Master of Business Administration
“Experience an internationally acclaimed credential towards a fulfilling professional career.”
About the Programme
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme is a professional programme designed to develop competent professionals with integrity who will be effective change agents in society.
The aim of this programme is to develop the leadership and management expertise for success in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors. The MBA’s rigour and innovative teaching methodologies enhances the quality of the programme for the benefit of organizations and communities.
What You May Become?
- a business strategist
- a competent business leader
- a functional specialist
- a morally-grounded professional
- an effective changemaker
Specializations
- Management
- Finance
- Accounting
- Information System
- Hospital Administration
Duration of the Programme
- Full Time – Two Years
- Part Time – Three Years
Admission Requirements
- Have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum CGPA of 3.00 on a 4-point scale or its equivalent grade of 60%. Applicants with a CGPA of 2.5 to 2.99 or 55% to 59% may be accepted on probation.
- Have at least two years of post-graduate relevant work experience. Students who lack work experience will be required to undertake on-the-job training through internship/practicum for at least 12 weeks (480 clock hours) in a reputable organization after completion of the first two semesters.
- Submit a written personal Statement of Purpose explaining why he/she wants to take an MBA at AUA.
- Those with degree programs other than Business Administration must take the following undergraduate courses or equivalents as prerequisites and earn a minimum grade of C:
- Principles of Accounting
- Business Statistics
- Business Economics
- Principles of Management
- Have two Recommendations.
- One from a religious leader and one from your previous university or from your employing organization.
- Submit the name, email address, and designation of your referees, and AUA Admissions will email the link for completing the online recommendation form. The applicant should seek the consent of the referee before submitting their details.
- Must demonstrate proficiency in English.
Curriculum
Core Courses
Marketing Management
Course Code: MKTG 610
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course addresses the management challenge of designing and implementing the best combination of marketing variables to carry out an organization's strategy in its target markets. Specifically, the course seeks to develop the student's skills in applying analytical perspectives, decision tools, and concepts of marketing to such decisions as product offering (including the breadth of product line, features, quality level, and customer service), communications programs (with an emphasis on advertising, sales promotion, and the sales force), distribution channels (the role of distributors, retailers, and other intermediaries), and pricing to capture the value created for the customer. Students will design a marketing plan as an outcome of the class.
Accounting for Decision Making
Course Code: ACCT 615
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The course is designed to equip students on the use of financial statements and other accounting information in managing an organization. The focus in on the internal preparation, analysis, and interpretation of financial data for decision-making purposes. The course includes topics such as cost concepts and cost behavior, costing systems, budgeting, performance analysis, management planning, and control techniques, activity-based management, and relevant costs in decision-making.
Human Resource Management
Course Code: MGNT 620
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to enhance students understanding of the management of human resources and to enable them to develop skills and the ability to apply those concepts and principles from a strategic standpoint. Among the basic issues that will be explored are the following: issues associated with employee recruitment, employee motivation, and job satisfaction, the design of jobs, employee development and empowerment, evaluation of employee performance, group behavior, and teamwork. These are among the issues that will be explored.
IT and Management Information Systems
Course Code: INFS 620
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The main purpose of this course is to provide the student with an overall understanding of the main concepts of management information systems and to underscore the significance of such systems in modern organizations. This course is about establishing, operating, controlling, and integrating computer-based information systems to support management decision-making. Topics discussed include Information Technology Infrastructure, Information Systems in global business, information security, and control, creating competitive advantages through the use of Information Systems, Business Intelligence, online collaboration tools, e-business, mobile technology.
Managerial Economics
Course Code: ECON 610
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course teaches future managers how to use economic theory, microeconomic tools, and analytical tools in managerial economics, such as optimization techniques in decision making and in solving real-world problems, in the context of organizational settings such as a firm or a government agency. Key concepts that are explored include constraint optimization problems demand estimation and analysis and forecasting using regression analysis, production and cost analysis, pricing and output decision.
Business Ethics in Biblical Perspective
Course Code: BUAD 630
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course examines ethical issues and dilemmas facing contemporary leaders, employees, and institutions in today's society. Topics include the role of ethics in organizations, theories and principles of ethics, corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management, ethical leadership, ethical issues in business and not-for-profit organizations, and other emerging ethical issues. An ethical decision-making framework is explored, using biblical principles as a basis.
