Master of Business Administration (iMBA)
Accredited Diploma
Taught in English
12-24 months
100% online
Achieve practical business mastery and leadership vision as you build a professional network
In this program, you’ll master the skills of a lateral thinker who applies creative and abstract approaches to solving business problems.
- Career-first course design. Your courses are grouped into specializations that include readings, lectures, hands-on projects, and more. Students complete 3 capstones total which simulate real-world business scenarios. Courses are designed to help you apply new skills directly to your career.
- Future-forward leadership capacity. Gain leadership skills as you learn to improve existing processes. Learn to develop and implement a vision for the future. Choose courses from two out of three advanced-leadership pathways: innovation, digitalization, and globalization.
- Global online classrooms & projects. You’ll unite with students from as many as 90 countries while in your iMBA live classroom sessions. Your peers bring real-time perspectives from the front lines of the business world. Faculty work with students via interactive classes, projects, and office hours.
- Program length. The iMBA program is designed to be completed in 24-36 months, but students can take up to 5 years to complete the degree however as long as they are making satisfactory progress. On average, students spend 10-15 hours per week, per course and take 1-2 courses at a time.
- Flexibility. You can access lectures and quizzes on demand, and schedule meetings with professors and teaching assistants (during their office hours). You can access classes from your mobile device, and download videos and readings for offline work.
- Learn on mobile. Take your studies on the go with mobile-friendly learning on iOS and Android. Some assignments can’t be completed on a mobile device.
Total cost
$50,000.00
Description
In this program, you can prepare for a thriving career. A survey of 2023 iMBA graduates showed that 65 percent had received a promotion, job offer, or accepted a new position during their time in the iMBA program. Graduates also saw their pay increase by an average of 25 percent during the course of their studies.
Below are a few highlights of how you can advance your career with the iMBA program.
- Job-relevant curriculum. Courses are grouped into specializations, structured so that learning mirrors how you’ll actually use skills on the job—and many students apply what they learn immediately in their careers. After finishing your specializations, your new skills will come together as you complete your capstone projects.
- Connect with alumni around the globe. When you join us, you join not only your iMBA class of outstanding faculty and students, but a University alumni network in the hundreds of thousands, with 58,000 from Gies Business alone.
- A degree hiring managers values. Something vital to consider while evaluating an MBA program is how employers and recruiters perceive that program’s university and business school. Both UIUC and Gies College of Business are esteemed in multiple industries.
- MBA Program Of The Year For 2022. In 2022, Poets & Quants named our iMBA program the MBA Program Of The Year For 2022, “for being a true pioneer in the stackable degree field and bringing out the fastest-growing MBA program in the world.”