Loyola University
Master of Business Administration

Online

DEGREE TYPE

MBA

DURATION

1 up to

2 years

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

Distance Learning, On-Campus

Key Summary

About : The Master of Business Administration (MBA) offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip students with advanced skills in business management and leadership. This program emphasizes practical experience, critical thinking, and strategic decision-making, preparing graduates for dynamic business environments.

Career Outcomes : Graduates of the MBA can pursue diverse career paths, including roles in business management, consulting, finance, and entrepreneurship. The program enhances your leadership capabilities, opening opportunities for senior management positions and specialized roles in various industries.

Earn a prestigious online M.B.A. at an accelerated pace.

A Loyola M.B.A. degree is a launch pad that can lead you to a more successful, meaningful career, and now we’re bringing the prestige of the Loyola M.B.A. online. The online M.B.A. degree at Loyola University New Orleans is designed for motivated professionals who want to take their careers to the next level while benefiting from the flexibility of online learning.

Flexible online courses taught by experts.

Offering flexible scheduling, our online M.B.A. program suits all types of learners. Students who want to advance their careers quickly may take courses at an accelerated pace with our 7-week and 8-week terms. Working professionals and students with other commitments can take advantage of part-time options, completing six or fewer credit hours each term.

In addition to learning real-world business skills, you can immediately apply at work, you can also specialize your online M.B.A. degree by taking elective courses in high-demand areas so that when you graduate, you’re poised to build the career you’ve always wanted. Concentrations currently offered online include Finance, Marketing, and Healthcare Management.

Degree overview

Loyola’s online M.B.A. degree consists of 36-39 credit hours, which includes:

3-6 credit hours of foundation courses
18 credit hours of core courses
9 credit hours of elective courses
6 credit hours of capstone courses

Foundation courses

Foundation coursework sets the tone for your MBA experience at Loyola, reflecting our mission as a Jesuit institution to create a holistic education centered on social justice and academic rigor. These courses introduce students to the core principles and decision-making skills required in today’s modern business world. Foundation courses must be taken at the start of the MBA program.

Applied Business Mathematics (3 credits): This course introduces students to fundamental concepts covering statistics, finance, economics, and spreadsheet usage in business applications. All students are required to take this course in their first semester enrolled. AACSB-accredited Business and STEM undergraduate graduates with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher are exempt from Applied Business Mathematics.
Ethics and Social Justice (3 credits): Students are introduced to issues related to ethical behavior, social justice, and Jesuit values, applying them to real business cases and dilemmas. All students are strongly encouraged to take Ethics and Social Justice within their first year in the program to gain an introduction to ethical decision-making at the core of all aspects of business acumen.

Core courses

Online MBA Degree Core Courses (18 credit hours)

ACCT B715: Financial & Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
BUAN B725: Managerial Economics & Statistics (3 credits)
FIN B700: Financial Management (3 credits)
MGT B700: Organizational Leadership (3 credits)
MGT B705: Strategic Communication (3 credits)
MKT B700: Strategic Marketing (3 credits)

Elective courses

Online MBA Elective Courses (9 credit hours)

Online MBA students have the opportunity to specialize in their degree by taking electives in high-demand areas that align with their interests and career goals. Students have the option to complete all their electives in multiple academic areas, or they may complete all electives in one particular field in order to earn a concentration. In order to earn a specific concentration/certificate, students must take 9 credit hours in one of these specialty areas:

Marketing

MKT B820: Digital Marketing & Analytics
MKT B825: Consumer Analysis & Research
CMMN A782: Social Media
CMMN A735: Ethics and Diversity
CMMN A810: Crisis Communications
CMMN A820: Corporate & Social Responsibility
CMMN A600: State of Journalism

Finance

FIN B805: Investment Management
FIN B820: Financial Statement Analysis
FIN B893: Option Trading Strategies

Healthcare Management

MGT B740: The Business of Healthcare
LAWM L710: Graduate Seminar in Health and Environmental Law
NURS G711: Informatics

Other elective course options may include:

MGT B725: Quality & Performance Excellence
MGT B830: Project Management
MGT B835: Lean Six Sigma
BUAN B835: Business Decision Modeling
ENTR B820: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Dynamic capstone

Loyola’s dynamic capstone provides a unique opportunity for MBA students to put what they’ve learned during their elective and core coursework into practice through an experiential consulting practicum (3 credit hours) and final capstone project (3 credit hours). Students can choose from practicum options designed to reflect the current business landscape and provide participants with meaningful connections working with real business leaders in nonprofits, startups, or multinational companies. Experiential consulting practicum options may include:

Non-Profit Consulting Practicum – A live, consulting experience with a non-profit institution, allowing students to apply their functional core acquired skills to a real-world scenario while living the mission of the university and giving back to the local community.
IdeaCorps MBA Consulting Challenge – An entrepreneurial-focused competition where students help advance startups through various stages of development, experiencing what it is like to be part of a founding team and guide decision-making in an early-stage company.
Global Practicum – A global immersion project in which a student will be required to incorporate all knowledge gained in the MBA program to address a current issue within a multinational company.

The capstone culminates with BA 750 Competitive Strategy, where students will demonstrate their mastery of business philosophy, theory, application, and practice through a collaborative project and case analysis.

Auto [Expedited] Admit Program for LOYNO Students

Are you a graduating senior or a current alum? You could be eligible for the auto-admit program. The M.B.A. program will auto-admit eligible Loyola New Orleans students who meet the following criteria:

Business majors with a 3.0 GPA or higher and submission of a resume will be auto-admitted. Students will be required to submit a personal statement and 2 recommendations before enrolling in courses.
Non-business majors with a 3.0 GPA or higher and submission of a resume can be admitted (additional requirements will include completing the M.B.A. Math Primer). Students will be required to submit a personal statement and 2 recommendations before enrolling in courses.