Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) at William Howard Taft University is designed for professionals who aspire to advance in leadership, enhance their strategic thinking, and broaden their expertise in business operations. This fully online program provides a flexible learning environment tailored to the needs of working professionals, entrepreneurs, and business leaders looking to excel in a competitive marketplace.
The MBA curriculum is built to develop essential skills in management, finance, marketing, and organizational leadership. Whether you’re looking to accelerate your career, transition into a new industry, or start your own business, WHTU’s MBA program offers the tools and insights to achieve your goals.
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A Practical and Flexible Learning Experience
William Howard Taft University’s MBA program balances academic rigor with real-world application, ensuring students gain actionable insights that can be immediately applied in professional settings. Students can choose between two learning modalities—Independent Study for a self-paced experience or Directed Study for structured faculty interaction.
The program culminates in a Capstone Course, allowing students to synthesize their learning through a comprehensive business strategy project. This final component ensures graduates are well-prepared to lead organizations and make data-driven business decisions.
What You'll Learn
The MBA curriculum provides students with a broad knowledge of core business functions, including:
Strategic Leadership and Management
Develop high-level leadership skills to manage teams and drive business success.
Financial Acumen and Economic Analysis
Gain expertise in corporate finance, budgeting, and financial decision-making.
Marketing and Consumer Insights
Understand market dynamics, branding, and customer behavior to build effective business strategies.
Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
Learn how to lead ethically and make decisions that align with corporate governance and sustainability goals.
Curriculum
The MBA curriculum blends advanced business theory with practical, real-world application. Students explore core disciplines such as leadership, finance, marketing, and strategic management, while developing analytical and decision-making skills essential for today’s competitive marketplace. Coursework is designed for flexibility, allowing students to tailor elective selections to their professional goals and areas of interest.
Students may choose one of the following concentrations:
General
Expand your expertise in educational leadership, curriculum design, instructional methods, and classroom management, with strategies adaptable to diverse student needs and learning environments.
Health Care
Gain advanced knowledge in health care education, including curriculum development, instructional delivery, and leadership strategies tailored to medical, nursing, and allied health training programs.
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- General MBA Courses
- MBA in Health Care Administration Courses
Human Resource Management Framework
BUS515 | 3 credits
This course is a concise yet thorough review of essential HR management concepts and strategies focusing on providing students and practicing managers with essential HR management concepts including fundamental practices, methods, topics, and relevant legal findings. The core design is to make the information relevant to managers both within the field of Human Resources and also managers from other fields that need to be familiar with the human resources framework. Each part of the course focuses on how managers strategically use HR practices and technology in today’s business environment, striking a balance between theory and real-world application.
Marketing Management
MKT501 | 3 credits
This course focuses on formulating and implementing marketing management strategies and policies. The marketing management process is important at all levels of the organizations, regardless of the title applied to the activity. Typically, it is called corporate marketing, strategic marketing, or marketing management. For our purposes, they all involve essentially the same process, even though the actors and activities may differ. The course will provide you with a systematic framework for understanding marketing management and strategy.
Managerial Accounting
ACC503 | 3 credits
This course offers a balanced coverage of concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting with a strong emphasis on management issues. The principal course objective is to help the MBA student focus on concepts and managerial uses of accounting information, rather than the techniques of cost accounting.
(Accounting graduates or CPAs may substitute an elective for this course.)
Public Relations
MKT507 | 3 credits
This course presents information about public relations practice, a brief summary of its development, and addresses trends that might predict the future.
The Legal & Regulatory Environment of Business
BLW503 | 3 credits
This course highlights the legal and regulatory environment in which people and companies conduct business activities. It emphasizes public rather than private law.
Managerial Perspectives
MGT501 | 3 credits
This course focuses on managerial careers, development of critical executive and managerial abilities, and the dynamics of organizational environment and systems as they impact managerial progression and work.
Money & Capital Markets
FIN505 | 3 credits
The principal objective of this course is to give students a clearer picture of how the money and capital markets, which now completely circle the globe, function to provide the many services and fulfill the many roles they are expected to perform in today’s world.
Business Research
BUS510 | 3 credits
A fundamental key to successful management is information. Knowing what information is needed, when it is needed, how to collect it, and how to interpret it can be the critical process to success. More than basic decision-making research, managers should be able to demonstrate the capacity to add unique knowledge to the national body of knowledge of business. This course will focus on practical theory and processes that managers can use to assist in the decision-making matrix. It will also provide the foundation for developing the practical projects of each course and the program. The process will include analyzing the information, evaluating the results, and developing a strategy that leadership can implement.
Business Plan
BUS594 | 3 credits
In this course, students develop and present a comprehensive business plan for a real or fictitious business that includes the traditional major topics including the executive summary, market and industry analysis, financing, marketing, management, and staffing.
Capstone
BUS595 | 3 credits
The capstone course allows students to apply the knowledge gained throughout the program to a work-related project. Students work with a faculty member to select an appropriate project and outline the course scope and deliverables. It is expected that the completed project will deliver some business process improved or other benefit or other benefit to the student’s work environment, if possible.
Human Resource Management Framework
BUS515 | 3 credits
This course is a concise yet thorough review of essential HR management concepts and strategies focusing on providing students and practicing managers with essential HR management concepts including fundamental practices, methods, topics, and relevant legal findings. The core design is to make the information relevant to managers both within the field of Human Resources and also managers from other fields that need to be familiar with the human resources framework. Each part of the course focuses on how managers strategically use HR practices and technology in today’s business environment, striking a balance between theory and real-world application.
Marketing Management
MKT501 | 3 credits
This course focuses on formulating and implementing marketing management strategies and policies. The marketing management process is important at all levels of the organizations, regardless of the title applied to the activity. Typically, it is called corporate marketing, strategic marketing, or marketing management. For our purposes, they all involve essentially the same process, even though the actors and activities may differ. The course will provide you with a systematic framework for understanding marketing management and strategy.
Managerial Accounting
ACC503 | 3 credits
This course offers a balanced coverage of concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting with a strong emphasis on management issues. The principal course objective is to help the MBA student focus on concepts and managerial uses of accounting information, rather than the techniques of cost accounting.
(Accounting graduates or CPAs may substitute an elective for this course.)
Public Relations
MKT507 | 3 credits
This course presents information about public relations practice, a brief summary of its development, and addresses trends that might predict the future.
Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
BLW502 | 3 credits
This course presents an overview of the legal issues facing the health care industry. It is a comprehensive and inclusive review of a wide variety of health care legal issues providing students with a realistic knowledge of health law and its application to the real world.
Management Principles for Health Care Professionals
MGT514 | 3 credits
This course is an introduction to the management concepts essential to the understanding of the organizational environment within which the functions of the manager are performed. It includes challenges to assumptions about such concepts as power, authority, influence, and leadership. The course is presented in sufficient detail to enable the practitioner to apply the concepts in day-to-day situations.
Economics of Health & Medical Care
BUS513 | 3 credits
This course provides the student with the elements necessary to apply basic economic principles to the health care field. Emphasis is placed on economic tools of particular relevance to health care, pertinent and systematic insights into the workings of the health care system, and the evaluation of health care policies.
Health Care Finance
FIN503 | 3 credits
This course addresses financial information and the decision-making process, financial environment of health care organizations, strategic financial planning, cost concepts and decision-making, and working capital and cash management.
Strategic Planning for Competitive Advantage
BUS570 | 3 credits
This course focuses on the topic of Strategic Planning and how effective strategic planning is one of the most important steps a company can take in order to build a competitive advantage in the modern marketplace. The course presents a strategic model that represents a comprehensive and effective approach to understanding and executing the strategic planning process in any size organization. The course describes the concepts of competition and competitive advantage, explains the ins and outs of writing a strategic plan and the importance of executing the plan, and provides simulation cases for discussion.
Business Plan
BUS594 | 3 credits
In this course, students develop and present a comprehensive business plan for a real or fictitious business that includes the traditional major topics including the executive summary, market and industry analysis, financing, marketing, management, and staffing.
Capstone
BUS595 | 3 credits
The capstone course allows students to apply the knowledge gained throughout the program to a work-related project. Students work with a faculty member to select an appropriate project and outline the course scope and deliverables. It is expected that the completed project will deliver some business process improved or other benefit or other benefit to the student’s work environment, if possible.
Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to:
Master of Business Administration (General)
PLO1
Apply legal, regulatory, theoretical, ethical, and practical knowledge to operating businesses of varying sizes and structures.
PLO2
Apply legal, theoretical, ethical, and practical knowledge to consulting or operating with healthcare organizations.
PLO3
Evaluate common business and related legal issues and make appropriate decisions and recommendations based on sound research, reasoning, and analysis.
PLO4
Implement procedures focused on various professional practice scenarios based on sound reasoning, analysis, and evaluation of common issues.
PLO5
Make socially responsible and environmentally sustainable choices when designing and implementing business strategies.
PLO6
Author a properly formatted and presented business plan or capstone project.
PLO7
Relate the traits and actions of effective leaders.
PLO8
Identify how to manage individuals and teams effectively in the business environment.
Master of Business Administration (Health Care)
PLO1
Apply legal, regulatory, theoretical, ethical, and practical knowledge to operating businesses of varying sizes and structures.
PLO2
Apply knowledge of the legal, theoretical, ethical, and practical aspects of operating with or consulting to healthcare organizations.
PLO3
Evaluate common business and related legal issues and make appropriate decisions and recommendations based on sound research, reasoning, and analysis.
PLO4
Evaluate common issues and implement procedures focused on professional practice scenarios based on sound reasoning and analysis.
PLO5
Make socially responsible and environmentally sustainable choices when designing and implementing business strategies.
PLO6
Author a properly formatted and presented business plan or capstone project.
Tuition and Admissions
Applicants must have completed prior college coursework to qualify for the degree completion program.
- Tuition Per Credit: $350
- Credits Required: 30
- Total Program Tuition: $10,500
- Learning Modalities: Independent Study and Directed Study
- Program Duration: Can be completed in as little as 12 months, and must be completed within 60 months
Required Course Materials
Each program has a list of required textbooks and resources for its courses. Textbook information, including titles, authors, and ISBNs, is updated regularly to ensure accuracy. Before purchasing materials, we recommend confirming the list with Student Support or reviewing your course syllabus in the e-learning platform.
Resources and Support
At WHTU, your success is supported at every stage of your academic journey. From advising and career planning to writing help and technical support, our student services are designed to meet the unique needs of online learners. Explore the full range of resources available to help you stay on track and reach your goals.
What Sets WHTU’s MBA Apart?
William Howard Taft University’s MBA program is designed to provide a high-value education at an affordable cost. Our emphasis on practical learning ensures that students graduate with skills that translate directly into career advancement. The program’s flexibility allows professionals to balance work, life, and education while earning a respected MBA credential.
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