The Master of Business Administration degree is a 36-credit hour program that is based on the completion of 7 core courses and 5 specialization courses of 3-credit hours each. All modules are eight weeks each in duration. All students complete the core courses before moving to the individual specializations. Students who do not have an undergraduate degree in Business Administration must first complete five MBA Preparatory courses (15 credit hours) before entering the program.
MBA vision and mission stem from the vision and mission of the City University College of Ajman.
MBA program at City University College of Ajman will provide access and opportunity for national and international students to further their education. It will improve their professional management, leadership, and analytical skills, thus enhancing their career and earning potential.
MBA program mission is to provide business professionals with advanced knowledge of integrated business and management skills to enhance their careers. The principal focus of this program is to build the necessary competencies, skills, and institutional leadership for effective decision-making by providing high-quality courses that are rigorous, transferable at the graduate level, and offered at a reasonable cost.
MBA program prepares its graduates to:
CUCA delivers courses in the MBA program through a series of eight-week modules. A module consists of two, 3-credit hour courses. Each class meets twice a week and each class session is three hours, which is a total of six classroom hours for each course every week.
| COMPONENT | COURSES | CREDIT HOURS |
| Core Courses | 7 | 21 |
| Specialization Courses | 5 | 15 |
| Total Required | 12 | 36 |
To be eligible for graduation, students must satisfy each of the following requirements:
| COURSE CODE | COURSE NAME | CREDIT HOURS |
| ACC 101 | Accounting I | 3 |
| BUS 102 | Business Statistics | 3 |
| ECO 201 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| FIN 301 | Financial Management | 3 |
| MKT 302 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| ECO 201: Microeconomics | |
| An introduction to the analysis of the principles and problems at the microeconomic level. This course elaborates on the theories of demand and supply along with the various types of elasticity. It discusses the costs of production and the profit maximization for an individual firm under varying degrees of competition, pricing, and the deployment of resources. | |
| MKT 302 Principles of Marketing | |
| The relationship between the firm and its customers and the other members of the distribution channel. The marketing functions of an organization, environmental factors influencing marketing decisions, the discovery of market opportunities, development of marketing strategy and marketing programs. | |
| ACC 101: Accounting I | |
| The significance of accounting and the challenges it presents. Extensive coverage and review of major concepts followed by practical exercises. | |
| FIN 301: Financial Management | |
| Introduces the tools and concepts employed in financial management for individuals. Topics include analysis of investment alternatives, tax minimization strategies, tax shelters, risk analysis, employee benefits, retirement and estate planning. | |
| BUS 102: Business Statistics | |
| Business Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, and summarizing data to provide information, stated in numerical form, for the purpose of making objective business decisions. Topics include methods of sampling, classifying, analyzing, and presenting numerical data; frequency distribution, averages, dispersion, times series analysis, correlation, and forecasting for business purposes. | |
| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hour | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semester 1 | |||
| ACC-101 | Accounting I | 0 | |
| BUS-102 | Business Statistics | 0 | |
| ECO-201 | Microeconomics | 0 | |
| FIN-301 | Financial Management | 0 | |
| MKT-302 | Principles of Marketing | 0 | |
Students who successfully complete the MBA program should be able to:
