• Students must be accepted to both the MSN and MBA programs
• MSN & MBA requirements: a 3.0 GPA in undergraduate nursing courses plus 2 acceptable references
• Interview with both the MSN and MBA Program Directors

Total of 56 SH (reduction of 17 SH in the dual degree). Students can take all MSN courses or MBA courses together or MSN & MBA courses integrated with each other.

MSN Requirements – 32 SH

• NURS 501 – Conceptual Framework for Sacred Covenant (1 SH)
• NURS 503 -  Practice Skills for Conflict Transformation (3 SH) 
• NURS 510 – Historical, Philosophical, and Theoretical Foudations of Nursing (3 SH)
• NURS 511 – Translational Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice (3 SH)
• NURS 512 -  Knowledge Development: Informatics, Epidemiolgy and Outcomes (3 SH)
• NURS 515 -  Health Care Delivery System (3 SH) 
• NURS 516 -  Application of Legal and Ethical Principles to Health Care (3 SH)
• NURS 620 – Safety, Risk Reduction, and Quality Care (4 SH)
• NURS 626 -  Managing in a Complex Environment (3 SH)
• NURS 629 -  Instructional Methodologies Nurse Leaders (2 SH)
• NURS 630 – Leadership Project (4 SH) (with the addition of an MBA faculty advising the project to ensure the presence of sustainability content)

NOTE: NURS 511 is a prerequisite to NURS 620 which is a prerequisite to NURS 630. In addition, these courses must be taken sequentially in the student's last year of MSN program requirements. Finally, all work must be completed or being taken concurrently before one is eligible for enrollment in NURS 630.

MBA Requirements – 24 SH

• MBA 522 - Leadership and Management for the Common Good (3 SH)
• MBA 541 - Global Sustainability (3 SH) or MBA 680 Sustainable Organizations & Global Citizenship (3 SH) 
• MBA 564 - Organizational Behavior (3 SH) (NOTE: NURS 628 Org Behavior may be substituted if schedule requires) 
• MBA 585 - Managerial Finance and Accounting (3 SH) 
• MBA 615 - Narrative Leadership (3 SH) or MBA 670 Strategic Leadership in a Multicultural World (3 SH) 
• MBA 623 - Financial Management (3 SH) 
• MBA 647 - Strategic Marketing Management (3 SH)
• MBA 671 - Data Analytics (3 SH) or MBA 663 Mangerial Economics