Major Field Test in Master's of Business Administration

The Major Field Test for the Master of Business Administration consists of 124 multiple-choice questions, half of which are based on short case-study scenarios.  Some questions employ such materials as diagrams,graphs, and statistical data.  Most of the questions require knowledge of specific information drawn from marketing, management, finance, and managerial accounting, or a combination of these, referred to as "strategic integration".  The test also includes questions that focus on international business, information technology, the legal and regulatory environment of business, statistical analysis, and managerial economics.  A unique feature of the MFT-MBA is that all of the questions on the test measure critical thinking ability; that is, the ability to interpret data, to apply concepts and ideas, and to analyze the data, theories, and relationships deductively and inductively.  The overall scaled score can be considered a measure of a student's critical thinking and reasoning within the domain of a standard MBA curriculum.  Click here to review more information about the MBA Major Field Test.

The numbers in the table represent scale score means, and the range is from 220-300.  When compared against 3596 individual students from participating colleges and universities nationwide, preliminary results from the Major Field test indicate:

In August,  APUS MBA  students (n=9) scored below the national mean.  The mean total score of APUS students is 249.2 with a standard deviation of 13.5.  The national mean score is 251.7 with a standard deviation of 15.1.  APUS students scored at or above 40% of students from participating colleges and universities nationwide in August.

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Percent Mean Correct for Assessment Indicators

Student proficiency is measured in the areas of marketing, management, finance, managerial accounting, and strategic integration. The following table represents the percent mean correct for the national mean and APUS students for each area of the Major Field test.