Pre-Requisites for Masters of Business Administration Offered Online

The School of Leadership and Development offers the required foundation courses for the MBA program online!

The four foundation courses listed below are required by all MBA students of Eastern University (and most other colleges and universities) for those students who have not had courses in these areas in their previous educational background.

In order to address the needs of Eastern’s MBA in Economic Development program, an online delivery of the courses has been developed. Although it has been developed for this program, it is also open to students of other programs of Eastern in order to gain the competencies which will best prepare students to succeed in their graduate level studies and have a fuller, well-rounded understanding of business.

The following are the dates and registration deadlines of the Foundations Courses. You will be required to take these additional courses prior to any graduate studies, no exceptions.

These courses are priced separately from Eastern’s Economic Development MBA tuition. 2005-2006 rates of tuition for online Foundation courses is $310 per credit. Each of the foundation courses is 3 credits. The list of required textbooks will be available closer to the start date of the classes.

Please note that ACCT223 needs to be taken before FIN223.

To register for these courses, please contact Brian Hackett and reference your intended program enrollment as well as courses you need to take.

Additional ways to complete foundation courses if not through Eastern University:
1. Successfully complete undergraduate business courses at another accredited university or college with a grade of C or better and have the official transcripts sent to Eastern University SLD Admissions.

• The equivalency to ACCT 223 would require courses in both Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting
• The equivalency to BUSA 223 would require content in Forecasting and Regression Analysis
• The equivalency to Econ 223 would require courses in both Macro Economics and Micro Economics
• The equivalency to FIN 223 would require courses in ACCT 223 or Financial and Managerial Accounting

We would recommend that we approve the courses through the Program Coordinator before you take them so there is no confusion.

For your convenience, below is a list of accredited schools that offer business courses online. These can be transferred to Eastern University as long as the courses are coming from a fully accredited College/University.

Some of the schools offering online course are:
 University of Tennessee,
 University of Washington
 University of Kansas
 University of Wisconsin Madison
 University of Ohio
 Cerro Coso Community College

2. Some of these courses can also be completed through the following:
The College-Level Examination Program® or CLEP (www.collegeboard.com/clep) provides students of any age with the opportunity to demonstrate college-level achievement through a program of exams. They offer Principles of Accounting and Financial Accounting which when taken together would satisfy the ACCT 223 foundation requirement.

3. The DANTES Distance Learning Program provides a wide range of nontraditional education programs critical for Service members who need alternatives to fulfill degree requirements when classroom courses are unavailable or when work schedules or duty locations do not permit class attendance. DANTES provides undergraduate courses from nearly 150 institutions.

For information regarding School of Leadership and Development programs, contact Sharlene Joseph-Brown at 610-341-1398 or 1-800-597-9324.