Our rigorous curriculum delivers the top-quality instruction and practical learning you need to strengthen your talents and advance into the next level of high-profile management and leadership careers. Courses include case studies, experiential projects, remote collaboration and team-based learning.
Go at your own pace and choose the course load each term that best supports your needs.
Total Program Credits¹: 48
Foundational Course Credits: 9
Core Course Credits: 22
Specializations Option Course Credits: 6-9
Capstone Course Credits: 2
Elective Course Credits: 6
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Foundational Courses Develop a solid background in several relevant subject areas. Use the skills and knowledge you gain as building blocks for advanced academic study in the future. |
9 Credits |
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Core Courses Gain a solid foundation for decision-making in essential areas of management and leadership. The core curriculum of the Purdue Online MBA covers general concepts and traditional management disciplines. |
22 Credits |
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Specializations Add a specialization to focus your elective choices to gain greater knowledge in high-demand areas of business, such as Business Analytics Fundamentals, Fundamentals in AI or Marketing Analytics. Not only does a specialization expand your professional skills, but it also helps increase your career marketability. |
Credits will vary |
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Capstone Simulation Work with a team to assume cross-functional roles to broaden your leadership skills and make strategic business decisions under pressure in a simulated real-life scenario. You’ll use data analytics to assess risk management from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. |
2 Credits |
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Electives Tailor your degree to help you achieve your career goals with a variety of electives. Course offerings are subject to change. |
6 Credits |
| Total Credits | 48 |
Enhance your presentation skills beyond filler words and fidgeting. Students will gain confidence in leading through effective communication. This immersive course experience caters to professionals seeking improved communication across diverse audiences in order to strengthen their credibility and leadership abilities through hands-on practice and attentive listening.
Offered during the Summer months, students will attend virtually for the majority of the semester while completing their coursework over a weekend at the end of the term on-campus in West Lafayette. While on campus, students will also experience peer networking, campus tours, Purdue traditions, and more with Daniels Online Programs.
I’m a storyteller and love to make cross-cultural communication theory come to life through my business experience. I have managed and been part of global teams that brought together professionals from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and the U.S. I’m looking forward to sharing my experience and learning from that of the participants as well.
A. Laura Stef-Praun, PhD
Lecturer — Law, Communication, and Ethics
Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
"As an engineer with business experience, I had a desire to gain a more formal knowledge of business, decision-making and leadership. Purdue was one of the first to offer a formal program that fit my criteria."
Brian Birdsall
Division Manager
Purdue University Online MBA Graduate, 2021
Get invaluable business analytics experience when you earn an online MBA from one of the top STEM universities in the world.
Learn from leading business faculty while also gaining exposure to top professors in engineering and computer science.
Get an introduction to microeconomic theory. Analyze consumer demand, output and input decisions of firms, price determination, economic efficiency, market structures, and market failure.
This course examines how the U.S. economy functions and develops a theoretical framework permitting an analysis of the forces affecting national income, employment, unemployment, interest rates and the rate of inflation.
Emphasis is placed upon the role of government fiscal and monetary policy in promoting economic growth and stable prices. Topics covered include employment and unemployment, the monetary system, business cycles and macroeconomic stabilization techniques.
Total Credits: 2
The strategic design process helps individuals and organizations find new products and business opportunities by analyzing external and internal trends of the existing companies and industries.
It is an effective way to discover and deliver innovative business models by comparing and adopting innovations from cross-industry sectors, bridging the gap in the innovation pipeline.
Total Credits: 1
The two-course accounting sequence employs a user’s perspective on the firm’s database. First, the standard accounting model is developed into a working tool, as no prior study of accounting is assumed. Then illustrative business cases are discussed to show how external reports conform to financial contracts and public regulation.
Public reports primarily directed to investors and creditors are analyzed to reconstruct the economic events and managerial decisions underlying generally accepted accounting standards.
Total Credits: 3
This course features an integrated analysis of major marketing decisions, including product pricing, advertising, distribution and sales force policies.
