MWMiddle West UniversityAppleton, Wisconsin · USA

MBA — Master of Business Administration

A graduate management degree for leaders of organisations that operate under regulatory supervision, with a distinctive medical-law core.

Degree awarded
Master's degree (MBA)
Program length
4 semesters
Credits
120 credits
Language
English
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About the program

Program overview

The MBA of Middle West University is built for practising managers. It assumes prior exposure to organisational life and moves quickly from description to decision: what should be done, on what evidence, under what legal constraint, and who carries the consequence.

What distinguishes the programme is its compulsory legal spine. Corporate governance, provider liability, health data protection and dispute resolution are taught as management subjects, not as optional legal decoration, because in regulated sectors legal exposure is an operating variable.

Every module combines recorded lectures, a slide dossier, a case pack and an applied deliverable that can normally be used inside the student's own organisation.

Mode of study

Fully online, asynchronous study with scheduled tutorial consultations

Admission requirements

Bachelor's degree or at least 3 years of managerial experience

Learning outcomes

What graduates are able to do

  1. 01Formulate and defend a corporate strategy under regulatory and reimbursement constraints
  2. 02Design a governance and compliance architecture with clear lines of accountability
  3. 03Assess liability exposure arising from clinical and commercial activity and mitigate it
  4. 04Build the financial case for an institutional investment and stress-test its assumptions
  5. 05Lead a negotiation and select the appropriate dispute-resolution route
  6. 06Plan and execute an independent applied research project to master's standard

Full syllabus

Curriculum, semester by semester

Semester 1 — Strategy and governance

Setting direction and building accountability

30 credits
MBA-101

Strategic Corporate Management

8 credits

200 hours total workload

Competitive and institutional analysis, business-model design, portfolio choices, growth and retrenchment, and execution through measurable objectives.

Course learning outcomes
  • Conduct an institutional and competitive analysis of a regulated market
  • Select a strategic option and quantify its resource requirement
  • Build an execution scorecard with leading and lagging indicators

Assessment: Strategy dossier on the student's own organisation (100%)

MBA-102

Corporate Governance and Compliance

8 credits

200 hours total workload

Board duties, three-lines-of-defence models, compliance programme design, internal investigations, whistleblowing channels and regulator relations.

Course learning outcomes
  • Design a compliance programme mapped to identified legal risks
  • Define escalation and reporting duties across three lines of defence
  • Conduct and document an internal investigation defensibly

Assessment: Compliance programme design (70%) and reflective memo (30%)

MBA-103

Managerial Economics of Health Care Institutions

7 credits

175 hours total workload

Supply-side economics of providers, payment models, capacity investment, cost-effectiveness reasoning and the incentive effects of reimbursement design.

Course learning outcomes
  • Model the margin consequences of a shift from fee-for-service to bundled payment
  • Appraise a capacity investment under demand uncertainty
  • Interpret a cost-effectiveness study for a management audience

Assessment: Economic appraisal (60%) and examination (40%)

MBA-104

Leadership and Organisational Change

7 credits

175 hours total workload

Change models, professional-bureaucracy dynamics, clinician engagement, resistance, culture and the leadership of expert organisations.

Course learning outcomes
  • Diagnose the sources of resistance in a professional organisation
  • Design a stakeholder-specific change communication plan
  • Evaluate a change initiative against pre-registered success criteria

Assessment: Change case analysis (100%)

Semester 2 — Legal exposure and data

The compulsory medical-law core

30 credits
MBA-201

Medical Law: Provider Liability

9 credits

225 hours total workload

Standard of care, negligence, informed consent, vicarious and institutional liability, adverse-event handling and the interaction with insurance.

Course learning outcomes
  • Analyse a clinical incident for institutional and individual exposure
  • Design an informed-consent process that meets legal expectations
  • Prepare an adverse-event response protocol including disclosure

Assessment: Liability opinion (60%) and protocol deliverable (40%)

MBA-202

Health Data Protection under HIPAA and GDPR

8 credits

200 hours total workload

Comparative analysis of the two regimes, lawful bases and permitted disclosures, security safeguards, international transfers, breach duties and enforcement practice.

Course learning outcomes
  • Map data flows and identify the applicable regime for each flow
  • Run a data protection impact assessment on a new clinical system
  • Operate a dual-regime breach notification timetable

Assessment: Impact assessment (60%) and breach simulation (40%)

MBA-203

Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

6 credits

150 hours total workload

Interest-based negotiation, payer and supplier contracting, mediation, arbitration clauses and the cost logic of litigation avoidance.

Course learning outcomes
  • Prepare a negotiation with defined reservation values and alternatives
  • Draft a workable dispute-resolution clause
  • Choose between mediation, arbitration and litigation on cost and risk grounds

Assessment: Recorded negotiation exercise (50%) and clause drafting (50%)

MBA-204

Financial Management for Institutions

7 credits

175 hours total workload

Institutional budgeting, capital planning, reimbursement-driven cash flow, covenant management and financial reporting to boards.

