Accounting with Leadership.

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program provides advanced management education that is focused on developing leadership capabilities by exposing students to a wide range of managerial skills and by providing them with the opportunity to develop expertise in an area of business that meets their career goals. To fulfill the requirements for a concentration in accounting students will take a minimum of three graduate-level accounting electives and obtain a “B” grade or better in all of those electives.

Help Businesses Analyze Big Data

The growing field of business analytics offers a modern approach to analyzing complex problems and making smart business decisions. The MBA concentration in business analytics teaches students to use data, quantitative methods and computational modeling to forecast the implications of business alternatives.

Students learn to solve problems through a mixture of quantitative analysis strategies and state-of-the-art software applications designed to help inform decision-making in diverse business environments. Professionals skilled in business analytics add value and keep organizations competitive by incisively analyzing large amounts of data and providing insight regarding operational efficiency, market trends, business planning and more.

Help Businesses Assess and Interpret Financial Value

The Master of Business Administration concentration in Business Valuation offers students a program to develop specialized skills in assessing the financial value of businesses. Key topics include mergers and acquisitions focusing on the strategic considerations of corporate consolidations, advanced financial statement analysis and valuation techniques for interpreting complex financial information.

The Business Valuation concentration utilizes hands-on training based on corporate finance and valuation techniques that can be directly applied to business valuation as well as facilitate the development of critical thinking skills. Upon completion of the concentration, students will be prepared to pursue roles in investment banking, middle market business valuation and brokerage, financial analysis and corporate finance.

The University of Tampa MBA cybersecurity concentration prepares students for careers in the cybersecurity industry while providing a strong and comprehensive business education. For the concentration, students take 12 credit hours of courses beyond the MBA requirements.  

Several courses are designed to cover the top professional certifications in the industry. As a benefit of the cybersecurity concentration, graduates will find themselves well prepared to take many of these certification exams.

The objectives of the cybersecurity concentration are to equip students with strong information security knowledge beyond the core MBA courses. With such knowledge, graduates will be able to successfully defend and protect information assets for any business regardless of industry.

In industrialized countries, new businesses create the majority of new jobs, yet most entrepreneurs have no formalized instruction in how to launch a new business. UTampa's entrepreneurship concentration prepares students for the intricacies of planning, launching and leading a new business.

The curriculum is designed around two themes: screening and recognizing opportunities to create value, and managerial innovation methodologies. Self-employment is only one career option for graduates of the entrepreneurship concentration. Other career options are "intrapreneurship" (innovation in large organizations), venture capital and social entrepreneurship.

In addition to a traditional classroom experience, students in the concentration compete in a business plan competition and have opportunities to interact with local entrepreneurs.

Be an Asset.

Business leaders with the ability to apply complex economic and accounting concepts in decision making are in great demand. Managerial decisions, as well as timely analyses of investment alternatives, require input from financially educated professionals.

The finance concentration prepares managers for successful interaction in four possible areas: corporate finance, investment/portfolio management, finance markets/banking and international finance. Topics in the finance courses assist students in preparation for the CFA exam.

Through an emphasis on specific analytical skills, MBA students who choose the finance concentration emerge with useful knowledge to help them succeed in any field. Additional finance courses sharpen students’ ability to weigh costs and benefits — an essential trait for effective business leaders. A Master of Science in finance is also offered.

Better Systems. Better Solutions.

In a world dependent on technology, computer systems professionals play a key role in meeting strategic goals. The information systems management concentration deals with managing information as a strategic corporate asset and resource. Students learn the technical knowledge and tools needed to integrate people, hardware, software and data for optimal planning, decision making and problem solving. The curriculum is designed to empower leaders with an understanding of how information systems can be used to achieve a corporation's mission and vision.

MBA students who choose this concentration position themselves at the cutting edge of technology. They gain the tools to manage information systems operation, including revolutionary training in SAP software.

Managing Across Cultures.

Well-trained, experienced professionals are needed to make businesses work across different cultures, political systems and economies. The international business concentration provides MBA students with a broad-based business background and develops an understanding and appreciation for the strategic, operational and behavioral aspects of managing in different countries.

Students investigate the development and implementation of marketing techniques and programs on an international scale, and learn the special risks and problems encountered by multinational managers. International travel courses offer students a chance to encounter such challenges first-hand and learn the differences in how businesses operate in other countries.

While some MBA graduates with an international concentration go on to manage businesses overseas, others work for global companies based in the U.S.

Marketing in the Digital Age.

The marketing concentration provides MBA students with a broad-based education in what it means for an organization to be truly marketdriven and to create value for its customers. The hands-on skills students acquire in strategic brand management and other areas may be used in a variety of business settings.

Class projects involve students in making decisions about product development, pricing, promotion, marketing research, sales compensation, cost containment and production scheduling. Students may take courses that cover advertising, marketing management, service quality, market research, marketing strategy and international marketing.

Keeping in line with the MBA program, the marketing concentration has an experiential focus that gives students opportunities to work with real companies who have real problems and need real solutions. The curriculum supports preparation for the Professional Certified Marketer™ exam offered by the American Marketing Association. An M.S. in Marketing is also offered.

Make a Difference

Through UTampa and the Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay, MBA students have a unique opportunity to concentrate in nonprofit management. Additionally, non-MBA students may participate in the certificate track of nonprofit management — a great option for current social sector organization leaders in the Tampa Bay area.

Graduate business faculty in partnership with leading nonprofit practitioners teach courses that aim to strengthen current nonprofit managers and train the rising generation of industry leaders. Nationwide, it is estimated that more than 600,000 new senior managers will be needed in the nonprofit sector during the next five years. The program focuses on effective board governance, strategic planning, understanding and creating budgets, marketing and fund development, conducting feasibility studies and tapping leadership potential — all topics designed to help students become better managers.