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The Professional MBA is designed for individuals with at least five years of full-time professional work experience who are ready for a boost to their career within their organization.

While the typical MBA program presents individual courses such as accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and management, The Professional MBA presents an integrated, 16-month program of study. The knowledge is delivered when it is needed, in a real-world context, and in a format that applies knowledge as it is learned.

The Professional MBA emphasizes critical business themes including the creation of value for customers and shareholders, the importance of a service perspective, new perspectives on risk assessment, decision making, championing change, and understanding ethical and social responsibilities.

The techniques for imparting this information in an intense 16-month timeframe designed around the schedules of full-time working professionals include the following:

• Saturday Classes
• Two and a half weeks of full-time study

Semester Projects
• Distance Learning
• International Trip (optional)

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"The integration within the program brought together a complex series of issues, from finance to operations management, to marketing and design, and put everything into one package. The Marketplace simulation gave me a completely new perspective of business, a completely different way of looking at things."

-Mark Flynn,
process engineer,
Behr Heat Transfer Systems, Inc.