MBA

Why Choose an MBA?

For professionals who aspire to be managers and leaders, the MBA is your key to success. While a specialized master’s degree can enhance your technical skills, the MBA offers a combination of managerial and technical skills to enhance your understanding of how to effectively manage people and teams.

In addition to our MBA for working professionals, check out our 5th year programs.

Flexible Ways to Complete your Degree

• Full-time: Complete your MBA in as little as 18 months, attending four classes per semester. Classes are on campus with online options available. 
• Part-time: Choose the best pace to complete your studies. With a minimum of two classes per semester, you can complete your MBA in two years. Classes are on campus with online options available. 
• Accelerated Online: Complete your MBA in as little as one calendar year, taking courses online in 7-week modules. Your classes will be taught by the same excellent full-time and professional faculty who teach on campus. Discover our online MBA program. 

You Don’t Need a Business Background

The MBA program is open to all students who hold a bachelor's degree in any discipline from an accredited institution of higher learning. If your undergraduate degree was not in a business-related field, we offer the MBA Bridge Program — a set of four accelerated courses that cover the essential foundations of an undergraduate business education. Have an engineering background? Visit this page to learn how an MBA complements an engineering background:

MBA for Engineers

MBA Concentrations

Full-time and part-time students may choose from the following MBA concentrations available: 

• Business Analytics
• Finance and Economics
• Organizations, Markets, and Sustainability

Accelerated online students take the Flex MBA Option offering a broad exposure to a range of concentration courses. 

Learn more about MBA concentrations.

What Will You Learn?

As an MBA student, you will:

• Practice analytical decision-making and risk management
• Develop an understanding of leadership, social justice and corporate responsibility
• Gain an appreciation for ethical behavior in business
• Learn about organizations and the competitive environment
• Conduct hands-on research and participate in projects related to your studies
• Choose elective courses that align with your goals
• Have professional development opportunities

Experiential Learning

Today, employers are looking for experience in addition to conceptual understanding. Our on-campus program's strong experiential learning component offers a variety of opportunities to apply knowledge in a real-world setting. This can include:

• Internships: Our students have landed summer or semester-long internships at prominent companies including Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Morgan Stanley and the New York Mets.
• International Study Trips: Each year, MBA students have the opportunity to learn in a global location. Previous trips, with extensive visits to local business and corporations, have been to France, India, Peru, and Dubai. 
• Business Plan Projects: Our students traveled to Frankfurt, Germany, where they prepared a business plan for an emerging energy company, met a vice president of Deutsche Bank and visited the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
• Entrepreneurial Projects: Our MBA students worked with chemical engineering students to create and market a natural hair-dye product for L’Oreal and develop markets for new uses of olive oil produced in Palestine.
• Research: Our students placed second in the Baylor University-USASBE Student Case Writing Competition.

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What Will You Do?

Earning an MBA elevates your leadership potential in the world of business. New York City is the ideal location to put it into practice at a global firm, a leading nonprofit or a new start-up.

Recent Employers of Manhattan College MBA Graduates