Business Administration, MBA

We need people like you to be the business leaders of tomorrow. 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.

You may begin program studies any semester—summer, fall, or spring term. The MBA program is offered at LR’s Hickory campus and online through synchronous course delivery. Full-time students generally can finish their degree in four semesters. Any practicum experiences can be completed close to home at your convenience.

Why Choose Lenoir-Rhyne University

• Student-Centered Approach
  The MBA program takes a student-centered approach by focusing on application-based instruction that directly relates to your areas of interest and future career goals. The program is designed to provide you with direct contact and a close professional relationship with faculty members who bring real-world experience to the classroom setting.
• Relevant to Today's Business Needs
  Learn decision-making skills and tools. Faculty are professionals with work experience in their field. Class simulations take you from the classroom to real business projects. Work with your professors on projects with local businesses and organizations, including conducting audits of businesses under the supervision of your professor.
• Start Your MBA as an Undergrad
  The Accelerated Master's Degrees program provides an opportunity for LR undergraduates to seamlessly matriculate into graduate programs by beginning coursework toward their master’s degree during their senior year, earning their master’s degree in a shorter period of time and saving money.

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 ever more 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.

The College of Business and Economics is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). 

Program Accreditation

Lenoir-Rhyne is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. 

The Master of Business Administration degree is also accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), a leading specialized accreditation association for business education supporting, celebrating and rewarding teaching excellence. ACBSP accredits business, accounting and business-related programs at the associate, baccalaureate, master and doctorate degree levels worldwide.