Naveen Jindal School of Management
Master of Science in International Management Studies
36 semester credit hours minimum
Faculty
Professors: Gregory G. Dess, Seung-Hyun Lee, Zhiang (John) Lin, Mike W. Peng, Cuili Qian, Riki Takeuchi, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia
Associate Professors: Lívia Markóczy, H. Dennis Park
Assistant Professors: Sora Jun, Sheen Levine, Junfeng Wu
Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk
Visiting Professor: Emily Choi
Clinical Professors: Britt Berrett, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Marilyn Kaplan, Diane S. McNulty, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Laurie L. Ziegler
Clinical Assistant Professors: Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Kristen Lawson
Associate Professors of Instruction: Maria Hasenhuttl, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Hubert Zydorek
Assistant Professor of Instruction: Victoria D. McCrady
Professor of Practice: Rajiv Shah
Associate Professors of Practice: Jackie Kimzey, Margaret Smallwood
Assistant Professor of Practice: Robert Wright
Degree Requirements
The Master of Science in International Management Studies (MS IMS) is a minimum 36 semester credit hours degree program that enables students to strategically manage business operations in both domestic and international settings. Students learn about the analysis of functional areas of domestic and international management, while gaining practical and theoretical knowledge of cultural, sociopolitical, and geographical challenges and opportunities affecting international business decisions. Students must take core courses first, then electives and then courses from a specific concentration.
To apply for this degree program, an undergraduate degree is required (all majors are considered). Students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in both core courses and in all graduate courses taken in the degree program, excluding program prerequisites to qualify for the MS degree. Students can obtain a double MS and MBA degree by taking a total of 63 semester credit hours (assuming they meet all the degree requirements for both programs).
Prerequisites
Students pursuing the Master of Science in International Management Studies (MS IMS) degree program are required to complete one semester credit hour of MAS 6102 Professional Development course. Degree credit is not earned for program prerequisites, however, the grade achieved in prerequisites will count toward the student's grade-point average (GPA). All program prerequisites must be satisfied within the first semester of graduate study as a degree-seeking student.
Course Requirements
Core Courses: 18 semester credit hours
The IMS core is required for all students and consists of six required courses. Students are encouraged to take core courses before enrolling in elective/track courses. These courses address issues that are fundamental to international management.
Required Courses:
IMS 6304 International Business Management
IMS 6310 International Marketing Decision Making
IMS 6360 International Strategy Analysis and Techniques
IMS 6365 Cross-cultural Management Analysis
IMS 6367 International Management Capstone
IMS 6373 Data Analytics for International Business
IMS Elective Courses:
In addition to IMS core courses, students may select up to three courses (nine semester credit hours) among the following IMS elective courses:
IMS 6302 Legal Aspects of International Business Transactions
IMS 6363 Regional Area Studies
IMS 6381 Managing Global Teams
IMS 6V98 International Management Internship
IMS 6V99 Special Topics in International Management Studies
Specialized Concentration Options: 9-18 semester credit hours
The MS IMS degree program offers students the opportunity to focus on a specific concentration or select from combination (optional) to obtain in-depth knowledge in a business area of their interests. Students may choose three to six courses (9-18 semester credit hours) from one of the nine specialized concentrations. Students can choose not to declare a concentration. In this case, they will need to choose any combination of three to six courses (9-18 semester hours) from the following list.
Business Analytics (9-18 semester credit hours)
BUAN 6312 Applied Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
BUAN 6320 Database Foundations for Business Analytics
BUAN 6335 Organizing for Business Analytics Platforms
BUAN 6344 Web Analytics
BUAN 6345 SAP Analytics
BUAN 6346 Big Data
BUAN 6347 Advanced Big Data Analytics
BUAN 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
MIS 6309 Business Data Warehousing
MIS 6319 Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP
MIS 6320 Database Foundations
MIS 6332 ERP Configurations and Implementation with SAP
MIS 6373 Social Media Business
MIS 6378 Customer Relationship Management with Salesforce
MIS 6380 Data Visualization
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
OPRE 6302 Operations Management
OPRE 6304 Operations Analytics
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Analytics
Finance (9-18 semester credit hours)
FIN 6301 Financial Management
FIN 6308 Regulation of Business and Financial Markets
FIN 6310 Investment Theory and Practice
FIN 6315 Entrepreneurial Finance
FIN 6316 Private Equity Finance
FIN 6321 Introduction to Real Estate
FIN 6322 Real Estate Finance and Investment
FIN 6323 Real Estate Market Analysis and Investment
FIN 6325 Macroeconomics and Financial Markets
FIN 6326 Real Estate Law and Contracts
FIN 6330 Behavioral Finance
FIN 6352 (ENTP 6355) Financial Modeling For Valuation
FIN 6356 Mergers and Acquisitions
FIN 6357 Digital Transformation and Value Creation
