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Online Degree Rwanda - BBA and MBA Programs
Nexford provides Rwandans with access to US-accredited education. Earn your Bachelor's or Master's degree totally online, with flexible payment plans and accelerated completion times.
Skills you will learn - and add to your résumé
Learn sought-after skills in our Rwanda BBA and MBA programs, which will expand your work opportunities and provide you access to the global grid.
Lead High-Impact Teams
Build, align, and motivate diverse teams to deliver results and lead organizational change.
Analyze Business Finances
Design reports and tools to assess financial health, model scenarios, and inform strategic moves.
Drive Marketing Growth
Use consumer insights and analytics to shape strategy and improve marketing ROI.
Turn Data into Action
Use analytics and dashboards to solve problems and drive smart, data-based decisions.
Analyze Global Risks
Evaluate cross-border market, legal, and cultural risks to inform strategic decisions.
Optimize Operations with Tech
Apply tools like automation, AI, and process mapping to increase efficiency and scale.
Lead High-Impact Teams
Build, align, and motivate diverse teams to deliver results and lead organizational change.
Analyze Business Finances
Design reports and tools to assess financial health, model scenarios, and inform strategic moves.
Drive Marketing Growth
Use consumer insights and analytics to shape strategy and improve marketing ROI.
Turn Data into Action
Use analytics and dashboards to solve problems and drive smart, data-based decisions.
Analyze Global Risks
Evaluate cross-border market, legal, and cultural risks to inform strategic decisions.
Optimize Operations with Tech
Apply tools like automation, AI, and process mapping to increase efficiency and scale.
What’s it like to learn at Nexford?
Real-world projects
Real-world projects
Build skills by doing. Every course includes hands-on projects that mirror real workplace challenges like building financial models, data dashboards, or marketing strategies. Projects are curated from the world's largest organizations.
Flexible
Flexible
Collaborative learning
Collaborative learning
Connect with peers and faculty
Personalized support
Personalized support
Get help when you need it
Technology enabled
Technology enabled
Learn with cutting-edge tools and platforms
Courses in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
You’ll complete 40 courses – made up of general education courses, core courses, business electives, and elective courses that you can choose from. Courses are designed to take two months, but you can finish in just one. You’ll begin with one course at a time and can increase your course load as you progress.
Program Courses
Program Structure
You need 12 courses to complete your Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
11 general courses
15 core courses
3 elective courses or 3 specialization courses
1 capstone project
General Courses
Professional Communication
Professional Communication places an emphasis on communication styles and approaches in today's workplace to include digital, verbal and nonverbal communication. The course focuses on the evaluation of case analysis and discussion and on practical business and professional communication skills, including writing, speaking, and listening. Emphasis is on clarity, organization, format, appropriate language, and consideration of audience, for both written and oral communication. Learners engage in self-assessment of communicative competence and learn strategies for enhancing their skills. The course explores how technology and other tools are integrated into communications within a professional setting and students will be able to identify appropriate and inappropriate professional communications.
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication exposes learners to the principles of intercultural communication to advance their efforts to understand and attribute meaning to communicative behaviors among different cultures and social groups. Learners study communication and culture, intercultural messages, the role of context in intercultural communication, the impact of culture on one’s identity, and communication style. Learners master the practical skills necessary to improve one’s intercultural communication competence in an international world.
Statistics
Statistics emphasizes the analysis of data collection and statistics through the use of current technology. This course introduces learners to statistical terms, distributions, displaying and interpreting of data collected (probability, validity and reliability), effect size, measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and determining statistical significance. Learners analyze hypothesis testing and apply statistical techniques.
Environmental Science
Environmental Science engages learners in examining how health and food is significantly impacted by the physical environment. Learners explore various topics within environmental science to include global warming, pollution, waste, and recycling. Learners examine how humans in increasingly industrialized countries, and the earth itself, are impacted by environmental pollutants and contaminants. This course reviews major environmental policies and their impact on the health of communities and the preservation of the earth or lack thereof. Learners discuss the scientific evidence of emerging environmental issues and the focus of the UN SDGs for 2030 is Sustainable Economic Development.
Nutrition and Wellness
Nutrition and Wellness focuses on highlighting strategies for a healthy lifestyle. Two changes have led to a significant increase in preventable diseases: a global increase in the consumption of heavily processed food, and cultural shifts in many parts of the world where people are moving away from preparing food at home. Learners are equipped with practical skills to be healthier consumers of food and consider the importance of a wellness lifestyle with an emphasis on self-responsibility, physical fitness, stress management, and environmental sensitivity. A key focus of UN SDGs for 2030 is Sustainable Economic Development.
Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking considers how most successful professionals of the 21st century will be able to assess an environment, analyze a situation, design alternative solutions, and assist organizations in creatively overcoming challenges and reaching strategic goals. This course focuses on the development of reasoning and problem-solving skills by using the scientific method to analyze case studies and controversial topics. Learners consider cultural differences in reasoning, inductive and deductive logic, and how to use positive inquiry and synthesis to solve individual and organizational problems. Emphasis is placed on successful models and proven methods that are transferable within the work environment.
Science of Happiness
Science of Happiness offers evidence-based approaches to living a more meaningful, successful, and happy life by applying practical strategies to improve every domain of life, including home, work, and community. Despite the enormous hardships that many people face around the world, this course explores how to manage cognitive biases and the impact a positive mindset can have on personal, biological, relational, cultural and global aspects of life. Learners implement strategies which foster a positive behavior change.
American Institutions and Culture
American Institutions and Culture focuses on the US as an intricate subject of study, providing a foundation for examining and interpreting the unique economic and cultural impact of the US across the world. This course examines the US throughout its history and currently on the world stage, provides learners with a practical literacy of the features of American institutions and businesses along with a cultural framework for a fundamental understanding of this nation and prepares learners for the skills to work within an American business environment.
Cultural Aesthetic Understanding
Cultural Aesthetic Understanding focuses on concepts and theories involved in intercultural, interdisciplinary study of artistic influence and expression. Learners examine interactions among an assortment of modes of creative expression, role of style in daily life, performative representation of cultural identity and difference, and interaction of diverse artistic traditions.
Introduction to Spreadsheets and Modeling
Introduction to Spreadsheets and Modeling is designed to equip learners with foundational skills in spreadsheet usage and basic modeling techniques. In today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently organize, analyze, and visualize information is essential for success across various fields, including business, finance, engineering, and the sciences.
Decoding the Digital Consumer
This course explores the psychological principles underlying consumer behavior in the digital age. Learners will gain insights into how consumers perceive, process, and respond to marketing messages and sales interactions in online and offline environments. Through real-world case studies and interactive exercises, learners will learn to apply these principles to develop effective sales strategies, build rapport with customers, and influence purchasing decisions.
Core Courses (8 required)
Roadmap to Success
Roadmap to success is the foundational course for the Business program. This course prepares learners for success in the degree program and promotes a journey toward lifelong learning. Learners develop skills for communication, academic writing, self-discovery, career development, and presentation skills. This course is a hybrid competency course and introduces the learner to the competency-based model of Nexford courses in the BBA program.
The World of Business
The World of Business introduces the domain of business and key elements of the functional areas within the context that an organization operates. Learners examine a variety of functional areas and types of business in order to understand their interconnectedness. Additional topics include the business cycle, global business practices, and impact on productivity.
Marketing Fundamentals
Marketing Fundamentals is the foundational course for the Marketing specialization and is an introduction to the role of marketing in advancing the success of a product, service, experience or organization. Learners explore the evolution of marketing to include a review of the key marketing principles relevant in today’s workplace, an overview of the evolution from the traditional to digital marketing platform, and the differentiation between marketing a product or service versus marketing an experience. Learners examine functions and trends that are critical to staying competitive in the marketplace. This course introduces the functions of an organization for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. Designed to meet customers’ needs and organizational goals, these functions include marketing and behavioral science research, environmental monitoring, target market selection, product selection, promotion, distribution and pricing.
Introduction to Business Law
Introduction to Business Law engages learners in understanding how laws, rules, regulations, and ethical standards pervade every area of business. This course provides an overview of US law while considering that nearly all business concerns are global in nature in today’s ever-changing political and economic business environment. This course encourages learners to approach legal scenarios with an eye on international application. Learners apply several key legal concepts to situations based on real-world legal conundrums and cases. Topics include, but are not limited to contract law, business organization setup, employment law and intellectual property law. Learners thoroughly review and research legal concepts and apply knowledge to specific sets of legal issues found in the assigned professional scenarios.
