MBA Program Course Offerings: Spring 2026

Helpful Dates & Definitions

• Session 1: 1/20/2026 – 3/13/2026
• Session 2: 3/16/2026 – 5/8/2026
• Full Semester: 1/20/2026 – 5/8/2026

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MBA Core Courses

BUA 601 – Strategic Data Analysis

To inform organizational decisions, students will learn to identify business problems, differentiate types of big data, propose a research question, and think critically about which statistical processes and applications will yield insights from the data. 

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online

BUA 680 – Foundations of Business Intelligence and Analytics

This course presents the philosophical and technical foundations of business intelligence and analytics.  The philosophical principles of business intelligence and analytics are discussed.  Important fundamental concepts and tools in business intelligence and analytics are introduced using a structured and integrated approach that moves from initial data collection to final decision outcome assessment.  Throughout the course, conditional reasoning and logical thinking in terms of process and systems are emphasized.

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online

MBA 609 – Financial Accounting for Decision Making

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the ability to read and interpret financial statements. This includes an understanding of the components of the four primary financial statements, as well as a set of analysis tools that facilitate an understanding of what the financial statements are saying. The course also teaches students how to use current financial statements to model future financial statements under varying assumptions.

Offered: Session 1 Live (Tu 3:40 – 6:30PM), Session 2 Online

MBA 626 – Management of Contemporary Organizations

Explores analytical perspectives to understand how individuals organize themselves in accomplishing organizational goals. Topics include organizational structure, culture, teamwork and diversity, the organization and the global environment. 

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online (tentative)

MBA 637 – Global Supply Chain Networks

An introduction to managing the flow of material, products, services, information, and cash via the processes, technologies, and facilities that link primary suppliers through to ultimate customers. Attention is given to the functions of forecasting, production planning, supply management, production, transportation, inventory, warehousing, packaging, materials handling, and customer service.

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online

MBA 651 – Financial Management

Provides a foundation in financial management by integrating topics such as measurement of risk, portfolio theory, interest rate determination, valuation, capital budgeting and cost of capital. 

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online

MBA 670 – Managerial Marketing

BUA 670 Managerial Marketing is designed to explore both the theory and application of marketing concepts from a managerial perspective. The course emphasizes marketing decision-making and marketing strategy development through case studies and marketing planning activities. 

Offered: Session 2 Online

MBA 649 – Strategic Decision Making 

This capstone course studies administrative practices at the strategic level of business management. Develops administrative competence in the formulation of business policy at the decision-making level through case study or practicums. 

Prerequisites & Notes: MBA students only. Completion of all MBA core courses or permission. Academic Advisor must submit your registration.

Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Low Residency – MaineMBA Academy

General Electives

MBA 695 – Internship (0-3 credits)

Field experience in business relevant to the student’s educational development and career goals. (Neither past work experience or field experience courses taken at other campuses or universities will be permitted as substitutes.) Only open to MBA students. Course may be repeated, but student may not earn more than 3 internship credits.

Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of Business School Graduate Director or designated appointee.

MBA 698 – Independent Study

Provides an opportunity for well-qualified students to pursue a selected topic in great depth under the supervision of an individual faculty member. The topic is to be determined in consultation with the faculty instructor.

Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of Business School Graduate Director or designated appointee.

Concentration Electives

Accounting

MBA 611 – Accounting for Government & Nonprofit Organizations

This course covers financial reporting and performance measurement issues for nonprofit entities and governments. Topics include accounting for state and local government transactions, accountability for public funds, as well as applied data analytics techniques. These topics will be examined at the graduate level and are relevant to students interested in pursuing the CPA and CMA certifications, as well as to those interested in pursuing entrepreneurship opportunities.

Prerequisites & notes: Graduate School of Business degree program students, or permission from GSB.

Offered: Session 2, Online

Blue Economy

SMS 683 – Internship in Marine Policy

Professional experience with a marine resource management organization. Students must submit a plan approved by the graduate coordinator of the Marine Policy Program and the sponsoring organization.

Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of the Graduate School of Business.

Business Analytics

BUA 686 – Predictive Analytics & Business Forecasting

This course presents a set of topics in developing analytical methodologies that make prediction and forecasting about future events of interest to business organizations. Students are introduced to managerial techniques and analytical models that reveal valuable information in economic and business data for supporting business planning and decision making. Students will learn how to build the models, how to interpret the predictions and forecasts produced from the models, and how to evaluate the reliability of the model results.

Prerequisites & Notes: BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission from Graduate School of Business.

Offered: Session 1 Online

BUA 684 – Business Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery

This course introduces students to various popular data mining methods for supervised and unsupervised learning. Students will apply these methods to analyze quantitative and textual data in business functional areas such as marketing, accounting/finance, operation, and management across industry sectors. The course emphasizes learning valuable data information from the data analysis results and discovering interpretable and meaningful knowledge to facilitate better business decision-making.

