Learn to strategically manage high-performance teams and solve complex, real-world business challenges. With more than 20 concentrations available, you can customize this top-ranked online MBA to suit your unique career goals.
When it comes to selecting an MBA program, you want a quality education that fits your needs. The Penn State Online MBA, delivered through Penn State World Campus and the Penn State Smeal College of Business, is designed to offer you an experience customized to fit your busy lifestyle and unique career goals.
The program’s contemporary, interdisciplinary curriculum integrates and unifies all functional areas of business, allowing you to effectively approach problem-solving from a more holistic perspective. You will be able to concentrate on the functional areas in which you want to specialize while working at a pace that works for you.
The core course work will prepare you to become a more effective business professional by exposing you to the principles and practices essential to modern management. You will develop marketable skills tied to business analytics, problem-solving, influencing others, critical thinking, and cross-functional business savvy.
Critical to your success is our focus on the application of new knowledge to solving real-world business problems in a team setting. Every core course includes teamwork.
Our graduates can expect to:
The Smeal-led MBA draws upon expert faculty from the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend, Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies, and Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration.
A trusted leader in online education. Penn State World Campus has been the most recognized institution in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of Best Online Programs since 2017. We know how to support the unique needs of adult learners.
Strong partnership with Smeal College. You will have access to faculty experts from the internationally ranked Penn State Smeal College of Business. Students in this Smeal-led program can receive specialized career coaching, personal advising, access to global immersion trips, and additional networking opportunities. Learn more about the Penn State Smeal Advantage.
Greater flexibility and choice. You can start in any semester, customize your education, and create a path to completion around your schedule.
Earn more than one credential. The MBA curriculum is part of a larger integrative portfolio of professional graduate business programs. By sharing courses across programs, we can often help students add a graduate certificate or second master’s degree in less time than if earned separately.
Develop tightly focused, career-ready skills tailored to your personal strengths and unique goals. The Penn State Online MBA offers more than 20 concentrations. Few top-tier online MBA programs offer this level of depth. Choose from one of the following 9-credit concentrations:
The residency provides you an opportunity to meet your instructors and student peers, immerse yourself in a team performance class while earning credit, and attend workshops covering career management, alumni relations and networking, and online technology. This engaging event is available on-campus and via remote delivery at various times throughout the year. Learn more about the residency experience.
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