Principles of Management
Principles of Management focuses on how to create a personal and shared vision and communicate effectively with teams as a leader, manager, and team member. Topics include how to set effective goals and expectations, understanding cultures, the difference between management and leadership, team membership and leadership, and the global workplace.
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting focuses on the foundations of financial accounting concepts and methods used to generate, analyze, and interpret financial statements. Learners perform journal entries and record-keeping of transactions with an understanding of how these accounts are measured and reported in major financial statements.
Managerial Accounting and Cost Analysis
Managerial Accounting and Cost Analysis focuses on the techniques managers use to identify and manage production costs for labor, material, and overhead. Learners engage multiple methods for budgeting and cost reporting and calculate and interpret variances between budgets and actual results
Data Analytics
Advances in data collection, machine learning, and computational power have fueled institutional progress. The volume of available data has grown exponentially, and algorithms have continued to advance along with greater computational power and storage. As organizations become more inundated with data, having systems and processes in place to better understand and interpret data is highly important. This course focuses on how organizations can identify, evaluate and use data effectively. As consumers become increasingly savvy with their use of data, organizations need to change their responses. The use of data for all types of business from a large organization to a small retail shop will continue to become more sophisticated. This course provides an understanding of the data analysis process. Learners examine how technology has improved the ability to collect, analyze and interpret data, and they investigate data analysis tools and technologies to improve the decision making process.
Introduction to AI
The Introduction to AI course introduces the fundamental concepts of AI, exploring its transformative impact across industries. Learners examine various AI tools and technologies and their interconnected applications in business, healthcare, education, and manufacturing. Additional topics include the ethical implications of AI, future trends, and strategies for integrating AI into decision-making and operations effectively.
Principles of Macroeconomics
This course delves into the fascinating world of macroeconomics, giving learners the tools to understand the big picture of how economies function through general economic factors. Learners will cover GDP, consumption, investment, government role, causes and consequences of economics and busts, inflation and deflation, business cycles, and global connections. Learners will gain skills in economic data, policy impacts, data modeling, and international economics.
Principles of Microeconomics
Microeconomics course unlocks the secrets behind how individuals and businesses make decisions in today's dynamic market. After completing this course, learners will be able to analyze real-world problems according to economic theory, understand concepts such as supply, demand, costs and profits, and explore the impact of economic policies on human behavior.
Managing People Resources
This course provides an in-depth survey of concepts, skills, and practices in human resource management. Learners are introduced to innovative approaches in human capital management at the local, national, and global levels
Business Career Branding for Success
The Business Career Branding for Success course engages learners in developing and strengthening the business and personal component of one’s own career brand. The learner takes the role of a personal CEO and uses business tools to analyze competitive strengths and weaknesses, create a competency profile, document high-demand marketable and transferable skills, craft a resume, and develop a lifelong learning and career development plan that will be revisited throughout the degree program. This course is divided into two parts: Part one is completed when the learner first enrolls to establish a competitive benchmark pre-assessment and initial lifelong learning and career development action plan to be revisited throughout the program during specific course milestones, and Part two concludes in a capstone post-assessment that enables the learner to re-evaluate competitive strengths and weaknesses, finalize the lifelong learning and career development action plan, and create a personal brand and business plan for the individual career path. This course is continually available to learners to revisit and review throughout their studies at NXU from enrollment to graduation.
Applied Leadership
This course is designed to provide practical applications for leadership and management challenges and opportunities in the ever-changing environment of global business. Learners examine leadership and management from both a personal and an organizational perspective and apply principles and techniques in order to adapt to the environment in both roles.
International Business and Culture
International Business and Culture is the foundational course for International Business. As the speed of globalization increases, organizations need to be increasingly focused on an integrated global business and culture. This course focuses on international business and the interconnectedness of a global culture. Learners examine how an organization operating in the global environment needs to understand and appreciate how to best leverage both global and local cultures for responsible and successful business practices. Topics from the perspective of a global firm are related to management, leadership, the economy, financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
Elective Courses (3 required)
Strategic People Operations
Strategic People Operations prepares learners to apply the strategic management process from the Human Resource (HR) perspective. Learners examine how to manage talent effectively in the dynamic regulatory and competitive environment. The course emphasizes integrating human resource management concepts related to the formulation and implementation of HR strategy and practices to support the overall global business strategy.
Digital Marketing Fundamentals
Digital Marketing Fundamentals provides an understanding of the digital marketing landscape, key trends impacting the industry, the changed customer journey, and the role each channel can play in that journey. The course also examines the advantages and subsequent challenges of this expanding marketing venue. Learners explore the tools that currently exist and the potential for future applications of the digital platform for marketing purpose. The course will further explore the digital platform as a tool for businesses in general in order to increase its levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and competitive position in the market space. Learners define and develop a digital strategy to help a business achieve its goals.
Content Marketing and Social Media
Content Marketing and Social Media emphasizes the importance of content and how different content types can be used to support brand and business goals. Learners identify not only the content type, but the literal content as well, in conjunction with a focus on the most appropriate demographic(s) for various content. Additionally, learners develop a content strategy and create engaging content for the right audience and channel.
Auditing and Assurance Services
Auditing and Assurance Services focuses on how to plan and conduct an audit of a company’s financial statements and examines the importance of assurance services to users of financial statements. Learners apply techniques to identify and analyze evidence, identify fraud, and determine and publish an opinion report of the auditor’s findings.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Introduction to Entrepreneurship introduces learners to the concept of entrepreneurship by exploring the Lean Startup movement to help frame what a startup is and how learners can approach new markets and businesses from a product perspective. Learners evaluate a business idea, assess its viability in a broader market, and create a simple prototype to test the idea with customers.
Fundamentals of Financial Management
Financial Management focuses on the foundations of finance concepts required to be capable of managing day to day financial operations and to solve complex financial matters. Learners examine the elements of financial statements of an entity and impact of changes in one element on the other. Additionally, learners plan and control cash flows and make decisions in the microeconomic and macroeconomic environment.
Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis
Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis focuses on financial skills and analytical methods for corporate finance managers and investment analysts. Topics include corporate financial analysis, acquisition and allocation of capital, and financial statement reporting, as well as an exposure to investing in major asset classes, measures of risk and return, and methods for valuing equity and debt.
Corporate Tax Strategies
Corporate Tax Strategies focuses on strategies for corporations to legally minimize their tax liabilities. Learners learn analyze financial transactions, calculate realized gains and losses, and determine whether to recognize gains and losses now or in the future.
Project Management
Project Management highlights a key tool for any organization, which is the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously to achieve positive results. This course examines from an organizational perspective the tasks associated with project management. The focus is on the four components of the project life-cycle in an international business setting: organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling. Learners identify and apply relevant project management tools and methods designed to execute projects in an effective manner that maximizes efficiency and minimizes cost.
Staffing and Development
Staffing and Development encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce that meets the needs of the organization. The focus is on managing talent during recruitment, selection, retention, and development. Learners develop a plan to identify individual and organizational needs within the appropriate regulatory framework.
Organizational Relationships
Organizational Relationships examines the interrelationships between business, government and society. Learners gain an understanding of how each of these entities contributes to the overall success of the organization, and if one of these areas is not in sync with the other two, the organization may not achieve its goals. Learners examine the interconnectedness of these three areas through topics of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, the regulatory climate, globalization, and the environment. A key focus of this course is connections between the developed and emerging markets. Learners examine how these markets rely on each other from multiple perspectives, including economics, culture, trade, human capital, and so on.
Marketing Strategy and Planning
Marketing Strategy and Planning provides learners with the opportunity to develop and master competencies required to execute marketing strategy. Learners perfect skills for planning and implementing a marketing strategy, including evaluating current brand positioning in the marketplace, identifying target audiences, setting objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs), and defining evaluation metrics to determine effectiveness. Key elements of strategic planning are examined, including pricing, brand positioning, and setting up the framework of a strategic marketing plan.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation & Benefits examines the development and administration of compensation and benefit practices, as well as challenges faced in managing total rewards in the multigenerational, competitive global economy. Learners analyze the strategic components of pay structures and reward systems, and the impact on employees and the organization.
