Part-time, Evening MBA Specialization Options

Students in the Part-Time, Evening MBA format may customize their MBA by choosing 9 credit hours (3 courses) of electives in one of the following specializations. The list below includes the elective courses available to complete each one.

For full course descriptions, visit business.fsu.edu/MBA-courses.
 

Business Analytics* 

The Business Analytics specialization introduces students to statistical and data management techniques that are used to derive business insights from data. It also provides students with a broad understanding of current analytics tools and techniques, when to use them and how to interpret analytics results in a variety of contexts. 

Courses include: 

  • ISM 5206 Database Development and Management  
  • ISM 5404 Business Intelligence
  • ISM 5428 Knowledge Management 

 

Healthcare Management

The college's newest specialization in Healthcare Management prepares students for business-related aspects of medical industries, including financing, insurance markets, talent acquisition and management, regulations, and legal and ethical principles.

Online courses include:

  • BUL 5605 – Healthcare Law and Ethics
  • MAN 5099 – Healthcare Staffing
  • RMI 5745 – Healthcare Financing

 

Human Resources 

The HR specialization exposes students to the core disciplines of human resource management, preparing knowledgeable and skilled practitioners. The field of HR is about empowering people and workplaces and enabling organizations to maximize their potential. HR professionals work in every industry and can choose from career paths in a wide variety of disciplines, such as talent acquisition, compensation/benefits, training, employee and labor relations, organizational effectiveness, diversity and inclusion, analytics and technology. "HR is a dynamic field that is committed to building a better world of work for all," said Darren Brooks, HR specialization coordinator. For more information, please contact Dr. Brooks.

Choose three courses from the following: 

  • MAN 5305 Personnel and Human Resource Management
  • MAN 5331 Compensation Management 
  • MAN 5351 Training and Development 
  • MAN 5365 Staffing 
  • MAN 5375 HR Analytics 

Note: Part-time MBA students attending in the evenings on campus may choose to pursue an HR specialization; however, these courses are typically offered during the workday.

 

Management Information Systems* 

The MIS specialization introduces students to fundamental concepts about the design, implementation and use of information systems in organizations. It provides students with an understanding of how to use information systems to achieve an organization's strategic objectives. 

Courses are only available online and at the market rate: 

  • ISM 5123 Systems Analysis and Design 
  • ISM 5315 Project Management 
  • ISM 5327 Corporate Information Security 

 

Marketing 

The Marketing specialization builds the high-demand skill set companies seek to successfully create value within an organization. Whether students plan to pursue a career in a service-focused organization or aspire to use big data to inform managerial decisions, the specialization offers a curriculum designed to help students land their dream job. 

Choose three courses from the following: 

  • MAR 5409 Business to Business Sales and Marketing
  • MAR 5625 Marketing Research
  • MAR 5849 Services Marketing
  • MAR 5861 Customer Relationship Management

 

Real Estate 

The Real Estate specialization prepares students for the substantial and growing demand for advanced training in real estate finance and investment. Institutional investors, investment banks, private equity firms, portfolio lenders and other service providers are expanding their opportunities in real estate investment, lending, asset management, valuation, brokerage and other services. These posts offer higher-than-average compensation in the high-growth area of business and financial operations. Recent real estate program graduates have accepted positions at companies such as CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., MetLife Investment Management, Prudential Real Estate Investment, Starwood Capital, USAA Real Estate, Voya Investment Management and Wells Fargo. 

Courses include: 

  • REE 5105 Real Estate Valuation
  • REE 5205 Real Estate Finance
  • REE 5305 Real Estate Investment 

 

Risk Management and Insurance* 

The RMI specialization develops a student's ability to analyze difficult financial, ethical, legal and global issues from different perspectives. It fosters critical thinking and enhances the discipline needed in today's RMI market. This program equips professionals to shape an industry that evolves with the world around it.

Choose one of two tracks of online courses:

Life/Health Track

  • RMI 5257 Data Analytics in Risk Management & Insurance
  • RMI 5136 Employee Benefit Plans
  • RMI 5745 Health Care Financing
  • RMI 5810 Personal Financial Planning

Property/Casualty Track

  • RMI 5### Essentials of Risk and Insurance
  • RMI 5257 Data Analytics in Risk Management and Insurance
  • RMI 5345 Risk Management in the Business Enterprise
  • RMI 5710 Insurance Company Operations

 

 
* MBA specializations in the specialty master's degree disciplines of Business Analytics, Finance, Management Information Systems and Risk Management and Insurance will require prior approval from that program's director.

Part-time MBA students attending in the evenings on campus may choose full-time elective courses and specializations; however, these are typically offered during the workday. Joint MBA degrees with the colleges of Law or Social Work do not have specializations. FSU's MBA diplomas do not note specializations, but graduates are encouraged to share their earned expertise on their resumes and digital profiles for professional networking websites such as LinkedIn.