Bring your clever ideas and sleeves-up attitude to Mary Baldwin, where you can customize your online MBA to your own needs and career goals. You’ll gain a solid foundation in business fundamentals while building advanced skills and knowledge in a concentration area of your choice – all with an eye toward transformative practice and innovative success.
MBU’s MBA is offered 100% online, with classes starting every eight weeks.
Why Earn Your Online MBA at MBU?
Mary Baldwin’s flexible, innovative MBA program is designed for busy innovators and entrepreneurs. Program highlights include:
Flexible & Convenient
- 100% online
- Self-paced, asynchronous coursework, with occasional real-time class discussions and guest speakers
- Robust learning management system accessible from your laptop, desktop, phone, or tablet
Streamlined Admissions
- Business bachelor’s degree not required (open to all undergraduate majors)
- No GRE or GMAT required
- No application fee
- Tuition discount for MBU alumni
- Multiple starts for coursework; we’re ready when you are
Degree
MBA
Format
Online
Length
2 Years
Tracks
Management
Finance
What you’ll learn at Mary Baldwin
With MBU, you’ll develop a deep understanding of entrepreneurial principles, and apply them to launch and grow new business ventures that create positive social impact.
Gain the skills and knowledge necessary to critically evaluate and analyze market opportunities, and use this analysis to develop innovative products and services that meet the needs of target customers. You’ll also cultivate a strong network of mentors and advisors who can provide guidance, support, and connections to key resources, including funding sources, strategic partners, and potential customers.
The MBA@MBU Core Curriculum – 8 classes
The core curriculum gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in business practices and innovations happening right now, and then plot a course for your own venture to enter the market. You’ll learn business theory from professors who are scholar-practitioners and guest speakers with expertise in a variety of fields, and you’ll work with them to put your knowledge into practice. Hone your concepts and execution through pitches and presentations, all culminating in your Apex project where you’ll fully ideate your new venture and get it ready to launch.
Business core curriculum (18 credits)
- Business Statistics & Prediction
- Economics
- Financial Management
- Managing & Leading Others
- Marketing & Communications
- Strategic Management & Processes
- Apex Project 1 & 2
People, Profit, Planet & Purpose
people
Developing a management approach that places equal importance on ALL stakeholders of an organization, from shareholders and the C-suite to employees, customers, and the surrounding community.
Profit
Looking holistically at an organization’s financial and management system – including employee and customer satisfaction – to identify true cost of profit.
Planet
Determining where the organization fits in the greater ecosystem – and what can be done to operate in a responsible and sustainable way.
Purpose
Building a shared vision for an organization – and garnering buy-in – among stakeholders. (Purpose is often called “the 4th bottom line” for its addition to the original 3 Ps.)
“Given these uncertain times, there will likely be a permanent shift in how many industries do business. Adapting and exploring new paths of how to do business will be critical to survival. The MBA@MBU provides the tool kit needed to be able to assess situations and find smart solutions to move forward.”
Rachel Laux, MBA ‘19
Financial, Planning, and Analysis Lead, Leidos
Advising & Mentorship
Our MBA faculty members are scholars, business leaders, management consultants, entrepreneurs, and even inventors. They have industry experience in the private, public, government, and nonprofit sectors in the United States and globally.
Among their broad academic research interests and professional expertise:
- Leadership theories
- Business process improvement
- Corporate social responsibility
- Social entrepreneurship
- Family businesses
- International management
- Sustainable development (and the triple bottom line)
- B Corps + benefit corporations
- Plant and engineering management
- Supply chain and operations planning
- Project management
Your professors and instructors will become more than teachers; they’ll also become trusted mentors, advisors, and, ultimately, business peers.
Cost and Financial Aid
An MBA is one of the smartest investments you can make in yourself. Our seasoned financial aid experts will help you navigate the process of funding your degree so you can stay focused on your future. Options might include:
- No/low-interest payment plans
- Federal student loans
- Employer tuition assistance
- Military benefits
And if you’re an MBU graduate, let us know: all MBU alumni receive an upfront discount.
