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MBA in Management Online

Upgrade your business credentials when you earn this online Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Management degree. Elevate your managerial expertise with cutting-edge coursework that combines advanced cognitive theories and practical leadership skills.

Next Apply Date: 12/15/25
Next Class Start Date: 1/12/26
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Next Apply Date: 12/15/25
Next Class Start Date: 1/12/26

Program Overview

Focus on your future with our MBA – Management online

Prepare to effectively manage all business sectors in any corporation with a 100% online MBA with a Concentration in Management. You will improve your ability to navigate your organization’s unique structural, environmental and international influences. Tailor this degree to your personal interests and professional goals when you choose three specialized electives.

In this AACSB-accredited program, you will examine leadership through relevant socioeconomic, psychological and strategic perspectives while also learning about the nuances of ethical and data-driven decision-making in the modern business world. At A-State Online, world-class faculty will help you fortify your business foundations and strengthen your managerial skillsets, so you can stand out in a competitive workforce.

In this 100% online MBA – Management program, you will learn how to:

  • Examine practical implications for managing dynamic organizations
  • Develop leadership skills and examine leadership theories and applications
  • Understand the ways individuals and teams work in organizations, with a special emphasis on practical applications for managers
In this 100% online MBA – Management program, you will learn how to:+
  • Examine practical implications for managing dynamic organizations
  • Develop leadership skills and examine leadership theories and applications
  • Understand the ways individuals and teams work in organizations, with a special emphasis on practical applications for managers

As a graduate of this MBA with a Concentration in Management program, you will be prepared for advancement into roles such as:

  • Business Unit Director
  • Project Manager
  • Human Resources Director
  • Business Consultant
  • Entrepreneur
As a graduate of this MBA with a Concentration in Management program, you will be prepared for advancement into roles such as:+
  • Business Unit Director
  • Project Manager
  • Human Resources Director
  • Business Consultant
  • Entrepreneur
+

Also available:

A-State offers a variety of MBA programs in a convenient online format. Explore our full range of online MBA programs.

Total Tuition: $17,292
Program Duration: As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 33

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Tuition

Our affordable tuition is designed for working professionals

Our online MBA with a Concentration in Management program offers the same affordable tuition to all U.S. residents. All fees are included. Tuition may be subject to change on a yearly basis.

Tuition breakdown:

Per Credit Hour: $524
Total Tuition: $17,292

Calendar

Dates and deadlines to keep in mind

Ideal for working professionals, Arkansas State online programs are delivered in an accelerated format with multiple start dates each year.

Please note Summer 1 and Summer 2 terms are 5 weeks in duration for this program.

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TermProgram Start DateApplication DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlinePayment DueLast Class Day
Spring 11/12/2612/15/2512/15/251/8/261/9/262/27/26
Spring 23/9/262/23/262/23/263/5/263/6/265/1/26

Now enrolling:

Next Apply Date 12/15/25
Start Class 1/12/26

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Admissions

Follow these streamlined online application steps

A-State Online offers a streamlined admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. To be admitted to the MBA online program, you must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Admission Requirements:

  • Online application
  • Bachelor's degrees
  • Cumulative GPA 2.5
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  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university with at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA or a 2.75 in the last 60 hours (undergraduate, graduate or combination thereof) or graduate or post-baccalaureate professional degree from a regionally accredited (U.S.) institution
  • If you have lower than a 2.5 cumulative GPA and less than a 2.75 in the last 60 hours, you may still apply for consideration for admittance by including a statement of purpose as part of the application. Please contact an Enrollment Services representative at 866-621-8096 for more information.

Note: If you are admitted and have less than a 2.75 cumulative GPA and less than a 3.0 GPA in the last 60 hours, you must make a grade of B or better in each course during the first 9 hours of graduate work at Arkansas State University as part of a conditional admission status. Additionally, you will only be allowed to enroll in one course (or 3 graduate hours) per 7-week session for the first two sessions.

Application submission requirements

  • Complete online application
  • Submit a nonrefundable $30 fee.
  • Have official transcript(s) sent from the registrar of the college/university attended. Official transcripts are sealed transcripts sent from the granting institution.

Submit all documents to:

A-State Online
P.O. Box 2520
State University, AR 72467


Fax: 870-972-3548
Email: [email protected]

For non-U.S. postal mail overnight delivery only:

A-State Online
c/o Central Receiving
2713 Pawnee St.
Jonesboro, AR 72401

Nationally Recognized Online MBA

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Courses

Look over the degree plan for our online MBA general management

To graduate from the MBA with a Concentration in Management online program, you must complete a total of 33 credit hours. Required coursework includes eight core courses (for a total of 24 credit hours) and three management electives (for a total of nine credit hours).

