MBA in Leadership and Management
Washington, USA
MBA
DURATION
12 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* The Valar MBA is divided into eight cohorts per year, which are enrolled on a rolling basis.
Key Summary
The MBA for Future Leaders
The Valar MBA in Leadership and Management is designed for early career professionals who are committed to gaining cutting-edge leadership and management training while building a foundational understanding of core business skills. This program is collaborative, self-paced, and leverages our award-winning teaching method. With optional in-person events and conferences, Valar is ideal for working professionals seeking an online program.
Dynamic Curriculum, Unparalleled Network
Collaborate with high-achieving peers as you learn modern strategy, management, and leadership techniques to transform your career. The interactive, self-paced curriculum is enriched with peer-based learning and access to an extensive, highly selective network composed of exceptional professionals around the globe.
What You'll Learn:
- Management Foundations
- Business Communications and Storytelling
- Strategy and Opportunity Recognition
- Modern Leadership and Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Marketing, Finance, and Data Analysis
Collaboration at the Core
Valar’s revolutionary teaching method is supplemented with workshops, meet-ups, and weekend-long conferences in cities around the world. You’ll have ample opportunities to put your learning into action while connecting and socializing with your peers.
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Take the Lead
The Valar MBA is the perfect springboard for early career, high impact leaders. The self-paced program allows you to gain a competitive edge, connect with other enterprising professionals, and stay sharp with the most up-to-date industry practices. All from the convenience of your smartphone.
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Innovative Tuition Model
Our mission is to democratize high-quality business education and we are committed to lowering and sometimes eliminating tuition costs for our global students by leveraging employer-funding and scholarship opportunities. Learn more about our innovative model that enables most students to receive partial or full funding.
Tuition Fees
Valar Institute is a Division of Quantic School of Business and Technology, which is licensed by the District of Columbia Higher Education Licensure Commission in Washington, DC and accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). The DEAC is listed by the United States Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency and is also recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
Who Enrolls?
The Valar MBA is a truly global program designed for early career students from diverse industries and roles. Selective in admissions, the MBA is an ideal fit for digital natives looking for a more modern approach to leadership and management education. Students have 2 to 7 years work experience and are seeking an MBA to establish themselves as standout leaders in their field or organization.
The curriculum is composed of 9 required concentrations and a capstone project during the 12-month course of study.
Concentrations
- Management Foundations (3 credit hours)
- Business Communications (3 credit hours)
- Data and Decisions (3 credit hours)
- Strategy (3 credit hours)
- Organizational Behavior (3 credit hours)
- Modern Management (3 credit hours)
- Operations Management (3 credit hours)
- Marketing & Pricing (3 credit hours)
- Finance & Accounting (3 credit hours)
Business Consultancy Capstone
Students have the opportunity to work individually or as a group in the Capstone Project.
Students in the Valar MBA program are required to create a business consultancy plan for an external organization. Students must submit a one-page response to a very short client brief in order to win the consultancy project, the decision about which will be made by Valar faculty and staff.
Over the course of five months, students will meet with their client and develop a consultancy plan informed by their client’s needs. While the final format of the plan may vary depending on the client’s requirements, all consultancy plans should include an Executive Summary, Company Overview, Problem Statement, Research Overview, Theories and Frameworks Discussion, Statement of Recommendations, Strategic Action Plan, Costings Plan, and Reflective Statements (one for each team member).
After the Capstone Project is complete, students record a video presentation of their recommendations on behalf of the client to be reviewed and graded by Valar faculty.
Your Roadmap for Success
Learn what it takes to be an exceptional manager in the new world of work. Our faculty will help you map and navigate your path to senior leadership.
Gain a Manager’s Mindset
Whether managing teams large or small, you’ll learn the habits, mindset, and practices that set great managers apart. Earn the respect of peers, direct reports, and bosses alike with skills and theories of leadership that will help you boost your team’s productivity and positivity, and get results.
Lead Across Functions
Today’s best leaders are those who can seamlessly work across functions, bringing teams out of silos to work together. Leadership courses that teach the art of business storytelling, executive presence, effective business writing and communication will enable you to multiply your impact and become an agent for success.
Strengthen Your Foundation
Develop core business fundamentals with courses in Data and Decisions, Marketing and Pricing, Strategy, and Finance and Accounting. You’ll gain a strong foundational knowledge of key verticals and complete your course of study with a Capstone project where theory is put into practice.
Best-in-Class Educational Experience
Our Active Learning method is more effective and engaging - students learn faster and retain more!
Our Method vs. Top Business Schools
In a 2016 study performed by Stanford researchers, learners in our platform performed as well or better in a standardized test covering Accounting and Finance than students who attended top 10 business schools. Oh, and they did so over 5 times as quickly.
Amazing Education
Our revolutionary teaching method and peer-based learning make Valar’s 12-month, leadership-focused MBA and EMBA programs the most accessible, effective, and rigorous online business degrees available.
The Curriculum
Meaningful Connections
Collaborate with exceptional, global peers virtually and in-person and join a network of over 15,000 professionals from the world’s top companies.
The Network
Accelerated Career Outcomes
Harness the power of a cutting-edge curriculum in strategy, management, and leadership to navigate change and gain the confidence to excel in your role.
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Disruptive Tuition Model
Thanks to an innovative tuition model, our programs are radically affordable at just $800 per month for the 12-month MBA or EMBA degree. Programs are often partially or fully funded by employer tuition reimbursement or scholarships.
Tuition Fees
Take the lead with Valar. To hear directly from students and alumni about how Valar has impacted their careers, read Valar reviews here.
Our Method
Valar leverages the pioneering, technology-driven instruction designed by Quantic. This highly-engaging system, which frequently prompts students to interact and gives individualized feedback, has been proven to be more effective than lecture-based programs.
Bite-sized lessons, available from your cell phone, are married with a social learning platform that directly connects you with a cohort of like-minded peers.
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