MBA Program Overview
Got a business idea? An entrepreneurial dream? A desire to step up your game as a corporate leader?
UMS’s online Master of Business Administration is your degree. Accredited, affordable and structured to complete in just over a year (two courses per 10-week term), it’s an efficient, cost-effective way to help enhance your business skills, boost your marketability and advance your career—all at a pace that works for you.
Learn how to:
- Formulate your own business plan
- Analyze data and problem solve
- Lead and operate cross functional teams
- Speak and write effectively
- Understand how culture, economics and politics impact global business
- Incorporate legal and ethical principles into business decisions
- Create entrepreneurial opportunities
Students can also choose from 20+ career-focused concentrations, to tailor the program more closely to personal interest. Popular concentrations include: healthcare management, project management and human resources.
MBA Career Outlook
With a median annual salary of $102,590 for management occupations,* and 8% job growth projected through 2026* (as fast as average) according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—your MBA is an investment in your future.
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveyed 350 employers in its 2018 year-end report. The results of the survey concluded that 78% of employers plan to hire recent MBA graduates in 2019. Additionally, it found that most employers plan to increase the starting salaries in 2019 for those new hires.**
Courses and Curriculum
UMS's online MBA provides the flexibility to customize your program with courses that focus on specific subjects of interest. You can choose to take either elective courses or a concentration to complete your 12-course program.
Conceived to address the demands of an increasingly global business environment, UMS's online MBA explores such themes as ethics, communication and social responsibility. It also gives you the chance to interact with a diverse student body, one of the many fringe benefits of the online classroom. In the process, you’ll enhance your “soft skills,” a key ingredient for success in any aspect of the business world.
- At the beginning of the program students are able to select real-world projects from their own professional or personal experiences.
- This way, students can tailor the program around their interests thus being able to acquire the specific knowledge base and skill sets needed to achieve their personal career aspirations.
- The courses build upon each other so students can craft a business plan throughout the program.
- At the end of the program the graduates walk away with the complete business plan for an idea they can present to investors, employers or prospective companies.
Whether you're looking to enhance your current career, improve your ability to switch careers or ensure the success of your own business, our business degree coursework offers you the flexibility to tailor your program around your core skills and interests through more than 20 career-oriented concentrations.
Those with non-business academic backgrounds may be required to take foundation courses. Students requiring foundation courses often choose the elective option, because it provides the added flexibility of using some foundation courses to fulfill elective requirements.
