Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Program Overview

Program at a Glance

• Program: Business Administration, MBA
• Format: Online, Hybrid
• Total Units: 45
• Requirements: No GMAT or GRE Required
• Fall '25 Early Application Deadline: July 13

Program Overview

Golden Gate University's Master of Business Administration program is designed to prepare the next generation of business leaders for today's complex business environment. Led by instructors who are active professionals in some of the Bay Area's largest and most successful organizations, we bring cutting-edge techniques into the classroom and equip you with in-demand skills that you can immediately apply in the real world.

At GGU, our well-rounded curriculum empowers MBA students to build a holistic management perspective as well as a comprehensive understanding of business. Throughout the program, you'll learn to blend core business disciplines with vital soft skills like communication, presentations, and teamwork, applied through hands-on case studies that mirror real-world management scenarios.

Degree Outcomes

Graduates of the Master of Business Administration program will have the knowledge and skills to:

• Demonstrate a general management "holistic" perspective.
• Demonstrate managerial and leadership skills, such as teamwork, critical thinking and problem solving, communications and presentations, self-awareness.
• Master and apply general management analytic processes and tools for decision making.
• Integrate strategic business objectives within competitive industry dynamics.
• Integrate strategic business objectives within the socio-political-economic-ecological-global context.
• Understand functional areas' impact on business and departmental interaction issues.
• Demonstrate integrated business level planning.
• Demonstrate an understanding and ability to identify the ethical, environmental, and social implications of business issues and formulate appropriate responses.

Admission Requirements

• Applicants: Should hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a recognized foreign institution (outside the United States), and provide official transcripts.
• Statement of Purpose (SOP): All applicants will need to submit a Statement of Purpose (SOP) and a resume.
• English Language Proficiency: Applicants whose native language is not English must meet the English Language Proficiency Admission Requirements.
• GMAT/GRE: The GMAT/GRE is NOT Required.

Curriculum

Foundation Program

• BUS 202: Fundamentals of Business – 3 unit(s)
• BUS 240: Data Analysis for Managers – 3 unit(s)

Core Program

• LEAD 300: Management and Leadership – 3 unit(s)
• LEAD 303: Teamwork in Organizations – 3 unit(s)
• FI 300: Corporate Finance – 3 unit(s)
• MBA 323: Information Technology – 3 unit(s)
• MSBA 300: Foundations of Business Analytics – 3 unit(s)
• MKT 300: Marketing Management – 3 unit(s)
• OP 300: Operations and Supply Chain Management – 3 unit(s)

Strategic and Capstone Courses

• MGT 345: Context of Business – 3 unit(s)
• MBA 311: Strategic Analysis and Design – 3 unit(s)
• MBA 350: Business Planning – 3 unit(s) (Capstone course to be taken in final semester.)

Concentrations

• Adaptive Leadership: This practice-based concentration educates students in an understanding of contemporary leadership and management theories with special emphasis on application and skill development.
• Business Analytics: A targeted graduate concentration designed for MBA students to work within the business analytics field.
• Entrepreneurship: For ambitious persons who want to start and grow their own business, and/or manage innovation within a larger enterprise.
• Finance: An analytical graduate concentration designed to prepare MBA students for a finance specialty.
• General: Whatever the student's goal in the world of business, the general concentration allows the student to tailor the MBA program to his or her individual needs.
• Human Resource Management: In the competitive global marketplace, effective management of human resources is necessary for success.
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology: An Industrial-Organizational Psychology graduate concentration is designed to help MBA students combine increased business acumen and the applied skills of the business world with in-depth knowledge of and capacity to critically analyze the psychological dynamics of people in organizations.
• Information Technology Management: A focused graduate concentration designed to prepare MBA students to work with or within the IT field.
• Marketing: A fundamental graduate concentration designed to prepare MBA students for success in the rapidly changing marketing field.
• Project Management: A structured graduate concentration designed to groom MBA students for careers in project management.
• Public Administration: A progressive graduate concentration designed to prepare MBA students to navigate the bureaucracy of the public sector.

Featured Faculty

• Richard Rushow: Adjunct Professor
• Theresa Markham: Associate Director of MBA Programs / Lecturer
• Dr. Homer Johnstone: Distinguished Adjunct Professor

Graduate Tuition

• The tuition for most graduate degree programs at Golden Gate University is $1,090 per unit, covering the cost of high-quality, career-focused education led by experienced faculty.

Learning Outcomes

• Graduates of the Master of Business Administration program will have the knowledge and skills to:
  • Demonstrate a general management "holistic" perspective.
  • Demonstrate managerial and leadership skills, such as teamwork, critical thinking and problem solving, communications and presentations, self-awareness.
  • Master and apply general management analytic processes and tools for decision making.
  • Integrate strategic business objectives within competitive industry dynamics.
  • Integrate strategic business objectives within the socio-political-economic-ecological-global context.
  • Understand functional areas' impact on business and departmental interaction issues.
  • Demonstrate integrated business level planning.
  • Demonstrate an understanding and ability to identify the ethical, environmental, and social implications of business issues and formulate appropriate responses.

Explore Business Career Paths

• Earning your MBA can lead to endless career opportunities and help you stand out in today's competitive business world. From marketing and management to technology and finance, the versatile skills you'll develop in our MBA program will empower you to build the career you want.
• Recent career outcomes for our MBA graduates include:
  • Managing Director, JP Morgan
  • Business Strategy & Operations Management, Google
  • Vice President & CMO, Angstorm FZC
  • Senior Business System Analyst, Charles Schwab
  • VP Commercial Credit Underwriter Enterprise, Bank of America
  • Senior Director Accounting & Reporting, Dignity Health
  • Vice President of Finance, Bay Equity, LLC
  • Director of Administration, Stanford University
  • Founder & CEO, CollectiveForce LLC
  • CTO, Digital Native, ASEAN, Microsoft
  • Principal Product Manager – SaaS Engineering, Oracle