Students will have hands-on experience with mainstream analytical software, analyzing real-world business datasets. By the end of the course, students will be able to interpret and extract valuable insights from data analysis, gaining a competitive edge in today’s data-driven business environment.

Prerequisites & Notes: BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission from Graduate School of Business.

Offered: Session 2 Online

Engineering Management

ENM 586 – Advanced Project Management

Course covers a wide range of project management topics including project planning, controlling, scheduling, and risk analysis. Through lecture and case studies, students will be prepared to become project management professionals and will learn to bring projects to successful completion. The course also emphasizes the human relations aspects of project management such as team theory and personnel conflict.

Offered: Full semester, Online

Class Note: Class will meet synchronously one evening a week to be determined once students are enrolled so that it works for everyone.

MET 440 – Lean Six Sigma

An introduction to Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma continuous improvement methodologies via lectures, independent assignments, and in-class experiments using discipline-independent processes. Topics will include the 8 forms of waste; value stream maps; the DMAIC model; Gage R&R; hypothesis testing; Ishikawa diagrams; and Design of Experiments (DOE). If this course was taken under as a topics course in MET 320, it cannot be repeated for credit. MET 440 and MET 540 cannot both be taken for academic credit.

Offered: Full semester, Live (M/W 4:00 – 5:15pm)

ECE 590 – Neural Networks

This course introduces the fundamentals of artificial neural networks. It provides lessons on supervised and unsupervised learning in single and multi-layer networks, software implementation overview and applications in speech, text and image analysis.

Offered: Full semester, Online

ECE 591 – Deep Learning

This course is an introduction to deep learning, a branch of machine learning concerned with the development and application of deep artificial neural networks. Topics include convolution neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and their applications for various engineering and scientific problems. Students should know at least one high-level programming language. This course will use Python and give tutorials on Python programming. Students will gain hands-on experiences of developing, training, and evaluating deep learning models to solve sophisticated problems.

Offered: Full Semester, Live (Tu/Th 9:30 – 10:45AM)

Prerequisites: ECE 177 or COS 220 or CIE 115 or MEE 125 or permission.

EET 584 – Engineering Economics

A study of economic theory and applications in engineering and industrial organizations including capitalization, amortization, time value of money, cost comparison analysis, and breakeven value, and the ethics of engineering economic decision making. Also included are personal finance topics as applied to engineering situations and case study.

Offered: Winter Session (12/29 – 1/16); AND Spring Full Semester, Online

Finance

MBA 656 – Financial Engineering

This course explores the markets and valuation for options, futures, and swap contracts. Hedging and speculating strategies using derivatives are covered. Financial engineering techniques are developed that can adjust the risk and return offered by traditional assets. Topics include cash and carry, option pricing models, forward contracts, stock futures, interest rate futures, stock index futures, stock options, interest rate options, and various swap contracts.

Prerequisites & Notes: MBA student and successful completion of MBA 651.

Offered: Session 2 Online

Food Technology Industry Management: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration

FSN 538 – Fermented Foods & Probiotics

An overview of fermentation of various categories of foods by applying principles of microbiology. Includes discussion of microbial metabolic pathways of importance in microbial inoculants and the physicochemical changes that occur within the substrate matrix during the fermentation process. Previous coursework in general microbiology recommended.

Offered: Full semester, Online

Geospatial Technologies

GEO 505 – Remote Sensing

Theory and techniques of image processing and analysis for remotely sensed digital data acquired from airplane and satellite platforms. Topics include image enhancement and classifications, spectral analysis, and landscape change detection techniques. Practical applications of natural and built landscapes are considered using remotely sensed datasets and techniques.

Offered: Full semester, Online

GEO 518 – GIS Applications II

Students explore the use of geographical information systems (GIS) in research and professional environments. Building upon knowledge and skills developed in GEO 308, students design and execute a substantial project. Project design focuses on generating hypotheses, planning time lines and individual work assignments, and identifying technical and data resources. Projected execution is undertaken using a variety of raster, vector, and graphical user interface (GUI) software, as appropriate.

Offered: Full semester, Online

Notes & Prerequisites: GEO 308 or GEO 508; or permission of instructor.

Global Policy (Orono Only)

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Healthcare Systems

MPH 539 – Topics in Public Health: Adverse Experiences

The course focuses on current topics in public health with an emphasis on special populations, diseases, or events. The course is designed to address public health concerns that are timely and relevant; topics will rotate periodically in response to student demand and/or emerging public health issues. Prior topics have included infectious disease, obesity, global health, child health, and substance use disorders.

