Master of Business Administration - Leadership MBA Program
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program is for those serious
about Leadership.
If you seriously care about the depth and breadth of the influence you can have,
then our leading-edge integrative leadership program will provide the engaging
learning experience you need to bring your potential to life.
Highlights
- You will learn the essentials of leadership through our cutting edge curriculum through dialogue-intensive teaching strategy.
- You will be invigorated and find relevance in learning as you experience our unique dialogue-intensive teaching strategy.
- You will develop the highly demanded critical thinking evident in effective leaders.
- You will learn how to foster and sustain a value-based organizational culture for sound ethical & socially responsible practices
- You will find value in both our curriculum and our tuition.
- You will be able to align life’s essential demands on your time with our convenient cyber class schedule.
- You can earn your MBA online in as little as 18 months (sample schedule)
. You can accelerate your progress through the program with an optional 5-week term which includes an extended weekend in Maine.
Course Terms
Courses in the Leadership MBA degree program are offered in either the 10-week online term or the 5-week online term which includes an executive summer weekend.
Ten-week online term
In the 10-week term, you enter the online classroom (available 24/7) to: (a) contribute and learn through dialogue-intensive activities with other learners; (b) access course and other learning resources; (c) develop professionally beneficial relationships with co-learners and faculty.
Five-week online term
In the 5-week term, you will have an extended weekend where you will collaborate with your co-learners in a face-to-face seminar in Portland, Maine, and 4-weeks in the online classroom. The extended weekend seminar runs from Thursday evening through the following Monday morning, and involves 3 hours on Thursday and Monday, and 6 hours on Friday through Sunday.
Admissions requirements
You may apply for and be granted admission status at any time during the year, regardless of program choice.
For all graduate programs, applicants are required to have a bachelor's degree from an institution of higher learning accredited or accepted as accredited in the United States, with a cumulative grade point of 2.5 or better. Students who do not meet the cumulative grade point standard may be conditionally accepted and required to take specific introductory course work completed with a grade of 3.0 or better, prior to consideration of formal acceptance.
Additional admissions requirements for the Leadership MBA
- A minimum of two years full-time work experience.
- MBA applicants must submit a 750-word introspective essay that reflects a synthesis of a critical introspective analysis of one's self. This introspective essay must not be a biographical accounting of the applicant's accomplishments, skills and experiences, but rather an in depth self-analysis of the person who he/she is. [Introspection requires observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself - soul-searching, a characterization of the self.] Based on a critical introspective self analysis, applicants must address how who he/she is and wishes to become aligns with and will be enabled by specific aspects of this graduate leadership program - that is, what it is about the Leadership MBA that aligns with who the applicant is and who the applicant is seeking to become. Thus the content of the essay is the result of a critical inward looking self-analysis it is not to be an explanation of what one thinks leadership is, nor is it a reporting of the things one has done, wishes to do or the positions one has held or wishes to hold. The applicant must demonstrate that he/she is able to speak directly to the required issue, as this is a required ability for success throughout the program. Do not provide an argument supporting or substantiating your leadership qualities or experiences, as this is not what the essay is asking.
- As support and documentation, please also submit your resume with the essay.
- Completing the GMAT is not required.