Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Thiel College offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program that provides valuable experiential learning for professionals in the early stages of their business careers. MBA students learn in an intense accelerated program that is cohort-based and features a residential learning environment.

With an MBA degree, you are more likely to move up faster in your chosen career and to see higher earnings. But an MBA from Thiel College offers you much more. You learn how to collaborate professionally, explore different industries and opportunities, and acquire skills it can take years to learn on the job.

MBA Program Formats

5 Year B.A. to MBA

Thiel College makes it possible for you to conveniently graduate with a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA in five years. This dual degree program gives you a head start in your business career by combining a liberal arts education with business management skills.

Accelerated MBA

Designed for professionals early in their careers, the 11-month accelerated Management MBA allows you to enhance your undergraduate degree. You will benefit from cutting-edge courses taught by faculty with world-class business experience. Our accelerated MBA program blends student-centered experiential learning with on-campus courses.

MBA Program Goals

Through the MBA program, students strive to:

• Develop close, long-term relationships with our business faculty.
• Enjoy a highly individualized experiential learning experience that includes intensive project-based coursework.
• Receive a graduate assistantship to work on campus or in businesses.
• Work on team projects in cohorts that build long-term relationships.
• Choose a business major pathway or one that allows you to choose almost any major for your bachelor’s degree.

Student Learning Outcomes

The MBA program focuses on the idea of measuring performance with a balanced scorecard that includes both shareholder and other stakeholder perspectives. Students learn to construct business metrics that include traditional measures of financial and operational achievement coupled with nontraditional measures that incorporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.

Upon completion of the MBA program, you will be able to:

• Identify, assess and resolve ethical dilemmas in dynamic business environments.
• Employ entrepreneurial thinking to create innovative new ways of achieving objectives.
• Use the balanced scorecard approach in solving complex business problems. Think critically to evaluate a situation, identify the problem, collect, manage and analyze data, and generate and weigh alternatives to select executable and sustainable solutions that satisfy multiple stakeholders.
• Present business knowledge and decisions individually and as a team in both oral and written formats.
• Effectively lead and motivate individuals and teams to achieve business objectives.