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

This specialization is built for professionals who want to deepen their business knowledge and plan to work in the finance sector or in a finance-focused role. The MBA Finance Specialization offers advanced finance electives on topics including bank management, real estate finance and investments, international financial management plus quantitative classes. In addition to the finance specialization, students may complete courses in widely accepted statistical software [e.g. R, Python, and SQL] within the Online MBA electives.

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Health Systems Leadership Specialization

The Health Systems Leadership Specialization provides a unique curriculum combining health care and business curriculum to prepare students for leadership, administrative and executive roles across complex health systems. Courses cover topics including quality improvement in health care, workforce solutions, health care informatics and health care advocacy. Students pursuing this specialization can develop skills in strategic planning, change management, clinical operations and more.

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Business and Managerial Analytics Specialization

Enhance your Marquette University online MBA with a Business and Managerial Analytics Specialization, tailored for professionals aiming to skill up in analytics and data-informed decision-making. With a projected 23% job growth from 2022 to 2032 in operations research analysis1, this specialization offers essential courses like Business Analytics, Skills Courses in SQL, Python, and R, and Data Analysis. Completed within the MBA core and electives, the Business and Managerial Analytics specialization equips students for diverse industries demanding high-level analytics proficiency.

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Supply Chain Management Specialization

The Supply Chain Management Specialization at Marquette prepares students to navigate the industry transition from physical to digital supply chains effectively. This track, pulling from the supply chain master’s degree curriculum, requires 12 credits through selections like Sourcing in the Digital Supply Chain, Industry 4.0, and Additive Manufacturing. Also covered are comprehensive topics from supply chain finance to blockchain, aiming to provide future leaders with the competencies and tools essential for mastery in this dynamic field.

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Leadership Specialization

The Leadership Specialization at Marquette University is designed for those aspiring to embody exemplary service as business leaders, serving customers, employees, and communities alike. Emphasizing a balance between ethical interpersonal skills and technical knowledge, this specialization focuses on cultivating leadership qualities through practical applications in complex business scenarios. With courses like Contemporary Leadership and Character Driven Leadership and electives such as Change Leadership in Self and Organizations and Leading for Inclusion, students in this online MBA specialization can refine their abilities to navigate and lead effectively in increasingly responsible organizational roles.

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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.

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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
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Lead with purpose

Business success is not just about the money you make; it’s about the impact you leave on the world.

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

When you earn your MBA online at Marquette, you could make a professional impact sooner than you think.

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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