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Master of business administration
Engineer a more fluid organization — one where technology drives progress, streamlines operations and helps achieve essential goals. Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) centers the online master of business administration (MBA) around this objective. The program, geared toward working professionals, views technology as a tool of growth that influences all business processes, improves decision-making and encourages innovation.
Strengthen your management skills and knowledge of functional business areas, and emerge as a determined leader ready to deliver results and successfully implement technology at all organizational levels. Ignite this stage of your professional journey by applying directly to the Missouri S&T online MBA program or explore a range of disciplines through 10 gateway certificate programs offered online by the Department of Business and Information Technology.
About Missouri S&T’s online MBA
The Department of Business and Information Technology aims to launch you as a leader by enhancing your core business skills, refining your management foundation and helping you pioneer technology as a strategic decision-making and financial tool.
This Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited program grapples with current technology implementation concerns while positioning candidates for more advanced roles:
- Learn management and leadership best practices to support teams, drive results and make more impactful decisions
- Discuss technology and international business trends with expert faculty and fellow business professionals
- Collaborate with diverse students in an environment emphasizing team-based projects
- Understand how to bridge all functional areas with technology to develop more complex business plans
- Apply theories to real-world scenarios in live simulations
- Improve your presentation, critical reasoning, problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
- Connect with employers to expand your network and access new opportunities
- Prepare to champion and thrive in a technology-centered business environment
- Understand how to use technology and data to make more targeted decisions, reach goals and unlock organizational growth
Quick facts
Official name
Master of business administrationCampus
Program type
Master's degreeAcademic home
Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development | Department of Business and Information TechnologyDelivery mode
100% onlineAccreditation
Higher Learning Commission, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)Credit hours
36Estimated cost
$34,200.00Military credit hours
36Military estimated cost
$28,620.00*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.
Career prospects
Accelerate your career as more companies seek out management professionals to rethink organizational processes, improve collaboration and build the next level of progress. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 8% more managerial roles across industries and responsibilities through 2031. As you pursue these opportunities, an online MBA from Missouri S&T attests to your skills and dedication to tackling challenges through traditional business theories and technology.
Potential job titles include:
- Advertising, promotions or marketing manager
- Computer and information systems manager
- Financial manager
- Human resources manager
- Information technology manager
- Project manager
- Sales manager
Program structure
The online master of business administration requires 36 credit hours, divided between a 21-credit-hour core and 15 credit hours of electives. Electives cover higher-level topics in business, enterprise resource planning, finance, information science and technology, and marketing. A related graduate certificate can partially fulfill these requirements. Consult your adviser to plan out your degree in line with your education and career goals.
Complete the MBA entirely online or through a mix of virtual and on-campus classes all using a semester schedule. The typical student takes one to two courses at a time to finish the program in two to three years.
Core courses
The core sequence introduces or explores:
- Leadership challenges and strategies
- Common hurdles business managers face in a global marketplace
- Improving business processes and decision-making through information management
- Managerial accounting and its applications
- Supply chain management processes
- Streamlining business functions to boost organizational performance
- Tools for financial analysis and decision making
Review all requirements for the online master of business administration.
Delivery
100% onlineCalendar system
SemesterTypical program length
3 yearsTypical course load
1-2 classes per semesterPathway to the online MBA
Continue exploring how technology influences business operations with a graduate certificate, and transfer your credits to fulfill core and elective requirements for Missouri S&T’s online MBA program.
Applicable graduate certificates include: Business Analytics and Data Science, Business Intelligence, Business Project Management, Digital Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation, Finance, Financial Technology, Information System Project Management and Management and Leadership.
Students considering this pathway benefit from more relaxed admission requirements and are exempt from submitting GRE scores.
Understand that admission isn’t guaranteed after you complete a graduate certificate. Instead, first apply to and wait until the MBA program accepts you before transferring your credits.
Accreditation
Missouri University of Science and Technology is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.
The Kummer College of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development is accredited by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).
Faculty spotlight
Areas of interest include credibility in advertising, cause marketing, social entrepreneurship marketing, brand communities and consumer-brand relationships