Business Administration (MBA): Traditional Program

Overview

When you earn an MBA from Illinois State University, you’ll join a worldwide network of highly successful alumni. Whatever your career goals, we can help you take the next step forward.

We know how hard it is to balance work, family life, and school. That is why we format our courses to give you the best learning opportunity with the most flexibility possible.

In our traditional program, each class meets for 90 minutes in a live classroom setting on a weeknight. The HyFlex model allows you the option to participate face-to-face in a classroom or online. It's completely up to you. The rest is delivered online asynchronously. You do the work when it works best for you. You get ongoing live contact with your professors, but without having to be in class full-time. Balancing all the competing demands in your life just got easier.

Time to completion varies according to the course load you choose each semester.

Our student population includes working professionals, people coming straight out of undergraduate programs, and international students from around the world. This unique blend of perspectives gives you the breadth of experience you need to compete in an increasingly globalized business environment.

Simply put, nothing prepares you for your future better than an Illinois State University MBA.

Other MBA Options

STEM Program: Earn a STEM MBA as a full or part-time student with the freedom to choose your own electives.

Panama Program: We’ve partnered with Quality Leadership University to offer our MBA program to professionals working in Panama City, Panama.

Build Your Academic Foundation

Pre-MBA Courses at Illinois State

The MBA degree assumes a knowledge base in business and economics normally acquired by students who have earned an undergraduate degree in business. Students who have not taken college algebra, economics, accounting, finance, and/or statistics within the past five years are strongly encouraged to take the Pre-MBA Program courses as a refresher, prior to their first core course.

Students admitted without sufficient academic background in one or more business areas may be required to complete Pre-MBA Program courses before enrolling in the MBA core courses. You will be contacted by the Associate Director of the MBA Program regarding which, if any, Pre-MBA Courses you will need to take. The responsibility for demonstrating prior academic coverage of the material at the appropriate level rests with the student, and should be completed prior to the beginning of the first semester of course work.

Students without sufficient academic background in one or more business areas should expect to complete some or all of the following Pre-MBA Program courses online:

Business Law Essentials

Business Math and Statistics

Fundamentals of Economics

Financial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

Principles of Management

Principles of Marketing

Understanding Corporate Finance

Please click here to purchase the appropriate Pre-MBA Course(s). The cost for each Pre-MBA course is $175 USD. Once you have registered, and your payment is received, you will be emailed a link to the course(s). Course information can take up to two business days to receive.

Your MBA Advisor

Christine Knuth

Associate Director MBA Program/Academic Advisor

Office Address: SFHB 201
Mailing Address: Campus Box 5570
Office Phone: (309) 438-2960
Email: cmknuth@illinoisstate.edu