Analytics Techniques for Business Administration, Decision Making with Business Analytics Administration, and Business Analytics Capstone Administration.
- Employment Law: Develop analytical skills, become an advanced communicator, and learn how to evaluate risk in business scenarios. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Labor Law, and Legal Aspects of Human Resources.
- Health Care Administration: Enhance your healthcare career and gain essential knowledge of healthcare system design and innovation, information systems, finance, law, and project management. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Health Care System Design & Innovation, Health Care Information Systems, Health Care Law, Health Care Project Management & Innovation.
- Human Resource Management: Gain a deeper understanding of the role of human resources in organizational leadership and learn how to use HR functions to advance the mission and strategic goals of an organization. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Human Resources Foundation, Diversity & Creating a Culture of Inclusion, Interpreting Human Resource Data, Coaching in the Workplace.
- Information Security Risk Management: Learn to assess, categorize, and manage information security risks in organizations to distinguish threats from vulnerabilities. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Information Technology and Security, Managing Risk in IT Organizations, Security Design & Architecture, and Security Regulations and Compliance Management.
- Leadership: Establish yourself as an effective leader to successfully promote change in organizations, collaborate with diverse groups of people, and consider new perspectives to work toward a common goal. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: The Leadership Ecosystem, Communication in an Environment of Open Organizations, Leading for Transformation Through Relationships, Shared Leadership and the Strengths Advantage.
- Positive Organization Development: Become a more effective champion of positive change within your organization and gain a foundation in the philosophies, theories, applications, and practices of positive organization development. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Foundations of Positive Organizational Development, Creating Cultures of Wellbeing, Advanced Applications of Appreciative Inquiry, Strength Based Assessment & Analysis Methods.
Build Your Career Future
Global organizations, corporations, nonprofits, and small businesses rely on educated business professionals to deploy advanced business practices and systems thinking to achieve organizational success. With a valuable combination of business acumen, subject matter expertise, and the critical soft-skills of communication and collaboration needed in leadership roles, graduates of Champlain's master of business administration online program will be prepared to pursue career paths in the fields of their choice.
Champlain's online MBA program is designed to provide a framework for today's business professionals to think more critically, work more collaboratively, and approach complex workplace challenges more holistically. You'll emerge from the program with a systems-thinking mindset, the ability to approach modern business challenges with confidence, and will be prepared to lead in a variety of roles in a dynamic organization.
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Academic Excellence and Recognition
Regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Ranked among the Best MBA Programs in Vermont by University Headquarters
Designated as a Military Friendly School for our commitment to the military community
Named the Best Online Bachelor's Programs by U.S. News & World Report
What Can You Do With an MBA?
Master's degrees from accredited online MBA programs are in high demand in the business world, and employment in master’s-level occupations is projected to grow by 15% from 2019 to 2029. A master's degree also pays off: the median salary for professionals with a master's degree is $78,210.*
Learn more about what you can do with an MBA in our blog post, The Top MBA Specializations in Hot Demand.
*Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2020; job titles: Monster, 2020
Top Jobs for MBA Graduates
- Chief Executive Officer
- Management Consultant
- Senior Product Manager
- Marketing Director
- IT Director
- Chief Financial Officer
- Business Development Director
- Operations Manager
- Senior Financial Analyst
Program Details
Learn more about Champlain's 100% online MBA program, designed for working professionals.
MBA Course Descriptions
Champlain's online MBA courses encompass the top skills needed by today's business professionals.
Professional Courses (24-27 Credits)*
Specialization Courses (12 Credits)
* Some essential knowledge is required prior to admission to the MBA program. During your application process it will be determined if you meet all requirements; Students who already meet them will be waived from MBA 507 and will earn a 36 credit MBA. Those who do not meet all the requirements must complete MBA 507 to acquire the foundational knowledge necessary to be successful in core classes, and will earn a 39 credit MBA.
MBA Required Courses
This course introduces MBA students to the theories, context, and managerial value of financial and management accounting. The role of accountants, the accounting equation, the accounting cycle, and financial reporting will be presented. The use of relevant accounting data to analyze internal operating decisions, allocate scarce resources, and assess overall firm health will be emphasized. This course is designed to provide specific skills for the workplace as well as showcase the accounting function as an important foundational framework for the pursuit of advanced business education.
