Online MBA - Master’s in Business Administration | Purdue Global (2024)

The U.S. expects 883,900 new management jobs in the next decade. It’s time to earn your MBA and be ready to meet the growing demand.

• Attain a degree you can be proud of — and that employers will respect — from Purdue’s online university for working adults.
• Customize your online MBA by choosing fromseven optional concentrations.
• Build relevant, practical skills you can use right away in your career.
• Gain the real-world tools you need to take on leadership positions in a competitive marketplace.
• Study a curriculum developed by a select panel of global business professionals featuring international business case studies as well as unique examples.

Purdue Global MBA graduate Wendy Buice discusses earning her master’s degree online.

Courses in the MBA program put a focus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to make sound business and management decisions.

Sample Courses

• Business Analytics
• Economics for Global Decision Makers
• Managing the Value Chain
• Leadership Strategies for a Changing World
• Designing, Improving, and Implementing Processes

• Finance

  Analyze strategies for investing in various markets and explore mergers and acquisitions and financial management issues for international businesses.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Evaluate the different types of financial institutions.
  • Examine theories of risk management and types of risk.
  • Analyze financial statements using standard financial ratios.
  • Evaluate business performance through analysis of financial statements.
• Global Business

  Learn the practical and research-based competencies needed to understand the impact of differences in cultural, political, economic, and legal systems. This concentration includes a study abroad option that will allow students to participate either virtually or in person as they work with organizations and scholars outside of the U.S. This real-world experience will help prepare students with the critical knowledge and skills needed to pursue globally oriented management roles.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Explain the influence of cultural, political, legal, and economic differences on both international organizations and the wider global marketplace.
  • Recognize the unique skills necessary for the successful international manager, including culturally-focused methodologies related to leadership, communication, motivation and teamwork.
  • Evaluate critical decision points for the management of global corporate functions, including marketing, logistics, HRM, and finance.
  • Analyze the strategic factors that influence an organization's choice of entry mode into a global market.
• Health Care Management

  Focus on navigating the changing health care field, including rigorous patient-privacy regulations, staffing challenges, and issues of cost control.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Evaluate business strategies for quality management and continuous improvement of operations.
  • Outline components of the American health care system regarding policies and procedures within major health-related issues.
  • Illustrate effective practices for employing marketing tools to specific situations in the healthcare environment.
• Human Resources

  Explore recruitment and hiring practices, employee training, corporate policies, change management, and executive leadership.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Determine the manager’s role in establishing and maintaining sound employee relations in an organization.
  • Construct an effective training program.
  • Evaluate the relationship between strategic reward systems and an organization’s ability to achieve business objectives.
  • Assess the implications of current models of talent management.
• Information Technology

  Examine critical concepts relevant to the IT professional including systems analysis and design and the management of technology in a business environment.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Analyze emerging technologies as solutions to real-world business problems and as strategic resources.
• Marketing

  Apply marketing research methods and techniques to analyze and implement strategic advertising and develop the skills to manage a sales force.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Synthesize advertising concepts effectively by creating an integrated advertising campaign.
  • Analyze measurement, instrument development, and sample design techniques for obtaining reliable market research results.
  • Apply theories related to building and organizing an effective sales force.
  • Analyze application of the four types of consumer behavior situational influences in marketing strategy.
• Project Management

  Strategize, plan, schedule, implement, and determine project deliverables and milestones, and address business needs and manage costs.

  Concentration Outcomes:

  • Integrate process groups and knowledge areas in project development.
  • Evaluate the integration of project management plans according to industry standards.
  • Evaluate strategies to ensure effective resource allocation.
  • Create a structured plan for the closing phase of the project life cycle.

Transfer Credits

Financial Aid

Corporate Partner Benefits

Military Tuition Reduction

Graduate tuition savings for military include a 17–30% reduction per credit for current servicemembers and, 14% per credit for veterans for graduate programs.

Prior Military Experience

International Tuition Reduction

Purdue Global Law School EJD Degree: Purdue Global alumni are eligible for a 20% tuition reduction on Purdue Global Law School programs. Tuition savings calculated as 36 credit hours x reduced per credit tuition rate of $412= $14,832. Savings will vary based on the courses completed in the student’s master’s degree program. Credits apply toward open elective and/or specialty electives in the EJD program.

Time savings based on a student who applies 36 credit hours from the MBA with a concentration in human resources toward the 3-year EJD program; remaining 36 credits can be completed in 2 years of study. MBA with a concentration in human resources can be completed in 2 years of study when adhering to the recommended course-load each term, taking courses in sequence, and without interruptions such as a leave of absence.