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Advance your career with a flexible, applied MBA designed for working professionals.

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30-36

Credit Hours

12-18

Months Estimated Completion Time

8

MBA Specializations

100%

Online Format

A Career-Focused MBA Built for the Modern Workplace

Today’s business leaders need more than traditional management knowledge. They need to interpret data, lead teams through change, apply emerging technology, and make decisions with purpose.

CUC’s online MBA integrates strategy, analytics, applied AI, and design thinking into a flexible graduate business experience. The result is a practical, career-focused MBA that helps you strengthen your leadership capacity and apply what you learn directly to real business challenges.

With 6 convenient start dates, you can begin when it works best for you!

Customize Your MBA Around Your Career Goals

Choose from eight in-demand MBA specializations designed to help you align your degree with your professional goals

Outcomes

The online MBA in Accounting: Business Analysis and Reporting degree provides students with the knowledge needed to pass the Business Analytics and Reporting section of the CPA. These outcomes include: 

  • Utilizing generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to analyze an organization’s economic performance and financial stability.
  • Understanding and applying ethical decision-making in accounting practice and the impact on the business, employees and stakeholders.
  • Using advanced accounting analysis and reports to select and convey information to management and key stakeholders.
  • Understanding and assessing the global perspective of accounting in the collection, analysis and presentation of financial information for various audiences.
  • Utilizing and evaluating relevant information technology for competitive advantage in accounting practice.
  • Applying GAAP in the areas of nonprofit accounting, lease accounting, derivative and hedge accounting, risk analysis and revenue recognition.

Career Outlook

While a bachelor’s degree can prepare graduates for entry-level accounting jobs, many employers prefer to hire professionals with a master’s degree —particularly for jobs in accounting leadership and management.

Every employer needs accountants, including businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Earning an MBA in Accounting degree can help graduates land a variety of leadership and management positions, including:

  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Financial Manager or Consultant
  • CPA
  • Public Accountant
  • Tax Accountant
  • Cost Accountant
  • Internal or External Auditor
  • Budget Analyst

Outcomes

This digital marketing master’s degree program helps students:

  • Hone the strategic and analytical skills required to adapt traditional marketing concepts and create new digital campaigns for the online environment.
  • Acquire expertise in multiple areas of digital marketing strategy and planning, including mobile marketing and social media.
  • Develop an understanding of how to apply digital marketing analytics.
  • Leverage data to support successful marketing campaigns and achieve overall business goals.

Career Outlook

While a bachelor’s degree can get you into the marketing field, some employers expect marketing managers and directors to have a master’s degree and/or specialized training in digital marketing concepts. Earning a digital marketing MBA online prepares graduates for a variety of marketing jobs at every level of the organization, including:

  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Director of Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Digital Content Marketing Manager
  • Digital Brand Manager
  • Online Marketing Specialist
  • Mobile Marketing Copywriter
  • Social Media Strategist
  • Digital Marketing Consultant

Outcomes

This online MBA in Finance program helps students:

  • Develop a solid foundation in money management and maximize return on investment
  • Understand the theory and strategy behind public and private fiduciary processes
  • Master the fundamentals of banking, financial statement analysis, and corporate and international finance
  • Attain a global perspective on finance-related issues and their broader economic implications

Career Outlook

While a bachelor’s degree can get you into the financial realm, some employers prefer financial analysts to have a master’s degree. Earning a finance MBA online prepares graduates for a variety of financial jobs at every level of the organization, including:

  • Financial Analyst
  • Financial Manager
  • Accounting Manager
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Credit Manager

Outcomes

The online MBA in Health Care Management will help students:

  • Master the knowledge and skills needed to address the complexities of today’s healthcare industry.
  • Obtain a comprehensive business education in human resources, finance, information systems and patient care.
  • Leverage healthcare expertise and business strategies to elevate day-to-day operations.
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the laws and regulations that govern healthcare organizations.

Career Outlook

Though some professionals enter the field with a bachelor’s degree, most employers prefer that candidates for leadership positions have a healthcare management master’s degree. Those who have completed an online health care MBA program can prove they have expert-level knowledge of healthcare systems and modern business practices, which makes them uniquely qualified for key management and administration roles at medical facilities.

Earning an online MBA in Health Care Management can position graduates for coveted managerial and executive roles:

  • Hospital CEO
  • Healthcare System CFO
  • Hospital Administrator
  • Head of Quality Improvement
  • Healthcare Association Director
  • Healthcare Consultant

Outcomes

The online MBA in change management program will help students:
 
  • Develop the skills needed to become a resourceful and creative leader
  • Implement business strategies that adapt to changing consumer needs
  • Create a business foundation that fosters effective and efficient organizational changes
  • Demonstrate expertise in leadership theories and intercultural leadership
  • Understand and leverage the keys to successfully manage strategic change

Career Outlook

While a bachelor’s degree in business can prepare professionals for managerial roles, an MBA remains the gold standard for those who aspire to advance into the top levels of an organization. Graduates who earn an online MBA with a Leadership and Change Management Specialization often hold such titles as:

  • CEO, CMO or COO
  • Director of Change Management
  • Process Improvement Manager
  • Change Management consultant
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Global Programs Manager

Outcomes

Students can be confident that the Master of Business Administration in Project Management was expertly developed and intentionally designed to:

  • Equip students with the quantitative and qualitative knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to handle project planning, risk management, high-level decision making, and management strategy implementation
  • Teach the skills to prepare students for project management certifications including the Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) professional certification exams 
  • Prepare graduates for project manager positions in a wide range of project-intensive fields

Career Outlook

While a bachelor’s degree can get you into the project management field, some employers prefer project managers to have a master’s degree. Earning a project management MBA online prepares graduates for a variety of management jobs at every level of the organization, including:

  • Project manager
  • Senior project manager
  • Project Coordinator
  • Project Scheduler
  • Team Leader
  • Assistant Project Manager

Outcomes

The Chief School Business Official MBA helps students:

  • Master the knowledge needed to excel in today’s complicated educational system from HR and public relations to facilities maintenance, legal issues and  school finance/budgeting
  • Develop practical skills related to educational budgeting, facilities management, human resources, public relations, and administrative and legal issues
  • Gain professional insights during a school business management internship
  • Prepare to take the tests required for Illinois CSBO Management endorsement

Career Outlook

Earning an online MBA with an education specialization prepares graduates for a variety of leadership and administration positions, including:

  • Elementary, Middle or High School Principal
  • Development Director
  • Chief Academic Officer
  • School System Administrator
  • Superintendent

Where Can a CUC MBA Take You?

An MBA can help prepare professionals for leadership, management, strategy, operations, consulting, marketing, human resources, and executive-level career paths across industries.

Career Paths

  • Project Manager
  • Director of Business Operations
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Management Consultant
  • Director of Marketing
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Finance Manager
  • Health Care Administrator
  • Digital Marketing Manager
  • Operations Leader

Lead With Purpose

For more than 160 years, Concordia University Chicago has prepared leaders to live and work with purpose and meaning. As a university of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, CUC emphasizes ethical leadership, service to others, and a commitment to something greater than oneself.

CUC’s MBA is designed for professionals who want to advance their careers while leading with clarity, integrity, and purpose.

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