Before students complete more than 12 hours of graduate level course work toward the Operations Management degree, they must satisfy the requirements for the four prerequisite courses listed below. These requirements may be met in the following ways:

1. Completion of the University of Arkansas course. These are offered in the independent study format at each site each term.
2. Previous equivalent course work at the undergraduate level.
3. Completion of a similar pre-approved course at another university.
4. Successful completion of the University of Arkansas proficiency examination for a specific course. There is no charge for a proficiency exam but each may be taken only one time. (For OMGT 4853, Element K training in word processing, spreadsheet, and database substitutes for a proficiency exam. The site coordinators can provide more information on this option.)
   

University of Arkansas Prerequisite Course	Equivalent Course
OMGT 4313 - Law and Ethics	Business Law
OMGT 4323 - Industrial Cost Analysis	Accounting
OMGT 4333 - Applied Statistics	Statistics from any academic discipline
OMGT 4853 - Data Processing Systems	Word processing, spreadsheet, database