University Of Southern Nevada

Flexible: Our “fast track” MBA program is perfect for those individuals that have limited time to commit to their MBA goal, yet want a “real-world” respected program taught by professors with impressive and successful backgrounds.

Innovative: Each student will develop strategic, marketing, operational and financial plans for a product or service of his or her choosing. These business plans will be developed throughout the entire program.

Experiential: The experiential MBA Program develops student attributes that corporations look for when placing or promoting their top talent.

Entrepreneurial: Our MBA Program provides the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills that leaders need to start a company or to help an existing business to: Successfully launch new products and services, Improve existing products and services, Find new applications and market for existing products and services.

The leaders of the future must cope with cross-functional jobs and crossbred industries. This new millennium requires leaders who can integrate business operations and technologies to serve both business and non-business organizations. The University of Southern Nevada’s business program helps the MBA student to realize his or her professional goals whether these goals are in the corporate, not-for-profit, venture capital sectors, or whether they are in a completely new enterprise. The MBA degree opens the door to a variety of management and leadership opportunities in service, retail, finance, and manufacturing environments.

• Understand and apply management-based analytical and problem-solving knowledge and skills
• Build productive teams and work collaboratively with others to achieve excellent results
• Communicate effectively in writing, speak persuasively, and work well with others
• Apply course content to individual entrepreneurial projects
• Understand a company and its related industry.

• The courses are primarily interactive and emphasize discussion of assigned readings in the text, assigned case studies as well as business-related events appearing in prominent business journals and newspapers.
• The instructor leads class discussion of the homework material and problems that the students are assigned to complete, using active learning strategies to reinforce and help students retain the information.
• Students present, assess, and revise assigned case analyses in small groups as the Instructor rotates among groups.
• Selected students present and lead case discussions for the entire class. The Instructor moderates the discussion, assesses performance of presenters, and reinforces key concepts.
• Students apply course content to their individual entrepreneurial projects.
• Students select a company to study and develop a deep understanding of the company and its related industry.

The University of Southern Nevada is located in Henderson, Nevada. While the University is situated in a beautiful and well-planned suburb of Las Vegas, we are only 15 minutes away from the Las Vegas Strip and 10 minutes from the Las Vegas Airport. The University is approximately a 4-hour drive from Los Angeles and a few hours drive from Zion National Park.

The Las Vegas/Henderson area provides the amenities and excitement of a major entertainment city with the peacefulness of the surrounding mountains and landscape. In addition to Las Vegas nightlife, the area offers excellent golf courses and areas for hiking and bicycling. Lake Mead offers beautiful settings for water sport activities.