MBA - Quality Management

The Master in Quality Management offers the skills to effectively manage the relationship between quality systems and the present and future development of organizations. The graduate of this master's degree can serve as operations manager in manufacturing and services companies, specialist in statistical process control, consultant for the design and implementation of quality management models, consultant for the selection and evaluation of technologies, equipment and systems of planning and control of operations, evaluator of quality control systems, among others.

Curriculum

Core Courses

• ACCO 501 Management Accounting
• ECON 519 Management Economics
• FINA 503 Management Finance
• MANA 501 Organizational Behavior
• MANA 600 Research Methods
• MARK 511 Management Marketing
• STAT 555 Statistics for Decision Making

Specialty Required

• MANA 609 Quality Control Systems
• MANA 625 Principles of Total Quality Management
• QUMA 655 Statistics for Quality

Specialty Electives

• HURM 715 Advanced Supervision
• QUMA 600 Six Sigma
• QUMA 626 Team Development and Teamwork
• QUMA 727 Principles of ISO Standards Development
• QUMA 728 Total Quality in Human Resources Management
• QUMA 729 Reengineering

Degree Requirements

• QUMA 733 * Quality Management Thesis
• MANA 742 * Simulation
• Free Elective Course

* Semester Course

Suggested free elective courses:

• ENTR 600 Identification and Evaluation of Business Opportunities
• ENTR 602 Business Plan Development
• ENTR 601 Electronic Commerce
• ENTR 603 Design and Organizational Structure for Businesses

Notes:

1 Students who are not of the Business Administration concentration must take the ACCO 500 course.
2 Find out on IRB.net about the IRB certifications that you must complete when you enroll the Thesis, without this process you cannot do the research. Ask your teacher or visit the School for more information.