MS in Nursing and MBA Dual Degree
Earn your MS in nursing and your MBA with Eastern Mennonite’s dual degree program in values-based leadership and management. Prepare for leadership in nursing, health care, hospitals and more.
- Hybrid and online courses designed for working adults
- Two masters degrees with shared credits
Admission Requirements
- Students must be accepted to both the MSN and MBA programs
- MSN requirement: a 3.0 GPA in undergraduate nursing courses plus 2 acceptable references
- MBA requirement: students have at least two years working experience and achieved satisfactory performance on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT)
- Students without a background in business may take a prerequisite courses (all offered by 91´óÉñ) including coursework in accounting, finance, and economics.
Course Requirements
Total of 56 SH (reduction of 17 SH in the dual degree)
Shared Courses Between the MBA Health Care Track & the MSN – 9 SH
- NURS 515 – Health Care Delivery System
- NURS 516 – Application of Legal & Ethical Principles to Health Care Leadership
- NURS 626 – Managing in a Complex Health Care Environment
MSN Requirements – 23 SH
- NURS 501 – Introduction to Sacred Covenant Conceptual Framework
- NURS 510 – Historical, Philosophical, and Theoretical Framework
- NURS 512 – Epidemiology & Informatics
- NURS 503 – Practice Skills for Conflict Transformation
- NURS 511 – Translational Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice
- NURS 629 – Instructional Methodologies for Nurse Leaders
- NURS 620 – Safety, Risk Reduction, and Quality Care
- NURS 630 – Nursing Capstone (with the addition of an MBA faculty advising the project to ensure the presence of sustainability content)
MBA Requirements – 24 SH
- OLS 510 – Leadership & Management for the Common Good
- OLS 515 – Introduction to Leadership Studies
- OLS 530 – Organizational Behavior (NOTE – NURS 628 Org Behavior may be substituted if schedule requires)
- OLS 540 – Financial Literacy for Managers
- MBA 623 – Financial Management
- MBA 647 – Strategic Marketing Management
- MBA 671 – Data Analytics for Decision Making
- MBA 560 – Stewardship, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship (or elective)
Course Schedule
This is based on a full time, two courses per semester model.
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