The online MBA that adapts to your life
Build demand for your skills and your professional brand as a strategic leader with the world-class online MBA program from the Marquette University Graduate School of Management.
Marquette MBA graduates are widely known for having leading-edge skills and the confidence born of a principled, ethics-infused education to produce innovative solutions to business and societal challenges.
Marquette’s flexible, 100% online MBA program is a remarkable, affordable opportunity for domestic and international students to pursue a transformative Marquette MBA. Learn wherever you live and on your own time, fitting course work in with your other responsibilities.
There is no limit to what you can do with a Marquette online MBA.
Key Program Facts
- Complete in as little as 24 months
- No on-campus or in-person requirements
- Taught by the same faculty as our on-campus program
- Dedicated student success coordinators
- GMAT/GRE waiver available based on your experience
- Three opportunities to start per year
Is an online MBA worth it?
Your Marquette online MBA covers all functional business areas, emphasizing literacy, strategy and leadership and offers the opportunity to immediately apply the skills you’re learning in class to your professional life. In a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, corporate recruiters estimate their average hiring salary for MBA graduates to be $120,000, which is about 1.75 times higher than new hires with only bachelor’s degrees. With career outcomes like these plus the Marquette University name on your resume, the value of the online MBA is clear.
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Your online MBA from Marquette will prepare you with the cross-functional knowledge of business operations that is foundational for leadership roles, including:
- Business analytics
- Economics
- Finance
- Information systems
- Marketing
- Operations and supply chain
Core courses that build on the business foundations and help differentiate you as a Marquette graduate include:
- Ethical business practices
- Corporate social responsibility
- Leading for innovation and creativity
- Leading people and change
- Leadership coaching and development
- Risk management
- Strategic management
An MBA curriculum that goes beyond the basics
Core courses in Marquette’s online MBA will help you develop the highest priority skills for new hires across business sectors, including problem-solving, effective communication, strategic thinking, collaboration, adaptability and the drive to take initiative.1
A strategic management capstone course and elective courses will help you complete your career preparation and a wide array of electives and specialization options allow you to customize the MBA to help meet your specific career goals.
MBA specialization options
Students wishing to complete an MBA specialization will complete four courses (12 credit hours) of the MBA’s five elective courses in their specialization track.
Finance Specialization
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Health Systems Leadership Specialization
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Business and Managerial Analytics Specialization
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Supply Chain Management Specialization
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Leadership Specialization
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Why choose Marquette for your online MBA?
The same accomplished and career-focused faculty who teach Marquette’s top-ranked on-campus programs teach in the online program, and students will receive the same high-quality education in the online MBA program. An online MBA is worth it, especially for professionals who don’t want to spend time on a commute, or who are interested in a top-ranked program like Marquette’s but don’t live in the area.
Marquette’s online MBA builds on your background to meet your goals
Having been part of the workforce for a few years, you have a good idea of where you want to take your career and what kind of business leader you want to be. In Marquette’s online MBA program, we stand ready to help you refine your vision of success with leadership-focused and ethically grounded elective courses in the following business concentrations:
- Accounting and finance
- Human resources
- Information systems
- Leadership and management
- Marketing
Lead with purpose
At the Graduate School of Management, we believe deeply that businesses ought to serve the greater good, and we prepare leaders who are committed to upholding this value and managing with a truly global sense of impact.
Engage with entire courses on ethical business practices and corporate social responsibility, and model your leadership style on the principled sensibility woven throughout the online MBA program on the whole.
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Get there faster
If you have a background in business from your undergraduate studies—whether in the form of a bachelor’s degree in business or through successful completion of coursework in accounting, finance, marketing and other core business subjects—you could be eligible to accelerate your time to degree and save on the total cost of tuition for a Marquette online MBA.
The Marquette MBA requires the completion of 42 credit hours, with 27 hours devoted to core courses and 15 hours of electives. However, you may qualify for up to 10.5 hours of core credit for your undergraduate business courses. Additionally, your previous education may enable you to receive a GMAT/GRE waiver.
For more information about this rapid timeline to career transformation, contact an admissions outreach advisor.
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- Retrieved on November 25, 2024, from gmac.com/-/media/files/gmac/research/employment-outlook/2024-corporate-recruiters-survey/2024_gmac_crs_report.pdf, pg. 52.