Professional Business Administration, P.M.B.A.

Degree offered at:  Louisville and Los Angeles Education Center

Foundational Requirements

For all applicants who have not completed undergraduate courses in any one or all of the following areas: Accounting, Finance, Economics, and/or Statistics, will be provided MBA/PMBA Primer courses free of charge.

The MBA/PMBA Primer includes individual courses and a comprehensive course which includes all of the courses combined. Students may take as much time as necessary to be successful in the MBA/PMBA Primer courses. Expect to spend between 20 and 30 hours total on the four modules and post-tests. Individual study time will vary. The entire course is web based. There is no textbook involved. The pretest or post-test scores will not appear on a student’s transcript at Campbellsville University.

Curricular Practical Training for PMBA (Effective 1/11/2021)

International students who are accepted into the Professional Master of Business Administration Program (PMBA) at Campbellsville University will be required to apply for and be approved for Curricular Practical Training (CPT) work authorization. This work authorization will be for a job that is considered an integral part of the student’s education and can be related to their designated coursework. This position can be paid or unpaid, full-time or part-time, internship or job shadowing position.

Students must obtain a job by the start date of their program and maintain a position throughout the entire program. Students must maintain continuous CPT work authorization for all six (6) terms. If at any point throughout the program a student does not maintain employment authorization (CPT), the student may be provided eight weeks to regain employment before being dismissed from the program.

Program Goals

The Professional MBA requires students to have previous work experience, be working currently in a full-time or part-time position, completing an internship, or job shadowing.

Additional purposes of this program are:

• To assist and encourage the development of a high level of professional competence in the respective field of specialization.
• To encourage a broad range of scholarship within the field of specialization.
• To provide supportive courses that broadens the range of professional competence beyond the respective field of specialization.
• To emphasize contemporary concepts of management practice.
• To prepare students to contribute to the advancements of their respective fields.

This degree is primarily intended for practicing professional persons who possess a bachelor’s degree in business or a bachelor’s or advanced degree in some other area of specialization and who feel the need for additional study in order to maximize and enhance their ability to contribute to their career, their company, and society. The degree will assist students who have a bachelor’s degree to prepare for further study in doctoral programs.

Program Format

PMBA courses will be offered using the existing eight-week term dates. In addition, we will have hybrid courses offered on selected Fridays or Saturdays over 16 weeks. Courses are scheduled as follows:

Hybrid LEC courses will be taught in 16 weeks as the following:

International students are required to be enrolled full-time and register for the appropriate course when applying for Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorization.

Standards and Evaluation Achievement

Each course in the PMBA program has its own method for evaluating student performance. The particular methods of assessment will be explained to students and included in the written syllabus for the course at the beginning of each course. A student must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 throughout the program. All course grades assigned in the program are entered on the student’s official transcript and counted toward the cumulative grade point average. A student who earns a grade lower than C will be subject to academic dismissal. A student who earns more than two grades of C or lower will be subject to academic dismissal. A student may repeat a course in which a grade of C was earned; however, a course may be repeated only once. In cases where a course was repeated, both grades remain on the transcript, but only the last grade will count toward the grade point average. Student academic transcripts are reviewed at the end of each term of work. A student who fails to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 will be placed on academic probation and will have one academic session to remove the probationary status or be dismissed from the program. A student will have six years from the date of entry into the program in which to complete all of the requirements for graduation.

In addition to the course/program requirements listed above, the PMBA hybrid courses must include verification and documents related to the work experience, which will be an integral component of the course grade.

Course Requirements for the MBA/PMBA

In addition to listed criteria for admission to the MBA/PMBA program, a student must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to compete successfully in an MBA/PMBA program. Students possessing a bachelor’s degree in business administration and at least two years of work experience will be considered to possess the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience to compete successfully in the MBA/PMBA program. For students who do not possess a bachelor’s degree in business administration, it may be necessary for the student to acquire background knowledge in selected business areas before enrolling in specific courses. See Foundational Requirements for the MBA/PMBA.

Students will take 36 hours of 600 level coursework to complete the MBA/PMBA. A student will take a total of 27 hours of core course work (each course is a three credit hour course) and 9 hours of electives. In lieu of the 9 hours of electives in the online format only, students can complete a specific track of 9 hours in one of the following areas: Accounting, Computer Science, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Healthcare Management, Human Resource Management, Information Technology, International Business, Marketing, and Supply Chain & Logistics Management. In order to pursue the accounting track, students must have the following prerequisite coursework: Financial Accounting (Accounting I), Managerial Accounting (Accounting II), Intermediate Accounting I, Intermediate Accounting II, Accounting Information Systems, Cost Accounting, Auditing.