MEM+MBA 2+1 Program

Students completing the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) at WSU will be allowed to use up to 12 credits hours (4 classes) in Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at WSU if they pursue it (i.e., double-counting 12 hours between two programs). The 12 credit hours will be completed by the student as a requirement for their MEM degree program and should be taken from the required courses in the MBA curriculum. The main objective of making this change is to provide the opportunity to students to pursue dual degrees (MEM and MBA) and structure the curriculum so that both programs can be completed within a reasonable time frame. The double counting rule will allow students to complete both programs by taking 60 hours of course work. The MEM program must be completed before any courses can be applied to the MBA program.

A Sample Course Distribution for an MEM student who already had a WSU MBA degree (at least 36 hours)

Core courses (25 hours):

IME 724 Statistical Methods for Engineers; one semester of zero credit seminar course IME 777 IME Colloquium; and CESP 750D Engineering Research Writing;

One course from each of the following IME concentrations: Operations Research, Systems, Production and Supply Chain Analytics, and Quality and Reliability; For a list of current courses in each concentration, please visit the IME website (https://www.wichita.edu/ime).

MBA 800 Financial Statement Analysis; MBA 801 Basics: Management & Marketing; ECON 800 Economics Theory (These courses are preparatory courses for students in the MBA program that do not have a business undergraduate degree);

Technical Electives (12 hours of graduate level MBA Courses-Overlap Permitted by the Graduate School):

  • ACCT 801: Managerial Accounting
  • MKT 801: Marketing Management
  • MGMT 862: Organization Behavior
  • FIN 850: Managerial Finance

A Sample Course Distribution for an MBA student who already had a WSU MEM degree (at least 36 hours)

  • ACCT 801: Managerial Accounting*
  • MKT 801: Marketing Management*
  • MGMT 862: Organization Behavior
  • FIN 850: Managerial Finance
  • MKT 803 / MGMT 803 (Decision Making Analysis)
  • ECON 804: Managerial Economics*
  • BLAW 810: Law and Ethics for Business
  • IB 836: International Business and Competitiveness
  • DS 850: Operations Management
  • MIS 874: Management Information Systems*
  • MGMT 885: Advanced Strategic Management
  • XXX: Elective Class

* Up to 12 hours of the required MBA courses taken as technical electives in the MEM program can be used towards MBA program.