The world is increasingly characterized by diversity and an integrated economy. Balancing the business opportunities and risks associated with dynamic and uncertain global changes is critical to effective leadership in this global economy. Leaders must learn how to integrate their understanding of culture, ethics, economic and policial issues into their decision making and strategy development.
Throughout history, technology provided opportunities for innovation, resulting in changes in business and society at a global scale. These technologies often disrupted business policies and processes, impacting jobs and organizational structures. Students examine how technological innovation is experienced in society and viewed over time and into the future by business people, philosophers, and sociologists. Students explore the question, How do we imagine that business, society and our place within will be affected as technology continues to advance?
Students learn organization analysis from a holistic perspective. Financial reports and financial ratios are the basis for traditional organizational analysis and builds from that foundation into the analysis of customer, supplier and employee metrics. Focus is on the Balanced Scorecard and other holistic approaches.
Prerequisites
Students use a framework to explore the dynamics of human interaction within and between organizations. Throughout the course, they will use a perspective that a key function of management is to negotiate for resources and use that perspective to develop collaborative relationships with employees, vendors, suppliers, and interested communities.
Students explore the development and execution of an innovative and imaginative business strategy for the future. They consider answers to questions, such as How do you identify an opportunity for a new business that meets an otherwise unmet need? What happens when an organization fails to change when faced with a challenge to their traditional model? What are the processes that organizations use to keep themselves focused on changing stakeholder requirements and needs?
Communities look to business to have a positive impact on the world through their actions, so organizations are changing the way they do business. Mission-driven for-profit organizations are examining their HR policies, supply chains, organizational structures, marketing and even finance as they adapt to purpose-driven business models. Students explore what it means to be a purpose-driven organization by examining new business models, and the fundamental changes and challenges an organization experiences when they view business through a multidimensional lens.
Explore concepts and frameworks for how to lead effectively in today's ever-changing world. Using an integrative reflective practice approach, students examine their own approach to leadership and create an initial plan for their own leadership development, as well as the leadership development opportunities for their organization.
This course is built around a project that is designed to apply, in a comprehensive manner, the core areas of knowledge around which the MBA has been built. The project may be performed for a current employer, a sponsoring workplace or as an internship as either a service-learning project for a qualifying nonprofit organization or another organization of the student's choosing.
Prerequisites
The MBA 590 Capstone course must be taken only after all other courses in the program have been completed.
To Earn an MBA Without a Specialization, Complete the Following:
Students will complete in-depth research of current issues by exploring political, organizational, global perspectives, or other dimensions of a topic. After examining diverse points of view and critically evaluating them, students will present their own perspective on the issue.
Prerequisites
Students must complete at least 21 credits in the MBA program.
This course is designed to introduce a systematic process for planning, organizing and controlling projects. The course will present a practical methodology for completing projects more quickly with fewer problems. Student work will consist of readings, research, class special-topic presentations, group activities, a project management journal, and participation in a real world IT business project. Students will be encouraged to apply project-management techniques to solve existing real-world technology-related business problems.
Organizations use the word risk in many contexts. Using an integrative perspective, students investigate operational, geopolitical and reputational risks, as well as those from the vagaries of nature and how the willingness to take risks can vary across both organizations and geography. Students consider how to minimize internal risks and how to prepare for external ones. Through the lens of organizational culture, students also explore the impact on organizations when employees are encouraged to be innovative and creative by taking risks.
Plus choose the first course of any of the Graduate Certificates, including:
This course covers the foundations of Data Management for Business Analytics. Students examine and explore the value of information, as an asset and as a liability, and organize and assess its value in an information- driven organization dealing with the challenges of Big Data, Open Data and privacy protection legislation.
This course offers an overview of fundamental areas of employment law. Topics include job discrimination and related laws, labor law and labor relations, plant and job safety, public officers and employees, employee contracts, self-employment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, non-competition agreements, workers' compensation, unemployment obligations, and personnel issues such as drug testing, lie detectors, whistle-blowing, and wrongful discharge.
Students learn about the U.S. health care system, including the government's role in the industry, cost and quality issues, managed care, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory issues, profit vs. non-profit care, the role of technology, and then compare it to international health care systems. Students will begin to conceptualize new models of delivery through analysis of barriers to process improvement and the use of design thinking and analytics. Students will appraise development, implementation and management of system components.
