Master of Business Administration
Advance your career with leadership and strategic business skills
The accelerated, flexible MBA program at Kentucky Wesleyan College provides advanced training in management, finance, and organizational leadership. Designed for working professionals, the program emphasizes ethical decision-making, communication, and strategic thinking, preparing graduates for leadership roles in business, nonprofits, and government within the five available concentrations.
Master of Business Administration Program Features
The Kentucky Wesleyan MBA is a flexible, 12-month, 30-hour program designed for professionals who want to advance quickly without putting their careers on hold. Students may complete the program on campus, fully online, or through a personalized mix of both, making it an ideal option for working adults and recent graduates seeking balance and momentum.
In a competitive MBA market, Kentucky Wesleyan stands out by pairing flexibility with five in-demand specializations: artificial intelligence, business analytics, cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare administration. Each specialization allows students to focus their MBA on career-relevant skills while gaining insight into the technologies, strategies, and industries shaping today’s economy.
Courses are developed in collaboration with a national consortium of accredited institutions and are evaluated, approved, and assessed through Kentucky Wesleyan College’s standard academic governance processes. MBA program instruction is delivered by Kentucky Wesleyan faculty and participating faculty with deep industry and academic expertise, ensuring students benefit from both real-world experience and academic rigor. Students who successfully complete consortium courses earn Kentucky Wesleyan College credit, which is applied directly toward their MBA degree.
The program is built to deliver measurable value. According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council, MBA graduates nationally earn an average of fifty percent more than their pre-MBA salaries. The Kentucky Wesleyan MBA prepares students to pursue that return through a curriculum focused on strategic decision making, data-driven problem solving, ethical leadership, and emerging business practices.
Students choose the Kentucky Wesleyan MBA for its personal approach, flexible format, and practical outcomes. Small class sizes allow for meaningful faculty engagement, while the accelerated structure helps students move forward quickly. By graduation, you will be prepared to lead teams, solve complex business challenges, and contribute with confidence in a global, technology-driven economy.
If you want an MBA that offers flexibility, relevant specialization options, and a clear path to professional growth, the Kentucky Wesleyan MBA provides the competitive edge you need to move forward with purpose.
Career Paths
Business Executive – Executives lead organizations by setting goals, managing operations, and guiding long-term strategy. They make high-level decisions that shape business growth and success.
Financial Manager – Financial managers oversee budgets, investments, and financial planning. They help organizations maintain stability and achieve profitability, often earning top salaries in business.
Marketing Manager – Marketing managers design campaigns, analyze markets, and lead branding strategies. They drive customer engagement and revenue growth across industries.
Human Resources Director – HR directors manage recruitment, employee development, and organizational culture. They play a key leadership role in shaping workforce success.
Management Consultant – Consultants analyze challenges, improve efficiency, and recommend growth strategies. MBA graduates often join top consulting firms or lead their own practices.
Entrepreneur – Entrepreneurs launch and grow their own businesses, applying strategic thinking and leadership skills to create innovative products, services, and ventures.
Courses You'll Take
Credit Requirements
| Course Name | 30 credit hours |
| MBA 505 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 510 Managerial Accounting | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 515 Managerial Economics | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 520 Business Statistics | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 605 Leadership and Business Ethics | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 610 Managerial Finance | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 615 Marketing Management | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 620 Business Analytics | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 625 The Legal Environment of Business | 3 credit hours |
| MBA 630 Capstone Course | 3 credit hours |
- Course Descriptions
MBA 505 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management – 3 credit hours
Focuses on the advanced development of skills necessary to analyze and deal effectively with individual and group problems in organizations. Theories and case analyses provide guidance in decision making. Topics include motivation, job satisfaction, group dynamics, interpersonal communication, organizational culture, recruitment, compensation, organizational learning, evaluation, and change management.
MBA 510 Managerial Accounting – 3 credit hours
Examines corporate financial accounting in general and how accounting information informs management decisions. The course reviews advanced concepts and accounting practices used in all aspects of management, including planning, implementation, control, and evaluation. Cost analysis for routine decision making is also discussed.
MBA 515 Managerial Economics – 3 credit hours
Provides a detailed analysis of how micro- and macroeconomic concepts can be applied to corporate decision making to maximize the firm’s profit and enhance its ability to compete both domestically and in the global marketplace. Topics covered include microeconomic concepts, risk analysis, competitive pricing strategies, exchange rates, international trade, government policies, technology transfer, labor and capital.
