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Time waits for no one — and neither does the competitive world of business. Complete your Master of Business Administration (MBA) at ��ʿ��¼ in as little as 16 months and take the next step in your business career. You’ll hone skills that help make key decisions for an organization. And, since you’re only taking one course at a time, your online MBA won’t get in the way of your busy life.

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Tuition

Paying for school

Tuition is based on number of credit hours per course. Courses are typically 3 credits, but can range from 1-6 credits. Costs do not include savings opportunities like transfer credits and scholarships.

Master's cost per course

$2,289 / course

Cost per credit

Credits per course

Resource fee

$698

+ $195

Estimated cost per course

$2,289

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Savings opportunities. Get your degree faster and for less with eligible transfer credits, scholarships and work experience credits. Students with eligible credits and relevant experience can save up to $6,800 and 9 credits off their master’s degree.

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��ʿ��¼ MBA degree vs other universities

	Phoenix	ASU Online	Capella	DeVry	GCU	Purdue Global	SNHU	Strayer
Tuition rate Tuition rate	Tuition rate $698	Tuition rate $565	Tuition rate $830	Tuition rate $776	Tuition rate $655	Tuition rate $485	Tuition rate $637	Tuition rate $663.33
Typical credits per course Typical credits per course	Typical credits per course 3	Typical credits per course 3	Typical credits per course 5	Typical credits per course 3	Typical credits per course 4	Typical credits per course 4	Typical credits per course 3	Typical credits per course 4.5
Resource fee Resource fee	Resource fee $195	Resource fee $385*	Resource fee $775*	Resource fee $580*	Resource fee $660*	Resource fee $945*	Resource fee $0*	Resource fee $115*
Estimated cost per course Estimated cost per course	Estimated cost per course $2,289	Estimated cost per course $2,080	Estimated cost per course $4,925	Estimated cost per course $2,908	Estimated cost per course $3,280	Estimated cost per course $2,885	Estimated cost per course $1,911	Estimated cost per course $3,100
Total program length Total program length	Total program length 33 cr.	Total program length 49	Total program length 45	Total program length 39	Total program length 46	Total program length 60	Total program length 30	Total program length 45
Length of course Length of course	Length of course 6 wks	Length of course 5 weeks	Length of course 10 weeks	Length of course 8 weeks	Length of course 8 weeks	Length of course 10 weeks	Length of course 10 weeks	Length of course 11 weeks
Tuition Guarantee Promise Tuition Guarantee Promise	Tuition Guarantee Promise Yes	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No	Tuition Guarantee Promise No

Data pulled on September 27, 2024

Source of data: For each institution, the data are publicly available in multiple locations, including Academic Catalogs, Program pages, Tuition and fees pages, and syllabi. All data are publicly available on the websites.

Certain licensure programs and coursework in other degree programs may have additional fees. Please check with your advisor or course catalog for additional info.

Tuition is based on number of credit hours per course. Courses are typically 3 credits, but can range from 1-6 credits.

Financial aid

You may have options when it comes to paying for college tuition and expenses, such as federal grants and loans. Our finance advisors can answer your questions about financial aid and can help guide you through the process.

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Courses

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Education should hold practical value. That’s why our courses meet rigorous academic standards and provide you with skills and knowledge immediately applicable to your career.

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Core Courses

3 Credits

This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine evolving demographics and emerging technologies related to innovative talent management, including effective leadership responses to organizational challenges.

3 Credits

This course provides students with the interpersonal skills needed to motivate people in the workplace and the human resources skills necessary to manage group dynamics and create synergy among group members. The course will help to develop high commitment and productivity from people and groups through awareness of one's own values, behaviors, and decision‐making tendencies.

3 Credits

This course applies leadership concepts to create organizational change. Students will create a plan to lead an organizational change in which they have no direct authority over necessary decisions. Other topics include leadership theories, organizational theory, levels of organizational change, and transformation leadership.

3 Credits

This course emphasizes the importance of economic theories in the context of digital transformation. You gain a fundamental understanding of how to approach business problems related to digitalization within the world economy. You apply and discuss economic theories and how they can help to analyze, understand, and solve business problems.