Fundamentals of Digital Transformation
Fundamentals of Digital Transformation is the foundational course for the Digital Transformation specialization. This course provides a survey of three types of capability transformations that enable digital transformation: people, tool, and process. At the people capability level, digital transformation requires the organization to hire and retain customer-centric and service-oriented talent; this talent search demands more collaboration and knowledge sharing while breaking down the silos between business and technology. At the tool capability level, a horizontal digital enabling layer is required to be developed, covering big data analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, wearables, augmented and artificial reality, and modular manufacturing. Vertical business applications require digitization by the horizontal digital enablers in vertical business applications such as supply chain management, customer experience, finance and administration, and more. At the process capability level, digital transformation requires the business processes to be automated via the horizontal digital enablers.
Process & Quality Management
This course equips learners with the knowledge and skills to analyze, improve, and manage business processes, with a focus on achieving operational excellence. Learners will learn to apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies, quality management tools, and data analysis techniques to optimize workflows, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. The course culminates in Yellow Belt and Green Belt certifications, validating learners' expertise in process improvement and quality management.
Professional Selling and Relationship Management
This course will provide learners with a comprehensive and practical exploration of the professional selling process, enabling them to master the art of building and sustaining long-lasting customer relationships. Learners will gain a deep understanding of the seven steps of the selling process, from prospecting and qualifying to closing the sale and follow-up. They will develop key skills in communication, active listening, adaptive selling, and ethical decision-making, empowering them to effectively identify and address customer needs, build rapport, and achieve sales goals while adhering to ethical standards.
Digital Selling and E-commerce Strategies
This course explores the evolving landscape of professional selling in the digital age. Learners will learn how e-commerce has transformed sales practices across B2B, B2C, and other market segments. The course covers key concepts of e-commerce, including online sales platforms, digital marketing integration, customer relationship management (CRM) in the digital context, and data analytics for sales optimization. Learners will develop practical skills in online sales techniques, digital communication, and building customer relationships in a virtual environment. The course emphasizes a hands-on approach, incorporating case studies, simulations, and projects that simulate real-world e-commerce sales scenarios.
Capstone project (1 required)
Strategy and Organizational Planning
Strategy and Organizational Planning is the capstone course in the BBA program and examines how organizations set strategy and planning as key drivers of organizational success. In any domestic or international setting, the functions of strategy and planning are valuable resources in maintaining or expanding the competitive position. This course encourages learners to take a long-term view of the roles of strategy and planning whose concepts form the foundation for the practice of strategic management. Key topics covered include strategy analysis, strategic planning, and strategy implementation and evaluation. Both strategy and planning are boundaryless functions, thus allowing learners to examine these topics from the perspective of organizations operating in emerging markets.
You need 12 courses to complete your Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
11 general courses
15 core courses
3 elective courses or 3 specialization courses
1 capstone project
Professional Communication
Professional Communication places an emphasis on communication styles and approaches in today's workplace to include digital, verbal and nonverbal communication. The course focuses on the evaluation of case analysis and discussion and on practical business and professional communication skills, including writing, speaking, and listening. Emphasis is on clarity, organization, format, appropriate language, and consideration of audience, for both written and oral communication. Learners engage in self-assessment of communicative competence and learn strategies for enhancing their skills. The course explores how technology and other tools are integrated into communications within a professional setting and students will be able to identify appropriate and inappropriate professional communications.
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication exposes learners to the principles of intercultural communication to advance their efforts to understand and attribute meaning to communicative behaviors among different cultures and social groups. Learners study communication and culture, intercultural messages, the role of context in intercultural communication, the impact of culture on one’s identity, and communication style. Learners master the practical skills necessary to improve one’s intercultural communication competence in an international world.
Statistics
Statistics emphasizes the analysis of data collection and statistics through the use of current technology. This course introduces learners to statistical terms, distributions, displaying and interpreting of data collected (probability, validity and reliability), effect size, measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and determining statistical significance. Learners analyze hypothesis testing and apply statistical techniques.
Environmental Science
Environmental Science engages learners in examining how health and food is significantly impacted by the physical environment. Learners explore various topics within environmental science to include global warming, pollution, waste, and recycling. Learners examine how humans in increasingly industrialized countries, and the earth itself, are impacted by environmental pollutants and contaminants. This course reviews major environmental policies and their impact on the health of communities and the preservation of the earth or lack thereof. Learners discuss the scientific evidence of emerging environmental issues and the focus of the UN SDGs for 2030 is Sustainable Economic Development.
Nutrition and Wellness
Nutrition and Wellness focuses on highlighting strategies for a healthy lifestyle. Two changes have led to a significant increase in preventable diseases: a global increase in the consumption of heavily processed food, and cultural shifts in many parts of the world where people are moving away from preparing food at home. Learners are equipped with practical skills to be healthier consumers of food and consider the importance of a wellness lifestyle with an emphasis on self-responsibility, physical fitness, stress management, and environmental sensitivity. A key focus of UN SDGs for 2030 is Sustainable Economic Development.
Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking considers how most successful professionals of the 21st century will be able to assess an environment, analyze a situation, design alternative solutions, and assist organizations in creatively overcoming challenges and reaching strategic goals. This course focuses on the development of reasoning and problem-solving skills by using the scientific method to analyze case studies and controversial topics. Learners consider cultural differences in reasoning, inductive and deductive logic, and how to use positive inquiry and synthesis to solve individual and organizational problems. Emphasis is placed on successful models and proven methods that are transferable within the work environment.
Science of Happiness
Science of Happiness offers evidence-based approaches to living a more meaningful, successful, and happy life by applying practical strategies to improve every domain of life, including home, work, and community. Despite the enormous hardships that many people face around the world, this course explores how to manage cognitive biases and the impact a positive mindset can have on personal, biological, relational, cultural and global aspects of life. Learners implement strategies which foster a positive behavior change.
American Institutions and Culture
American Institutions and Culture focuses on the US as an intricate subject of study, providing a foundation for examining and interpreting the unique economic and cultural impact of the US across the world. This course examines the US throughout its history and currently on the world stage, provides learners with a practical literacy of the features of American institutions and businesses along with a cultural framework for a fundamental understanding of this nation and prepares learners for the skills to work within an American business environment.
Cultural Aesthetic Understanding
Cultural Aesthetic Understanding focuses on concepts and theories involved in intercultural, interdisciplinary study of artistic influence and expression. Learners examine interactions among an assortment of modes of creative expression, role of style in daily life, performative representation of cultural identity and difference, and interaction of diverse artistic traditions.
Introduction to Spreadsheets and Modeling
Introduction to Spreadsheets and Modeling is designed to equip learners with foundational skills in spreadsheet usage and basic modeling techniques. In today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently organize, analyze, and visualize information is essential for success across various fields, including business, finance, engineering, and the sciences.
Decoding the Digital Consumer
This course explores the psychological principles underlying consumer behavior in the digital age. Learners will gain insights into how consumers perceive, process, and respond to marketing messages and sales interactions in online and offline environments. Through real-world case studies and interactive exercises, learners will learn to apply these principles to develop effective sales strategies, build rapport with customers, and influence purchasing decisions.
Roadmap to Success
Roadmap to success is the foundational course for the Business program. This course prepares learners for success in the degree program and promotes a journey toward lifelong learning. Learners develop skills for communication, academic writing, self-discovery, career development, and presentation skills. This course is a hybrid competency course and introduces the learner to the competency-based model of Nexford courses in the BBA program.
The World of Business
The World of Business introduces the domain of business and key elements of the functional areas within the context that an organization operates. Learners examine a variety of functional areas and types of business in order to understand their interconnectedness. Additional topics include the business cycle, global business practices, and impact on productivity.
Marketing Fundamentals
Marketing Fundamentals is the foundational course for the Marketing specialization and is an introduction to the role of marketing in advancing the success of a product, service, experience or organization. Learners explore the evolution of marketing to include a review of the key marketing principles relevant in today’s workplace, an overview of the evolution from the traditional to digital marketing platform, and the differentiation between marketing a product or service versus marketing an experience. Learners examine functions and trends that are critical to staying competitive in the marketplace. This course introduces the functions of an organization for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. Designed to meet customers’ needs and organizational goals, these functions include marketing and behavioral science research, environmental monitoring, target market selection, product selection, promotion, distribution and pricing.
Introduction to Business Law
Introduction to Business Law engages learners in understanding how laws, rules, regulations, and ethical standards pervade every area of business. This course provides an overview of US law while considering that nearly all business concerns are global in nature in today’s ever-changing political and economic business environment. This course encourages learners to approach legal scenarios with an eye on international application. Learners apply several key legal concepts to situations based on real-world legal conundrums and cases. Topics include, but are not limited to contract law, business organization setup, employment law and intellectual property law. Learners thoroughly review and research legal concepts and apply knowledge to specific sets of legal issues found in the assigned professional scenarios.
