One-Year MBA Degree at AIU Houston

You might be in search of ways to expand on your professional knowledge or business skills while keeping up with a full-time job or jam-packed family schedule. At American InterContinental University (AIU), an accelerated MBA program may be a way to earn your degree and balance your coursework with professional or family obligations. Our One Year MBA is designed to give busy professionals the flexibility to work through a master’s degree on their time and at their own pace.

AIU’s intellipath^® adaptive learning platform and convenient mobile app are built to help you work through lessons and course materials whenever and wherever is best for you. This means you can potentially work through a quick lesson over your lunch break or during downtime throughout the week.

Online MBA Specializations

If you're looking into part-time MBA programs to help you prepare to take the next steps in your professional development, then you should consider a degree that is designed to help you hone and develop your existing skills and knowledge base. Our one-year MBA is offered with nine distinct specializations designed to help you get ready for your next step. These specializations include:

Accounting – Our MBA in Accounting online is designed to help you prepare for the challenges of managerial accounting, public and not-for-profit accounting, and the role of advanced accounting strategies in an increasingly global business world.

Finance – Our online MBA in Finance is designed to help you develop the skills you may need to evaluate and make decisions regarding corporate finance and a business's long-term financial health, with a focus on risk management and global economic theory.

Management – An online master's degree specialization in Management focuses on helping you develop knowledge for the modern business world, including industry-specific laws and regulations, ethics, and quality management and improvement strategies.

Healthcare Management – For those in the healthcare administration field, an MBA in Healthcare Management explores the tools and knowledge to help you prepare to direct and oversee health services in a number of settings, from clinics to large hospital networks. Courses also cover complex legal and regulatory issues, as well as how political factors may impact medical facility operations, budgeting and management.

Human Resource Management – Our online MBA specialization Human Resources Management is designed to teach you how to help companies maintain a talented and dedicated workforce through recruiting and hiring, benefits management and job training—all while navigating ever-changing personnel needs and policies in a modern corporate environment.

Marketing – With an online master's specialization in Marketing, you have the potential to learn how to lead product development cycles, coordinate brand messaging and advertising promotions, and conduct market research. Courses also focus on developing a more complex understanding of marketing's role within a company's overall strategy.

Operations Management – An MBA in Operations Management online is designed to teach you how to plan and oversee production processes, manage the distribution of a company's products, and coordinate with sales and marketing teams to meet ever-changing demand.

Technology Management – Our online master's specialization in Technology Management is designed to help you develop the foundational knowledge of network systems and security required for systems administrators to maintain a company's databases, internal networks, and other hardware.

Project Management – A Project Management specialization can assist project coordinators looking to study programs and processes through which to manage factors like cost, efficiency, scheduling, and workflow.

Contact an AIU Admissions Advisor to learn more about our one-year MBA program or any of the above degree specializations.