Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies is a special mission campus graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University. the School was established in 1963.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The MBA program is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, designed for professionals, and the only part-time Penn State MBA in the Philadelphia area.

Application Requirements –

Bachelor's degree from a U.S. regionally accredited institution or a post-secondary degree that is equivalent to a U.S. baccalaureate degree earned from an officially recognized degree-granting international institution.

Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Admission Test (GRE) scores

Résumé

Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Transcripts

Admission is granted jointly by the Penn State Graduate School and the academic program at Penn State Great Valley.

The Admissions Committee makes decisions based on the quality of an applicant's credentials relative to other applicants.

MBA Curriculum

Pre-Program Requirement

BUSAD 501 - Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decision Making

FOUNDATIONS (18 credits)

MGMT 501 - Behavioral Science in Business

(complete prior to taking other foundations courses)

ACCTG 511 - Financial and Managerial Accounting
BUSAD 523 - Prices and Markets
FIN 531 - Financial Management
OPMGT 510 - Operations Management
MKTG 500 - Marketing Management

ESSENTIALS

Organizational and Industrial Contexts (Choose one-3 credits)

BUSAD 511 - New Ventures I
BUSAD 530 - Biotechnology and Health Industry Overview
BUSAD 558 - Knowledge Management
BUSAD 578 - Managing Business Processes
BUSAD 802 - Cornerstones of Sustainability
LEAD 562 - Strategic Leadership
MGMT 541 - Human Resource Management
FIN 508 - Analysis of Financial Markets

Interpersonal Dynamics (Choose one-3 credits)

BUSAD 545 - Negotiation Strategies
BUSAD 555 - Full Range Leadership
BUSAD 556 - Diversity Leadership
MGMT 523 - Organizational Change

Global (choose one-3 credits)

BUSAD 542 - Global Intercultural Management
FIN 505 - Multinational Managerial Finance
I B 500 - International Business Management

MKTG 518 - Global Marketing

Managing Technology (choose one-3 credits)

BUSAD 537 - Management Information Systems
BUSAD 577 - Management of Information Technology
BUSAD 575 - Developing Technology Ventures
BUSAD 835 - Commercialization of Biopharmaceuticals

Ethics (choose one-3 credits)

BUSAD 534 - Ethical Dimensions of Management in the Biotechnology and Health Industry
BUSAD 551 - Business, Ethics, and Society
BUSAD 576 - Ethical Issues in Information Technology

OPEN ELECTIVES (9 credits)

Select a minimum of three elective courses*

INTEGRATION (3 credits)

MGMT 571 - Strategic Management

Contact address

Penn State Great Valley
30 E Swedesford Rd, Malvern, PA 19355, United States