The primary goal of the Master of Business Administration for Professionals program at King College is to prepare students to be effective strategic leaders and managers. The goal is to assist students to directly integrate management research, theoretical constructs, skills, abilities, and ethical practices within their own contemporary-professional situation. The primary emphasis of the MBA program at King College is directed towards managing for quality results. The MBA curriculum adopts and implements three creative components: a team-based learning model, a fully integrated curriculum, and a transformational learning experience for personal and professional skill development.  It also allows the opportunity to specialize in one of four areas: Finance, Health Care Administration, Human Resource Management, or Marketing.

The MBA for Professionals program at King College is a non-traditional program that serves adults who have completed their Bachelor's degree and who possess at least two years of significant work experience. The MBA program is a 36-hour program.

Program Outcomes

MBA program graduates will be prepared to meet the following competency outcomes:

• Manage in a multitude of organizations, whether products or service based, for-profit or not-for-profit, utilizing advanced management knowledge, philosophy, skills, and theory.
• Apply a global, "holistic," and systems-oriented approach to managing which incorporates organizational behavior and theory, leadership, strategy, marketing, accounting, ethics, quantitative methods, economic and financial analysis, and decision-making.
• Lead and serve with integrity and moral responsibility.
• Think critically about the domestic, global, and multicultural perspectives associated with management and to assess how such perspectives reflect a dynamic worldview that embraces the highest standards of ethical practice.
• Grow in an environment which enables knowledge to be acquired that enriches spiritual, intellectual, and professional development.
• Synthesize intellectual endeavors and management skills in a rapidly changing environment.
• Continue a life-long love of learning.

This program is different from a traditional program in several respects:

Team-Based Structure

Students are enrolled in a small group (usually 20-25 in size).

Accelerated Pace

For the 16 month program, students are enrolled in one class at a time and attend class only one night a week for 12 months with the final 4 months online. Courses are completed in five weeks. Each weekly class session is four hours long. Three factors make it possible for the program to function effectively at an accelerated pace:

• The common goal orientation of the students.
• The cohesiveness and continuity of the cohort structure.
• The participative, pedagogical teaching methodology, which assumes the students are self-directed, goal-oriented, and interested in applied learning.

Applied Learning

Throughout the modular course work, students are required to integrate theory and academic content with knowledge from their work experiences. Evaluation of students' progress is based not only on evidence of their grasp of content but also upon their reflections about the application of the content in their workplace.

Participative Methodology

The primary role of the instructor in the non-traditional Master program is that of facilitator. The lecture approach is used only in a limited way. Students are expected to spend 15 to 20 hours each week acquiring information from textbooks, web-enhanced activities, and work-related assignments. Class time is given over, largely, to the processing of information. The teacher functions as a facilitator in a learner-centered rather than a teacher-centered environment.

Laptop Requirement

The MBA program requires a laptop with Microsoft Office 2007 and wireless capability.