With digital transformation, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) shaping the future, organizations need professionals adept at navigating the ever-changing landscape.
Our STEM-designated Master of Business and Technology (MBT) program is designed to go beyond the traditional boundaries of business education, providing a holistic understanding of the business-technology nexus. You’ll master technical skills aligned with emerging technological trends and develop the capacity to assess the viability, feasibility and desirability of business models. You’ll know how to optimize existing models and ideate new ones.
While the program from Purdue’s Mitch Daniels Schools of Business provides a solid foundation in business fundamentals, it differs from an MBA in its emphasis on leveraging emerging technologies to address challenges facing businesses, accelerate technological innovation, and improve competitive advantage. With the applied focus Purdue is known for, the STEM-designated MBT program also offers customizable electives, allowing students to gain additional technical, engineering or business skills with courses from across disciplines.
Set in a vibrant ecosystem for tech innovation, the Mitch Daniels School of Business' MBT program provides an interdisciplinary curriculum and experience tackling today’s technologies and tomorrow’s possibilities.
36 Credit Hours
Full-Time 12 or 18 months
Main Campus, West Lafayette
STEM Designated
While an MBA trains business managers for competency across general management domains, the MBT has evolved in response to industries in which technology has an outsized impact on the functions of the organization's products and processes.
Both the MBT and the MBA ensure managers have exceptional accounting, marketing, financial management, communication, and leadership skills. The general MBA rounds out a manager's knowledge set with further human resource, business analytics, strategy, operations, economic principles, change management, supply chain and global strategy, providing a high-level competency for graduates. It serves non-technical managerial positions and industries.
"Technology eats business."
James Bullard, Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business
The MBT, however, adds on digital product design, computational intelligence, tech-driven business strategies, governance, DevOps, and tech market analysis—making it the preferred choice for engineers, tech specialists and business leaders looking to create value and excel in tech-centric fields. See the side-by-side comparison for why professionals choose MBT to extend their expertise into future-focused tech leadership.
See the curricular differences side-by-side to better understand why engineers and tech specialists across industries choose the MBT. Because of their passion for their field and technologies, technical specialists and engineers value the MBT over the MBA to take on leadership roles that are future forward, extending their expertise and building upon their field of knowledge.
Listen to Daniels School of Business Dean Jim Bullard and Academic Director Mohammad Rahman explain how the Master of Business and Technology (MBT) fills a void in the marketplace and equips graduates to lead organizations through digital transformation.
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We also have availability to meet with you virtually to discuss how your goals align with our curriculum, community, student experiences, and outcomes to determine if Purdue is the right fit for you!
