MBA in Creative Enterprise
DURATION
18 up to 24 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Jun 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 21,632 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
* tuition estimate based on full-time registration of 32 credits per academic year. Tuition is billed at a rate of $676 per credit
Key Summary
Introduction
Meridian University's MBA in Creative Enterprise is ideal for entrepreneurs, managers, and executives seeking to make a meaningful impact in the world. The program develops whole-person and whole-system competencies, such as self-awareness, collaboration, and co-creation, while integrating social, technological, and cultural innovation to prepare graduates for experience-driven transformation.
Students learn to develop sustainable business practices that drive individual success while serving for the greater good. With an emphasis on ethical principles and a holistic approach, Meridian’s MBA in Creative Enterprise explores how creativity and innovation can transform culture, society, and the global economy.
These five Meridian MBA dimensions are:
- Transforming business innovation to integrate and engage social, cultural, and technological challenges.
- Building purpose and development-driven organization.
- Engendering Business as a means of regenerating the commons.
- Empowering companies and non-profits through the theory and practice of living systems.
- Actualizing entrepreneurship that is locally and globally generative.
Learning Formats
Meridian University offers two flexible learning formats, Online and Hybrid., which empower students to tailor their education to fit their lifestyle, preferences, and career goals.
The Online format is ideal for students completing their degrees 100% remotely, combining synchronous and asynchronous learning via Meridian’s dynamic online learning platform. The Hybrid format is tailored for those seeking a blend of online learning and in-person classes at Meridian’s Los Angeles Campus.
Scholarships and Funding
Introducing Unique Impact Scholarships
Available to Meridian University students worldwide, Meridian University's Impact Scholarships represent the University's commitment to supporting graduates to take transformative action in the fields of psychology, business, coaching, education, and leadership.
- The Meridian Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship
- The Meridian Developmental Coaching Scholarship
- The Meridian Collective Trauma Transformation Scholarship
Program Outcome
The Meridian MBA is designed for students who aspire to be social entrepreneurs or executive leaders well-grounded in the principles and practices of creative enterprise. The intention is for graduates of the MBA to develop skills and competencies applicable across a broad set of core business functions such as strategy, marketing, and management, as well as a set of fundamental personal capacities applicable across all forms of leadership, coaching, and team development.
Meridian’s MBA program is designed based on the principle that business can be a force for good. The curriculum engages business as a profession from a technical perspective (finance and operations), from a psychological and educational perspective (leadership, coaching, and performance management), and from a social impact perspective (transformative change in the economic and organizational environment).
If you are seeking a graduate education that both prepares you for the core business functions like marketing, finance, and operations, but also engages business at a higher level, preparing students to actualizing entrepreneurship that is locally and globally generative and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, for example, then Meridian’s MBA in Creative Enterprise could be a great fit.
Career Opportunities
The Meridian MBA curriculum is designed to prepare graduates for a professional future in the contexts noted below, with which the MBA concentrations are specifically aligned.
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Project and Process Management
- Operations Management
- Human Resources Management
- Management Consulting
- Executive, Developmental, and Performance Coaching
- Strategic Leadership
- Organizational Development
Curriculum
Meridian's MBA in Creative Enterprise degree program balances the desire students have to move forward with their careers quickly with Meridian's goal of providing a broad and deep graduate degree experience. You can take advantage of Meridians flexibility and degree path to move each quarter between full time, accelerated, and part time pacing. The degree is 64 coursework credits. Those 64 credits are completed generally in all four credit courses. If you complete 8 credits per quarter, it's going to take you two years to complete the degree program. If you complete 12 credits per quarter, you can complete it in 18 months. And if you complete 4 credits per quarter, it will take you 4 years to complete. We consider that to be part time.
In addition to your coursework, you also complete a creative action project, which is otherwise called a capstone project. That is a project you will do in the context of your coursework. Most often students will complete their creative action project by the time they have finished their courses. You will also receive guidance for your capstone project.
Your core courses will consist of 28 quarter credits that will focus on core business functions such as management, accounting, human resources, organizational culture, managerial finance, operations management, creative marketing, and of course foundations of creative enterprise, which is the underlying philosophy of Meridian S MBA in Creative enterprise. There are seven core courses that you will take in total.
The core courses of the MBA program are:
- MBA 565 - Managerial Accounting
- MBA 530 - Strategic Management
- MBA 532 - Human Resources and Organizational Culture
- MBA 564 - Managerial Finance
- MBA 511 - Operations Management
- MBA 521 - Creative Marketing
- MBA 501 - Foundations of Creative Enterprise