To gain a foundation for the Human Resource certificate, students take a macro-view of the field and examine the role of an HR department as a critical strategic business partner within the organization. Students integrate concepts and current workplace issues, including using new technologies in the field; the need for a broader understanding of business and culture; and how to build and support agile teams that work effectively.
Students will develop an understanding of the components of information systems and their relationships by acquiring knowledge on a variety of foundational information technology and security topics, including computing hardware, operating systems, and applications and their development. Different types of networks, topologies, and protocols are covered in an accelerated fashion to prepare students for successful completion of their desired program(s) and analysis of basic network communications.
Explore concepts and frameworks for how to lead effectively in today's ever-changing world. Using an integrative reflective practice approach, students examine their own approach to leadership and create an initial plan for their own leadership development, as well as the leadership development opportunities for their organization.
Positive Organization Development (POD) is the intentional approach to change that emphasizes what elevates and inspires individuals and organizations. Whereas traditional approaches to change have focused on identifying and improving breakdowns and deficits within organizations, POD seeks to uncover positive deviance and assets and accelerate successes within a system. While not ignoring problems, students will explore how to create optimal organizational states by drawing upon the theory and science of Appreciative Inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, positive psychology, and sustainable enterprises.
Earn a general MBA, or you can opt to differentiate your degree and earn a graduate certificate along the way in a business concentration of your choice:
- Business Analytics: Develop the skills needed to organize and explore data, assess the value of information in an organization, and apply business analytics techniques to meet your organization’s objectives. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Fundamentals of Data Management, Analytics Techniques for Business Administration, Decision Making with Business Analytics Administration, and Business Analytics Capstone Administration.
- Employment Law: Develop analytical skills, become an advanced communicator, and learn how to evaluate risk in business scenarios. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Labor Law, and Legal Aspects of Human Resources.
- Health Care Administration: Enhance your healthcare career and gain essential knowledge of healthcare system design and innovation, information systems, finance, law, and project management. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Health Care System Design & Innovation, Health Care Information Systems, Health Care Law, Health Care Project Management & Innovation.
- Human Resource Management: Gain a deeper understanding of the role of human resources in organizational leadership and learn how to use HR functions to advance the mission and strategic goals of an organization. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Human Resources Foundation, Diversity & Creating a Culture of Inclusion, Interpreting Human Resource Data, Coaching in the Workplace.
- Information Security Risk Management: Learn to assess, categorize, and manage information security risks in organizations to distinguish threats from vulnerabilities. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Information Technology and Security, Managing Risk in IT Organizations, Security Design & Architecture, and Security Regulations and Compliance Management.
- Leadership: Establish yourself as an effective leader to successfully promote change in organizations, collaborate with diverse groups of people, and consider new perspectives to work toward a common goal. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: The Leadership Ecosystem, Communication in an Environment of Open Organizations, Leading for Transformation Through Relationships, Shared Leadership and the Strengths Advantage.
- Positive Organization Development: Become a more effective champion of positive change within your organization and gain a foundation in the philosophies, theories, applications, and practices of positive organization development. Complete the MBA core courses, plus the following: Foundations of Positive Organizational Development, Creating Cultures of Wellbeing, Advanced Applications of Appreciative Inquiry, Strength Based Assessment & Analysis Methods.
In addition to developing advanced communication and analytical skills, and a strategic mindset, graduates of the MBA online program will demonstrate a mastery of the following industry-specific competencies:
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Analyze leader actions for self-awareness; emotional, social and cultural intelligences; and/or strength- based approaches leading to change in organizations.
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Formulate an opinion or conclusion using an approach that includes questioning one's own assumptions, reasoning through logic, and considering diverse points of view, utilizing both primary and secondary research.
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Communicate with diverse groups and individuals, including internal and external parties in a way that shares knowledge and meaning.
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Ethically influence and lead others to maximize their efforts toward the achievement of a goal through collaboration and teamwork.
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Develop potential business-related strategies and positions through original and divergent thinking as well as synthesis of existing ideas reflecting a willingness to embrace change.
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Generate solutions to business-related problems using the appropriate technology and then clearly communicate the findings.
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Influence decisions through the organization, analysis, and communication of numeric and statistical data.
In addition to the admission requirements for all graduate program applicants, our online accredited MBA program has specific requirements that must be met.
Work Experience Requirement for Healthcare Administration Specialization Applicants:
If you are planning to complete the Health Care Administration Certificate for the MBA, you are expected to have a minimum of 2 years experience or current employment in a healthcare setting with opportunities for applying new skills in the health care field.
