MBA/Chief School Business Official

MBA Master of Business Administration/Chief School Business Official

The MBA/Chief School Business Official online program is offered through the PDA partnership with Concordia University Chicago. This program blends the best of business administration and school business management. The MBA portion provides key management skills in areas like business operations, finance and planning. The school management portion applies these concepts to the school environment as well as addressing the unique duties of a school administrator.

There is a total of 39 semester hours to complete this program. 6 of these hours are an internship in a school setting. This program is offered in 2 formats-online and face-to-face. For further information, contact Hallie Brenczewski or Bill Summers at at 815.744.8334.

Pending sufficient enrollment, class will be conducted at the PDA.

Program Objectives

The MBA program is designed to develop students both personally and professionally into well-educated, ethical, competent, business leaders. The curriculum ensures that students are prepared to deal effectively with critical issues in a changing global, business environment.

Students will develop skills to allow them to effectively communicate in a variety of situations, including but not limited to, the following areas:

• Group work
• Presentation format
• Written based forum
• Technology based forums

Students will develop skills to make excellent decisions in an environment of complex problems and situations, including:

• Reflective Analysis
• Critical thinking
• Research methodology
• Access global and cultural influences
• Evaluate ethical implications
• Handling uncertainty

Students will develop management and leadership skills, including:

• Use social structure around them to identify opportunities to create value, mobilize resources and organize to deliver successful results
• Manage and lead through high performance teams, corporate culture, strategic change, informal organization. and across business units
• Asssess influences of globalization and diversity

Degree Requirements

• Completion of 39 hours of coursework
• Capstone Experience