Strategic Management
Course Code: MGNT 625
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course deals with the process of strategic management. It is concerned with a stream of decisions and actions, which leads to the development of an effective strategy to help achieve corporate objectives. It helps build in students' critical business skills of planning and managing strategic activities. Topics include determining the mission, purpose, and philosophy of companies, developing a company profile, conducting a resource analysis, assessing the external environment, identifying various strategic options, making strategic analyses and choices, setting long term objectives, developing long-term annual objectives and grand strategies, implementing strategic decisions, reviewing, and finally controlling them.
Research Courses
Quantitative analysis for business decision-making
Course Code: BUAD 680
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to equip students on how to identify the relevant data and use them to analyze trends, patterns, and relationships and uncover significant information for organizational decision-making. The areas covered include the role of quantitative analysis in business decision-making, models in quantitative decision-making, fractions and proportions, logarithms, equations, and mathematical models, graphs, charts frequency distributions, time-series graphs, principles of graphical presentations, measures of average, measures of variabilities, probability, and probability distribution, decision-making under uncertainty, population and sampling, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, p-values in hypothesis testing, X 2 test, techniques in quality management, statistical process control, control charts, Pareto charts, Six sigma, moving averages and time-series, regression, correlation, using the regression equation, non-linear regression, multiple regression, linear programming, stock control, emerging development in quantitative analysis in decision making.
Business Research
Course Code: BURM 680
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to equip students with quantitative and qualitative research capabilities. It combines both the theoretical and practical approaches to designing and executing well-rounded research by providing a framework to solve research problems, interpret research, and understand the interaction among the various parts of the research process. The course is structured in such a way that students will learn how to develop a research proposal and how to design, conduct, and evaluate research studies.
Thesis/Project
Course Code: BURM 690
No. of Credits: 6 Credits
For the culminating phase of the coursework, each student is required to write either a thesis or a project. The thesis course requires conceptualizing and carrying on a complete empirical study. It requires a proposal defense before data collection and a final defense to present the study's findings. The project course is more practical in nature than the thesis option. It requires a practical outcome such as a model or tool that can be of use in the organization, based on the findings of the paper. The project does not need to be defended.
Specialization Courses: Management
Corporate Governance
Course Code: MGNT 630
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course will examine the principles of good governance and its impact on modern corporations. It discusses the role of the board of directors and analyses the issue of shareholder supremacy. It also analyses the roles of the managers. Among the several issues covered: the history and role of corporations in society; the contemporary typologies of governance; the different types of corporations that exist around the globe; the principles of governance; the duties and obligations of the three major categories of stakeholders (shareholders, management and the board of directors); the compensation and performance of managers; the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.
Change and Crisis Management
Course Code: MGNT 640
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course analyses the forces that drive organizations to change examines impediments to change, and surveys a range of approaches for making organizational change more effective. Students will develop an understanding of the various change processes and develop practical skills for managing and leading change. Special attention will be given to managing disruptions from transitions and the inevitable losses that radical change brings. It also describes the thinking and planning that are essential to managing and communicating during an organizational crisis. The students will develop a crisis management plan at the end of the course.
Teamwork and Leadership
Course Code: MGNT 650
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
Increasingly unpredictable environments now require teamwork and leadership skills earlier in one's career than ever before. This course focuses on individual teamwork and leadership skills assessment and development, team building and performance, and team leadership. Key topic areas include self-awareness, working in teams, and leading others.
Project Management
Course Code: MGNT 680
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course develops the competencies and skills for planning and controlling projects in profit and non-profit organizations. It examines the project management life cycle, defining project parameters, matrix management challenges, effective project management tools and techniques, and the role of a project manager.
Specialization Courses: Finance
Corporate Finance
Course Code: FINC 630
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Corporate Finance. The course covers: an overview of corporate finance (introduction to corporate finance, financial statements, taxes, and cash flow); financial statements and long-term financial planning (working with financial statements, long-term financial planning, and growth); valuation of future cash flows (introduction to valuation: the time value of money, discounted cash flow valuation, interest rates and bond valuation, stock valuation); capital budgeting (net present value and other investment criteria, making capital investment decisions, project analysis, and evaluation); risk and return (some lessons from capital market history, return, risk, and the security market line); cost of capital and long-term financial policy (cost of capital, raising capital, financial leverage, and capital structure policy, dividends and dividend) ; short term financial planning and management ( short-term finance and planning, cash and liquidity management, credit and inventory management); topics in corporate finance.
