Master of Business Administration (MBA)

About the MBA

Thiel College offers a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program that provides valuable experiential learning for professionals at any stage in their careers. With an MBA degree, you are more likely to move up faster in your chosen career and to see higher earnings. And an MBA from Thiel College offers you much more. You learn how to collaborate professionally, explore different industries and opportunities, and acquire skills it can take years to learn on the job.

MBA Program Formats

5 Year B.A. to MBA

Thiel College makes it possible for you to conveniently graduate with a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA in five years. This dual degree program gives you a head start in your business career by combining a liberal arts education with business management skills.

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Accelerated MBA

Designed for professionals early in their careers, the 11-month accelerated Management MBA allows you to enhance your undergraduate degree. You will benefit from cutting-edge courses taught by faculty with world-class business experience. Our accelerated MBA program blends student-centered experiential learning with on-campus courses.

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Part-time MBA

Ideal for working professionals. Whether you’re looking to make your next career move or move up in your current organization, Thiel’s part-time Management MBA allows you to enhance your undergraduate degree. With a blend of student-centered experiential learning opportunities with on-campus courses, you have the flexibility to take up to two years to complete and with the same challenging business curriculum as our accelerated MBA program.

Classes begin every 10 weeks
Day & evening classes available
Transfer credits considered
No GRE/GMAT requirement
Pay as you go or financing options available

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MBA Program Goals

Through the MBA program, students strive to:

Develop close, long-term relationships with our business faculty.
Enjoy a highly individualized experiential learning experience that includes intensive project-based coursework.
Receive a graduate assistantship to work on campus or in businesses.
Work on team projects in cohorts that build long term relationships.
Choose a business major pathway or one that allows you to choose almost any major for your bachelor’s degree.

Student Learning Outcomes

The MBA program focuses on the idea of measuring performance with a balanced scorecard that includes both shareholder and other stakeholder perspectives. Students learn to construct business metrics that include traditional measures of financial and operational achievement coupled with nontraditional measures that incorporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.

Upon completion of the MBA program, you will be able to:

Identify, assess and resolve ethical dilemmas in dynamic business environments.
Employ entrepreneurial thinking to create innovative new ways of achieving objectives.
Use the balanced scorecard approach in solving complex business problems. Think critically to evaluate a situation, identify the problem, collect, manage and analyze data, generate and weigh alternatives to select executable and sustainable solutions that satisfy multiple stakeholders.
Present business knowledge and decisions individually and as a team in both oral and written formats.
Effectively lead and motivate individuals and teams to achieve business objectives.

Experiential Learning

Many MBA programs require work experience before you are admitted. By design, the Thiel MBA ensures that you finish with relevant management experience that students leverage in the next stage of their careers.

Students enrolled in the MBA program at Thiel College have multiple experiential learning opportunities. Every student will complete 400 hours of career focused work as a graduate assistant. As part of the required coursework, each student will work in a paid internship for a private sector business for a minimum of 120 hours and participate in student consultant teams advising a non-profit organization.

Business Partner Program

Thiel College understands the value of a graduate business degree for both the MBA students and their current employers, which is why we’ve developed our Business Partner Program.

As an MBA candidate, you’ll benefit from:

Guaranteed Priority Admissions
$24,000 Business Partners grant
Opportunity for curriculum tailored to your current industry
Access to a robust alumni network

Your employer will also benefit from:

A more knowledgeable and valuable employee
Access to Thiel’s best and brightest as a preferred internship site
Being a featured business at a future Thiel speaking event
Company exposure via site tours

If your employer currently offers tuition assistance or might be interested in providing this valuable benefit to employees looking to advance their current career trajectory we’d love to talk. Please ask your employer to contact Anthony Kos, Ph.D. for more information.

Apply to the MBA program at Thiel!

At Thiel College, our MBA program combines experiential learning with rigorous business management courses, offering comprehensive career development and growth. Visit the Apply tab to learn more about the MBA requirements and application process.

Non-Thiel Students - Apply online today!

Current Thiel Students/Alumni - Apply online today!, and contact Dr. Anthony Kos