7180.60 Exemption Criteria
     Applications for exemption from M.B.A. courses are available from the Office of Graduate Student and Alumni Services.
     Coursework that can be used for exemption must have been completed at a regionally accredited college or university with a minimum grade of C. To exempt a course in Groups B or C, the credit must have been earned before admission to the M.B.A. program. Refer to the descriptions of the MBA degree requirements earlier in this chapter for information on which courses can be exempted without replacement and which must be replaced.
     Descriptions of Georgia State University undergraduate courses that are referenced in these exemption criteria are found in the Course Descriptions chapter of the Georgia State University Undergraduate Catalog. This catalog is available on the web at www.gsu.edu; click on Students then Catalogs.
Group A: Foundation Courses
     MBA 8011: Georgia State’s Math 1070 and DSc 3120; or a course in statistics and a course in one of the following: business modeling, management science, operations management, operations research, or quantitative modeling/methods; or a passing score on the appropriate exemption examination; or a degree in mechanical engineering.
     MBA 8121: Georgia State’s Acct 2101, Acct 2102, and Fi 3300 or at least three undergraduate courses covering equivalent material or a passing score on the appropriate exemption examination.
     MBA 8231: Georgia State’s Econ 2105 or an equivalent principles-level macroeconomics course and Georgia State’s Econ 3910, or an equivalent intermediate-level microeconomics course, or a passing score on the appropriate exemption examination.
     Exemption examinations are administered once each semester by GSAS; a schedule is available from that office.

Group B: Core Courses
     MBA 8412: An undergraduate major in management including the equivalent of Georgia State’s Mgt 4010, Organizational Behavior (equivalent to Mgt 3500 not sufficient) or an undergraduate major or minor or at least four courses in one of these areas: organizational behavior from a business school or industrial and/or organizational psychology or industrial sociology
     MBA 8452: An undergraduate major in industrial engineering or at least three courses at the junior/senior level in production/operations management (such as Georgia State’s Mgt 4700, Mgt 4710, Mgt 4720, Mgt 4740, Mgt 4760) covering topics listed in the catalog description for MBA 8452.
     MBA 8622: An undergraduate major in finance or Georgia State’s Fi 3300, Fi 4300, and Fi 4320 or three courses that cover equivalent material.
     MBA 8642: An undergraduate major in marketing including at least one course requiring the analysis of comprehensive marketing-oriented cases (such as Georgia State’s Mk 4900).

Group C: Required Courses Beyond the Core
     MBA 8423: BusA 2106, Mgt 4300, and Phil 3730 or the equivalents or completion of one year of law school in good academic standing.
     MBA 8473: Coursework at the junior/senior level covering all of these topics: (1) strategic and managerial uses of information technology, (2) the processes by which information systems are created, (3) the nature of information technologies which make these systems and their strategic/managerial applications possible, (4) development of decision support models, and 5) application of decision support models and systems. Note that statistics, management science, or operations research courses at any level will not qualify for exemption.
     MBA 8683: An undergraduate major in accounting or Georgia State’s Acct 4210 and Acct 4310 or at least two courses covering equivalent material.
     MBA 8993: Georgia State’s BusA 4980 or an equivalent integrative capstone course in business which requires the analysis of comprehensive cases, PLUS at least three other courses at the junior/senior level on different topics from areas such as strategic planning, policy formulation/implementation, technology management, international management, and entrepreneurship.