Principles of Management
Principles of Management focuses on how to create a personal and shared vision and communicate effectively with teams as a leader, manager, and team member. Topics include how to set effective goals and expectations, understanding cultures, the difference between management and leadership, team membership and leadership, and the global workplace.
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting focuses on the foundations of financial accounting concepts and methods used to generate, analyze, and interpret financial statements. Learners perform journal entries and record-keeping of transactions with an understanding of how these accounts are measured and reported in major financial statements.
Managerial Accounting and Cost Analysis
Managerial Accounting and Cost Analysis focuses on the techniques managers use to identify and manage production costs for labor, material, and overhead. Learners engage multiple methods for budgeting and cost reporting and calculate and interpret variances between budgets and actual results
Data Analytics
Advances in data collection, machine learning, and computational power have fueled institutional progress. The volume of available data has grown exponentially, and algorithms have continued to advance along with greater computational power and storage. As organizations become more inundated with data, having systems and processes in place to better understand and interpret data is highly important. This course focuses on how organizations can identify, evaluate and use data effectively. As consumers become increasingly savvy with their use of data, organizations need to change their responses. The use of data for all types of business from a large organization to a small retail shop will continue to become more sophisticated. This course provides an understanding of the data analysis process. Learners examine how technology has improved the ability to collect, analyze and interpret data, and they investigate data analysis tools and technologies to improve the decision making process.
Introduction to AI
The Introduction to AI course introduces the fundamental concepts of AI, exploring its transformative impact across industries. Learners examine various AI tools and technologies and their interconnected applications in business, healthcare, education, and manufacturing. Additional topics include the ethical implications of AI, future trends, and strategies for integrating AI into decision-making and operations effectively.
Principles of Macroeconomics
This course delves into the fascinating world of macroeconomics, giving learners the tools to understand the big picture of how economies function through general economic factors. Learners will cover GDP, consumption, investment, government role, causes and consequences of economics and busts, inflation and deflation, business cycles, and global connections. Learners will gain skills in economic data, policy impacts, data modeling, and international economics.
Principles of Microeconomics
Microeconomics course unlocks the secrets behind how individuals and businesses make decisions in today's dynamic market. After completing this course, learners will be able to analyze real-world problems according to economic theory, understand concepts such as supply, demand, costs and profits, and explore the impact of economic policies on human behavior.
Managing People Resources
This course provides an in-depth survey of concepts, skills, and practices in human resource management. Learners are introduced to innovative approaches in human capital management at the local, national, and global levels
Business Career Branding for Success
The Business Career Branding for Success course engages learners in developing and strengthening the business and personal component of one’s own career brand. The learner takes the role of a personal CEO and uses business tools to analyze competitive strengths and weaknesses, create a competency profile, document high-demand marketable and transferable skills, craft a resume, and develop a lifelong learning and career development plan that will be revisited throughout the degree program. This course is divided into two parts: Part one is completed when the learner first enrolls to establish a competitive benchmark pre-assessment and initial lifelong learning and career development action plan to be revisited throughout the program during specific course milestones, and Part two concludes in a capstone post-assessment that enables the learner to re-evaluate competitive strengths and weaknesses, finalize the lifelong learning and career development action plan, and create a personal brand and business plan for the individual career path. This course is continually available to learners to revisit and review throughout their studies at NXU from enrollment to graduation.
Applied Leadership
This course is designed to provide practical applications for leadership and management challenges and opportunities in the ever-changing environment of global business. Learners examine leadership and management from both a personal and an organizational perspective and apply principles and techniques in order to adapt to the environment in both roles.
International Business and Culture
International Business and Culture is the foundational course for International Business. As the speed of globalization increases, organizations need to be increasingly focused on an integrated global business and culture. This course focuses on international business and the interconnectedness of a global culture. Learners examine how an organization operating in the global environment needs to understand and appreciate how to best leverage both global and local cultures for responsible and successful business practices. Topics from the perspective of a global firm are related to management, leadership, the economy, financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
Strategic People Operations
Strategic People Operations prepares learners to apply the strategic management process from the Human Resource (HR) perspective. Learners examine how to manage talent effectively in the dynamic regulatory and competitive environment. The course emphasizes integrating human resource management concepts related to the formulation and implementation of HR strategy and practices to support the overall global business strategy.
Digital Marketing Fundamentals
Digital Marketing Fundamentals provides an understanding of the digital marketing landscape, key trends impacting the industry, the changed customer journey, and the role each channel can play in that journey. The course also examines the advantages and subsequent challenges of this expanding marketing venue. Learners explore the tools that currently exist and the potential for future applications of the digital platform for marketing purpose. The course will further explore the digital platform as a tool for businesses in general in order to increase its levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and competitive position in the market space. Learners define and develop a digital strategy to help a business achieve its goals.
Content Marketing and Social Media
Content Marketing and Social Media emphasizes the importance of content and how different content types can be used to support brand and business goals. Learners identify not only the content type, but the literal content as well, in conjunction with a focus on the most appropriate demographic(s) for various content. Additionally, learners develop a content strategy and create engaging content for the right audience and channel.
Auditing and Assurance Services
Auditing and Assurance Services focuses on how to plan and conduct an audit of a company’s financial statements and examines the importance of assurance services to users of financial statements. Learners apply techniques to identify and analyze evidence, identify fraud, and determine and publish an opinion report of the auditor’s findings.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Introduction to Entrepreneurship introduces learners to the concept of entrepreneurship by exploring the Lean Startup movement to help frame what a startup is and how learners can approach new markets and businesses from a product perspective. Learners evaluate a business idea, assess its viability in a broader market, and create a simple prototype to test the idea with customers.
Fundamentals of Financial Management
Financial Management focuses on the foundations of finance concepts required to be capable of managing day to day financial operations and to solve complex financial matters. Learners examine the elements of financial statements of an entity and impact of changes in one element on the other. Additionally, learners plan and control cash flows and make decisions in the microeconomic and macroeconomic environment.
Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis
Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis focuses on financial skills and analytical methods for corporate finance managers and investment analysts. Topics include corporate financial analysis, acquisition and allocation of capital, and financial statement reporting, as well as an exposure to investing in major asset classes, measures of risk and return, and methods for valuing equity and debt.
Corporate Tax Strategies
Corporate Tax Strategies focuses on strategies for corporations to legally minimize their tax liabilities. Learners learn analyze financial transactions, calculate realized gains and losses, and determine whether to recognize gains and losses now or in the future.
Project Management
Project Management highlights a key tool for any organization, which is the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously to achieve positive results. This course examines from an organizational perspective the tasks associated with project management. The focus is on the four components of the project life-cycle in an international business setting: organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling. Learners identify and apply relevant project management tools and methods designed to execute projects in an effective manner that maximizes efficiency and minimizes cost.
Staffing and Development
Staffing and Development encompasses the activities involved in building and maintaining a workforce that meets the needs of the organization. The focus is on managing talent during recruitment, selection, retention, and development. Learners develop a plan to identify individual and organizational needs within the appropriate regulatory framework.
Organizational Relationships
Organizational Relationships examines the interrelationships between business, government and society. Learners gain an understanding of how each of these entities contributes to the overall success of the organization, and if one of these areas is not in sync with the other two, the organization may not achieve its goals. Learners examine the interconnectedness of these three areas through topics of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, the regulatory climate, globalization, and the environment. A key focus of this course is connections between the developed and emerging markets. Learners examine how these markets rely on each other from multiple perspectives, including economics, culture, trade, human capital, and so on.
Marketing Strategy and Planning
Marketing Strategy and Planning provides learners with the opportunity to develop and master competencies required to execute marketing strategy. Learners perfect skills for planning and implementing a marketing strategy, including evaluating current brand positioning in the marketplace, identifying target audiences, setting objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs), and defining evaluation metrics to determine effectiveness. Key elements of strategic planning are examined, including pricing, brand positioning, and setting up the framework of a strategic marketing plan.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation & Benefits examines the development and administration of compensation and benefit practices, as well as challenges faced in managing total rewards in the multigenerational, competitive global economy. Learners analyze the strategic components of pay structures and reward systems, and the impact on employees and the organization.