Investment & Portfolio Management
Course Code: FINC 640
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course covers the role and scope of investment (meaning of investments, the structure of investment process, investment vehicles, and steps in investing); the securities of the market (introduction, nature, and functions of the stock exchange, stock exchange- membership regulatory framework, and over-the counter market); new issue market (functions of primary and secondary market, listing of securities and rights issue); valuation of securities (bond valuation, preference share valuation, and ordinary share valuation); investment return and risk (rate of return, systematic and unsystematic risk
and calculation of expected return and risk); portfolio analysis and management (overview of the portfolio management process and portfolio policies and construction); special classes of securities (public securities, industrial, banks, and insurance); financial ratio analysis (profitability ratios, liquidity ratios, and investment ratios); and capital investment appraisal (payback period, net present value method, and internal rate of return).
Insurance & Risk Management
Course Code: FINC 660
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course describes the concepts and techniques available to corporations, non-profit organizations, and other organizations in their efforts to manage pure risks. The costs associated with such pure risks as product liability, environmental impairments, property losses, work-related injuries, and employee benefits (e.g., pensions, health insurance, etc.) affect the daily management of all organizations. Managers who make decisions without appropriate consideration of risk management issues can jeopardize the long-term survival of their organizations. The course examines a common set of techniques that can be used by managers in dealing with these problems, including risk assumption, prevention, diversification, and transfer via insurance and non-insurance market mechanisms. In turn, students learn to recognize that the institutional structure of the organization itself influences its own risks and their corresponding treatments.
International Financial Management
Course Code: FINC 690
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The course will explore the international economic environment, including analyses of exchange rates, international monetary systems, contemporary currency regimes, and current or recent financial crises. It also will examine firms; exposure to various types of exchange risk and those methods and financial instruments used to manage that risk.
Specialization Courses: Accounting
Financial Accounting
Course Code: ACCT 620
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The objective of this course is to familiarize the student with the basic concepts, standards, and practices of financial accounting. The course is devoted to the basic financial statements, the analysis and recording of transactions, and the underlying concepts and procedures, with an eye toward financial statement analysis.
The course deals with the procedures necessary to prepare and understand the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. The course also examines the accounting for the most common and significant transactions of a firm, such as inventories, long-term fixed assets, bonds, and other long-term debt, income taxes, and stockholder's equity.
Auditing & Control
Course Code: ACCT 640
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
This course includes a consideration of the role of the auditor, the organization of the accounting profession, and the current audit environment. It introduces the student to generally accepted auditing standards (GCAS), professional ethics, and legal liability. It exposes the students to a working knowledge of the auditing procedure and techniques, the statistical audit tools as well as how to prepare audit reports. The course also covers the auditor's reporting standards and uses case studies and professional journal articles as bases for discussion and analysis.
Advanced Financial Accounting
Course Code: ACCT 650
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to extend the concepts introduced in Financial Accounting and cover advanced financial reporting issues and accounting methods and in-depth study of partnerships and fiduciary accounting. Students will learn how to prepare, read, analyze and evaluate the consolidated financial statements.
International Accounting and Financial Reporting
Course Code: ACCT 660
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
Generally accepted accounting principles and reporting practices vary significantly throughout the world. The objectives of this course include: (1) broadening the student' knowledge of how those principles and practices vary and how they are developed in various countries; (2) analyzing how those differences impact financial statements and business decisions; and (3) gaining an understanding of certain especially important international financial reporting matters, such as (a) foreign currency translation and transaction concerns, (b) accounting for transactions designed to hedge exposure resulting from changes in currency values, and (c) inflation accounting.
Specialization Courses: Information System
Advanced Database Management and Administration
Course Code: INFS 609
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The main objectives of this course are to develop the students'; knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles of Relational Database Management System, build capacity to learn DBMS advanced features, develop their competence in enhancing database systems using distributed databases, build capacity to implement and maintain an efficient database system using emerging trends, develop their competence in database security and database systems administration. Topics covered include database development process; database design (logical data design and relational model, physical database design and performance); advanced SQL, the client/server database and internet database environments, data warehouse, and database administration.
Advanced IT Service Systems Analysis and Design
Course Code: INFS 630
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding and application of system analysis and design processes. Students evaluate and choose appropriate system development methodologies and design a system. Topics covered include Introduction to systems analysis and design; project initiation and management, and requirements determination; analysis modeling: functional modeling, structural modeling, and behavioral modeling; design modeling; class and method design, data management, layer design, human-computer interaction layer design, physical architecture layer design; construction, installation, and operations of IT services systems.
