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2024-2025 SGPP Catalog and Student Handbook

Business Administration, MBA

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Program Description

The Saint Mary’s University Master of Business Administration combines scholarship, application, and experiences to elevate student skill sets with the professional capital valued by firms today - transferable knowledge, judgment, perspective, professional insight, and character. Students will find a flexible program that immerses them in the quantitative and ethical realities of business. The forward-thinking curriculum imparts solid core knowledge with unique professional experiences - field study and real-time projects conducted in partnership with firms from one of the nation’s premier business communities.

An international perspective is integrated across the MBA curriculum. Ethical dimensions of managerial actions and decisions are examined throughout as students are engaged in corporate social and environmental responsibility, sustainable economic enterprise, and issues of business character. Saint Mary’s University envisions graduates who are ready for the business world because they have the foundation for lifetime professional growth, strong business skills, cultural acumen, and independent thinking used with ethics.

Program Outcomes

Upon completing the program, graduates are expected to do the following:

  1. Communicate effectively in a variety of modes.
  2. Act with integrity and ethics.
  3. Make evidence-based decisions.
  4. Lead for the common good, looking beyond self to build better organizations.
  5. Contribute to organizational success through a broad knowledge of business.
  6. Perform quantitative analysis.

Program Structure and Delivery

Students can choose from four curricular options: a customizable general management MBA (39 credits), an MBA with a specialization (45 credits), an online MBA (30 credits), or an online MBA with certificate. 

The Master of Business Administration with or without a specialization is offered in a blended/hybrid format in Minneapolis and Rochester. Courses delivered in the blended/hybrid format integrate face-to-face classroom meetings and online activities or interactions in a planned, instructionally valuable manner. Specialization courses for the MBA at the Minneapolis or Rochester locations are only offered in a fully online format.

The online Master of Business Administration program is offered in a fully online asynchronous format. Students can choose to stack a graduate certificate for an additional 6 credits.

Degree Requirements

Option 1: Business Administration, MBA without Specialization  
Option 2: Business Administration, MBA with Specialization  
Option 3: Business Administration, MBA - Online Without Certificate  
Option 4: Business Administration, MBA - Online With Certificate  

 

Graduate Credit Use Towards Degree

Students may substitute 6 credits from any of the following completed SMUMN certificates to replace MBA610 Organizations and Human Behavior or MBA613 Ethical Leadership. The substitutions allow these certificate students to complete the M.B.A. with just 30 credits.

Accounting Leadership Certificate  

Artificial Intelligence Certificate  

Business Analytics Certificate  

Cybersecurity Management Certificate  

Cybersecurity Technology Certificate  

Finance Certificate  

Healthcare Administration Certificate  

Healthcare Analytics Certificate  

Human Resource Management Certificate  

Individual and Team Leadership Certificate  

Nonprofit Management Certificate  

Organizational and Change Leadership Certificate  

Project Management Certificate  

Faculty

The faculty members for this program have earned doctorate or master’s degrees. Faculty are selected for their combination of educational and professional experience and expertise.

Admission Requirements

For all applicants:

Applicants may apply for admission to master degree programs at any time during the year. Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution and maintained an overall grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.00 scale. Applicants must demonstrate the language proficiency necessary for successful graduate coursework. If the grade point average upon admission is below 2.75, or if a grade point average is not available, or language proficiency is not adequate, the applicant may be admitted with conditional status.

Note: Once admitted, students cannot switch back and forth between the online MBA and on-ground MBA options.

Application Process

Applicants must submit the following:

1.  Completed application form with the nonrefundable application fee (fee not required for alumni or students seeking readmission or veterans and active military personnel), and
2.  An official transcript(s) issued to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota from the institution posting the applicant’s completed bachelor degree and other relevant transcripts documenting program prerequisites and potential transfer credits. (An official transcript is one that is sent to the university by the credit-granting institution. Transcripts from countries other than the U.S. must be evaluated on a course by course basis by a university accepted evaluation service, such as World Education Services, Educational Credential Evaluators, Educational Perspectives, or One Earth International Credential Evaluators and be deemed equivalent to accredited U.S. university standards).  Evaluations from an approved member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES.org) will also be accepted.
3.  A reflective essay which includes the following:

a.  a brief description of the applicant’s background, training, and experience; and
b.  a statement indicating the career goals of the applicant and their reasons for seeking admission to the program; and
c.  a description of the areas the applicant considers to be their strengths and areas in which the applicant wishes to develop greater strengths and abilities; and
d.  a personal information the applicant wishes to share.

4.  Names of two people (including title, organization, email, phone number) who could serve as professional references, if needed, during the application review process. The best references are those who can verify professional and/or volunteer experience and academic ability and, for accelerated program applicants, note the ability to write and perform quantitative analysis.
5.  A current résumé listing educational background and work experience.
6.  Applicants with international transcripts may require an English language proficiency exam (TOEFL, IELTS, PTE or MELAB accepted.)

Please Note: Application materials should be sent to the attention of the Office of Admission on the Minneapolis Campus.

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
Office of Admission
2500 Park Ave S
Minneapolis, MN  55404

 

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