Business or Management Bachelor's Degree Requirement
If your bachelor's degree is not in business or management you may be required to successfully complete MBA-507: Survey of Accounting for Managers. Those who meet that requirement will earn a 36 credit MBA, those who do not will need to complete MBA 507 will earn a 39 credit MBA.
Do you have a demonstrated proficiency in this area? Provide proof of one or more of the following with your admission package to be evaluated by our Program Director:
- Previous college coursework in financial accounting
- Professional certifications in financial accounting
- On the job training
Champlain College Online's business faculty, led by Program Director Dr. Linda Miller, are expert practitioners in the field. Their industry expertise ensures that our MBA curriculum is aligned with the needs of employers, and reflects the skills today’s business professionals need for success. Classes led by our seasoned experts will give you real-world insight into the field and create a rich community of career-focused learning.
Alumni of the Champlain College Online MBA program work in corporations, small businesses, government organizations, and non-profits nationwide, including:
- Alliance Bank
- Ben & Jerry's
- Burton Snowboards
- Cabot Creamery
- City of Burlington
- Collins Aerospace
- Dealer.com/Cox Automotive
- Deloitte
- Fidelity Investments
- GE Healthcare
- Internal Revenue Service
- JP Morgan Chase
- Keurig Dr. Pepper
- MetLife
- Mylan Technologies
- National Life Group
- Northrop Grumman
- People's United Bank
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- University of Vermont Health Network
- UTC Aerospace Systems
Titles our alumni hold include:
- Accountant
- Auditor
- Business Administrator
- Business Analyst
- Chief Engineer
- Chief of Staff
- Chief Operating Officer
- Claims Specialist
- Consultant
- Contract Specialist
- Financial Analyst
- Financial Manager
- Global Inventory Planner
- HR Specialist
- IT Auditor
- Management Analyst
- Program Analyst
- Program Officer
- Quality Assurance Analyst
- Sr. Software Engineering Manager
- Underwriting Analyst
Increasing your career mobility is at the center of everything we do. As an online master's degree student, you get free access to the Fast Start Formula Career Bundle for getting noticed and getting hired, taught by Jen Morris, a leading executive career coach that partners with us to support our students in their job search journeys.
Tuition & Costs
Online Graduate Tuition Fall '22 - Summer '23
$795
Per Credit
$2,385*
Per 3-Credit Course
$435
Per Credit Military Service Members (family members see truED Tuition)
$150
One-Time Graduation Fee
Tuition & Costs
Graduate Tuition Fall '23 - Summer '24
$595
per credit
$1,785*
per course
$450
per credit military service members (family members see truED tuition)
$150
One-time graduation fee
*Based on a 3-credit course; cost will vary if course is a different number of credits
Affordability
Cost shouldn't be a barrier to going back to school. We provide a number of options to make your online education affordable.
Meet the Program Director
Linda Miller
PhD CPA
Program Director
- Accounting (A.S., B.S., Certificates)
- Human Relations and Organization Development (M.S.)
- Integrated Studies (B.S.)
- MBA
- Positive Organization Development (Certificate)
About
Linda Miller, PhD, CPA, is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Champlain College Online. She is responsible for the online accounting and integrated studies programs, as well as the MBA and master's in human relations and organization development programs. Following 12 years in accounting, business, and consulting positions, Dr. Miller has spent over 20 years in higher education at a variety of schools, including Bucknell University, the University of Vermont, and Pennsylvania State University, where she also taught in the executive education programs.
With an education focus primarily in adult and online education, Dr. Miller has enjoyed developing a wide variety of online certificates and degrees in business-related areas, including supply chain management and leadership. Dr. Miller continues to research best practices in online teaching and learning and to create opportunities for Champlain College Online instructors to develop their online teaching skills. Other specific areas of interest for Dr. Miller include the impact of technology on supply chains and the effective teaching of transformational leadership.
Dr. Miller holds an M.S. in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in Business Management (School of Supply Chain Management) from the same. She is a member of the International Leadership Association and the Society of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
Why Champlain
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"Champlain provides dynamic programs that correlate to real-world scenarios and provide the flexibility you need to execute your day-to-day job. I'm thankful I earned my MBA because my career would not be where it is today if I hadn't."
Randy Blanchette
Master in Business Administration (MBA)
Program Manager, United Technologies Aerospace Systems
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