Business Administration, M.B.A.

Senior Director, Graduate Business Programs

• Dustin Cornwell

Introduction

The College of Business Administration offers the MBA degree designed for working professionals. There are five areas of concentration in the MBA Program. The purpose, admission requirements, program requirements, and options are described in the pages that follow. The part-time MBA program (MBA) serves the educational requirements of working professionals who recognize the need to continue to build their careers. 

In addition, eight dual degree programs are available. Students may apply for separate admission to the Loyola Law School and earn the JD/MBA degree or apply to the Seaver College of Science & Engineering to earn an MBA and MS.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Loyola Marymount University College of Business Administration is to advance knowledge and develop business leaders with moral courage and creative confidence to be a force for good in the global community. The mission of the Loyola Marymount University MBA Program is to provide high quality graduate business education consistent with the Jesuit and Marymount traditions. The MBA Program fosters development of each student’s potential to create value, handle risk, and manage change to serve both business and society. The result is the development of ethical leaders possessing the knowledge and skills to effectively manage organizations in a diverse and global economy.

Guided by the Inspirational Paradigm (IP) for Jesuit Business Education (key components listed below), our MBA program focuses on key tenets that ensure all courses are current and relevant. This culture should be committed to the following components, described by the IP as “hungers” students have for: 

• Experiential Learning
• Integrated Knowledge
• Moral Compass
• Creating Community
• Global Paradigm
• Adult Spirituality
• Dignified Work and meaningful Impact

The high quality of the MBA Program is confirmed through its accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

MBA Program Overview

The College of Business Administration offers the MBA degree designed for working professionals. There are five areas of concentration in the MBA Program.  Program requirements and options are described in the pages that follow.

Graduate Program Policies

A complete list of policies is located on College of Business Administration’s Graduate Program Policies.

Learning Outcomes

The program learning outcomes are to create leaders who can:

1. Bring an ethical and diverse perspective to their management of organizations, teams, and individuals through a deep understanding of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and SDG’s (Sustainable Development Goals) and what it means to lead “business for good” and create societal impact.
2. Demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset, through creative approaches to managing change, innovation and opportunities emerging on the business landscape. Leaders with this mindset can pivot and understand the importance of strategic agility.
3. Apply financial savvy and “know-how” to ensure that the business can operate profitably while making a triple bottom-line impact.
4. Build a deep understanding of brand, markets, and customers to analyze and apply principles related to the value chain of product and service development from conception to implementation.
5. Utilize advances in technology and operations to impact organizational effectiveness and manage technological change to ensure value creation in the firm.
6. Develop organizational and interpersonal skill sets and competencies to effectively lead people and organizations.
7. Advance their critical thinking skills and abilities and demonstrate strategic and systems thinking for identifying organizational opportunities and solving business challenges.
8. Demonstrate significant advances in communicating and collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders within and across organizations and communities in which they do business.
9. Apply a global perspective to understand and manage opportunities and challenges faced by business in a globally connected world.

Program Admission

MBA Program Eligibility Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree from a foreign institution.
• 2 years of full-time work experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated capacity for graduate level quantitative courses, either through previous coursework (business math or intermediate algebra) or test scores.

Application Requirements

Please visit the MBA Program website for the full list of application requirements.

International Applicants

International students have additional admission requirements.

Questions?

Graduate Business Education
310.258.8707
CBAGrad@lmu.edu
mba.lmu.edu

Major Requirements

The total semester hours requirement is 42 semester hours.  

The completion of the program includes:

• Core Courses
• Concentration and/or Electives

Core Curriculum

The core curriculum consists of 8 specific courses that comprise the common body of knowledge of business administration as defined by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Core courses are described in the next section. They include the following:

Note:
Several topics which are vital to the common body of knowledge in business are not directly referenced in the titles of the eight core courses. These topics include the following: business ethics, social influences, political influences, computer applications, organizational theory, interpersonal communications, integrating analysis, and the international dimension of business. Because of their critical nature for emerging business leaders, many of these topics are included as major elements within each core course.

Areas of Concentration

Depth in a specialized field of knowledge is obtained by the selection of three courses within one of five designated areas of concentration. For example, a student who plans on selecting MBAF: Finance as their area of concentration must take 3 MBAF advanced courses to fulfill the area of concentration requirement. These specializations and their course designator prefixes are listed below: 

• MBAC: Marketing 
• MBAD: Business Analytics
• MBAF: Finance 
• MBAG: International Business
• MBAH: Entrepreneurship 

MBA students are required to complete 6 elective courses and may declare up to 2 areas of concentration; declaring a concentration is optional. Students may also take courses shown below (ENSI) as electives or for an entrepreneurship concentration. These courses are part of the MS Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Innovation (MSESI Program). Students pursuing a finance concentration must take MBAF 610 Financial Statements Analysis and Valuations as one of the three required courses.