Course learning outcomes
  • Build a multi-year institutional budget with scenario branches
  • Assess a capital project against covenant and liquidity limits
  • Present a financial position to a lay board in one page

Assessment: Board financial pack (100%)

Semester 3 — Operations, quality and applied research

Execution and method

30 credits
MBA-301

Quality, Safety and Risk Management

8 credits

200 hours total workload

Risk registers, incident reporting, root-cause analysis, accreditation standards and the construction of a safety culture.

Course learning outcomes
  • Conduct a root-cause analysis and produce enforceable corrective actions
  • Build a risk register with owners, controls and review cycles
  • Prepare an institution for an accreditation survey

Assessment: Risk and quality portfolio (100%)

MBA-302

Digital Transformation in Regulated Sectors

7 credits

175 hours total workload

Electronic records, interoperability, telemedicine, procurement of clinical software, algorithmic decision support and vendor risk.

Course learning outcomes
  • Evaluate a clinical software procurement against legal and operational criteria
  • Design a telemedicine service within licensure and privacy limits
  • Assess an algorithmic tool for governance and accountability gaps

Assessment: Procurement and governance report (100%)

MBA-303

Applied Research Methods

7 credits

175 hours total workload

Research design for practitioners, sampling, survey and interview instruments, basic inferential analysis and research ethics.

Course learning outcomes
  • Convert a management problem into a testable research question
  • Design an instrument and defend its validity
  • Report quantitative and qualitative findings honestly and clearly

Assessment: Research protocol (100%)

MBA-304

Capstone Consulting Project

8 credits

200 hours total workload

A supervised consulting engagement with a real organisation, delivering a diagnosis, an option analysis and an implementation plan.

Course learning outcomes
  • Scope and contract a consulting engagement
  • Deliver an evidence-based recommendation to a client
  • Plan implementation with costs, owners and milestones

Assessment: Client report (70%) and recorded client presentation (30%)

Semester 4 — Master's thesis

Independent applied research

30 credits
MBA-400

Master's Thesis and Defence

30 credits

750 hours total workload

A 15,000–20,000 word independent applied study on a management problem within business or medical law, supervised throughout and defended orally.

Course learning outcomes
  • Situate a practical problem in the relevant academic literature
  • Apply a defensible method and report results transparently
  • Derive implementable recommendations and state their limits

Assessment: Thesis (80%) and oral defence (20%)

PDF downloads

Three English documents for this program

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A look inside a recorded lecture

A short preview of the recording style used across the MBA. The full library holds 12 video lectures — one masterclass per course plus thesis, assessment and career sessions — released to enrolled students in the study portal.

Podcast series

MBA Study Sessions

10 audio episodes in English, downloadable for offline listening on the commute — course conversations, thesis guidance and student and alumni panels.

  1. Ep. 1 · Welcome to the Master of Business Administration26 min
  2. Ep. 2 · How to read academic sources fast31 min
  3. Ep. 3 · MBA-101 in conversation: Strategic Corporate Management44 min
  4. Ep. 4 · MBA-102 in conversation: Corporate Governance and Compliance27 min
  5. Ep. 5 · MBA-103 in conversation: Managerial Economics of Health Care Institutions42 min
  6. Ep. 6 · MBA-104 in conversation: Leadership and Organisational Change25 min
  7. Ep. 7 · MBA-201 in conversation: Medical Law: Provider Liability35 min
  8. Ep. 8 · Writing the thesis proposal39 min
  9. Ep. 9 · Study, work and family: three students talk42 min
  10. Ep. 10 · Life after the MBA35 min
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How students are graded

Assessment structure

50–70%

Applied deliverables

Programmes, dossiers, opinions and board packs usable in practice.

10–40%

Simulations

Recorded negotiations, breach drills and client presentations.

0–40%

Written examinations

Used where standardised knowledge testing is appropriate.

30 credits

Thesis and defence

Independent applied research with an oral defence.

Final independent work

Master's thesis (30 credits)

A 15,000–20,000 word applied research study. Most students research a live problem inside their own organisation; a confidentiality annex is available where the data are sensitive.

  1. Month 1: proposal, supervisor allocation and ethics screening
  2. Month 2: literature review submitted for formative feedback
  3. Month 3: method finalised, data collection begins
  4. Month 4: analysis and first full draft
  5. Month 5: supervisor feedback and revision
  6. Month 6: submission, similarity check and oral defence

Fees

Tuition and payment

Total tuition

USD USD 4,999

Total tuition for the complete Master of Business Administration, including all study materials, tutorial consultations, examinations and the thesis defence.

  • Deposit on enrolment: USD 999
  • Four semester instalments of USD 1,000
  • No separate examination, material or graduation fees

Tuition is quoted in United States dollars. Payment schedules are agreed in writing with the Student Affairs Office before enrolment.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

I do not have a bachelor's degree. Can I still apply?

Yes. At least three years of documented managerial experience is an accepted alternative entry route.

Can I write the thesis about my own employer?

Yes, and most students do. A confidentiality annex protects sensitive data while allowing academic assessment.

How much time per week should I plan?

Around 18–22 hours per week during teaching semesters, more during the thesis semester.

Is the legal core taught for lawyers?

No. It is taught for managers who must make decisions with legal consequences and know when to instruct counsel.

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