Please refer to the links on this page when determining your course schedule. Pay particular attention to the course descriptions to be aware of additions and other changes to the list of courses available and to be sure of using the correct course number.
Registration for first year, first semester students will be handled by the MBA office .
Remember to follow the suggested course sequence for part-time and full-time students. It is important that your program begin with the fundamental courses and build to the more advanced ones. Remember that your technical concentration should follow the courses outlined on the web page. If you need to make a change in the course work for your concentration, you need to contact the MBA office for approval.
Registration (including drop/add) is conducted through the university’s MyPack Portal system. Drop and add dates for courses are listed on the Academic Calendar. Please study this carefully.
If you are closed out of a course, you may put your name on the waitlist through MyPack Portal. You can periodically check in MyPack Portal to see if you’ve been added to the course. Please note that the waitlist is dissolved on the last add/drop date of each semester. If you are nearing the end of your program and are closed out of a course, please contact Carol Smith.
Familiarize yourself with the course sequence that matches the semester you entered the program and the campus to which you were assigned. Make note of all additional information at the bottom of the page below the course sequence.
At any time you may check your current course schedule on MyPack Portal. To verify a drop or add (including checking drop/add status of one-hour courses) log on to the Student Self-Service links on MyPack Portal.
If you will be registering for concentration courses, familiarize yourself with the concentrations page and choose from the left sidebar the concentration you are pursuing. Click on “curricula” under that concentration to see the course requirements. Some concentrations have “required” courses and “concentration electives.” You must take the required courses. From the elective group, if there is one, you need to choose additional courses to reach the total number of concentration courses you need. Some students need 3 concentration courses and other students need 4, so double check that information at the bottom of your course sequence page. Additional concentration information is available to you under Career Tips for your Concentration to assist you with your concentration choices.
The course offerings for
Spring 2010 are now available. This schedule is not final; changes may be necessitated by issues of room or instructor availability.
Go to MyPack Portal to review the registration process and to see how the MBA courses are listed with the University. You may notice that there are some differences compared to the attached course schedules. If information is missing, (e.g., all courses at RTP and some 2-credit hour courses do not have times, dates, and rooms assigned to them), refer to the attached schedules for that information. If an alphabetical suffix for a 590 course is different, go by the title of the course to make sure you’re registering for the correct course.
There will be three courses will taught online:
MBA 590-603 Software Development and Project Management
MBA 552-601 Organizational Culture
MBA 610-601 Organizational Culture Project.
MBA 590-603 Software Development and Project Management
Online course, 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course provides students with an understanding of software-development processes and software project-management, with a focus on Agile and Lean. This on-line course is jointly developed by NCSU and IBM. The course is approved for use in the following Master’s-degree programs: MBA, Computer Networking, CSC, and ECE, as well as the Engineering On-Line Master’s-degree programs in CSC and ECE. (For the programs labeled “tentative”, approval is pending the administrations’ review.) The course is also being used internally at IBM.
Many managerial jobs require an understanding of how software systems are developed. This includes not only managers who build software systems, but also managers whose operations rely upon software systems. The course focuses on the Agile and Lean software-development methods. Agile uses continuous stakeholder feedback to deliver high-quality, consumable code through user stories and a series of short, stable, time-boxed iterations. The course includes the use of Agile-based project-management software, namely IBM’s Rational tools. In addition, the course includes topics from Extreme Programming, such as test-driven development, automated testing, and continuous integration and build. Also presented are practices from Lean manufacturing which have been adapted for use in software development, such as value-stream analysis.
Prerequisite: graduate standing in Business, Computer Science, Computer Networking, or Computer Engineering, or permission of the instructor. This course is available to part-time MBA students ONLY.
Instructor: Dr. Jim Yuill, 919-271-6883
MBA 552 Organizational Culture (changed to online format for Spring 2010)
Online course, 3 Credit Hours
This course in the services concentration is being offered exclusively online in the spring during the first half of the semester. Our services faculty have successfully been delivering online executive education to Xerox over the last year. Our emphasis is on services that can become IT-enabled, so Dean Allen has decided that some of the service instruction will be delivered online. Professor Aiman-Smith will deliver the course, just as she has in the last two academic years. More and more companies are doing business on Second Life, so this year the course will deal with cultural artifacts in that environment as well as in the nonvirtual (real) world.
Students in the services concentration will pair this course with MBA 551 Services Management and Marketing which follows in the second half of the semester.
MBA 610-601 Organizational Culture Project
Online course, 1.5 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MBA 552 (1.5 hours)
The project will be an application of the material covered in MBA 552. This course is intended for students NOT concentrating in Services Management and Consulting and who are NOT interested in taking MBA 551 Services Management.
Credit Hour Changes for the Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Concentration
MBA 570 Managing the Growth Venture, MBA 576 Technology Evaluation and Commercialization Concepts and MBA 577 High Tech Entrepreneurship are now each four (4) credit hours.
International Courses
There will be international courses offered during spring break, the break between spring and summer semesters, and during the two summer sessions, but they are not yet scheduled. As soon as they are scheduled, we will notify you. In the meantime, register for what is available to you now, and if need be, you may drop/add later.