Total Credits: 3
Investigate the causes of macroeconomic fluctuations in the economy. Examine changes in inflation, unemployment, real output, interest rates and exchange rates, and explore why they occur, what their effects are and what (if any) role government should play in dealing with these problems.
The course includes a mixture of theory and case studies with reference to historical case studies. Current macroeconomic problems will be discussed, with a focus on the international aspects of macroeconomic problems.
Total Credits: 1
The course studies optimal decision-making processes by managers and policymakers within firms and other organizations. Topics covered include optimal price strategies; optimal production and capacity decisions; strategic decision-making of firms; strategic interactions between firms in markets; first- and second-mover advantages; optimal number of products and branches introduced into markets; and entry-deterrence strategies.
In order to determine the manager’s optimal decisions, the course makes use of modern tools related to Game Theory. We explicitly consider strategic interactions between individual economic decision-makers (consumers, workers, firms and managers) as well as groups of these individuals (firms, households, industries, markets, unions and associations).
The main goal of this course is to provide a good understanding of logical mechanics and to provide a solid foundation in managerial economics and business decision-making processes that facilitate the understanding of daily business problems.
Total Credits: 1
Analyze short-term working capital needs, cash-budgeting procedures, pro forma statements, major types of short-term loan arrangements and short-term asset management.
Total Credits: 3
Examine the nature of the legal environment from the viewpoint of the social and moral bases of law. Emphasis is given to the operation of our legal system and its significance in managerial decisions.
Total Credits: 2
Study concepts and methods that integrate previous training in functional areas of management. The perspective is that of the general manager charged with directing the total enterprise. Emphasis is given to formulation and implementation of strategy.
Total Credits: 3
As goods and services are produced and distributed, they move through a set of interrelated operations or processes in order to match supply with demand. The design of these operations for strategic advantage, investment in improving their efficiency and effectiveness, and controlling these operations to meet performance objectives is the domain of operations management.
The primary objective of the course is to provide an overview of this important functional area of business.
Total Credits: 3
This is an introduction to quantitative decision procedures in times of uncertainty. You’ll study applications of descriptive statistics, probability models, simulation models, interval estimates and hypothesis testing to management problems. Managerial-oriented cases are used in instruction.
Total Credits: 3
The internet and other information technologies have reshaped the economic, organizational, cultural and personal landscape. Managers, consultants and entrepreneurs are all expected to effectively utilize technology to achieve organizational goals.
Organizations are now expected to not just adapt to technology changes but also innovate, taking advantage of the benefits of technology and thrive using their new capabilities. Accordingly, the objective of the course is from the perspective of information technology executive leadership interested in enhancing the organization’s competitive advantage.
Specifically, in the course, we will study in detail what the different types of technologies are, how they can be taken advantage of and what the critical success factors are for successful implementation of each type. The course material will be delivered using case discussions, lectures and examples.
Total Credits: 2
This course enhances student professionalism in managerial contexts by improving oral communication skills and developing strong oral presentation techniques.
Total Credits: 2
Individual and group behavior are the central components of the study of behavior in organizations. Focus is on the managerial application of knowledge to issues such as motivation, group processes, leadership, organizational design structure and others. The course employs cases, exercises, discussions and lectures.
Total Credits: 2
Make strategic business decisions under pressure in a simulated real-life scenario. Working with a team, you’ll assume cross-functional roles to broaden your leadership skills. You’ll use data analytics to assess risk management from qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
Total Credits: 2
MGMT 57000 — Spreadsheet Modeling and Simulation
MGMT 57100 — Data Mining
MGMT 59000 — Financing New Ventures
MGMT 59000 — Frontiers in C-Suite
MGMT 59000 — Science and Practice of Complex Collaboration
MGMT 59000 — Technology Strategy
MGMT 65420 — Leadership
MGMT 65430 — Negotiations in Organizations
MGMT 69000 — Change Management
MGMT 69000 — Tech Commercialization
This is a sampling of electives and not an exhaustive list; electives are subject to change.
Make your career goals a reality with Purdue University's Online Master of Business Administration. Call 877-491-0224 to speak with an Enrollment Specialist or request more information.
1 Course offerings and plan of study subject to change.
