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Two-Year MBA Curriculum

Pepperdine University Malibu Campus

Our 20-month Full-Time MBA is completed in five trimesters and consists of 55 units of coursework, a business internship, and career seminars. The internship is designed to provide students with work experience or the opportunity to gain experience in a different professional field. It is a full-time internship taken between the first and second year of the MBA program. 

Students may personalize their MBA curriculum to complement their academic background and work experience by selecting an area of concentration.

 

Two-Year MBA Core Curriculum
Core MBA Classes (depending on courses waived): 34 units
MBA Electives: 20 units
Career Seminar: 0 units
Business Internship: 0 units
Total Units: 54 units required

 

Program Sequence (Sample)

Fall Spring Summer

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)

PGBS 695 Internship (0-8) (0 units required)

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)

 

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