Courses that have a suffix that begins with a “0” (e.g., MBA 522.001) are taught on main campus; courses that have a suffix that begins with a “6” (e.g., MBA 522.601) are taught at RTP.
(Students off-sequence due to transfer credit, accelerated or decelerated sequencing, etc., please contact John Hutchings.)
View the 2-2-2 calendar.
Raleigh
You will be enrolled in MBA 540 Production and Operations Management (Professor McCreery), MBA 560 Marketing Management and Strategy (Professor Sirdeshmukh) and MBA 580 Global Strategy (Professor Barr). MBA 560 will be taught on Mondays from January 11, 2010 through March 29, 2010; MBA 540 will be taught on Thursdays from January 14, 2010, through March 25; MBA 580 will be taught on Mondays and Thursdays from April 5, 2010, through April 29, 2010. The final for MBA 580 will be held during university final examinations.
RTP
You will be enrolled in MBA 540 Production and Operations Management (Professor McCreery), MBA 560 Marketing Management and Strategy (Professor Sirdeshmukh) and MBA 580 Global Strategy (Professor Barr). MBA 560 will be taught on Thursdays from January 14, 2010 through March 25, 2010; MBA 540 will be taught on Mondays from January 11, 2010, through March 29; MBA 580 will be taught on Mondays and Thursdays from April 5, 2010, through April 29, 2010. The final for MBA 580 will be held during university final examinations.
(Students off-sequence due to transfer credit, accelerated or decelerated sequencing, etc., please contact John Hutchings.)
Raleigh
You will be enrolled in MBA 590 Ethics and Leadership on Monday evenings from 6:00-9:30pm during the first half of the semester (Jan 11 – Mar 1). During the second half of the semester (Mar 8 – Apr 26) you will be enrolled in MBA 550 Management of Technology and Innovation on Monday evenings from 6:00-9:30pm. These are two (2) credit hour courses. Additionally, you will be taking MBA 504 Data Analysis and Forecasting on Thursday evenings throughout the semester. MBA 504 is a three (3) credit hour class and will meet from 6:00-8:45pm.
RTP
You will be enrolled in MBA 590 Ethics and Leadership on Thursday evenings from 6:00-9:30pm during the first half of the semester (Jan 14 – Feb 25). . During the second half of the semester (Mar 8 – Apr 26), you will be enrolled in MBA 550 Management of Technology and Innovation on Thursday evenings from 6:00-9:30pm. These are two (2) credit hour courses. Additionally, you will be taking MBA 504 Data Analysis and Forecasting on Monday evenings throughout the semester. MBA 504 is a three (3) credit hour class and will meet from 6:00-8:45pm.
NC State’s Jenkins MBA program is pleased to announce the schedule of one-credit-hour courses for spring 2010. The purpose of these new courses is to widen the breadth of elective offerings and to help Working Professional MBAs finish the program more quickly. Courses will be offered on Saturdays, some in Raleigh and some in Research Triangle Park.
Each class meets all day on the first day listed and then meets for the morning two weeks later. Morning sessions will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; all day sessions will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with an hour break for lunch. Professor Bartley’s Business Valuation course is the only exception; it will meet on three different Saturday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
View one-credit hour course descriptions
View a convenient one-credit hour course table
There are different tuition structures between main campus and RTP. The difference in the tuition structures are made at the UNC System level, and not within the College of Management. Main campus tuition is based upon bands of credit hours. You pay one rate for 3 to 5 hours, a higher rate for 6 to 8 hours and a still higher rate for 9 or more.
The RTP program is off-campus, and is considered a “distance” program and therefore falls under the tuition structure for Distance Education. RTP tuition is charged upon actual credit hours taken. Also, the tuition schedules at the two campuses are entirely separate. If you take 6 hours in Raleigh and 1 at RTP you get two separate bills; ditto if you take 6 hours in RTP and 1 hour in Raleigh.
To meet student needs, it is important for us to offer 1 credit hour courses at both campuses. We are painfully aware of the problems that two tuition systems create for our students, and we will continue to do our best to make options available to you within the parameters within which we must operate.
If you have one of the following exceptional situations, you will need to speak with Jen Arthur if you are a full-time student and John Hutchings if you are a part-time student:
Once you have registered, check the MyPack Portal for your online tuition bill. Also, please reference the attached tuition chart for main campus and RTP rates. Tuition bills will go out electronically in early-mid November, and tuition will be due by according to the due date on your bill.
Tuition and fees information is available on the university Cashier’s Office website for students in the full-time and Main Campus part-time program. RTP part-time students may view tuition and fee information through DELTA. Please pay all tuition and fees on time; otherwise, your course schedule will be canceled. If you register during late registration you will be assessed a late fee in addition to your tuition, and your tuition and fees must be paid in advance of registering. For those of you who receive tuition reimbursement from your employers, that reimbursement is now considered taxable income.
In keeping with the continuous registration policy, you either must be registered or on an approved leave of absence every fall and spring semester (the policy does not apply to summer); otherwise, the Graduate School will terminate your graduate program.
