Launch Pad MBA

The Launch Pad MBA program offers exceptional business training relevant to working professionals. Notions of community, diversity, and service are hallmarks of the program and its design. The program is highly student-centered, career-relevant and strategically focused on industry. The entire curriculum unfolds over 4 semesters, offering a choice of concentration and the option for an elective global field study experience in the terminal semester.

Degree Requirements

MBA Launch Pad

Semester 1

Sky View Launch Semester

BUS 201	Sky View Business Economics	1
BUS 202	Sky View Accounting	2
BUS 203	Sky View Finance	2
BUS 205	Sky View Management	2
BUS 206	Sky View Marketing	2
BUS 209	Sky View Launch Pad to MBA Studies	1
Total Credit Hours:		10

Semester 2

MBA Core Semester A

BUS 230	Peer to Peer Teaching 1 – Ethics and D.E.I. Policy	2
BUS 262	Navigating Financial Resources: Financial Accounting	2
BUS 263	Utilizing Financial Resources: Managerial Finance	2
BUS 264	Managing Talent Building Coalitions & Leading Change	2
BUS 265	Data-Driven Decision-Making	2
Total Credit Hours:		10

Semester 3

MBA Core Semester B

BUS 240	Peer to Peer Teaching 2 – Special Business Topics	2
BUS 266	Managing Global Economic Challenges	2
BUS 267	Business and Corporate Decision Making	2
BUS 268	Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media Marketing	2
BUS 269	Operations Management for the 21st Century	2
Total Credit Hours:		10

Semester 4

MBA Final Semester

Students choose one culminating experience course and one concentration for a total of nine units.

One Culminating Experience Course from:

BUS 260	Culminating Project	3
	or
BUS 238	Global Business Colloquium (International Travel Study)	3
Total Credit Hours:		3

One Concentration from:

Note that BUS 243, BUS 244 and BUS 258 under the 2022-2024 Catalog are two-unit courses. However, starting with the 2024-2026 Catalog these courses will be offered as three-unit courses.

Entrepreneurship Concentration

BUS 241	Entrepreneurship and Community Leadership	3
BUS 243	Innovation Marketing and the Entrepreneur	2
	or

Finance and Accounting Concentration

Completion of 2 sections of BUS 293 - Special Topics (3 units per section) for a total of 6 units of instruction. One BUS 293 Special Topics section to focus on finance and one BUS 293 Special Topics section to focus on accounting.

BUS 293	Special Topics	1-3. Course may be repeated for credit.
	or

Organizational Leadership Concentration

BUS 244	Organizational Dynamics	2
BUS 246	Effective Organizational Leadership	3
	or

Project Management Concentration

BUS 257	Project Management 1	3
BUS 258	Project Management 2	2
Total Credit Hours:		6