Professional MBA
Prepare Yourself to Lead with an MBA degree
Hone your vast potential with a Professional Master of Business Administration (MBA)
degree from Duquesne University. Gain the hands-on expertise and networks necessary
to thrive in a competitive global environment with this flexible MBA for working professionals,
accredited by AACSB and ranked in the top 3 programs in the region according to the
U.S. News and World Report.
Balance your learning experience with your professional commitments through our convenient Professional MBA program structure:
- Complete the program fully online or with a mix of online and evening classes
- Start in a fall, spring or summer semester with the option to complete the program in as few as 4 semesters.
STEM-Designated Option
A STEM-designated MBA highlights your technical skills and competence in a data-driven
business world. Set yourself apart in the dynamic market of business professionals
with a stackable Certificate in Analytics and Information Management, Finance, or Supply Chain Management. This 10.5-credit addition to your Professional MBA can be adapted to your schedule
with online or a mix of hybrid and online classes.
Connect theory and practice to create effective change.
Our program includes a leadership cornerstone experience, signature courses, a streamlined
functional core and a capstone project that tackles strategic challenges for a real
client. Integrative coursework and experiential learning projects with industry professionals
and world-renowned scholars prepare you for a lifetime of success and advancement.
Gain skills to recognize and solve business problems from an ethics perspective and lead with integrity.
Grounded in the Spiritan tradition, our graduates will "do the right thing" when solving
business problems and become leaders with integrity who will inspire their organizations.
You will learn that being the best in the world-in any field or endeavor-requires
being the best for the world. Our philosophy is that responsible, ethical leadership
in business not only enhances the bottom line, but also creates a better society for
all.
Cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and envision new ways of accomplishing goals.
You will be challenged to make decisions that require innovative thinking and calculated
risks. Most importantly, you will be able to recognize and seize outstanding opportunities
to solve problems and create value.
Apply sustainability principles in business decisions to drive efficiency, innovation and competitive advantage.
Increasingly, the deep application of sustainability principles is both a necessity
and a competitive differentiator. We want all our graduates to view sustainability
as a key for long-term business survival and that firms can help create healthy ethical,
social, economic, and environmental ecosystems in ways that improve their growth prospects
and reduce their costs. Our courses are aligned with the Principles for Responsible
Management Education, a UN-backed initiative to advance sustainable social, environmental
and economic value in business education.
Lead effectively in a complex global environment characterized by diverse perspectives, values and business practices.
Our goal is to prepare you to become a business leader with the ability to succeed
anywhere in the world. Your professors will have rich international experiences to
share, and you will meet talented students from all over the world. Throughout the
curriculum, you will be asked to address global business issues designed to manage
risk, bridge cultural differences and understand international markets.
Acquire the skills needed to build effective teams, motivate people and create innovative organizational change.
Through exposure to C-suite executives, you will gain innovative managerial and leadership
skills. These skills are honed through individualized assessments and career practicums
with industry leaders addressing the core competencies relevant to the current business
climate.
Program Information
Our Professional MBA program includes integrative coursework and experiential learning projects with industry professionals and world-renowned scholars to prepare you for a lifetime of success and advancement.
Program Type
Major
Degree
Master's
Duration
2-year
Required Credit Hours
36-42
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This MBA for working professionals provides a variety of course plans to suit your
demanding schedule. Each experience-focused course in the Professional MBA program
can be taken online* or in the evening on the Duquesne University campus near downtown
Pittsburgh. Students who require or prefer a primarily in-person class schedule are advised to
start in the fall semester. * Most online courses can be completed asynchronously, but the capstone course includes
multiple synchronous virtual events. Within the Professional MBA program, you can expand your career-specific skills with
certificates. Specialize your degree with the courses that match your career aspirations. Use Duquesne's
opportunities for credit sharing between programs to pursue a joint degree alongside your MBA, such as a JD, PharmD or MA in Communication, to obtain two graduate
degrees at once. Within the Professional MBA program, you can expand your career-specific skills with
certificates in Analytics and Information Management, Executive Leadership, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or the hybrid Certificate in Entrepreneurship. The Professional MBA program at Duquesne University offers a top-rated MBA for working professionals. Develop an
innovative mindset, establish yourself as a responsible leader and build on experiential
learning at a flexible pace and schedule through online and evening courses. To learn more about Duquesne's Professional MBA, request more info or attend an information session. Ready to begin your MBA application? Financial Management is about decisions firms make in two broad areas: the investments
it makes and how it pays for them. The first involves expenditures for physical capital,
human capital, technological capability, brand capital, and so forth. The second involves
raising money in financial markets. In business decision making, the objective is
to maximize shareholder wealth. Why the emphasis on shareholders? Among stakeholders
generally (i.e., customers, employees, suppliers, government, communities, etc.),
shareholders alone possess a uniquely comprehensive and long-term view of the firm's
viability as an ongoing enterprise. This perspective arises from the residual nature
of shareholders' claim to earnings and assets. Wealth is created when the return from
investing business resources exceeds their opportunity cost. Prerequisite: ACCT 501 This course is designed to develop the legal literacy of MBA students by raising their
conscious awareness of potential legal problems or challenges as they discharge their
professional responsibilities. Because business decisions have legal implications,
it is important that managers understand the legal environment in which they must
function. In fact, the significance of the law is so great it has been suggested that
modern organizations are immersed in a "sea of law." As a part of an integrated professional MBA program students will come to understand
how law affects all aspects of business. This is not a standalone legal course. In
this course we will bring a legal sensitivity to the financial, managerial, organizational
and strategic dimensions of business. The larger goal of this course is to develop
a legally astute manager. Although we tend to think of the law as the exclusive province
of lawyers, the reality is that law is too important a matter to be entrusted to lawyers
alone. To do so is in effect an abdication of the business professional's responsibilities.