MBA 520 Business Statistics – 3 credit hours
This course will teach you how to develop insights and make decisions from data sets. It will provide a foundation for an understanding of statistics and help you gain confidence leveraging statistics to create strong business cases and make intelligent business decisions. This course examines the use of descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis, t-tests, and applications of technology for statistical analysis, including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical findings for business problem solving and decision making.
MBA 605 Leadership and Business Ethics – 3 credit hours
Focuses on leadership and ethical issues in a diverse workforce. This course examines theories and practices that are relevant to effective management in a dynamic business environment. Topics include leadership theories, and interaction of business with government and society. Contemporary ethical issues and problems are considered via multiple case studies.
MBA 610 Managerial Finance – 3 credit hours
Focuses on advanced financial principles and practices associated with modem corporations, especially as these practices relate to planning and control. Current theories and practices related to investment decisions are discussed. Topics include risk management analysis, corporate financial accounting and budgeting, project evaluation, decision trees, acquisitions and disinvestments, and financing new ventures.
MBA 615 Marketing Management – 3 credit hours
Explores the structure and processes of marketing from a managerial perspective, with special emphasis on the manager’s role in marketing decisions. Theories and practices are examined, with illustrations from case studies in product marketing through various media Topics include strategic marketing, creating demand, product introduction, targeting, differentiation, segmentation, and supply chain management.
MBA 620 Business Analytics – 3 credit hours
The problems faced by decision makers in today’s competitive business environment are often extremely complex and can be addressed by numerous possible courses of action. Evaluating these alternatives and gaining insight from past performance is the essence of business analytics. This course is focused on Business Analytics, an area of business administration that considers the extensive use of data, methods, and fact-based management to support and improve decision making. While business intelligence focuses on data handling, queries, and reports to discover patterns and generate information associated with products, services and customers, business analytics uses data and models to explain the performance of a business and how it can be improved. This course discusses the benefits of employing analytics and a structured approach to problem-solving in management situations.
MBA 625 The Legal Environment of Business – 3 credit hours
An overview of the legal and social factors that affect the firm’s strategy, survival, and competitiveness. The course focuses on guidelines and constraints that affect the firm directly or indirectly and provides the basis for dealing with its employees, other firms in the environment, and its stakeholders in general. Special attention is paid to trade regulation, anti-trust laws, employer-employee relations, labor laws, corporate responsibilities, and compliance with regulations governing the operation of business organizations.
MBA 630 Capstone – 3 credit hours
A Capstone course taken during the student’s final semester in the program. This course is designed to apply knowledge gained from other core courses to issues of planning, formulating, and implementing business strategy.
Completion Requirements
The student must:
- Complete all coursework with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
- Apply for candidacy after completing a minimum of fifteen (15) credit hours and before completing twenty-one (21) credit hours.
- Earn 30 semester hours of credit and fulfill all course requirements within a maximum time limit of five years of matriculation.
How to Apply
1. Submit your application here. Kentucky Wesleyan College does not charge an application fee.
2. Upload a current resume/CV with your application.
3. Optional – Upload your GMAT or GRE official score report.
4. Send official university transcripts from schools you attended to Kentucky Wesleyan College.
International applicants
5. International applicants who attended college outside of the United States are required to submit an English Proficiency test score.
6. Transcripts from all institutions must be translated into English. We do not require a third-party transcript evaluation for international transcripts to submit an application.
Application Deadlines
Fall 2025 – application deadline August 5
Spring 2026 – application deadline January 5
Contact the MBA Program
Rohnn Sanderson, Ph.D. is the Director of the MBA Program.
Rohnn Sanderson
Professor of Economics
rohnn.sanderson@kwc.edu
(270) 852-3198
Master of Business Administration Program Requirements
The MBA requires 30 credit hours of graduate coursework, typically completed in 12–18 months. Core courses include Managerial Accounting, Managerial Economics, Managerial Finance, Organizational Behavior, Marketing Management, Business Strategy, and Business Ethics. Students also complete advanced electives or applied projects tailored to their professional goals. A capstone course integrates learning across disciplines through applied strategy and leadership projects.
Admission requirements include a bachelor’s degree, professional résumé, and transcripts; GRE/GMAT scores are not required. This flexible program is designed for professionals across industries who are ready to strengthen their leadership, analytical, and strategic business skills.