Network Design & System Administration
Course Code: INFS 660
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of the course is to provide students with practical network design & system administration skills to be able to manage an organizational network effectively. Topics covered include network design (logical and physical designs), networking switching and routing, systems administration tools, Windows servers administration, and Linux Administration.
E-Commerce
Course Code: INFS 680
No. of Credits: 3 Credits
The purpose of the course is to introduce contemporary management philosophies as they have come to be used for the marketing, selling, and distribution of goods and services through the Internet, World-Wide-Web, and other electronic media. The course will cover E-business and E-commerce; E-business models and concepts; Strategies in E-Commerce; E-business Frameworks; Security in E-Commerce, Designing, and Implementing Websites for E-Commerce; Payment Systems; and existing E-Commerce Solutions.
Specialization Courses: Hospital Administration
Service Marketing and Management in Healthcare
Course code: HADM 619
No. of Credits: 3
This course is an in-depth study of the implications involved in marketing and managing organizations that operate within the service industry, with emphasis in the healthcare/hospital sector. Its purpose is to demonstrate the distinctive approach to managing and marketing strategies both in its development and in its execution is and help students develop the skills needed to effectively manage and design marketing strategies for these organizations.
Financial Management in Healthcare
Course code: FINC 648
No. of Credits: 3
This course is to study the major decision-making areas of financial management and topics in financial theory, with an emphasis in the healthcare sector. The course reviews the theories related to the investment, financing policies, dividend, capital budgeting, valuation and the link between valuation and corporate financial decisions. It further helps students master the techniques and tools used in the financial management field for decision-making purposes.
Health Ethics and Legislation
Course code: HADM 655
No. of Credits: 3
This course is an in-depth study of the state laws and regulatory mandates related as well as the ethical considerations that must be faced in hospital administration. It uses a constructive problem-centered approach to engage students in understanding the legal issues implicated in healthcare delivery.
Quality Management Systems for Hospitals
Course code: HADM 690
No. of Credits: 3
The course is the study of the techniques and tools needed to set up an effective quality management systems in the hospital setting. It aims at helping students to gain practical knowledge of how to implement, manage and evaluate the organization’s quality management systems.
Programme Coordinator
Marie Anne Razafiarivony, PhD
Associate Professor, Business Department
Education
- PhD, University of Santo Tomas, (2007)
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Organizational Resilience
- Integration of Faith in Business Education
- Integration of Faith in the workplace
Biography
Dr Marie Anne serves as a full-time lecturer and program coordinator in the Business Department, Adventist University of Africa. She also served as the Director of the Centre for Continuing Education, AUA. Prior to this, she was a full-time lecturer and program coordinator in the Business Department, Adventist University Zurcher, Madagascar.
Marie Anne Razafiarivony, PhD
Associate Professor, Business Department
Education
- Ph.D., University of Santo Tomas, (2007)
- MBA, International Institute of Advanced Studies, (1995)
Areas of Expertise
- Entrepreneurship;
- Organizational Resilience;
- Integration of Faith in Business Education;
- Integration of Faith in the workplace
Biography
Dr. Marie Anne serves as a full-time lecturer and program coordinator, Business Department, Adventist University of Africa. She also served as the Director, Centre for Continuing Education, AUA. Prior to this, she was a full-time lecturer and program coordinator at, Business Department – Adventist University Zurcher, Madagascar.
Featured Alumni
Kilion Agalo
Kenya 2017 / MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
AUA offered me the best opportunity to interact with different students from all over Africa. In a class of twenty five students, engaging lessons with lecturers who were not only friendly and available, but also from diverse countries and continents. The lectures were instructive and I enjoyed the spiritual aspects of the University where every lesson had spiritual applications. The hostels are commodious and ideal for residential use. I really enjoyed the world class library with all the instructional materials for study.
By attending Adventist University of Africa, I had time to be equipped with knowledge and skills which have helped me to excel in my field of study. May God bless the pioneers who came with the vision to establish this University in Africa.
Kilion Agalo
Kenya 2017 / MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
AUA offered me the best opportunity to interact with different students from all over Africa. In a class of twenty five students, engaging lessons with lecturers who were not only friendly and available, but also from diverse countries and continents. The lectures were instructive and I enjoyed the spiritual aspects of the University where every lesson had spiritual applications. The hostels are commodious and ideal for residential use. I really enjoyed the world class library with all the instructional materials for study.
By attending Adventist University of Africa, I had time to be equipped with knowledge and skills which have helped me to excel in my field of study. May God bless the pioneers who came with the vision to establish this University in Africa.