3 Credits

In this course, students examine managerial accounting as part of the business's accounting information system as well as legal aspects of the business enterprise. Topics include managerial accounting and capital budgeting, cost analysis, management planning and control, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, debtor‐creditor relationships, property and insurance, and legal aspects of employment and environment.

3 Credits

This course applies corporate finance concepts to make management decisions. Students discuss methods used to evaluate financial alternatives and create financial plans. Other topics include cash flows, business valuation, working capital, capital budgets, and long‐term financing.

3 Credits

This course introduces students to a variety of data analytic solutions. Students will learn how to retrieve real business data and create reports, support business decisions with visual representations of data, manage and improve a business process based on quantitative analysis, analyze long-term trends and patterns in the data, and develop actionable results that drive the business decision-making process.

3 Credits

This course examines the potential trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness. Topics include process analysis and improvement, supply chain management, and strategic operations decision-making to solve business challenges. Students will examine supply chain workflows focusing on performance improvement across organizations.

3 Credits

In this course, you learn to develop marketing strategies, consider how to communicate value to target markets, learn the importance of branding, and look at marketing through digital and social media lenses and the relevance of legacy marketing approaches. You will practice these concepts and apply them by creating your own strategic marketing plan. Your strategic marketing plan is an important preparation for your capstone course, where you will assemble a complete business plan

3 Credits

This course examines the processes of identifying, exploring, and exploiting opportunities for value creation. Students will learn how to create value within a large organization or entrepreneurial venture, a critical skill enabling entrepreneurial thinking. Students will gain exposure to strategic thinking, creation of competitive advantage, monitoring of entrepreneurial opportunities, alliances, acquisitions, and restructurings.

3 Credits

This capstone course integrates concepts from all prior courses in the program. Students apply the concepts of strategic planning and implementation to create a sustainable competitive advantage for an organization. Other topics include environmental scanning, strategic analysis, corporate social responsibility, implementation and evaluation, and risk management.

General Education Courses

Electives

Earn career-relevant skills in weeks – not years.

Learning shouldn’t take years to put into practice. That’s why we’re empowering you to build career-relevant skills with every five- to six-week course.

We’ve worked with the labor market researcher Lightcast to identify in-demand skills for occupations and mapped those to our related associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.

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Requirements: 33 credits

You’ll need 33 credits to complete this Master of Business Administration program. Your course schedule may vary based on transferable credits or credits earned through the University’s Prior Learning Assessment.

11 Core Courses

The MBA program includes 11 core courses, in topics ranging from Corporate Finance and Management to Leadership and Marketing.

11 Core Courses

Schedule

Your academic counselor will help schedule your courses for a Master of Business Administration degree.

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If your knack for numbers needs an outlet, find it in our Graduate Accounting Certificate program. Designed to be completed in as little as seven months, this certificate can help you break into the field of accounting. And, since courses are just 6 weeks long, they won’t get in the way of your busy life.

Organizations may depend on data, but their most valuable resource isn’t digital — it’s human. In as little as seven months, our Graduate Human Resource Management Certificate will help you develop skills to help businesses find the right people and, more importantly, keep them. Classes are just 6 weeks long, so they won’t get in the way of your busy life.

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Your work experience may help you save

Your business experience may help you save on your Master of Business Administration degree. You may be eligible to waive 9 credits from your degree requirements and graduate 18 weeks earlier. Speak to your enrollment representative about graduate-level prior learning assessment. Call 844-937-8679.

