What Are the Career
Opportunities?
You could pursue executive-level management roles at medium to large organizations with an MBA degree. As a graduate of this program, you may qualify to apply for high-level employment opportunities in finance, marketing, operations, management of information systems, or human resources.* On average, full-time workers who attain a master's degree have significantly lower unemployment rates and earn more than those with a bachelor's degree.†
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| General Program: This core program focuses on essential business knowledge and critical skills like finance, management, marketing, and strategy. Gain an understanding of business operations, corporate leadership, analysis, and planning. Graduates can pursue a wide range of corporate career opportunities in both the public and private sectors. Courses include: |
 
Financial Management
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Marketing Management
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| Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Management and Decision Making
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| Designing, Improving, and Implementing Processes |
| Leadership Strategies for a Changing World
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Finance: Explore financial operations, services, and techniques. Topics covered include investment strategy, analysis, international markets, stocks, and bonds. Graduates can pursue career opportunities in investment banking, corporate finance, and financial services firms.† Courses include:
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Capital Markets and Investments
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Financial Statement Analysis
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International Finance
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| Marketing: Review advertising strategy, consumer behavior, data analysis, performance evaluation, and product promotion to help prepare you to pursue high-level positions in corporate marketing.† Courses include: |
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Advertising |
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Marketing Research |
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Salesforce Management |
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Marketing Psychology |
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| Human Resources: Pursue the education that could help you direct corporate human resources departments. Topics include hiring practices, training, corporate policies, communications, and executive leadership. Courses include: |
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Employment and Labor Law |
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Training and Development |
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Strategic Reward Systems |
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Recruitment and Selection |
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| Health Care Management: Learn to navigate the rapidly growing and changing health care field. Health care is experiencing breakthrough advances in treatment, rigorous patient-privacy regulations, staffing challenges, and issues of cost control. Our program is designed to help you develop the proficiencies you need to make a difference and to find solutions to real-life business situations. Courses include:
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| Health Care Systems |
| Comprehensive Health Care Strategies |
| Quality Health Care Management |
| International Health Care Systems |
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| Entrepreneurship: Deploy theories and practices related to the start-up, development, and management of a new venture. Topics include the discovery and evaluation of business opportunities, and development of strategies for creating new ventures. Courses include:
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Entrepreneurship |
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Small Business Administration |
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Managing Change |
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Corporate Venturing |
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| International Business: Discover key competencies for remaining competitive in a global economy. Apply concepts of finance, management, and marketing on an international level, including demographic and cultural considerations. You will be taught how to manage diverse people and projects around the world, with the insight and understanding to make effective business decisions related to fundamental business processes in a multinational framework. Courses include:
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| International Finance
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International Management |
| International Marketing |
| International Managerial Competencies |
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| Project Management: Examine how to analyze and streamline complex, large-scale endeavors into efficient project plans. You will be taught to strategize, plan, schedule, implement, and determine project deliverables, milestones, and responsibilities, making sure that business needs are being addressed and costs are managed. Courses include:
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| Strategic Project Management |
| Project Initiation, Planning, and Execution |
| Project Cost and Schedule Monitoring and Controlling |
| Project Risk, Quality, and Procurement Monitoring and Controlling |
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| Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Study how to improve productivity for industries by solving logistic and transportation problems, and how to better compete in the global economy. Graduates may pursue a wide range of corporate career opportunities in public and private sectors around the world.† Courses include:
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Supply Chain Management |
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Inventory and Distribution Management |
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Managing the Service Value Chain |
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Strategic Global Logistics Management |
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*Kaplan University's programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue employment in their field of study, or in related fields. However, the University does not guarantee that graduates will be placed in any particular job or employed at all.
†Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 2007, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/emp/emptab7.htm
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