Build the skills to lead people, make strategic decisions, and drive organizational results.
Explore the MBA for Professionals
Learn more about RPI's online MBA for Professionals, including its project-based approach, curriculum, and opportunities to apply what you learn in your workplace.
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Program Overview and Curriculum
Build the skills to lead teams, assess business challenges, make informed decisions, and turn strategy into action. Through applied coursework, you'll explore key areas of business management, including organizational leadership, market dynamics, financial decision-making, and strategic planning.
Additional program highlights include:
- Data analytics as a decision augmentation framework is embedded in every course
- Real-world projects incorporate strategic decision-making, planning and execution
- Appropriate for professionals from all backgrounds and industries
- 15 hours per week on average time commitment
- 2 years on average to complete - go at the speed that fits your life
Deepen capacity as a leader by planning and executing strategy to achieve organizational goals. Build frameworks for decision making that enhance the value creation process. Demonstrate full commitment to ethical decisions and outcomes while deploying mentorship as a tool to lead and inspire others. In preparation for the third project in this course, attend a two-day intensive Rensselaer Leadership Experience (RLE). Start with an individualized leadership assessment. Participate in choreographed individual and group scenarios. Complete a benchmark analysis of effective leadership types and explore how leaders make things happen at work.
View the BUSN 6300: Leaders and Strategy Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
Analyze markets and client needs using quantitative and qualitative frameworks. Develop market strategies for an organization that communicate value using effective messaging and channels. Formulate an approach that anticipates the future state of end user needs. Build budget and sales forecasts that accurately reflect market conditions.
View the BUSN 6305: Leaders in Dynamic Markets Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
Evaluate financial reports and metrics to draw recommendations for improvement using intertemporal and cross-competition analysis. Practice optimization and simulation techniques to model the impact recommended changes can make on an organization’s performance. Develop budgets for new products and ventures while evaluating capital sourcing options and costs.
View the BUSN 6310: Leaders Making Financial Decisions Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
Set, evaluate, and improve achievement of key performance indicators. Use benchmarking and analytic techniques to determine how performance can be optimized. Evaluate and transform operational paradigms to improve performance, planning, and execution to ensure the organization performs on time, on budget, and on scope.
View the BUSN 6315: Leaders Planning and Executing Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
Influence hierarchies and cultures in an organization by coaching and mentoring others. Create employee evaluation frameworks and develop programs to improve an organization’s performance. Lead strategic plans and policies that value the human element as the catalyst to attain an organization’s desired goals.
View the BUSN 6320: Leaders Leading People Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
Forge a plan that optimizes people, platforms, and products for a new venture or opportunity in a specific market. The final version includes strategies for budget, operations, and marketing. Prepare and present the plan to a panel of evaluators for viability and fundability.
View the BUSN 6325: Leaders Charting the Course Course Preview Sheet
Number of Credits: 6
RPI Leadership Experience (RLE)
During their first semester, students attend a required two-day leadership seminar on RPI's campus in Troy, New York. The seminar typically takes place on a Friday and Saturday, allowing students to plan around work and personal commitments.
Students are responsible for their own travel and accommodations. Additional details, including the seminar schedule and travel information, are provided approximately 30–45 days in advance.
Making the time for this investment in yourself is so key. I love how the MBA for Professionals program is virtual now – the flexibility allows you to manage your personal and professional life. It is just a matter of making a commitment to it all.
Faculty Spotlight: Rebecca Bompiedi
"The MBA for Professionals program is a real opportunity for professionals to acquire new skills, take risks with what they learn, and become prepared to make the most challenging leadership decisions to come."
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