Visit the Course Registration page to view the course schedule for this degree.

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Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The course is an introduction to the concepts of cost analysis and management control with a focus on the application of the conceptual framework of financial and managerial accounting to practical situations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is a complete survey of price theory as applied to business decision-making and a summary of public policy toward business.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines organization, policy, administration, institutions, and instruments involved in financing the modern business corporation. Quantitative financial relations are measured and expressed. Financial plans are prepared for corporations in different industries and in different stages of the business cycle. Financial management appraised and business judgment developed through short problem and case methods.

What is corporate financial management?

Corporate financial management makes strategic decisions about capital budgeting, capital structure, working capital, and dividend policy. It applies valuation methods, assesses financial risks, and allocates resources to maximize shareholder wealth. This discipline balances investment opportunities with financing strategies and operational funding needs.

This course explores capital budgeting, capital structure, working capital management, and dividend policy decisions. You'll apply valuation methods, assess financial risks, and develop strategies to maximize shareholder wealth. Through case analysis and financial modeling, you will practice making decisions that balance investment opportunities with financing needs across different industries and business cycles.

Upon completion, students will be able to:

Apply quantitative and qualitative knowledge to solve problems and make decisions

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The course focuses on the essentials of core business functions with an emphasis on integrating applied business statistics, economics, financial accounting, and corporate finance. This course ensures that students have the required business acumen to succeed in the graduate business core.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the practice and principles of project management. Topics include identifying and selecting projects, developing project proposals, sequencing workflows, estimating project duration, and budgeting.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is an integrated capstone course focusing on the role of management in crafting and implementing strategy to achieve fit between an organization and its environment. An action-based approach involves student teams in developing and presenting strategic plans for public, private, profit and not for profit organizations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces MBA students to the basic tools in using data to make informed management decisions. This course presents a normative approach to making decisions in one’s personal and professional life. It covers optimization, linear programming, simulation, business modeling, data mining and business intelligence.

What is business analytics?

Business analytics transforms data into actionable insights through descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive methods. It includes statistical analysis, forecasting models, optimization techniques, and data visualization. This discipline supports data-driven management decisions by identifying patterns, forecasting outcomes, and recommending strategic actions.

This course will develop your quantitative skills for data-driven decision-making in business contexts. Learn to use optimization methods to find the best solutions for resource allocation problems, apply simulation techniques to model complex scenarios under uncertainty, and leverage data mining tools to extract insights from business data.

Upon completion, students will be able to:

Articulate the strategic role of analytics, differentiate between spreadsheets and relational databases and set up a professional analytics environment using Python, R and SQL

Design relational databases, write advanced SQL queries and explain data warehouse architecture

Apply statistical methods and data visualization techniques to summarize business data and communicate insights

Build and evaluate predictive models including regression, forecasting and classification

Formulate business problems using optimization and simulation to recommend strategic actions

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the concepts and processes for gaining competitive advantage in the marketplace. Students will investigate and develop strategies relating to the escalating importance of providing customer satisfaction, responses to diversity in the marketplace, development of new products, and recognition of the challenges from global competition.

What is strategic marketing?

Strategic marketing develops market-driven strategies through environmental analysis, segmentation, targeting, and positioning. It creates competitive advantages through differentiation, brand management, and value creation. This discipline aligns marketing initiatives with corporate objectives while building long-term customer relationships and measuring performance.

This course builds strategic marketing capabilities through environmental analysis, market segmentation, and competitive positioning. You will develop differentiation strategies and brand management approaches to address customer satisfaction, diverse market needs, product innovation, and global competitive pressures.

Upon completion, students will be able to:

Speak and interpret marketing language

Recognize and evaluate marketing strategies

Examine the influences behind observed marketing strategies

Objectively evaluate and create marketing strategies

Develop creativity and empathy in storytelling

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines organizations as interdependent systems, stressing structural, environmental, and international considerations using theories and perspec­tives from sociology, economics, psychology, and strategic management. Stresses practical impli­cations for managing dynamic organizations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Designed to introduce students to the ways individuals and teams work in organizations, with a special emphasis on practical applica­tions for managers. The objective is to improve students’ abilities to diagnose, analyze, and take effective action in their organizational work.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Leadership theories and their applications are examined. Development of leadership skills is emphasized. Prerequisites: Must have completed 15 hours of graduate courses toward degree.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The Human Resource Management Function with emphasis on the development of business structures, policies and techniques used in developing human resources in the contemporary business organization.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examines ethical decision making and the various issues in business including social responsibility, environmental protection, priva­cy, individual rights, OSHA, product liability, equality of opportunity and the morality of capitalism.

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