Southwestern Adventist University Department of Business Administration

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Southwestern Adventist UniversityDepartment of
Business Administration

• Values of SWAU MBA Program
• Get Motivated!
• Get Informed!
• Get Connected!
• Jerry Chi, MBA, Ph.D., Ph.D., Chair

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Welcome to Southwestern Adventist University MBA
Program


MBA Program Computerized Building

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Modernized Library for Research
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Modernized Computer Lab
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Comfortable Learning Environment
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MBA Program Rest Areas
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Welcome to Southwestern Adventist University MBA
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Our Business Students (MBA BBA) Won SIFE
Regional Championship
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MBA Program Social Activities
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Welcome to Southwestern Adventist University MBA
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Fully Accredited by IACBE SACS
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Figure 52 U.S. Employment and Pay by Occupation
Source November 2003 National Cross-Industry
Estimates of Employment and Mean Annual Wage for
SOC Major Occupational Groups, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Case
Figures, Fiscal Years 19972003
Source Data compiled by the Office of Research,
Information and Planning from EEOCs Charge Data
Systems national database.
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Southwestern Adventist University

• MBA Program
• The most valuable degree in the world.
• Time Magazine, July, 2007
  

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• Investing in the MBA degree will be one of the
  most important decisions of your life. I am
  pleased you are considering Southwestern
  Adventist University MBA Program.

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SWAU MBA Program
Relevance, Excellence, Service

• Touching Lives For God, Church, Organization,
  Family, and Self
• A Cradle for Future Leaders and Managers

This year we are starting a MBA program with a
new format of five courses offered online and 7
courses offered on Sundays. If you have great
potentials to become a leader or manager, you
may need this credential to help you climb the
career ladder for another 20 or 30 years.
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Think GloballyAct Proactively

•  According to the article, "Disposable Workers"
  (Miller, 1999, pp.113-115), in ten years high
  school graduates will be pushed to the corner of
  the job market, college graduates will be spread
  over the streets, and master's degrees will be
  the basically required credential for most job
  offers.

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Benefits of Graduate Work

• SpecialistSynthesize and create Knowledge
• Expectation--Academic and occupational
• Foundation for doctoral study and scholarship
• Efficiency and Economy Keep the tension for
  academic work (5 years for two)
• Qualification for Leadership and Managerial
  Position (specialty and managerial training)
• Shortage in Job Market (Demand gt Supply)
• Parental Expectation

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Broad-Based Integrative Curriculum

• MBA In Accounting Emphasis
• MBA in Management / Leadership Emphasis
• Weekend MBA Courses
• Summer Semester (Sunday)
• BUAD 561 Management Information System (First
  Module- Sunday)
• BUAD 531 Marketing Management (Second Module-
  Sunday)
• BUAD 521 Financial Management (Third Module-
  Sunday)
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• Fall Semester (Sunday)
• ACCT 521 Managerial Accounting (Sunday)
• ECON 521 Managerial Economics (Sunday)
• Spring Semester (Sunday)
• BUAD 631 Quantitative Methods for Business
  Decisions (Sunday)
• BUAD 681 Strategic Management (Capstone Course
  for Graduation)
• Attended Graduation in May
• Online MBA Courses
• BUAD 541 Legal Ethical Values in Management
  (Fall Online)

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Features of SWAU MBA Program

• 1. High Standard of Management and Leadership
  Education
• 2. Professional and Friendly Environment
• 3. Intensive Use of Computer Technology
• 4. Qualified Christian Professors
• 5. Excellent Faculty to Student Ratio
• 6. Year-Round Admission Fall, Spring, and
  Summer.
• 7. Integrating Christian Value Into Leadership
  and Management Training
• 8. Integrate computer technology with
  subjects. http//d2l.swau.edu

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GMAT Review Workshop

• Verbal
• Reading
• Writing
• Sentence Correction (Fluency)
• Critical Reasoning
• Quantitative
• Algebra Geometry
• Data Sufficiency
• A GMAT review workshop will be offered on
  each Monday of July 16. 23 and 30 and August 6
  from 700-900 p.m. at the Pechero Hall Room 126
  (New Building) on Southwestern Adventist
  University campus. The location is 100
  Hillcrest, Keene, TX, 76059. RSVP by emailing to
  Dr. Jerry Chi at chij_at_swau.edu is needed. The
  registration fee is 25 dollars, paid at the
  first workshop day, July 16. The designated GMAT
  review book will be available for the attendees
  to purchase. A personal check or cash will be
  accepted.

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MBA Placement and Salary

• MBA Career Opportunity
• MBA Salary
• MBA BBA Salary Statistics
• The survey findings were based on information
  received from approximately 70 of class who
  responded to those questionnaires and are
  summarized below. A final report will be
  available on October 1, 2000.
• Median Base Salary72,750
• Median Total Compensation82,750
• Average Signing Bonus10,246Average
• Total Comp. 83,606
• Average Base Salary72,131
• Range Base Salary 35,000-93,000
• Range Signing Bonus 2,000-46,000

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Career Opportunities for SWAU MBA Alumni

• Peter Taylor (MBA May 2006)  Peter now lives in
  New Jersey and works for the U.S. Government.  He
  is in training to become a Contract Specialist. 
  He is very happy with the position that he has,
  his salary as well as excellent benefits.  He
  would like to know of any graduating seniors
  interested in a career in acquisitions.  You have
  to be a U.S. citizen because the job requires
  Secret Security Clearance.  Please see Dr.
  Stembridge for contact information.
• Chris Sauder Dr. Harrington recently received an
  e-mail from Chris Sauder.  Chris is an accounting
  graduate and earned his CPA.  He now works for
  Catholic Healthcare West as a Senior
  Reimbursement Analyst.  He also reports that Kyle
  Cowan (another one of our accounting graduates)
  works at Feather River Hospital in California.
• Jorge Lopez (MBA, May 2006) Jorge wrote from
  California.  He Jorge Lopez works for a company
  called Swagelok in operations management.  To
  quote Jorge, "Man, life is sure different from
  school.  No monkey business.  I feel I have had
  to grow up really fast and sometimes too fast.  I
  like it here though". Matt Mitchell (MBA, May
  2004)  
• Matt Mitchell manages four medical facilities in
  Killeen, Texas.  He is in charge of setting the
  direction of the largest clinic in Killeen.  He
  also  handles all the billing, credentialing,
  hiring, firing, recruiting, and
  physician/insurance contracting.  Matt said that
  he does everything from planning strategies,
  goals, and desired outcomes to implementing and
  overseeing the plans to fruition.  Matt's company
  is currently planning to expand its biggest
  clinic to handle a MRI Imaging Center which will
  have state of the art equipment. Matt said, "I
  like the job very much and I was considered for
  the job because of my M.B.A."

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