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MBA Curriculum

Pepperdine University Malibu Campus

Our Full-Time MBA program offers two options to fit your goals. The 20-month MBA track is ideal for pre-experienced students seeking a strong foundation for launching their professional careers through a comprehensive curriculum, a career readiness seminar, and a full-time internship incorporated into the program.

Intended for individuals with prior professional experience or a strong undergraduate foundation in business, the 12-month MBA offers an accelerated program completion track for upskilling and taking your career to new heights.

With either program track, you can personalize your MBA curriculum to complement your academic background and work experience by selecting an area of concentration that aligns with your academic background, interests, and professional aspirations.

Core Curriculum

  12-Month MBA Core Curriculum
 
Total Units: 46 unites required
Core MBA Classes (depending on courses waived): 34 units
MBA Electives: 12 units
Career Seminar: 0 units
Global Business: 0 units
  20-Month MBA Core Curriculum
 
Total Units: 54 required units
 Core MBA Classes (depending on courses waived): 34 units
MBA Electives: 20 units
Career Seminar: 0 units
Global Business: 0 units

 

20-Month MBA Program Sequence (Sample) 

  Year 1
Fall Spring

ACCT 620 Accounting (3)

BSCI 622 Personal and Career Development for Leaders (3)

BSCI 650 Personal and Leadership Development Workshop (1)

ISTM 619 Technology and Operations Management (3)

PGBS 560 Career Seminar (0) 

FINC 629 Managerial Finance (3)

DESC 618 Applied Data Analytics (3)

ENTR 623 Creating a New Business Opportunity (3)

ECNM 624 Prices, Profits, and the Market Economy (3)

MKTG 626 Marketing Management (3)

Elective(s) (4)

  Year 2
Fall Spring

LEGL 624 Legal, Political, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues of Management (3)

PGBS 560 Career Seminar (0)

OTMT 626 Designing and Leading Organizations for Sustainable Effectiveness (3)

Elective(s) (8)

STGY 628 Strategic Management (3)

Elective(s) (8)

 

Full-Time MBA Concentrations

 

 

Entrepreneurship

 

Business Analytics

 

Finance

 

Digital Innovation and Information Systems

 

Marketing

 

Leadership and Managing Organizational Change

 

 

Global Business Experiences 

All Full-Time MBA students must complete at least two units of global business coursework by satisfying one of the following options:

  • A global content course from any concentration.
  • A one-week, two-unit Global Business Intensive course, led by a Graziadio Business School faculty member.
  • One trimester of study abroad at a global partner business school.
  • A two-unit Going Global with Graziadio (G3) project.
  • An appropriately scoped Global Business Directed Studies project.

Global Business Experience - Paris