ONLINE MBA PROGRAM

Strengthen Your Business Foundation

Students of Saint Mary’s accelerated online MBA program graduate equipped to further their intellectual, personal, and professional development. You’ll earn applicable real-world knowledge from practicing professionals that goes far beyond what you would get in a typical online MBA.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will refine the essential communication skills needed in business today including the ability to:

• Communicate with clarity, coherence, and respect for the intended audience
• Develop a subject using relevance, logic, grasp of subject, and substance
• Be proficient in verbal, written, and visual communication methods

Through an education grounded in core Lasallian principles such as respect, quality, and inclusion, students will develop the integrity and ethics to:

• Assess whether their personal norms adhere to ethical principles
• Understand legal and ethical frameworks for conducting business
• Display honesty, fairness, and equity in decision making

To ensure evidence-based business decisions, graduates will learn to:

• Frame vital questions clearly
• Evaluate relevant information and its sources
• Resolve issues by using evidence and weighing relevant criteria properly

Graduates of this program will be able to look beyond themselves and lead for the common good by learning how to:

• Respectfully engage with the ideas, behaviors, and beliefs of others
• Apply diverse frames of reference to decisions and actions
• Understand and apply the principles of leadership theory to the organization

Saint Mary’s MBA graduates will also develop the broad business knowledge to:

• Apply appropriate principles, theories, and concepts to business situations
• Develop and assess organizational strategic plans
• Recognize the interdependence of the functional areas of business

They will additionally develop the skills in quantitative analysis to:

• Draw statistical conclusions from data
• Apply economic theory to support organizational decision making
• Analyze and interpret financial information

Each course is focused on specific learning outcomes that are aligned to these program-learning outcomes.