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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND STATISTICS

Master of Business Administration Degree – Management Science Concentration

This concentration is designed to offer the opportunity for qualified graduate students to study business administration while developing special expertise in management science and to synthesize the theory and fundamentals of decision analysis with a study of current applicable technology. To achieve this end, students can focus their elective courses on the use of modern methodologies and techniques in the analysis and support of managerial decision-making activities, including the application of computer hardware and software.

Students choosing to concentrate in management science must complete the 21 semester credit hours of courses containing the foundations of knowledge and 12 semester credit hours of electives from the following:

MS 5303 Decision Support Systems
MS 5323 Statistical Methods for Business Analysis
MS 5343 Logistics Systems Management
MS 5373 Simulation Analysis of Business Systems
MS 5393 Production Operations Management
MS 5423 Service Management and Operations
MS 5453 Management and Control of Quality
MS 5473 Logistics System Analysis
MS 6943 Management Science Internship
MS 6953 Independent Study
MS 6973 Special Problems

Additionally, a student may request the management science coordinator or chair to substitute other appropriate College of Business graduate electives for one or two of the above courses.

Master of Science Degree in Statistics

The Master of Science (M.S.) Degree in Statistics includes instruction in a broad range of statistical methods and computational tools to equip students to pursue careers as government, industrial, or academic statisticians, or to continue to doctoral study in statistics.

Program Admission Requirements. In addition to satisfying the University-wide graduate admission requirements, a B.A. or

B.S. in Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely related field is highly recommended as preparation. In particular, the completion of MAT 4213 and STA 3523 or their equivalents is required for unconditional admission. Those students who do not qualify for unconditional admission should anticipate that additional undergraduate and/or graduate coursework may be required to complete the degree. All applicants are required to submit scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) aptitude test.

Degree Requirements. Candidates for this degree are required to successfully complete 36 semester credit hours as specified below:

A. All candidates for the Master of Science in Statistics must complete the following 18 semester credit hours of coursework:

MAT 5203 Theory of Functions of a Real Variable I
MAT 5283 Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
STA 5133 Data Analysis with Statistical Software
STA 5503 Mathematical Statistics I
STA 5513 Mathematical Statistics II
STA 5713 Foundation of Linear Models

B. A candidate for the Master of Science degree in Statistics must complete 6 semester credit hours of coursework chosen from eligible graduate courses in Statistics within the Department of Management Science and Statistics.

C. A candidate for the Master of Science degree in Statistics must complete 6 semester credit hours of coursework chosen from eligible graduate courses in either Mathematics or Statistics.

D. Each student in the Master’s program is required either to write a Master’s thesis or complete 6 semester credit hours of graduate level courses in Mathematics, Statistics, or other disciplines as approved by the Graduate Advisor of Record.

E. Each candidate for the degree is required to pass an advanced comprehensive examination in Statistics or successfully defend his or her thesis research results.

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