Department of Management
Silberman College of Business

English, Communication and Philosophy Department
Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences

College at Florham

Fairleigh Dickinson University's corporate and organizational communication program offers professionals the opportunity to acquire skills in a variety of corporate communication applications, including applied communication, language, investor relations and audiovisual media.

The MBA has become the degree of necessity for those wishing to rise within their organizations. Fairleigh Dickinson University's integrated MBA-MA program enhances the skills necessary to be an effective manager. Fairleigh Dickinson University's corporate and organizational communication program offers professionals the opportunity to acquire skills in a variety of corporate communication applications, including applied communications, language, investor relations and audiovisual media. This joint degree program offers students the best of both of these offerings by combining the programs.

Students pursuing this joint degree must have an adviser from both the MA in corporate and organizational communications program and the MBA program to ensure that they meet the requirements of and take the courses that apply to both programs.

Students must meet the Admission Requirements for both the MBA and MA programs. Should a student enter the joint degree program and decide to earn only one of the degrees, all the regular requirements for that degree program must be fulfilled.

Joint Degree Requirements

Cornerstone Course (3 credits)
modified from the MBA Core Requirements

All MBA students must, within the first 9 credits, complete:

AACSB Core Courses (0-18 credits)
from the MBA Core Requirements

The AACSB Core includes six courses.

For each core course, the Silberman College of Business grants waiver credit based on the basis of:

1. an equivalent undergraduate course or sequence of courses taken within the past five years and with a grade or sequence of grades no lower than " B ";
2. completion of a full undergraduate major in that field; or
3. a proficiency examination

Each waiver of a core course reduces by three the number of required credits.

FDU Breadth Courses (12 credits)
from the MBA Core Requirements

Breadth courses are subject to waiver; the same conditions apply as to AACSB core courses. If granted waiver of a breadth course, however, the student replaces the waived breadth course with an elective course.

Replacement Breadth Courses (0-12 credit hours)

One elective course for each FDU breadth course waived. The elective course used as a replacement for the waived breadth course must be outside the student's major field. Only in one field may a student take a second replacement course.

Two replacement spots may be used to satisfy corporate communication requirements, set forth below.

Management Requirements (12 credits)

Corporate and Organizational Communication Requirements (24 credits)

Capstone Course
from the MBA Core Requirements

All students must, within the final 9 credits of coursework, complete either:

MBA Core Curriculum Requirements

Executive Communication and Leadership (3 credits)

All MBA students must, within the first 9 credits, complete:

• BUSI5500 Executive Communication and Leadership

AACSB Core Courses (0-18 credits)

The AACSB Core includes six courses:

• ACCT5521 Financial Accounting:
  An End-User Approach
• ECON5510 Economic Analysis
• MGMT5522 Organizational Behavior
• FIN5531 Financial Analysis
• MKTG5532 Marketing Concepts
• QUANT5520 Applied Statistical Analysis

For each core course, the Silberman College of Business grants waiver credit on the basis of:

1. an equivalent undergraduate course or sequence of courses taken within the past five years, with a grade or sequence of grades no lower than ' B ';
2. completion of a full undergraduate major in that field; or
3. a proficiency examination

Each waiver of a core course reduces by three the number of required credits.

FDU Breadth (0-12 credits)

Breadth courses are subject to waiver; the same conditions apply as to AACSB core courses. If granted waiver of a breadth course, however, the student replaces the waived breadth course with an elective course outside their major area.

• ENTR5518 Entrepreneurship and Strategy
• LAW5511 Social, Political & Legal Environment of Business
• MIS5514 Information Systems and Technology Management
• QUANT5530 Production and Operations Management

Replacement Breadth Courses (0-12 credits)

One elective course for each FDU breadth course waived. The elective course used as a replacement for the waived breadth course must be outside the student's major field. A student can take up to two course in one field.

Major or Electives
(12 credits)

The following majors are available in the general programs:

• Entrepreneurial Studies MBA
• Finance MBA
  
• Human Resource Management MBA
• International Business MBA
• Marketing MBA
• Management MBA Concentration in Corporate Communications
• Management MBA Concentration in Information Systems
• Pharmaceutical Management Studies MBA

The student who wishes not to have a major may take four additional elective courses for a general MBA

Capstone (3 credits)

All MBA students must, within the final 9 credits of coursework, complete either:

• MGMT7700 Global Business Capstone
• OR
• ENTR7802 Venture Creation, Development and Financing

(Entrepreneurial majors are required to take ENTR7802 Venture Creation, Development and Financing.)

Transfer Credit

A maximum of 6 nonwaivable credits of graduate course work required for a degree may be approved for transfer from another AACSB accredited college or university under the following conditions:

• the course work must be approved as part of the student’s program of studies;
• it must not have been applied to the completion of the requirements for another degree;
• it must have been taken at the graduate level;
• it must have been taken within the past five years; and
• the student must have received a grade of B or better.

Approval of transfer credit will be made by petition to the MBA program director. A transcript of the course work must be on file before the petition can be considered.

Graduation

To qualify for graduation, the student must, within seven years from the entry date, complete the prescribed curriculum and do so with no lower than a 3.00 cumulative grade point ratio. Only grades for courses taken at Fairleigh Dickinson University or taken off-campus with authorization figure into the cumulative grade point ratio.