The legally astute manager understands that success in business requires, among other
things, the development of critical thinking skills. There is no better context in
which to develop those skills than in the study of business law. Critical thinking
skills honed in the study of law provide a foundation for business professionals who
must navigate across a wide range of disciplines in order to achieve business success.
Toward that end, MBA students will examine substantive concepts relative to such matters
as contract formation, risk management, intellectual property, environmental management,
employee relations and corporate form and governance. As we live in a time in which the law, business and society nexus is so significant,
it would be foolhardy to underestimate the importance of legal education in shaping
our business leaders. Financial Management is about decisions firms make in two broad areas: the investments
it makes and how it pays for them. The first involves expenditures for physical capital,
human capital, technological capability, brand capital, and so forth. The second involves
raising money in financial markets. In business decision making, the objective is
to maximize shareholder wealth. Why the emphasis on shareholders? Among stakeholders
generally (i.e., customers, employees, suppliers, government, communities, etc.),
shareholders alone possess a uniquely comprehensive and long-term view of the firm's
viability as an ongoing enterprise. This perspective arises from the residual nature
of shareholders' claim to earnings and assets. Wealth is created when the return from
investing business resources exceeds their opportunity cost. FINC 530 Financial Management provides an advanced discussion of the analytical techniques
used to assess the impact of business decisions on shareholder value. The course covers
these topics: PR: FINC 501, ACCT 515, STAT 510, GRBU 503 Strategic sustainability advances students' managerial skills for identifying, researching,
evaluating and communicating innovative opportunities involving the efficient and
effective management of financial, social, and environmental resources. Building on
our commitment to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), this
course experience serves as a foundation for strategic sustainability, models and
tools across the curriculum. Students work individually, and in teams to frame problems,
research and develop training seminars, and manage resources for assigned topics.
The focus is inspiring innovation, and creating competitive advantage - both short
and long term - for organizations. Deliverables include presentations of mini training seminars to peer, analytical life
cycle assessment along with participation in class discussions while applying critical
thinking to identify productivity gains, cost savings, revenue increases, and profit
growth when implementing sustainable business practices. The course is taught as a
seminar where sharing learning, best practices and sustainability knowledge across
teams and individuals enables all to gain insight to emerging issues beyond the scope
of a single entity. Students work within an integrated curriculum to analyze internal/external
situations, drivers and risks; to identify problems and opportunities; to evaluate
return on investment from alternative courses of action; and to value both short-
and long-term prosperity. Students independently learn about, apply, and reflect on
proven models and methodologies while honing their skills as a researcher, analyst,
writer, and speaker.
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FINC 501 Finance Fundamentals provides an introduction to fundamental topics which
are prerequisite for FINC 530
Financial Management:
• Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis
• Financial Statement Forecasting
• Time Value of Money
PR or CONCURRENT: STAT 501
PR: STAT 501
PR: ACCT 501
CO or PR: STAT 510
• Valuation-stocks, bonds, corporate valuation
• Interest rates and financial markets
• Investment decision making (capital budgeting analysis)
• Risk, return and the opportunity cost of capital
• Market efficiency
• Capital structure
PR or CONCURRENT: ECON 520
PR: ECON 501
PR: GRBU 503
PR or CO MGMT 540
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