There’s more than one way to earn your MBA

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TRADITIONAL	COMPETENCY-BASED
16 months (MBA) 17 months (MHA/MIS) 16 months (MBA) 17 months (MHA/MIS)	16 months (MBA) 17 months (MHA/MIS) Less than a year
6-week course at a time 6-week course at a time	6-week course at a time More intensive timeline to complete 4 courses, which can be taken one at a time
Traditional classroom led by instructors Traditional classroom led by instructors	Traditional classroom led by instructors Self-paced, flexible learnings with limited faculty guidance
Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA	Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA and relevant work experience
$698 per credit $698 per credit	$698 per credit $300 per credit (no additional fees)

COMPETENCY-BASED	TRADITIONAL
Less than a year Less than a year	Less than a year 16 months (MBA) 17 months (MHA/MIS)
More intensive timeline to complete 4 courses, which can be taken one at a time More intensive timeline to complete 4 courses, which can be taken one at a time	More intensive timeline to complete 4 courses, which can be taken one at a time 6-week course at a time
Self-paced, flexible learnings with limited faculty guidance Self-paced, flexible learnings with limited faculty guidance	Self-paced, flexible learnings with limited faculty guidance Traditional classroom led by instructors
Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA and relevant work experience Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA and relevant work experience	Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA and relevant work experience Bachelor’s degree with 2.5 GPA
$300 per credit (no additional fees) $300 per credit (no additional fees)	$300 per credit (no additional fees) $698 per credit

Careers & Outcomes

What can you do with a Master of Business Administration degree?

Discover where your degree might take you and make informed choices about your future.

When you earn your on-campus or online Master of Business admin degree you’ll be equipped with a concrete set of skills you can apply on the job. You’ll learn how to:

Integrate decision-making skills to deliver organizational value in dynamic environments.
Create strategies for sustainable organizational success that integrates the organization’s mission and vision with societal values.
Synthesize leadership skills to foster innovation and facilitate change in a dynamic business environment.
Evaluate the global environment to sustain an organization’s competitive advantage.
Integrate managerial skills to support strategic execution in a rapidly changing business environment.

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Top skills learned in this program:

Management
Operations
Communication
Leadership
Decision-making

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The MBA program can help you prepare to be a:

Business Manager
General Manager (GM)
Operations Director
Administrative Director

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5% growth

According to the job growth for general managers is projected to be as fast as average between 2023 and 2033.

The BLS Projected Growth for 2023-2033 is published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This data reflects the BLS’ projections of national (not local) conditions. These data points are not specific to ��ʿ��¼ students or graduates.

Admissions

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Starting your degree is a big decision — and we want you to feel great about it. That’s why we remove obstacles from your application.

No cost to request prior transcripts
No GMAT
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You have a support team of real people you can lean on. And our academic counselors, who are with you every step of the way, have earned a 5-star rating from 85% of our surveyed students.^[1]

[1] Transactional Survey, September 2022-August 2023 (23,739 respondents)

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You have a support team of real people you can lean on. And our academic counselors, who are with you every step of the way, have earned a 5-star rating from 90% of our surveyed students.^{��1��}Start a conversation with an enrollment representative today.

[1] Transactional Survey, August 2021-22 (18,645 respondents)

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Accreditation

Count on the quality of your education

programmatic accreditation

Our MBA has been reaffirmed for accreditation until 2027 by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), ensuring the quality of your education.

What does that mean in real life? ACBSP-accredited business programs are committed to quality standards. The quality of the program is regularly benchmarked against specific criteria that prepare students for the business industry. Accreditation occurs on a 10-year cycle with regular quality reviews.

View the student achievement report (PDF) for the ��ʿ��¼ ACBSP-accredited business and accounting programs.

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Student Experience

An education that fits your busy life

Balancing family, work and school

Work toward your degree without giving up what matters most. Start your degree year-round and take one class at a time.

Online learning

Enroll in online classes and attend class whenever it fits your life, day or night.

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Around-the-clock support and resourcess

You have a support team available up to 14 hours a day, 5 days a week.

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Faculty Spotlight

Business professionals dedicated to you

Your educational success is a top priority for our business deans and faculty members. Their experience and hands-on perspective in the classroom will help you bridge the gap between academics and business industry knowledge. Our instructors bring an average of 28+ years of real-world business experience to the classroom.

Donald Braunstein, MBA

Lead Faculty Area Chair, College of Business and Information Technology

Tina Potter, DBA

Faculty, College of Business and Information Technology

Danica Djordjevich, MAFM, CPA

Faculty, College of Business and Information Technology