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5 Year MBA Majors in the School
The Fashion School offers MBA Majors
Five-Year Degree in Fashion Merchandising

Students should enter the BS in Fashion Merchandising and work closely with his/her adviser so as to achieve the undergraduate degree in merchandising and the MBA.

  • When the student in Fashion Merchandising has 90 hours and a 3.3 gpa apply for the MBA program and they are conditionally admitted pending completion of undergraduate degree and after that time they may take graduate classes.
  • The student must apply no later than April 1 of his/her junior year.
  • GMAT must be taken at the time the application is made. This exam is given monthly but not at KSU.

After admission then the undergraduate support core for fashion merchandising would be as follows:

BAD 63067 Financial Accounting in lieu of Acct 23020

BAD 63038 Accounting for Managerial Action and Evaluation
BAD 64042 Management Information Systems

Take two of the following (the one not taken will be taken later)
BAD 66061 Financial Management I
BAD 64271 Human Resource Management
BAD 64064 Statistics for Management

After completion of the undergraduate degree an additional 33 hours will be needed to complete the MBA:
Econ 62061 Business Conditions Analysis and Public Policy
Econ 62062 Managerial Economics
BAD 64271 Human Resource Management
BAD 64041 Operations Management
And which ever BAD class not chosen in the choices above

BAD 64158 Leadership in Organizations
BAD 66050 Social Impacts

An Integrative Management Course: one of the following: BAD 64185,64184,65050

Electives (12 hours)

  • The international elective may be waived if the FDM student has participated in the Hong Kong or Florence experiences
  • The internship may be waived if the FDM student has done a business-related fashion internship
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Kent State University
The School of Fashion Design and Merchandising
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA

Phone: 1 (330) 672-3010
Fax: 1 (330) 672-3772

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