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2025-2026 SGPP Catalog and Student Handbook

Business Administration, MBA

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Program Description

The Saint Mary’s University Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 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 program 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

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has two delivery formats:

  • The MBA and MBA with Specialization offered in an online asynchronous format
  • The MBA and MBA with Specialization offered in a hybrid format based on the Minneapolis campus (online and onground, with all specialization courses offered in a fully online format)

Degree Requirements

Option 1: Business Administration, MBA without Specialization  
Option 2: Business Administration, MBA with Specialization  
 

Students completing the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program can choose from two curricular options: The MBA (30 credits), and the MBA with a specialization (36 credits). Specialization options include: 

  • Accounting Leadership
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Analytics
  • Cybersecurity Management
  • Cybersecurity Technology
  • Finance
  • Healthcare Administration
  • Healthcare Analytics
  • Human Resource Management
  • Individual and Team Leadership
  • Nonprofit Management
  • Organizational and Change Leadership
  • Project Management.

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 hybrid MBA options.

Application Process

Applicants must submit:

  1. Completed application form and,
  2. An official transcript issued to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota from the institution posting the applicant’s completed bachelor’s 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. 

    Students with transcripts issued in the U.S. may be admitted without an official transcript. Students must provide an official transcript by the last day to add/drop classes in their first term of attendance. In cases where students are completing coursework while simultaneously applying for admission, students may be admitted with an in-progress transcript, and an official transcript posting final grades and, when appropriate, degree attainment, must be submitted before students are allowed to register for subsequent semesters. 

See individual programs for additional application requirements.

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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