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Advising and Registration Information

Advising

Required and Elective Courses

Because required courses predominate, decisions about which courses to take at a particular time are mostly a matter of what fits your schedule and whether you have completed prerequisites for the course.

The MBA program consists of:

  • 11 required courses of which two (MGT 590 and BA 590) are capstone courses that must be taken at the end of the program. BA 590 must be taken during the final semester. The required courses are:
    • ACCT 503
    • B A 590
    • BCIS 502
    • BLAW 502
    • ECON 503
    • FIN 503
    • MGT 502
    • MGT 503
    • MGT 512
    • MGT 590
    • MKTG 50


  • 1 elective course selected from an approved list of business courses numbered 500 or above.

Prerequisites for MBA Courses

  • ACCT 503: ACCT 251 and ACCT 252.
  • ECON 503: Any statistics course.
  • FIN 503: FIN 341.
  • MGT 590: MBA student in final semester.
  • BA 590: MBA student in final semester.

Online Registration

Detailed instructions appear in the NMSU Course Schedule and near the end of this information sheet.

It is preferred that students register themselves online.

In some cases you may have a “hold” which prevents you from registering. This may reflect the need to make a payment to the university or may be an academic “hold” that requires you to meet with an advisor first.

If you do not register yourself, we will need to have you complete an add slip or a registration card or provide an email documenting your request.

Adds, Drops, and Withdrawals

If you wish to register or make changes in your courses early in the semester, you can accomplish this online.

Whenever you make a change, you should exit Banner and then re-enter to confirm that the transaction was completed as you intended. (There may be changes soon to provide an email confirmation of changes in your enrollment.)

The schedule of classes (available online and hard copy) provides details about making a down payment and about the financial implications of changing your enrollment.

  • Courses dropped very early in the semester do not appear on your transcript and do not require tuition payment.
  • Courses dropped later appear with a “W” on the transcript, indicating you have withdrawn.
  • If you seek to withdraw from all your courses (withdraw from the university) you will not be able to do so online. That is, you cannot withdraw from your last class online. To withdraw from your last class, go to the Registrar’s Office in the Educational Services Building or contact the MBA Office for assistance.

Scheduling Classes

To help you in planning your schedule, please refer to the link below where there is long run scheduling information about the days that we plan to teach the required courses during fall and spring semesters:

http://business.nmsu.edu/academics/mba/degree-requirements/mba/sample-schedules

All required courses on the main campus and at WSMR and Sandia National Lab are taught in the evening or online.

For students on the Las Cruces campus, at least one elective course is offered in the evening; other electives may be online or earlier in the day. That is, you will be able to complete the elective online or in the evening but it may not be your preferred elective.

For remote sites, a single elective is offered.

Transfer Credit

Transfer credit should be approved by the MBA Office early in your program and will require that you provide official transcripts and other documentation such as the course syllabus.

Generally, it is expected that you will not take MBA courses at other institutions after you have been admitted to the program at NMSU.

Communications with Students

Your @nmsu.edu email account is the official channel of communication with NMSU.

We send out general information about deadlines for adding, dropping, degree applications, etc. as well as information relating to your academic progress. NOTE: you may also be emailing your course instructors through Blackboard.

Please check this email regularly or forward your NMSU email to your preferred address. If you have difficulties forwarding your email, please contact NMSU’s ICT help desk. Online contact information is at http://ict.nmsu.edu/csc/index.html; help desk phone 575.646.1840; email help@nmsu.edu.

How to forward your @nmsu.edu email to a preferred account

  1. Go to my.NMSU.edu at https://my.nmsu.edu and click on your email icon.
  2. Click the Options tab at the top of the page.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Scroll down to Mail Forwarding.
  5. Check the box next to Enable Forwarding.
  6. For Email Address, fill in your preferred address.
  7. Click Add and Save.

STAR Degree Audit

One of the tools available for your use is the STAR audit to which you can log on using your myNMSU ID and password.

This software allows you to check your courses against those required for graduation and see which remain to be completed.

  1. Log on at http://degreeaudit.nmsu.edu
  2. Log in using your user name and password for MyNMSU.
  3. You will be prompted to select a:
    • Campus: Las Cruces
    • College: Graduate
    • Degree program: MBA, and a
    • Catalog year.
    • If you are completing a specialization, select the MBA program with the relevant specialization.

The STAR audit is currently being used by Graduate Student Services to certify degrees so it is in your interest to ensure that the information in the audit is correct.

Graduation Requirements

In addition to completing the required courses, you must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher to earn a graduate degree at NMSU.

Courses with grades of C or better are counted as successful completion but lower grades are not. A C in a course only prevents your graduation if you do not have other grades high enough to achieve an average of 3.0.

At the beginning of the semester you plan to graduate, apply for your degree and pay the application fee. For more information, go to  http://www.nmsu.edu/~registra/degdate.html.

For information about participation in commencement, go to http://www.nmsu.edu/commencement.

Students at Remote (from Las Cruces) Locations

When students join the MBA program at remote locations, they are expected to register themselves for classes (as Las Cruces campus students do) after registration for the first semester of the program.

This can be accomplished through the Student tab in MyNMSU.

Any time you encounter a problem, please contact the MBA Office at mba@nmsu.edu or 575-646-8003.

Students whose tuition is being paid to NMSU by an employer may not be able to register because of a financial “hold”. In this case we will assist you but will need written confirmation from you concerning the courses for which you want to register.

Registration

Read the Online Registration information given above.

Instructions for Registering Online

Logging into myNMSU

  1. To register for classes online, open a browser session and access https://my.nmsu.edu.
  2. Enter your NMSU Username and Password.
  3. Click Login.

Check your Registration Status

  1. Click the Student and Financial Aid Tab.
  2. Click Registration.
  3. Click Registration Status.

Look-Up a Class and Register

  1. Click the Student and Financial Aid Tab.
  2. Click Registration.
  3. Click Look Up Classes.
  4. Select Term.
  5. Click Submit.
  6. On the Look Up Classes page, select any known features of the class.
  7. Click Class Search.
  8. Select the checkbox next to any classes in which you would like to register.
  9. Click Register.

If you forget your NMSU Password

  1. Go to https://my.nmsu.edu.
  2. Click Forgot your password?
  3. Enter your Social Security Number and Date of Birth.
  4. Click Submit.
  5. Answer your secret question.
  6. Click Continue.
  7. Enter a Password, and confirm.
  8. Click Continue.