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Part-Time MBA Academics

Preparing You to Move Forward with Purpose

The Part-Time MBA curriculum delivers essential business knowledge from the management perspective, combined with leadership, technical, interpersonal, and communication skills. With a streamlined core of 12 courses, a dedicated leadership requirement, a new focus on digital transformation and AI, and nine available specializations, the program is designed to give you the tools to stand out from the crowd and make an immediate impact on your organization.

core curriculum, global immersions, domestic residencies, course descriptions

Core Curriculum
Specializations
Global Immersions
Course Descriptions

Part-Time MBA curriculum highlights

  • Core Coursework

    Eleven core courses and a communications requirement span the full spectrum of business disciplines—from finance and marketing to operations, analytics, and strategy—with deeper engagement through the 4-credit course format.

  • Digital Transformation & AI

    Today's business leaders must understand how technology reshapes industries. This core course—replacing the former Management Information Systems requirement—prepares you to lead through digital disruption and leverage artificial intelligence as a strategic asset.

  • Leadership

    New to the Part-Time MBA core curriculum, a dedicated leadership course develops the interpersonal and strategic leadership skills essential for professionals ready to take on greater responsibility.

  • Analytical Tools & Models

    Business Analytics equips you to organize and optimize information for enhanced understanding and decision making, developing the quantitative skills employers value most.

  • Global Perspective

    Global Managerial Economics integrates macroeconomic forces with managerial decision-making, and the Strategy capstone allows you to synthesize your knowledge across disciplines. Faculty-led international immersions each year offer an extraordinary opportunity to experience business around the world.

Lorenzo Sheppard Jr. '20

I was intrigued by the disciplines that were available within the PTMBA program, specifically engineering management. I wanted to have some technical element to my MBA experience and I was able to take a lot of electives that aligned with my interest and background in engineering.
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Lorenzo Sheppard Jr. MBA '20
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Core Curriculum and Electives

Develop your strategic vision and a new way of understanding business throughout the curriculum. Don’t just know the right answers - ask the right questions. See opportunities where others do not, and harness analytical skills for empowered decision making, even with incomplete information. Become a valuable problem solver, focusing on results and multiplying the contributions of others through leadership and strong communication.

Our world-class Part-Time MBA faculty teach across all programs in the Raymond A. Mason School of Business. They are research leaders and active in the field, consulting with leading companies every day, and then bringing their cutting-edge and highly relevant expertise into the classroom for you. The lively Part-Time MBA class environment is enriched by fellow students who are as smart, motivated and engaged as you are. Dive into our curriculum with upwardly mobile professionals who bring significant experience and perspective from a variety of industries and functional areas to classroom discussion.

Core Curriculum

49 Total Credit Hours • 12 Core Courses • 2 Elective Courses • ∼2 Years to Complete

core curriculum snapshot
Core Courses Credits
Financial Accounting 2

Managerial Accounting

 2
Digital Transformation and AI 4
Business Analytics 4
Principles of Finance 4
Marketing 4
Organizational Behavior 4
Leadership 4
Operations 4
Strategy 4
Global Managerial Economics 4
Communications for Managers 1
Electives (2 courses)

8
Total Program Credits

49

Specializations

Tailor your MBA to your career goals by choosing from nine specializations across four areas. Specialization coursework is drawn from the Mason School's online master's programs in finance, marketing, accounting, and business analytics. Credits earned toward a specialization may also be applied toward a second Mason School graduate degree.

Students who prefer a broader experience may choose the No Specialization option and select from any available graduate electives totaling 8 credit hours.

Specializations
Specialization Area Available Tracks
Finance

Corporate Finance
Investment Management
Real Estate Finance
Marketing

Marketing Analytics & Insights
Marketing Innovation
Modern Integrated Marketing Communications
Accounting

Accounting
Tax Planning & Strategy
Business Analytics Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders

 

Global Immersions

All business today is global. Around the world, supply chains, economies and markets are inextricably intertwined, so effective business leaders must develop an international perspective. That is why the Part-Time MBA Program offers annual faculty-led internationals immersions during breaks in the academic calendar to make global business and culture come alive, in both established and developing economies. Past destinations have included Germany, Belgium, India, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Italy, Greece, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore.

Trips are organized around business visits with presentations from high-level company representatives. You may tour a manufacturing facility, visit an international stock exchange, or explore social entrepreneurship in a developing community. Your boots-on-the-ground experience will help you understand international economics, discover broad cultural issues and how they affect business, and navigate effective decision-making in unfamiliar or cross-cultural settings.

Loans through federal financial aid are available to cover international trip expenses, because immersions are tied to elective academic courses. Our most common immersion is a Spring Break trop of approximately 10 days.

Core Curriculum Course Descriptions

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Electives

Part-Time MBA students complete 8 credit hours of elective coursework. Students pursuing a specialization will take their electives within their chosen area. Students choosing the No Specialization option may select from any available graduate electives, including courses from the Mason School's online master's programs. International immersions are a popular elective choice each year.