Full-Time MBA Curriculum
Transform Your Career with Focus and Momentum.
The Pepperdine Graziadio Full-Time MBA is designed for individuals ready to immerse themselves in a transformational, career-advancing experience. Whether you are launching your professional journey or accelerating an established path, our program allows you to focus fully on developing the strategic, analytical, and leadership skills today’s employers demand.
Students may choose between two program formats:
- 20-Month MBA – Ideal for early-career professionals seeking a comprehensive business foundation, integrated career readiness programming, and a full-time internship.
- 12-Month MBA – An accelerated track designed for individuals with prior professional experience or a strong undergraduate foundation in business who are ready to upskill and advance quickly.
Rooted in Pepperdine’s values-centered mission, the program blends rigorous academics with real-world application, preparing graduates to lead with competence, confidence, and integrity.
Core Curriculum
The Full-Time MBA curriculum is structured to build foundational expertise before advancing into specialization and experiential learning.
Courses are intentionally sequenced. Students begin with business fundamentals and
progress toward advanced strategy, leadership integration, and applied consulting
experiences. The 20-month format incorporates a full-time internship, allowing students
to gain hands-on industry experience before graduation.
20-Month MBA Course Sequence (Sample)
Concentrations and Specializations
Customize your Full-Time MBA by selecting electives aligned with your professional
aspirations. Electives allow students to deepen their expertise while building practical,
market-relevant skills.
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Learn more about how to achieve your career goals with the Pepperdine Graziadio Full-Time MBA Program.
What Can Students Expect?
Personalized Learning Journey
Choose the format that fits your goals—accelerated or traditional, while tailoring your coursework through concentrations, global experiences, and experiential projects.
Engaging Online Experience
Benefit from small class sizes and continuous engagement with our faculty. Our collaborative culture ensures you're known, challenged, and fully supported throughout your academic journey.
Values-Centered Leadership
Beyond core business skills, we cultivate leaders who understand the human side of business. You'll develop the competence and conscience to drive change with integrity, ready to inspire trust and navigate complexity.
Real-World Project Experience
Engage in Education to Business (E2B) projects, partnering with real companies on actual business challenges. Act as a consultant, developing solutions and gaining invaluable experience, expanding your network, and showcasing your skills.
Internship & Career Readiness
The 20-month track includes a full-time internship, providing direct industry experience. Career readiness programming supports students through workshops, coaching, networking events, and employer engagement opportunities.
Strong Community & Connections
Build lasting relationships through active classroom engagement, group projects, and a variety of student clubs. Connect with peers who share your interests and aspirations, fostering a powerful professional network.
Balancing Theory and Hands-On Experience
Our curriculum expertly blends underlying business concepts and theory with their
real-world application.
This is reinforced through:
- Organizational Behavior Workshop: Immerse yourself in a foundational leadership experience emphasizing self-awareness, teamwork, and ethical decision-making.
- Industry Expert Guest Speakers: Learn directly from current business leaders who share practical insights and emerging trends.
- Industry-Collaborative Learning: Work on real-world projects like Pepperdine E2BTM, where you help solve actual business challenges for partner organizations.
- Strategy Capstone: Gain a CEO-level perspective course integrating finance, marketing, analytics, and operations.
- Case Competitions & Simulations: Apply what you've learned in a dynamic environment. Case competitions and simulations integrate core concepts such as finance, marketing, and operations into high-pressure, team-based challenges that mirror real business complexity.
Learn in Global Destination
Full-Time MBA students may participate in the Trimester Abroad or Global Business Intensive (GBI), a week-long international immersion elective.
Through company visits, executive briefings, and cultural exploration, students gain firsthand exposure to global markets and develop the cross-cultural agility needed to lead in an interconnected world.
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