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Master of Business Administration Online Degree

Position yourself for high-level leadership roles with the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) online degree program from Benedictine University—a regionally accredited, established institution with over 130 years of history and a tradition of academic excellence.

You'll learn to lead organizations through the challenges of 21st-century business management, as well as successfully navigate your career through market turbulence, organizational change and global competition.

Choose Your Pace and Format

Benedictine offers two program tracks in an M.B.A. online program intentionally designed to fit the lives of working professionals:

Choose the option that works best for you with a university ranked one of America's Best Colleges for 2018–2019 by Forbes. In addition to the traditional online and accelerated M.B.A. degree programs, Benedictine offers the M.B.A. program on campus in Lisle, Illinois.

Concentration Options to Take Your MBA Further

Strengthen your place in the market by adding an in-demand concentration option to your M.B.A. degree.

  • Change Management Concentration – Change Management provides knowledge to prepare students for the world of change, and to leverage their human skills such as training and development. Exposure to the role of consulting, the ability to work and improve teams, and understanding the role of the organization development practitioner will be explored in this concentration.
  • Digital Marketing Concentration: Digital marketing uses social media platforms to engage your audience to build your brand. The concentration based curriculum covers topics such as increasing web traffic leads to impact sales, advertising on various platforms, publishing social media content, and listening to your audience.
  • Project Management Concentration: Project management and leadership are a highly sought-after skills spanning many industries around the globe. With increasingly intense competition, businesses demand timely and cost effective development plans. Courses offer the student an understanding of organizational behavior, effective team-building skills, conflict management and resolution, as well as skills to effectively manage the financial side of projects.
  • Talent Management Concentration – Students will develop the knowledge and skills in human resource functions, explore cutting-edge concepts in talent management, business intelligence, and ethics. This concentration is appropriate for students or working professionals in the Human Resources and Talent Management arena.

M.B.A. Admissions Requirements

Applying to the M.B.A. online requires the following items:

  • Two letters of recommendation from your professional references
  • A resume detailing your professional experiences
  • A letter of intent including why you've chosen Benedictine's M.B.A.

Check out our application checklist to get your M.B.A. journey started

Program Objectives

In the M.B.A. online degree program from Benedictine University, you will gain a variety of skills you can confidently apply at the business enterprise level. The objectives of this program include the ability to:

  • Define supply-and-demand concepts and understand their impact on consumer behavior and business decision-making.
  • Evaluate a modern enterprise's financial well-being and analyze corporate financial statements.
  • Understand macro- and microeconomic concepts and analytical tools to confront economic issues and policies.
  • Describe the differences between management and leadership in complex, contemporary organizations.
  • Build productive teams that can work collaboratively with each other and produce excellent results.

Eliminate the Barriers Between You and Your Degree

Students may apply for the M.B.A. online program at any time. If you have an educational background in business you may be able to waive up to four foundation courses. Meeting these conditions and applying today could give you a quick start toward completing your M.B.A.

M.B.A. Online Rankings

Benedictine University consistently attracts notice for the quality and growth of the M.B.A. program.

  • Crain’s Chicago Business reported that Benedictine's M.B.A. was the seventh-largest M.B.A. program in Chicago in 2017.
  • OnlineMasters.com rated Benedictine University's M.B.A. online program among the 50 best online programs in the nation.
  • U.S. News & World Report ranked Benedictine University among its 2019 Best Colleges using 16 measures of academic quality.

Dual Degree Options Available

Dual M.B.A. program opportunities are also available if you are interested in obtaining a second graduate degree at Benedictine in another field.

For students whose interests and ambitions extend into organizational behavior or health care, pursuing a dual M.B.A. could provide you with a more complete professional and business education for a reduced time and financial commitment.

  • Begin when you want: Begin your program by selecting one of the six starting dates available throughout the year. Unlike other schools, Benedictine's M.B.A. online program does not require new students to wait a whole year before beginning their studies.
  • Study on your schedule: The completely online format gives you the flexibility to complete your coursework without disrupting your work and personal schedule. Our M.B.A. students spend an average of 2.2 hours per day on school work. How and when you fit study time into your day is completely up to you.

The process from application to admission to the first day of class is fantastic. Taking on such a task is daunting, and the support staff does not allow you to get overwhelmed. In fact, I have to credit Dana L. with helping change my life. I will never forget her. I had spoken to a few other schools, but Dana really sold me on the program and seemed to care."

Aleksandrs "Sasha" Racenis, Medical Assistant

Take Hold of Your Success

For more information about the Master of Business Administration online program offerings from Benedictine University, request more information or call (866) 295-3104 to speak with a Program Manager.