Add an MBA to your Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP)
You will have a distinct advantage when you add an MBA to your Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree. This is an era where developmental strategy must enlist the combined energies of both public and private sectors for collective social gain. Your dual degree MBA/MURP will give you an understanding of both.
Together, these two degrees help you, the planner, understand not only the process of planning within the public sector, but also private enterprise.
By having both degrees allows you to harness private initiatives as you plan land use, promote the economy, and maintain valued landscapes.
Similarly, these two degrees together help you, the business leader, function within the context of public fiscal, participatory, and regulatory constraints, and teaches you how to place business decisions within the broad array of community interests and aspirations.
Above all, the dual degree program aims to educate you in the practice of strategic planning in service to the community at large.
The dual MBA/MURP degree
The University of Colorado Denver Business School has teamed up with the College of Architecture and Planning to offer this dual MBA and Master of Urban and Regional Planning Degree. This dual degree encompasses all the skills necessary for a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning and a Master of Business Administration.
Requirements
The dual degree curriculum is composed of the core curricula in each program plus a set of electives jointly approved by the student’s advisors.
The MURP core is composed of 27 credits, and the MBA’s core is composed of 33 credits.
Options
You will normally complete a total of 36 credits in the MBA program and 39 credits in the MURP program plus one three-credit international elective.
If you choose to take Data Analysis for Managers, BUSN6530, you will take and additional three credits of electives in the MBA program and fifteen elective credits in the MURP program.
If you choose to take Planning Methods I, URP5510, you will take an additional six credits of electives in the MBA program and twelve elective credits in the MURP program. Please refer to the “Core and Elective Requirements” below.
MBA requirements
These are the requirements for the MBA portion of the dual degree. Check with your advisor in the College of Architecture and Planning for their course requirements.
Core
- Managing Individuals and Teams, BUSN6520
- Data Analysis for Managers, BUSN6530
- Legal and Ethical Environment of Business, BUSN6540
- Analyzing and Interpreting Accounting Information, BUSN6550
- Marketing Management, BUSN6560
- Information Systems Management and Strategy, BUSN6610
- Applied Economics for Managers, BUSN6620
- Management of Operations, BUSN6630
- Financial Management, BUSN6640
- Strategic Management, BUSN6710
International Business Elective
Business happens throughout the world. Your MBA wouldn't be complete without an international business component. You will be required to take three credit hours in an international course. Below is a sample of your choices.
- any graduate International Business course (INTB prefix)
- International Accounting ACCT6370
- International Taxation ACCT6800
- International Entrepreneurship ENTP6826
- International Financial Management FNCE6370
- International Corporate Governance FNCE6411
- Global Enterprise Systems ISMG6420
- International Health Policy and Management HLTH6070
- International Marketing MKTG6020
- Marketing in Emerging Markets MKTG6080
Business Electives
You will complete 3 or 6* more credit hours of graduate business coursework (excluding BUSN prefix courses numbered below 6800).
*If you take BUSN6530, 3 credit hours of MBA free electives are required. If you take URP5510, 6 credit hours of MBA free electives are required. See your advisor for information.
While we strive to keep the website's information as accurate as possible, please refer to the Course Catalog or your advisor as the definitive source of program and admissions information. Requirements are subject to change.
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