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The Master of Arts in Integrated Marketing Communication, an online marketing degree, helps students expand their careers in the global marketplace.  This degree offers a comprehensive, cohesive program that is flexible enough for students to learn on their own schedule.  The flexible program focuses on modern digital interactive marketing and strategic communication tactics, merging all facets of modern day marketing communications.  Topics covered include:

• Advertising
• Public Relations
• Social Media
• Branding
• Strategy

This online communications degree focuses on developing marketing plans that deliver consistent messages reflecting a brand’s values, products, and company mission.

Marist College offers an online Master of Business Administration that is perfect for anyone interested in obtaining this prestigious degree. Over 90 percent of MBA students at Marist work full-time while pursuing this degree; therefore the program is structured with part-time study in mind. MBA students come from a wide variety of backgrounds including business management, accounting, banking, brokerage, engineering, system analysis, IT, healthcare, human resources, manufacturing, and marketing.
 
The MBA at Marist is designed to meet the needs of an ever-changing world where the general manager‘s responsibilities deal with virtual organization of subordinates through electronic media. Core courses include The Virtual Manager, Financial Analysis for Business Decisions, Business, Government and Society, Management Methods for Business Decision-Making and Communication, and Strategic Management.  

There are four concentration areas for the MBA: Ethical Leadership Concentration, Financial Management, Healthcare Administration, and International Business. Choosing the best area of concentration depends upon the student's career goals.

From Wall Street to corporate boardrooms, scandal has enveloped big business in the last decade.  Exposed by the media and subject to viral sensationalism, the lack of ethical practice and absence of responsibility have become all-too-commonplace.  Marist College’s online MBA in Ethical Leadership is a program to change all of this.  You can become a leader of change and respect with this unique graduate degree.

With this 100% online MBA, you can set your own project deadlines based upon your professional or personal schedule.  You will learn to be a leader who makes ethical decisions in the face of business strategy.  Coursework includes:

• Negotiations and conflict management
• Ethical management of organizations
• Leadership, power and influence

Marist College offers a 100% online MBA in Financial Management that you can use to become a manager within any industry you desire.  After all, there aren’t any business decisions or strategies that are made without considering financial consequences.  A Financial Management MBA from Marist will enable you to apply theory to valuation and management practices.  Coursework included in this concentration includes:

• Financial statement analysis
• Corporate financial theory and practice
• Financial markets and institutions
• Investment analysis and theory

The online Master of Public Administration prepares innovative leaders of public and nonprofit organizations with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for ethical, effective management in today’s diverse, technologically engaged, and global society.  The program emphasizes life-long learning while applying theory to practice.  Courses provide insight into important content areas of public administration:  law, human resources, policy, management and ethics.  Students can choose to concentrate in Ethical Leadership, Healthcare Administration, or Public Management. 

Curriculum focuses include: 

• Professional ideals with ethical values
• Effective communication 
• Critical thinking and problem solving 
• Strategic management
• Motivation

This online Advanced Graduate Certificate in Information Systems is ideal to supplement your professional skill set. You’ll take classes within the Computer Science & Math Department at Marist, as you learn how to implement the right systems for your organization. Should you decide to pursue your master’s, these classes, and others that are usually taught, can be applied towards your degree:

• Data Communications
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Systems Systems Project

With the working adult in mind, Marist offers this online BA or BS in Professional Studies.  You can focus your coursework on classes that align with your professional goals or current work needs.  Classes run online in eight week sessions throughout the year.  Areas of emphasis include:

• Management Studies
• Organizational Communication
• Behavioral Studies
• Organizational Leadership
• Information Technology Management

This online MSIS program from Marist gives you the 1-2 punch to knock out employers! You’ll gain both management skills and systems expertise, to contribute towards organizational success. As companies become increasingly dependent upon technology, they are counting on professionals like those with this online MSIS, to meet contemporary business challenges. Marist also offers online students a Virtual Computing Laboratory that gives you real-world experience without the hassle of software compatibility issues that can sometimes pop up in distance learning. Curriculum enables you to customize your online MSIS in three areas:

• Business Analytics
• Information Systems Management
• Computer Networks & Security

If you are already working in the healthcare industry, you know that it is one of the fastest growing, rapidly-changing business environments.  With an online MBA in Healthcare Administration from Marist College, you can keep pace with the industry and sprint ahead in your career.  You will learn business concepts from a healthcare perspective, enabling you to make strong strategic decisions in providing quality patient care and services.  Marist’s MBA in Healthcare Administration is a completely flexible degree, whereby all classes are taught online, so you learn within your own timeframe.  Coursework in this concentration includes:

• Managing organizational change
• US healthcare policies and systems
• Ethical/legal issues in healthcare
• Critical issues in healthcare