Fundamentals of Digital Transformation
Fundamentals of Digital Transformation is the foundational course for the Digital Transformation specialization. This course provides a survey of three types of capability transformations that enable digital transformation: people, tool, and process. At the people capability level, digital transformation requires the organization to hire and retain customer-centric and service-oriented talent; this talent search demands more collaboration and knowledge sharing while breaking down the silos between business and technology. At the tool capability level, a horizontal digital enabling layer is required to be developed, covering big data analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, wearables, augmented and artificial reality, and modular manufacturing. Vertical business applications require digitization by the horizontal digital enablers in vertical business applications such as supply chain management, customer experience, finance and administration, and more. At the process capability level, digital transformation requires the business processes to be automated via the horizontal digital enablers.
Process & Quality Management
This course equips learners with the knowledge and skills to analyze, improve, and manage business processes, with a focus on achieving operational excellence. Learners will learn to apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies, quality management tools, and data analysis techniques to optimize workflows, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. The course culminates in Yellow Belt and Green Belt certifications, validating learners' expertise in process improvement and quality management.
Professional Selling and Relationship Management
This course will provide learners with a comprehensive and practical exploration of the professional selling process, enabling them to master the art of building and sustaining long-lasting customer relationships. Learners will gain a deep understanding of the seven steps of the selling process, from prospecting and qualifying to closing the sale and follow-up. They will develop key skills in communication, active listening, adaptive selling, and ethical decision-making, empowering them to effectively identify and address customer needs, build rapport, and achieve sales goals while adhering to ethical standards.
Digital Selling and E-commerce Strategies
This course explores the evolving landscape of professional selling in the digital age. Learners will learn how e-commerce has transformed sales practices across B2B, B2C, and other market segments. The course covers key concepts of e-commerce, including online sales platforms, digital marketing integration, customer relationship management (CRM) in the digital context, and data analytics for sales optimization. Learners will develop practical skills in online sales techniques, digital communication, and building customer relationships in a virtual environment. The course emphasizes a hands-on approach, incorporating case studies, simulations, and projects that simulate real-world e-commerce sales scenarios.
Strategy and Organizational Planning
Strategy and Organizational Planning is the capstone course in the BBA program and examines how organizations set strategy and planning as key drivers of organizational success. In any domestic or international setting, the functions of strategy and planning are valuable resources in maintaining or expanding the competitive position. This course encourages learners to take a long-term view of the roles of strategy and planning whose concepts form the foundation for the practice of strategic management. Key topics covered include strategy analysis, strategic planning, and strategy implementation and evaluation. Both strategy and planning are boundaryless functions, thus allowing learners to examine these topics from the perspective of organizations operating in emerging markets.
Rwanda BBA Admission requirements
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Proof of High School
Secondary school certificate or equivalent
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BBA specializations
Choose from four specialized tracks to advance your career:
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
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Business Analytics
Digital Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Courses in the MBA
You’ll complete 12 courses - made up of required core courses and a selection of electives that you can choose from. Courses are designed to take two months, but you can finish in just one. You’ll begin with one course at a time and can increase your course load as you progress - at no extra cost.
Program Courses
Program Structure
You need 12 courses to complete your MBA
8 core courses
3 elective courses or 3 specialization courses
1 capstone project
Core Courses (8 required)
Global Business
Global Business provides learners with an expansive understanding of international markets and how to manage cross-border transactions in order to effectively operate and compete in global, local, and emerging markets. The course focuses on the complexities, strategies, risk, and rewards that arise due to liquid borders, technology, cross-cultural and political issues, international organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), trade agreements, foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets, currency risks, challenges and sustainability. Learners develop a market entry strategy analysis for a business operating in the global or local environment.
Leadership and Organizational Development
Leadership and Organizational Development examines individual and group interaction and helps learners gain a deeper understanding of how human behavior drives organizational behavior and development. Drawing from neuroscience and cognitive science perspectives, learners transition from manager to leader through the lens of managing self, others, teams, and relationships. Learners examine principles of motivation, communication, leadership, organizational development and change relevant to contemporary issues.
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Strategy focuses on the advanced marketing and leadership skills required in today’s fast-paced technology driven global economy. Learners prepare for roles within the field of marketing and gain a solid understanding of the role of marketing, both in traditional and digital platforms, in defining and maintaining a brand and in meeting business objectives. Learners examine how technology and transformational approaches are critical to developing future-forward marketing strategies. Topics include leadership, strategic partnerships, and negotiating skills that are key contributors to successful business growth and company culture.
Technology & Operations Management
Technology plays a pivotal role in shaping and optimizing modern business operations. This comprehensive course delves into the intricate relationship between technology and operations management within organizations. It equips learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess technology architecture, evaluate human capital implications, analyze integration technology, and develop strategic approaches for embedding technology solutions. Through a blend of theoretical concepts, case studies, and practical applications, you will gain a deep understanding of how technology drives efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage across various operating models.
Accounting and Financial Reporting
Accounting and Financial Reporting engages learners in applying the principles of corporate finance and accounting to business decision making. Course topics include financial statements and other reports, the basics of financial forecasting and budgeting, accounting analytics, and the communications and vocabulary related to financial statements. Learners reconcile financial transactions and accounting records and examine the implications of international differences in accounting frameworks and financial reporting requirements.
Organizational Strategy
Organizational Strategy examines how the success of any organization is based in part on how effectively strategy is incorporated into the overall mission and vision of the organization. In Organizational Strategy, learners develop an understanding of how adaptability and flexibility are two key aspects of a successful strategy. In many cases the organization creates, adapts, and remains flexible with its strategy based on the environment in which the organization operates. Learners examine applied principles and frameworks of a successful strategy along with the tools needed to understand how to formulate the appropriate strategy. Learners apply these principles and tools across various industries and markets with the goal of creating a strategy which sustains and/or increases the competitive position of the firm. Strategy places importance on scanning the environment and keeping the strategy flexible and adaptable. This course focuses on the domestic and international strategic approaches needed to solve business challenges, integrating all of the tools related to strategy formulation. Learners perform an external scanning and risk analysis as part of strategy formulation.
Introduction to Intrapreneurship and Innovation
Introduction to Intrapreneurship and Innovation provides a framework for how employees with an entrepreneurial mindset can navigate the complex and challenging environments within existing organizations to bring about a meaningful, practical, and effective change. This course focuses on the need for an innovative mindset and explores the concept of intrapreneurship and how it can take place from within an organization. Learners identify and navigate radical and incremental innovation. This course provides a roadmap for how individuals can plan, present, and execute innovative and entrepreneurial approaches. Learners explore how supporting this kind of entrepreneurial culture within the workplace environment can help attract and retain employees who are entrepreneurial-minded but not yet ready or able to start or join a new venture, or who desire to drive innovation within existing firms or institutions.
Financial Decision Making
Financial Decision Making prepares learners to apply financial data to make financing, investment, and business decisions that create value for the firm and align with internal financial priorities. Learners evaluate the firm’s capital needs by applying their corporate finance and decision-making skills to financial statement analysis, capital budgeting, operational and investment options, and the use of fintech and emerging financial services. Learners build advanced financial models and apply them to corporate finance situations and financial risk management. This course prepares learners to apply key technologies to inform financial decision making.
Elective Courses (3 required)
Data Sciences for Decision Making
Data Sciences for Decision Making provides a foundation for learners to apply advanced analytics skills to complex data analysis and modes. Learners build an understanding of design, data analytics tools, and advanced analytics translators to communicate complex data-related requirements between data engineers, business, and IT stakeholders. Learners examine four major areas. First, there are momentum gains in the data and analytics revolution. Advances in data collection, machine learning, and computational power have fueled progress due to an exponential growth in the volume of data, continual advances in algorithms, and greater computational power and storage. Second, there are five elements of successful data analytics transformation: cases/sources of value, data ecosystems, modeling insights, workflow integration, and adoption. Third, the mapping value in data ecosystems includes data generation and collection, data aggregation, and data analysis. Fourth, models of distribution are fueled by big data analytics as business models are enabled by orthogonal data, hyper scale, real- time matching, radical personalization, massive data integration capabilities, data-driven discovery, and enhanced decision making.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) considers the business applications of machine learning (ML), and how AI supports the discovery of meaningful patterns in data and adds insights into predicting performance as well as increasing productivity. Learners explore advanced concepts in machine learning, including details of decision tree algorithms, the QUEST algorithm and how it handles nominal variables, ordinal and continuous variables, and missing data. They also explore the C5.0 algorithm and review some of its key features, such as global pruning and winnowing, and dive into advanced topics that apply to all decision trees, such as boosting and bagging. The course covers four major topics. First, machine learning and neural networks. Second, value creation across the value chain phases (project, produce, promote, and provide) and various industry verticals (retail, electric utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and education). Third, elements of successful artificial intelligence transformation. Fourth, artificial intelligence use cases across retail, electric utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and education.
