Admission to the Joint Program

Applicants must apply and be accepted to both the MBA and MS Nursing programs. It is recommended that students interested in this joint degree initiate the application process for the MBA portion of the degree during their first semester of enrollment in the MS Nursing program, but no later than their second semester of enrollment.

Contact the Graduate Program Coordinator in the College of Nursing at (312) 996-7800 for more information and for specific admission requirements to the nursing portion of the joint program. Current students interested in applying to a joint program should contact their academic adviser.

Degree Requirements

A minimum of 68-71 semester hours are required for the joint degree.



Courses Required only for the MBA Courses Required only for Nursing
ACTG 500(4)
Introduction to Financial Accounting 		NUSC 526 (2)
Nursing Inquiry I
ECON 520 (4)
Microeconomics for Business Decisions 		NUSC 527 (2)
Nursing Inquiry II
FIN 500 (4)
Introduction to Corporate Finance 		NUSC 528 (2)
Health, Environment, and Systems
IDS 532 (4)
Introduction to Operations Management 		NUSC 529 (1)
Issues in Advanced Practice in Nursing
MGMT 541 (4)
Organizational Behavior 		NUSC 597 (3) Project Research
OR
NUSC 598 (5) Thesis Research
MKTG 500 (4)
Introduction to Marketing 		NUAS 501 (2)
Administrative Nursing Models and Concepts
MBA Electives (16 semester hours)
At least 16 semester hours of elective MBA courses within a minimum of two departments. IDS 570: Statistics for Management is required as one of the electives in order to meet the College of Nursing requirements.
NUAS 502 (3) Strategic Management
NUAS 505 (3) Nursing Systems Operations Management
NUAS 512 (3) Health Care Human Resource Management
NUAS 517 (3) Budget and Finance of Health and Nursing Services
  NUAS 520 (2)
Internship in Advanced Nursing

JOINT DEGREES


CONTACT THE LGSB:

Liautaud Graduate School of Business (MC 077)
815 W. Van Buren
Suite 220
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: (312) 996-4573
Fax: (312) 413-0338

E-mail: mba@uic.edu