Offered: Full semester, Online

MPH 565: Social & Behavioral Health

The goal of this course is to encourage students to critically think about the multiple factors that influence population health. The course focuses on social and behavioral determinants and the use of theory and planning frameworks to address public health problems. Students will have the opportunity to apply theory, assess the needs and assets of a community, design a program using a planning framework, and develop a program theory of change, or logic model to conceptualize a public health intervention.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (Th 5:00 – 7:30PM)

MPH 660 – Health Policy

Students gain an understanding of the political dynamics of health policy making and develop practical skills in policy analysis, policy communication, and health care public health advocacy. The course uses analytic models, case studies, guest speakers, readings, group discussion, and mock legislative testimony to promote a practical understanding of how ideas succeed -and fail- to become laws and regulations.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (M 5:00 – 7:30PM)

MPH 670 – Quality Improvement

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the principles and practice of quality improvement as implemented by providers of health care, systems of care, community health and public health agencies. Course content focuses on describing, measuring, improving, and evaluating the quality and safety of health services for consumers and populations. Students develop competencies in identifying opportunities for quality improvement, selecting and using quality improvement tools and methods, and presenting their work in a professional context.

Offered: Full semester, Online

Human Nutrition: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration

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Organizational Leadership

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Outdoor Industry Management

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Public and Non-Profit Management

PPMP 515 – Organizational Leadership

This foundational course considers contemporary perspectives, issues and strategies regarding the management of public sector organizations, the importance of public service and provides a basic understanding of public management theory and the application of theory to governmental and other public and nonprofit sector institutions. Topics covered include a wide range of public management concerns, leadership styles, emotional intelligence, persuasive communication, team building, decision making, organizational culture and change. The course prepares students to become managers and leaders of public and not-for-profit institutions who can enhance the capability of these institutions. The course presents a realistic view of effective management and leadership in government and nonprofit organizations and the ways in which these organizations work and interact and focuses on the creation of social and public value, keeping in mind that economic and private value creation is often a part of public and non-profit management.

Offered: Session 1, Online-Live (Tu 7:00 – 9:30PM)

PPM 531 – Measuring Performance in Public & Nonprofit Sectors

This course is an introduction to performance measurement, monitoring, and reporting and related activities such as benchmarking for consumer and citizen use, and service efforts and accomplishments reporting. Students who complete the course will be prepared to develop basic performance indicators for public and nonprofit agencies in a variety of policy and management arenas. Specific attention is given to reviewing a variety of performance indicator systems. An emphasis will be placed on “hands-on” learning so that students gain confidence in using measurement techniques and learn how to apply practical measurement strategies in real world settings.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (W 7:00 – 9:30PM)

PPM 539 – Discourse in Negotiation (Topics in Public & Nonprofit Management)

This course is offered periodically to examine selected topics and current issues in public policy, community planning, and public and nonprofit management.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (Tu 4:10 – 6:40PM)

PPM 545 – Grant Writing and Funding for Public & Nonprofit Organizations

Concentrates on the process of securing the resources to support effective nonprofit projects. The goal of the course is to prepare students to identify sources of funding, write proposals that will attract grant awards, and develop an understanding of what it takes to build an organization, which foundations, public entities, and individual donors are confident in supporting. The course will begin with an examination of current trends in this post-industrial economy in which money is available to the voluntary and private sector. It will also focus on the importance of understanding the “ways of money” and knowing how to develop and administer a budget that will inspire trust in the organization’s reputation for effectively managing its programs and its fiscal resources.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (M 7:00 – 9:30PM)

PPM 630 – Leading Resiliency in Times of Change

This course offers students a conceptual framework for understanding the role of public and nonprofit organizations in a market economy and democratic society and the challenges in times of change. Public and nonprofit leaders make decisions in increasingly net worked environments that are characterized by uncertainty, resource constraints, competition for human resources, barriers to coordination as well as political, policy and community challenges. Recent world events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and social unrest, and threats from climate change have all brought into focus the need for greater resiliency at many different levels. Students will consider the unique social, economic and policy environment in which public and nonprofit organizations reside in Maine and nationally, and identify innovative strategic, governance, and management approaches in supporting resiliency, preparedness, mitigation measures, response capabilities and recovery mechanisms.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (Th 4:10 – 6:40PM)

Sustainability

PPM 512 – Sustainable Communities

The course is to introduce the student to one current approach to community planning, known as sustainable communities, which embraces a holistic approach to community development as a goal to be pursued in the complex interplay among natural, economic, and social systems. The course aims to establish command of the basic concepts, principles, policies, and obstacles associated with sustainable development, sustainable communities, and, as a practical example, smart growth.

Offered: Full semester, Online

GEO 505 – Remote Sensing

Theory and techniques of image processing and analysis for remotely sensed digital data acquired from airplane and satellite platforms. Topics include image enhancement and classifications, spectral analysis, and landscape change detection techniques. Practical applications of natural and built landscapes are considered using remotely sensed datasets and techniques.

Offered: Full semester, Online

PPM 564 – Planning and Design Studio

This course addresses a range of community design and site design issues at the local level. It requires a student to become familiar with literature on town design, conduct field observations and measurements, perform limited land use ordinance research, and communicate design observations and ideas in writing, through drawing, by using photographs, newspaper research, as well as in class discussions.

Offered: Full semester, Online-Live (M 4:10 – 6:40PM)