Robotics and Automation
Robotics and Automation engages learners in examining the Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) five core technologies. These are the following: robotic process automation (RPA), smart workflow, machine learning/ advanced analytics, natural-language generation (NLG) and cognitive agents. Learners will explore the inner workings of each of these five technologies during the course. RPA is a software automation tool that automates routine tasks. Smart workflow is a process-management software tool that integrates tasks performed by groups of humans and machines. Machine learning/advanced analytics includes algorithms that identify patterns in structured data, such as daily performance data. Natural-language generation (NLG) is a software engine that creates seamless interactions between humans and technology. Cognitive agents are technologies that combine machine learning and natural-language generation to build a completely virtual workforce.
Corporate Sustainability
Before the start of the 21st Century, environmental management for a business was typically driven by the need to respond to restrictions imposed by environmental regulation; however, at the dawn of the new millennium, leading businesses began to change their concept of environmental management to look beyond simply meeting governmental dictates. In today's rapidly changing world, the need for corporate sustainability has never been more crucial. Companies that prioritize sustainability as a core tenet of their strategy are not only positively impacting the environment but also driving strong financial results. In the course "Corporate Sustainability," you will dive deep into the world of sustainable business practices and explore how corporations are making a significant impact on the environment. Through case studies and real-world examples, you will examine the strategies employed by successful businesses that have integrated sustainability into their DNA. Discover the exciting opportunities that sustainability challenges present for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals. By exploring emerging trends and technologies, you will be equipped with the knowledge to identify and seize these opportunities.
Doing Business in India
Doing Business in India provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region, including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within India and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Doing Business in China
Doing Business in China provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region, including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within China and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa
Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within Sub-Saharan Africa and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Enabling E-commerce and Digital Strategy
Enabling E-Commerce and Digital Strategy immerses learners in the dynamic world of electronic commerce, dissecting its multifaceted nature across Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C), Business to Government (B2G), and Consumer to Consumer (C2C) domains. Delving beyond the surface, the course delves into the intricacies of e-commerce infrastructure, dissecting the core components and applications within B2B, B2G, and B2C markets, including diverse business and product models.
Policy and Regulatory Enablement of E-commerce
Policy and Regulatory Enablement of E-Commerce serves as a foundation for understanding the various policy and regulatory initiatives that are required to be executed to enable e-commerce. Learners explore barriers that need to be overcome by promoting collaboration among various organizations across the business, civil societies, and government to improve the accessibility of the Internet. The course provides a comprehensive overview of best practices to enable e-commerce. Learners examine the importance of E-commerce reliable data as an essential component of policy development and technological investments. Learners also examine the utilization of various trade agreements to support the penetration of e-commerce in emerging markets. The course highlights various global initiatives by governments to integrate regional e-commerce.
Operations Digital Transformation
Operations Digital Transformation provides a holistic overview of the capabilities required to adopt digital transformation depending on the industry vertical. Learners explore the operating model of various industry verticals with core functions specific to each industry vertical and with non-core functions such as service and product management, marketing, sales, customer care, finance and accounting, human resources, and strategy. Learners examine required capabilities: people capability, process capability, and tools capability.
Financial Planning and Analysis
Financial Planning and Analysis is a comprehensive course designed to provide learners with a thorough understanding of the principles, methodologies, and tools essential for effective financial planning and analysis in today's dynamic business environment. The course focuses on the key components of financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, financial statement analysis, and valuation. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and exercises, learners will learn how to create strategic financial plans, evaluate investment opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to drive business growth and profitability.
Blockchain for Finance
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology and its applications in the finance industry. Learners will learn the fundamental concepts of blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and smart contracts. They will also explore the characteristics of decentralized systems and their implications for the financial sector. The course offers an overview of various types of blockchain networks, including public, private, and consortium blockchains, and their use cases in the finance industry.
Machine Learning Technology for Finance
This course aims to provide learners with a deep understanding of the application of machine learning techniques in the financial industry. The course will cover essential concepts, algorithms, and tools used in machine learning for finance, enabling learners to develop and implement innovative financial models and solutions. Learners will gain practical experience in applying machine learning techniques to real-world financial problems through content, interactive activities, multimedia, and case studies. Key topics that will be covered in this course includes financial data preprocessing and feature engineering, supervised learning algorithms for finance, unsupervised learning algorithms for finance, reinforcement learning for algorithmic trading, natural language processing for finance, portfolio optimization and risk management, regulatory compliance and ethical considerations.
The Art of Communication
What is the number one job skill American and global employees are lacking, according to LinkedIn CEO, Jeff Weiner? Communications. The Art of Communication is designed to strengthen and promote a leadership-driven communications model that extends from an audience-centered communications approach. How do leaders persuade shareholders? How do leaders negotiate with clients and business partners across cultures? How are the psychology and cognitive principles of negotiation influenced by audience awareness? This course introduces learners to a foundation in rhetorical awareness that will transfer through a variety of contexts, including corporate communications, public speaking, negotiation, and a range of executive leadership scenarios. Coursework includes genre analysis, professional writing, presentation design and delivery, and negotiation workshops. Learners interested in developing leadership communications skills in both public and private sectors should attend.
Internet of Things
Internet of Things engages learners in examining IoT operating systems architectures, standards, and ecosystems. Learners delve into industrial automation value proposition for IoT, device management, cybersecurity analysis, best practices in IoT ecosystem design, and monetizing IoT under different commercial models and across the value chain.
Cybersecurity Leadership
Explore how our hyperconnected world, comprised of a myriad of networks – both machine and human – has brought us to the precipice of a fundamental revolution and redefinition of the human experience and our socio-political and military world order. Crime, news, and even warfare is digital today. Examine cybersecurity goals, cybersecurity tools, cybersecurity strategies, and how cybersecurity leadership underpins every aspect of cybersecurity strategy.
Product Management with Agile and Lean
Product Management with Agile and Lean explores the techniques that product managers apply to minimize execution risk for a team. Learners examine two main types of execution risk: technical risk, which is the risk that the product fails because the team utilizes bad software management practices, and product risk, which is the risk that the product fails because it is not what the customers or market want. Learn how to apply the Agile framework to minimize technical execution risk and the Lean framework to minimize product risk.
Food and Agribusiness
Food and Agribusiness explores how the next wave of innovation in the food and agribusiness industry represents the biggest transformation since the industrial revolution. Through case analyses and practical agribusiness scenarios, learners examine global challenges faced within the food and agriculture industries and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage an agricultural business. Learners investigate how insurance and financing, supply chain management, global food trade, and innovative technologies such as machine learning, sensing, and customer behavioral understanding can improve the efficiencies and cost-effectiveness of food and agribusiness industries (FAEs). Catalyzing the growth of food and agribusiness enterprises (FAEs) can enhance the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 UN SDG Goals 2030. FAEs will have a positive role in accelerating growth, alleviating poverty, and creating jobs and wealth. The food and agribusiness value chain are one of the largest and most important industry sectors in the world. This course explores emerging issues (geo-political, technological, economic factors) with emphasis on their potential impact on FAEs. Learners broaden their knowledge and understanding of the global challenges being faced within the food and agriculture industries and develop and apply solutions to address current industry challenges.
Renewable Energy
The Renewable Energy course provides learners with a foundational understanding of the applications of renewable energy practices. This course focuses on key business skills and competencies needed to determine successful economic, technical, and societal applications of renewable energy practices. Learners examine basic energy principles, terminologies, policies, and applications for domestic and international markets. Learners apply industry wide and/or industry sector renewable energy practices, and execute relevant management practices, principles, and perspectives related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. These practices include corporate and executive management, operations management, entrepreneurship, venture capital and finance activities, infrastructure investment, management consulting, and other business related, technical specializations. This course links to two United Nations Sustainable Development Goals UN SDG Goal # 7, UN SDG Goal #13 and the Renewable Energy Competency Model (US Department of Labor, 2017).
Managing Healthcare
Managing Healthcare is designed to help learners develop competencies for identifying and evaluating emerging markets within the healthcare industry. In this introduction to organizations in healthcare, learners will examine the wide-ranging complexities encountered by management and critique current thinking in management and leadership. Through case analyses and practical healthcare scenarios, learners analyze the global challenges faced within the healthcare industry and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage a global health business. Learners gain a solid foundation in understanding and aligning the national health agenda with personal and organizational pledges to population-based wellness. Relationship management with physicians, other providers (such as. physician assistants, APN, RNP), nurses, senior leadership, and other stakeholders is key in building effective networks for achieving common goals. In this course, learners examine applied principles and assessments for developing best practices that enhance individual and team development, self-awareness, innovation, and ethics and professionalism in healthcare settings. Learners will examine the healthcare industry from the perspective of UN SDG Goal #3. Learners will draw upon practices and applications to consider the principles underpinning health services. Learners will gain an overview of global health systems in order to compare and contrast contemporary thinking and practice (including the role of leapfrogging in emerging markets).
Capstone project (1 required)
Business Administration Capstone
The Business Administration Capstone concentrates on changing dimensions of businesses. The principles and concepts apply to businesses in all sectors. This course focuses on content and process questions and formulation and implementation issues related to conceptualizing, developing, and managing change, such as business pivots, mergers, growth, and downsizing. Learners will apply and synthesize concepts and techniques from functional areas of strategic management, finance, accounting, managerial economics, marketing, operations management, and organizational behavior in business change.
You need 12 courses to complete your MBA
8 core courses
3 elective courses or 3 specialization courses
1 capstone project
Global Business
Global Business provides learners with an expansive understanding of international markets and how to manage cross-border transactions in order to effectively operate and compete in global, local, and emerging markets. The course focuses on the complexities, strategies, risk, and rewards that arise due to liquid borders, technology, cross-cultural and political issues, international organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), trade agreements, foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets, currency risks, challenges and sustainability. Learners develop a market entry strategy analysis for a business operating in the global or local environment.
Leadership and Organizational Development
Leadership and Organizational Development examines individual and group interaction and helps learners gain a deeper understanding of how human behavior drives organizational behavior and development. Drawing from neuroscience and cognitive science perspectives, learners transition from manager to leader through the lens of managing self, others, teams, and relationships. Learners examine principles of motivation, communication, leadership, organizational development and change relevant to contemporary issues.
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Strategy focuses on the advanced marketing and leadership skills required in today’s fast-paced technology driven global economy. Learners prepare for roles within the field of marketing and gain a solid understanding of the role of marketing, both in traditional and digital platforms, in defining and maintaining a brand and in meeting business objectives. Learners examine how technology and transformational approaches are critical to developing future-forward marketing strategies. Topics include leadership, strategic partnerships, and negotiating skills that are key contributors to successful business growth and company culture.
Technology & Operations Management
Technology plays a pivotal role in shaping and optimizing modern business operations. This comprehensive course delves into the intricate relationship between technology and operations management within organizations. It equips learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to assess technology architecture, evaluate human capital implications, analyze integration technology, and develop strategic approaches for embedding technology solutions. Through a blend of theoretical concepts, case studies, and practical applications, you will gain a deep understanding of how technology drives efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage across various operating models.
Accounting and Financial Reporting
Accounting and Financial Reporting engages learners in applying the principles of corporate finance and accounting to business decision making. Course topics include financial statements and other reports, the basics of financial forecasting and budgeting, accounting analytics, and the communications and vocabulary related to financial statements. Learners reconcile financial transactions and accounting records and examine the implications of international differences in accounting frameworks and financial reporting requirements.
Organizational Strategy
Organizational Strategy examines how the success of any organization is based in part on how effectively strategy is incorporated into the overall mission and vision of the organization. In Organizational Strategy, learners develop an understanding of how adaptability and flexibility are two key aspects of a successful strategy. In many cases the organization creates, adapts, and remains flexible with its strategy based on the environment in which the organization operates. Learners examine applied principles and frameworks of a successful strategy along with the tools needed to understand how to formulate the appropriate strategy. Learners apply these principles and tools across various industries and markets with the goal of creating a strategy which sustains and/or increases the competitive position of the firm. Strategy places importance on scanning the environment and keeping the strategy flexible and adaptable. This course focuses on the domestic and international strategic approaches needed to solve business challenges, integrating all of the tools related to strategy formulation. Learners perform an external scanning and risk analysis as part of strategy formulation.
Introduction to Intrapreneurship and Innovation
Introduction to Intrapreneurship and Innovation provides a framework for how employees with an entrepreneurial mindset can navigate the complex and challenging environments within existing organizations to bring about a meaningful, practical, and effective change. This course focuses on the need for an innovative mindset and explores the concept of intrapreneurship and how it can take place from within an organization. Learners identify and navigate radical and incremental innovation. This course provides a roadmap for how individuals can plan, present, and execute innovative and entrepreneurial approaches. Learners explore how supporting this kind of entrepreneurial culture within the workplace environment can help attract and retain employees who are entrepreneurial-minded but not yet ready or able to start or join a new venture, or who desire to drive innovation within existing firms or institutions.
Financial Decision Making
Financial Decision Making prepares learners to apply financial data to make financing, investment, and business decisions that create value for the firm and align with internal financial priorities. Learners evaluate the firm’s capital needs by applying their corporate finance and decision-making skills to financial statement analysis, capital budgeting, operational and investment options, and the use of fintech and emerging financial services. Learners build advanced financial models and apply them to corporate finance situations and financial risk management. This course prepares learners to apply key technologies to inform financial decision making.
Data Sciences for Decision Making
Data Sciences for Decision Making provides a foundation for learners to apply advanced analytics skills to complex data analysis and modes. Learners build an understanding of design, data analytics tools, and advanced analytics translators to communicate complex data-related requirements between data engineers, business, and IT stakeholders. Learners examine four major areas. First, there are momentum gains in the data and analytics revolution. Advances in data collection, machine learning, and computational power have fueled progress due to an exponential growth in the volume of data, continual advances in algorithms, and greater computational power and storage. Second, there are five elements of successful data analytics transformation: cases/sources of value, data ecosystems, modeling insights, workflow integration, and adoption. Third, the mapping value in data ecosystems includes data generation and collection, data aggregation, and data analysis. Fourth, models of distribution are fueled by big data analytics as business models are enabled by orthogonal data, hyper scale, real- time matching, radical personalization, massive data integration capabilities, data-driven discovery, and enhanced decision making.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) considers the business applications of machine learning (ML), and how AI supports the discovery of meaningful patterns in data and adds insights into predicting performance as well as increasing productivity. Learners explore advanced concepts in machine learning, including details of decision tree algorithms, the QUEST algorithm and how it handles nominal variables, ordinal and continuous variables, and missing data. They also explore the C5.0 algorithm and review some of its key features, such as global pruning and winnowing, and dive into advanced topics that apply to all decision trees, such as boosting and bagging. The course covers four major topics. First, machine learning and neural networks. Second, value creation across the value chain phases (project, produce, promote, and provide) and various industry verticals (retail, electric utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and education). Third, elements of successful artificial intelligence transformation. Fourth, artificial intelligence use cases across retail, electric utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and education.
Robotics and Automation
Robotics and Automation engages learners in examining the Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) five core technologies. These are the following: robotic process automation (RPA), smart workflow, machine learning/ advanced analytics, natural-language generation (NLG) and cognitive agents. Learners will explore the inner workings of each of these five technologies during the course. RPA is a software automation tool that automates routine tasks. Smart workflow is a process-management software tool that integrates tasks performed by groups of humans and machines. Machine learning/advanced analytics includes algorithms that identify patterns in structured data, such as daily performance data. Natural-language generation (NLG) is a software engine that creates seamless interactions between humans and technology. Cognitive agents are technologies that combine machine learning and natural-language generation to build a completely virtual workforce.
Corporate Sustainability
Before the start of the 21st Century, environmental management for a business was typically driven by the need to respond to restrictions imposed by environmental regulation; however, at the dawn of the new millennium, leading businesses began to change their concept of environmental management to look beyond simply meeting governmental dictates. In today's rapidly changing world, the need for corporate sustainability has never been more crucial. Companies that prioritize sustainability as a core tenet of their strategy are not only positively impacting the environment but also driving strong financial results. In the course "Corporate Sustainability," you will dive deep into the world of sustainable business practices and explore how corporations are making a significant impact on the environment. Through case studies and real-world examples, you will examine the strategies employed by successful businesses that have integrated sustainability into their DNA. Discover the exciting opportunities that sustainability challenges present for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals. By exploring emerging trends and technologies, you will be equipped with the knowledge to identify and seize these opportunities.
Doing Business in India
Doing Business in India provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region, including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within India and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Doing Business in China
Doing Business in China provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region, including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within China and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa
Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa provides learners with an overview of the current and emerging business landscape within the region including the largest and fastest growing industries, workforce, regulation, and public and private investment. Learners develop skills for analyzing business opportunities within Sub-Saharan Africa and design strategies for starting, sustaining, or growing a business within the region. Learners become fluent in concepts of business, modern history, and culture within the region in order to navigate complex interactions for a variety of business opportunities.
Enabling E-commerce and Digital Strategy
Enabling E-Commerce and Digital Strategy immerses learners in the dynamic world of electronic commerce, dissecting its multifaceted nature across Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C), Business to Government (B2G), and Consumer to Consumer (C2C) domains. Delving beyond the surface, the course delves into the intricacies of e-commerce infrastructure, dissecting the core components and applications within B2B, B2G, and B2C markets, including diverse business and product models.
Policy and Regulatory Enablement of E-commerce
Policy and Regulatory Enablement of E-Commerce serves as a foundation for understanding the various policy and regulatory initiatives that are required to be executed to enable e-commerce. Learners explore barriers that need to be overcome by promoting collaboration among various organizations across the business, civil societies, and government to improve the accessibility of the Internet. The course provides a comprehensive overview of best practices to enable e-commerce. Learners examine the importance of E-commerce reliable data as an essential component of policy development and technological investments. Learners also examine the utilization of various trade agreements to support the penetration of e-commerce in emerging markets. The course highlights various global initiatives by governments to integrate regional e-commerce.
Operations Digital Transformation
Operations Digital Transformation provides a holistic overview of the capabilities required to adopt digital transformation depending on the industry vertical. Learners explore the operating model of various industry verticals with core functions specific to each industry vertical and with non-core functions such as service and product management, marketing, sales, customer care, finance and accounting, human resources, and strategy. Learners examine required capabilities: people capability, process capability, and tools capability.
Financial Planning and Analysis
Financial Planning and Analysis is a comprehensive course designed to provide learners with a thorough understanding of the principles, methodologies, and tools essential for effective financial planning and analysis in today's dynamic business environment. The course focuses on the key components of financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, financial statement analysis, and valuation. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and exercises, learners will learn how to create strategic financial plans, evaluate investment opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to drive business growth and profitability.
Blockchain for Finance
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology and its applications in the finance industry. Learners will learn the fundamental concepts of blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and smart contracts. They will also explore the characteristics of decentralized systems and their implications for the financial sector. The course offers an overview of various types of blockchain networks, including public, private, and consortium blockchains, and their use cases in the finance industry.
Machine Learning Technology for Finance
This course aims to provide learners with a deep understanding of the application of machine learning techniques in the financial industry. The course will cover essential concepts, algorithms, and tools used in machine learning for finance, enabling learners to develop and implement innovative financial models and solutions. Learners will gain practical experience in applying machine learning techniques to real-world financial problems through content, interactive activities, multimedia, and case studies. Key topics that will be covered in this course includes financial data preprocessing and feature engineering, supervised learning algorithms for finance, unsupervised learning algorithms for finance, reinforcement learning for algorithmic trading, natural language processing for finance, portfolio optimization and risk management, regulatory compliance and ethical considerations.
The Art of Communication
What is the number one job skill American and global employees are lacking, according to LinkedIn CEO, Jeff Weiner? Communications. The Art of Communication is designed to strengthen and promote a leadership-driven communications model that extends from an audience-centered communications approach. How do leaders persuade shareholders? How do leaders negotiate with clients and business partners across cultures? How are the psychology and cognitive principles of negotiation influenced by audience awareness? This course introduces learners to a foundation in rhetorical awareness that will transfer through a variety of contexts, including corporate communications, public speaking, negotiation, and a range of executive leadership scenarios. Coursework includes genre analysis, professional writing, presentation design and delivery, and negotiation workshops. Learners interested in developing leadership communications skills in both public and private sectors should attend.
Internet of Things
Internet of Things engages learners in examining IoT operating systems architectures, standards, and ecosystems. Learners delve into industrial automation value proposition for IoT, device management, cybersecurity analysis, best practices in IoT ecosystem design, and monetizing IoT under different commercial models and across the value chain.
Cybersecurity Leadership
Explore how our hyperconnected world, comprised of a myriad of networks – both machine and human – has brought us to the precipice of a fundamental revolution and redefinition of the human experience and our socio-political and military world order. Crime, news, and even warfare is digital today. Examine cybersecurity goals, cybersecurity tools, cybersecurity strategies, and how cybersecurity leadership underpins every aspect of cybersecurity strategy.
Product Management with Agile and Lean
Product Management with Agile and Lean explores the techniques that product managers apply to minimize execution risk for a team. Learners examine two main types of execution risk: technical risk, which is the risk that the product fails because the team utilizes bad software management practices, and product risk, which is the risk that the product fails because it is not what the customers or market want. Learn how to apply the Agile framework to minimize technical execution risk and the Lean framework to minimize product risk.
Food and Agribusiness
Food and Agribusiness explores how the next wave of innovation in the food and agribusiness industry represents the biggest transformation since the industrial revolution. Through case analyses and practical agribusiness scenarios, learners examine global challenges faced within the food and agriculture industries and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage an agricultural business. Learners investigate how insurance and financing, supply chain management, global food trade, and innovative technologies such as machine learning, sensing, and customer behavioral understanding can improve the efficiencies and cost-effectiveness of food and agribusiness industries (FAEs). Catalyzing the growth of food and agribusiness enterprises (FAEs) can enhance the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 UN SDG Goals 2030. FAEs will have a positive role in accelerating growth, alleviating poverty, and creating jobs and wealth. The food and agribusiness value chain are one of the largest and most important industry sectors in the world. This course explores emerging issues (geo-political, technological, economic factors) with emphasis on their potential impact on FAEs. Learners broaden their knowledge and understanding of the global challenges being faced within the food and agriculture industries and develop and apply solutions to address current industry challenges.
Renewable Energy
The Renewable Energy course provides learners with a foundational understanding of the applications of renewable energy practices. This course focuses on key business skills and competencies needed to determine successful economic, technical, and societal applications of renewable energy practices. Learners examine basic energy principles, terminologies, policies, and applications for domestic and international markets. Learners apply industry wide and/or industry sector renewable energy practices, and execute relevant management practices, principles, and perspectives related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. These practices include corporate and executive management, operations management, entrepreneurship, venture capital and finance activities, infrastructure investment, management consulting, and other business related, technical specializations. This course links to two United Nations Sustainable Development Goals UN SDG Goal # 7, UN SDG Goal #13 and the Renewable Energy Competency Model (US Department of Labor, 2017).
Managing Healthcare
Managing Healthcare is designed to help learners develop competencies for identifying and evaluating emerging markets within the healthcare industry. In this introduction to organizations in healthcare, learners will examine the wide-ranging complexities encountered by management and critique current thinking in management and leadership. Through case analyses and practical healthcare scenarios, learners analyze the global challenges faced within the healthcare industry and develop a sound understanding of what it takes to manage a global health business. Learners gain a solid foundation in understanding and aligning the national health agenda with personal and organizational pledges to population-based wellness. Relationship management with physicians, other providers (such as. physician assistants, APN, RNP), nurses, senior leadership, and other stakeholders is key in building effective networks for achieving common goals. In this course, learners examine applied principles and assessments for developing best practices that enhance individual and team development, self-awareness, innovation, and ethics and professionalism in healthcare settings. Learners will examine the healthcare industry from the perspective of UN SDG Goal #3. Learners will draw upon practices and applications to consider the principles underpinning health services. Learners will gain an overview of global health systems in order to compare and contrast contemporary thinking and practice (including the role of leapfrogging in emerging markets).
Business Administration Capstone
The Business Administration Capstone concentrates on changing dimensions of businesses. The principles and concepts apply to businesses in all sectors. This course focuses on content and process questions and formulation and implementation issues related to conceptualizing, developing, and managing change, such as business pivots, mergers, growth, and downsizing. Learners will apply and synthesize concepts and techniques from functional areas of strategic management, finance, accounting, managerial economics, marketing, operations management, and organizational behavior in business change.
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Artificial Intelligence
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International Business
Sustainability
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- People Operations Manager
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- Sales Director
- Business Development Manager
- Head of Partnerships
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