FIN 6364 Portfolio Analysis and Management
FIN 6366 International Financial Management
FIN 6370 Advanced Theory of Finance and Its Applications
FIN 6380 Global Fund Management
ACCT 6301 Financial Accounting
ACCT 6386 Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
Global Leadership and Management (9-18 semester credit hours)
IMS 6341 International Human Resource Management
BPS 6332 Strategic Leadership
BPS 6360 Management and Organizational Consulting: Theory and Practice
BPS 6379 Business Strategies for Sustainability
BUAN 6320 Database Foundations for Business Analytics
BUAN 6346 Big Data
ENTP 6370 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ENTP 6388 Managing Innovation within the Corporation
ENTP 6390 Business Model Innovation
MIS 6302 Managing Digital Strategy
MIS 6360 Agile Project Management
MIS 6393 Foundations of Digital Product Management
MKT 6301 (SYSM 6318) Marketing Management
MKT 6309 Marketing Data Analysis and Research
MKT 6329 New Product Development
MKT 6331 Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations
MKT 6336 Pricing Analytics
MKT 6353 Customer Analytics and Insights
MKT 6380 Market Entry Strategies
OB 6301 Organizational Behavior
OB 6303 Managing Organizations
OB 6307 Strategic Human Resource Management
OB 6331 Power and Politics in Organizations
OB 6332 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
OB 6337 Motivational Leadership in Organizations
OB 6V99 Special Topics in Organizational Behavior
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6394 Technology and New Product Development
Information Technology for Management (9-18 semester credit hours)
MIS 6302 Managing Digital Strategy
MIS 6204 Information Technology for Management
MIS 6308 System Analysis and Project Management
MIS 6309 Business Data Warehousing
MIS 6313 Managing IT in the Analytics Age
MIS 6319 Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP
MIS 6320 Database Foundations
MIS 6324 Business Analytics with SAS
MIS 6330 Cybersecurity Fundamentals
MIS 6344 Web Analytics
MIS 6345 SAP Analytics
MIS 6360 Agile Project Management
MIS 6380 Data Visualization
MIS 6396 User Experience Design
ACCT 6336 Information Technology Audit and Risk Management
ACCT 6386 Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (9-18 semester credit hours)
ENTP 6360 Startup Launch I
ENTP 6370 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ENTP 6375 Technology and New Product Development
ENTP 6380 Market Entry Strategies
ENTP 6388 Managing Innovation within the Corporation
ENTP 6390 Business Model Innovation
MKT 6345 Quantitative Marketing Decision-Making
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6394 Technology and New Product Development
International Management Research (9-18 semester credit hours)
IMS 7301 International Business
BPS 7300 Advanced Strategic Management Seminar I
BPS 7301 Advanced Strategic Management Seminar II
BPS 7302 Research Methodology
ENTP 7300 Foundations of Entrepreneurship
ENTP 7301 Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
OB 7300 Organization Theory
OB 7302 Organization Behavior
OB 7306 Macro-Organizational Empirical Investigation
OB 7312 Social Network Theory
OB 7313 Organizational Decision Making
Marketing Management (9-18 semester credit hours)
IMS 6314 Global E-Business Marketing
MKT 6301 Marketing Management
MKT 6309 Marketing Data Analysis and Research
MKT 6310 Consumer Behavior Science and Practice
MKT 6321 Interactive and Digital Marketing
MKT 6329 New Product Development
MKT 6332 Advertising and Promotional Strategy
MKT 6334 Digital Sales Strategy
MKT 6336 Pricing Analytics
MKT 6337 Predictive Analytics Using SAS
MKT 6341 Marketing Automation and Campaign Management
MKT 6342 Marketing Customer Insights Development
MKT 6343 Social Media Marketing and Insights
MKT 6349 MarTech Ecosystem
MKT 6350 Marketing Strategy and Game Theory Framework
MKT 6352 Marketing Web Analytics and Insights
MKT 6353 Customer Analytics and Insights
MKT 6380 Market Entry Strategies
MKT 6384 Advanced Marketing Web Analytics and Insights
MKT 6345 Quantitative Marketing Decision-Making
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
Supply Chain Management (9-18 semester credit hours)
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
OPRE 6302 Operations Management
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6340 Flexible Manufacturing Strategies
OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
OPRE 6364 Lean Six Sigma
OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
OPRE 6369 Supply Chain Software with SAP
OPRE 6370 Global Logistics and Transportation
OPRE 6371 Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Analytics
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6390 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Sustainable Business (9-18 semester credit hours)
IMS 6363 Regional Area Studies (Sustainability focus)
IMS 6358 Strategy for Implementing Sustainability Initiatives in Emerging Markets
ACCT 6301 Financial Accounting
ACCT 6393 Sustainability and the Role of Modern Corporations
BPS 6332 Strategic Leadership
BPS 6379 Business Strategies for Sustainability
MECO 6303 Business Economics
MECO 6318 Energy Economics and The Cost of Regulation
MECO 6340 Thinking Strategically
MECO 6345 Advanced Managerial Economics
MECO 6355 (OPRE 6355) Deal Making Strategies
MECO 6368 Advanced Comparative Institutions of Production and Distribution
ENGY 6332 Energy and Sustainability
ENTP 6375 Technology and New Product Development
OB 6332 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
OPRE 6301 (SYSM 6303) Statistics and Data Analysis
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis