Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Process Management Online

Become a changemaker and maximize the business operations of any organization when you strengthen your understanding of innovative business process techniques.

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Program Overview

Explore what the MBA in Business Process Management has to offer

Total Tuition $15,270

Duration As few as 12 months

Credit Hours 30

Develop creative solutions for macro- and micro-level organizational challenges in this Master of Business Administration with a Concentration in Business Process Management online. In this AACSB-accredited program, you will learn industry-specific best practices for managing information systems, modeling business processes, establishing technology standards and examining data.

Explore exciting career pathways when you gain innovative process-oriented strategies from the same highly experienced faculty who teach on campus. This rigorous and rewarding curriculum emphasizes hands-on practice with essential tools like SAP systems and ARIS simulation, so you will gain the advanced skillset employers need.

Graduates of the Online MBA Business Process Management will:

Gain the fundamental knowledge needed to be able to successfully analyze, define, mine and design organizational processes and to apply information technology to these processes
Support process innovation using the latest methodologies to redesign optimal business processes and information technologies
Describe different roles of Enterprise Systems (i.e., ERP, SCM and CRM) as components of the enterprise architecture to manage processes to achieve compliance

Gain the fundamental knowledge needed to be able to successfully analyze, define, mine and design organizational processes and to apply information technology to these processes
Support process innovation using the latest methodologies to redesign optimal business processes and information technologies
Describe different roles of Enterprise Systems (i.e., ERP, SCM and CRM) as components of the enterprise architecture to manage processes to achieve compliance

Career Opportunities:

Business Intelligence Analyst
Database Administrator
Technical/Business Architect
Software Developer
Business Manager/Director
Business Operations Manager
Business Operations/Process Analyst
Business Partner

Business Intelligence Analyst
Database Administrator
Technical/Business Architect
Software Developer
Business Manager/Director
Business Operations Manager
Business Operations/Process Analyst
Business Partner

Accreditation

The College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.

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Total Tuition $15,270

Duration As few as 12 months

Credit Hours 30

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Tuition

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Earn a world-class education for less than you’d expect. Our pay-by-the-course tuition fits easily into your budget.

Program	Per Credit Hour	Per Course	Per Program
MBA Business Process Management	$509	$1,527	$15,270*

Important payment information for your UIS online program:

If you are enrolling in our online Graduate Accelerated Programs (GAP) through the College of Business and Management, be aware that their tuition deadlines are different from general University tuition deadlines. For GAP, tuition is due to be paid in full the day before classes begin each term. If payment is not received before the first day of classes, you will be administratively withdrawn from the program.

Because the online program that you have applied and been admitted to is based on an 8-week period, while the University customarily addresses programs offered in a 16-week period, you may receive conflicting information from the University of Illinois System Bursar Office. The payment and due dates sent by the bursar office do not apply to your 8-week online courses. If you have questions, please contact your program advisor.

*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270

Per Credit Hour $509

Program	Per Credit Hour	Per Course	Per Program
MBA Business Process Management	$509	$1,527	$15,270

*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GPSI/GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270

Per Credit Hour $509

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Next Apply Date 5/13/24

Next Class Start Date 6/3/24

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Next Class Start Date 6/3/24

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Admissions

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Admission Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university
No GMAT required
Official transcripts

Applicants to the UIS Online MBA must meet at least one of the following combinations for admission.

Master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university
Bachelor's degree in business from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher
Bachelor's degree with a non-business major from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher and completion of gateway prerequisite courses BUS 501 Business Perspectives and ACC 505 Fundamentals of Business Decisions Making

Note: Students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or to use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Courses

Get to know the MBA in Business Process Management coursework

For the online MBA program, you must complete 10 courses totaling 30 credit hours, including 21 credit hours of core courses and nine credit hours of electives.

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Core Courses

FIN 502: Managerial Finance

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Concepts and variables include those used in financial analysis, planning, and control. Topics include financial forecasting, capital budgeting, leverage, valuation, cost of capital market and related legal/ethical issues.

ACC 509: Management Accounting

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Study of planning and internal management decision making and the use of accounting systems for control.

BUS 512: Marketing Management

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Study of the conceptual foundations and practices of contemporary marketing as well as the planning, implementation, and control of the marketing function. Topics include situation analysis; marketing objectives; target market selection; and product, promotion, pricing, and physical distribution decisions.

BUS 522: Production and Operations Management

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Operations management concerns the production and delivery of goods and services. This course focuses on those business processes, procedures and strategies used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services. Focus is on both understanding how the provision of goods is organized and managed and recognizing potential areas of improvement in the management or production of goods and services. Also of major study will be how operations management interfaces with other functional areas and the various issues and problems that traditionally arise in the field of operations management, including those related to technology, globalization, and ethics. Students who have not completed Managerial and Finance Accounting, Microeconomics and/0r Macroeconomics will be placed in ACC 505.

MIS 525: Information Technology Management

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

This course will cultivate familiarity with a broad range of managerial as well as technical issues, technologies, and terminologies such as information systems high-level architecture and life cycle, information flow within organization, managerial decision making tools, data quality control and assurance, ethical and legal aspects of IS, and successful implementation of IS projects.

BUS 541: Organizational Behavior

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Examination of impacts of individuals, groups, and structural attributes on behavior within organizations.

BUS 583: Business Strategy

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

This course emphasizes the formulation of organizational missions and the implementation of policies and strategies to assure their achievement. This course focuses on the oversight of entire operations in light of stakeholder expectations and legal and ethical considerations. Capstone Course

Course Objectives

Develop and practice the ability to think strategically and define business strategy
Evaluate the effects of political, cultural, legal, market and socioeconomic forces and analyze industry environment
Conduct an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
Identify ways to create competitive advantage and superior firm performance
Develop business-level and corporate-level strategies
Analyze complex business problems, evaluate possible solutions, apply various frameworks

Elective Courses

Any 500-level course within the College (ACC/BUS/FIN/MGT/MIS) is an acceptable elective except for ACC 505, BUS 501 and MIS 513. Please make sure you meet the course prerequisite requirement.

MIS 567: Business Process Modeling and IT Governance

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

This course enables students to learn about the methodologies used to redesign optimal business processes and related information technologies used in support of process innovation. Students learn about the state-of-the-art techniques used in support of business process modeling, simulation, analysis, and redesign. These techniques, learned through hands-on practice with SAP systems and ARIS simulation, include: identifying best-practice process, workflow automation, simulation of the business processes, and design of strategic enterprise management systems for efficient and effective use of information technology in support of business operations. Moreover, in this course, students learn about the concepts, principles, and models of enterprise governance of Information Technology in support of business process change and management. Prerequisite: MIS 513.

Course objectives:

Introduces the concepts of process modelling and IT governance

Demonstrates how to model business processes and measure business-IT alignment

Discusses applications of process modeling and governance of IT to improve thinking, problem-solving and decisions for businesses

Provides hands-on experience with related real-life or simulated applications

Learning Outcomes:

After completing this course, students will be able to do the following:

Demonstrate understanding of business processes and process modeling

Demonstrate understanding of common practices on the governance of IT

Model core business processes and build automated business workflows using state-of-the-art process modeling software

Analyze business problems related to process modelling and IT governance to provide practical insights

MIS 568: Business Process Management and Process Mining

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

Study of a process-oriented view of the organization and its relationships with suppliers, customers, and competitors. Identify the processes as vehicles for achieving strategic objectives and transforming organizations. Analyze, design, implement, monitor, and mine processes to optimize operations and achieve compliance. Prerequisite: MIS 513.

Course Objectives

Introduce the interrelated nature of the business process and how processes integrate the internal functions of the firm and allow the firm to interact with its environment
Describe different roles of Enterprise Systems (i.e., ERP, SCM and CRM) as components of the enterprise architecture to analyze and manage processes to achieve efficiency and compliance objectives
Review and investigate the best practices and emerging approaches in process management, analysis and mining
Provide hands-on practices for analyzing, implementing, monitoring and mining business processes

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to do the following:

Describe the strategic view of processes and integrating the functional areas of the organization

Discuss the best practices and recent developments in the field of process analysis, change, modeling and mining

Demonstrate an understanding of process mining and an ability to mine business processes

Use the enterprise systems for implementing, monitoring and reporting business processes

Analyze business process data and hypothetical scenarios related to process management

Gateway Courses

BUS 501: Business Perspectives

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 3

This is the gateway course to the MBA curriculum that introduces the core concepts in functional areas of management, marketing, finance and operations with an emphasis on application to business situations. Concepts are integrated through case analyses to pursue in-depth study of functional area topics throughout the graduate business curriculum. Other topics include ethical issues and the roles of globalization, diversity, technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation in business. *Only needed if you have a non-business UG degree.

ACC 505: Foundations of Business Decision Making

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks

Credit Hours: 4

Discusses relevant elements of statistics, microeconomics, and accounting as they apply to administrative justification of decisions. Topics include data description, probability, sampling, supply and demand, and fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting such as financial statements and profitability analysis.

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