Master of Business Administration

Accelerate Your Career, Pursue Your Passion

Take your career to the next level with Lenoir-Rhyne's ACBSP-accredited, 36-credit hour MBA program, which provides exceptional opportunities for professional development and advancement in a wide range of areas in business, commerce, and organizational leadership.

Designed for Working Professionals

Balance work and life on the path to completing your MBA degree. Take classes at your own pace and on your terms—full-time, part-time, on-campus, online, or hybrid. You may begin program studies any semester—summer, fall, or spring term. The MBA program is offered at LR’s Hickory and Asheville campuses. Full-time students generally can finish their degree in four semesters. Any practicum experiences can be completed close to home at your convenience.

Learn more about the MBA program's admission requirements and courses and curricular requirements.

Choose from Nine Specializations

All MBA students complete a thorough core in business, including coursework in accounting, management, marketing, organizational behavior, supply chain operations, communication, and managerial economics.

You can choose to complete a general MBA or specialize in a specific area of interest that matches your career goals and aspirations.

Program Philosophy & Emphasis

The MBA program features a managerial orientation with a focus on decision-making and not mere analysis, an emphasis on individual creative problem-solving skills, a global business perspective, and an emphasis on ethical conduct in management.

The MBA program focuses on five core beliefs that constitute the program's educational emphasis.

• Managerial Emphasis
  Provide you with lessons and applications that help you manage people and resources to achieve results.
   
• Decision-making Orientation
  In an environment of imperfect and incomplete information, you must be prepared to understand the risks and rewards of decision-making and to be responsible for the consequences that ensue.
   
• Creative Problem-Solving
  Business leaders must engage individual creativity and innovation; more importantly, they must be able to develop the creative abilities of those in their employment.
   
• Global Perspective
  As the world's economies grow evermore closely linked, thinking globally enhances opportunity and confronts competitive realities. 
   
• Ethical Leadership
  Quality decision-making requires that business leaders always consider the ethical components for all stakeholders, cultivated by means of a reflective and thoroughly considered set of moral principles.