The Online MBA curriculum at Chico State offers the best of all worlds: mastering well-rounded business knowledge and leadership attributes, the opportunity to target your degree toward a specific career path, and immediately actionable professional skills delivered quickly and efficiently. Whether you plan to pursue one of our specializations or take a more general route toward broad business expertise, the Online MBA can get you where you need to go.
Explore the innovative, high-impact courses that comprise the Online MBA curriculum, and see how you can craft an MBA experience to help you excel in any career path.
Prerequisite Courses
To ensure preparedness for the course content of the Online MBA program, all students must either pass the following prerequisite courses or demonstrate sufficient professional experience to waive them:
- ACCT 201: Introduction to Financial Accounting (or equivalent)
- Required for ACCT 615 and FINA 655
- ACCT 202: Introduction to Managerial Accounting (or equivalent)
- Prerequisite: ACCT 201; required for ACCT 615
- MATH 108: Statistics of Business and Economics (or equivalent)
- ECON 103: Principles of Microeconomics Analysis (or equivalent)
Online students are strongly encouraged to take these courses prior to the beginning of their first term at Chico State, although students may begin taking Online MBA courses without having all prerequisite courses completed. Most students with an undergraduate business degree will likely have met all of these requirements.
To make this process more efficient and effective for you—as well as to save you time and money—the MATH 108 and ECON 103 requirements can be fulfilled by enrolling in online, non-credit bearing, self-paced leveling courses offered by Peregrine Academic Services. Leveling courses (also called modules) are meant to give non-business majors the basic information they need to succeed in our graduate courses. ACCT 201 and ACCT 202 must be taken as credit-bearing courses, either at Chico State or at another institution.
*Courses completed that are equivalent to the listed prerequisites (ACCT 201, ACCT 202, MATH 108, ECON 103, or equivalents), must be less than 10 years old and students should have earned a C or higher in the course. Prerequisite equivalents completed 10 or more years ago, or where a grade lower than a C was earned, may need to be retaken. In a rare exception, some dated prerequisites may be waived if the applicant has extensive and current knowledge in a relevant area. For example, the program may waive the two accounting prerequisites for someone that was an accounting major and has been actively working in accounting.