Earn your MBA virtually—infused with live experiences.
To advance your career in a complex, fast-changing business world powered by technology, you need the confidence and wisdom that comes only from experience. In our one-of-a-kind Online MBA program, you can develop skills and expertise through a flexible virtual course of study that puts experiential learning front and center. We call this approach EXPO—rather than take classes involving projects, you'll undertake projects with classes built around them, and complete the program capable of taking on any business challenge.
Program overview
- Program structure: 100% online, in immersive seven-week bursts—totaling 21 core credits and 29 elective credits
- Class schedule: Access and complete coursework on your schedule and meet weekly deadlines, with optional live sessions and faculty office hours
- Time to complete: 18+ months
Online MBA accelerated program | Typical program timeline
Online MBA standard program | Typical program timeline
Unique features
- Learn through immersive experiential opportunities solving real business issues
- Practice making C-level social and ethical decisions with two EXPO Societal Challenge courses
- Customize half of your curriculum with business electives relevant to your unique career goals
- Focus deeply on just one or two classes at a time with our unique seven-week course schedule
- Partner with a success manager who will support you throughout the program
- Consult with a dedicated career advisor to plan your job search and connect to our employer and alumni networks
Online MBA program by the numbers
100%
online coursework
18+
months to complete your degree
4
focus areas
Admissions
- GMAT/GRE required? Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business is currently test-optional and does not require applicants to submit GRE or GMAT scores. For more information watch this video, or review our admissions policies.
- English language proficiency: English proficiency, both written and verbal, is necessary for success in D'Amore-McKim classrooms. For more information, review our admissions policies.
- Where do I apply? Apply using this application.
- Interview required? No.
In our Performance-Based Admissions pathway, you can skip the application process and use your performance from two initial courses to secure your place in the Online MBA program.
Successfully finish two Performance-Based pathway courses within the OMBA curriculum, earning a grade of ‘B' or higher, provide official bachelor's degree transcripts before completing these two courses, and you'll be eligible to enroll in the next available OMBA term. Performance-based admission credits will be seamlessly transferred to the Online MBA degree program.
Online MBA
| Application Deadlines | Decision Notifications | Classes Begin |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 12, 2024 | Aug. 19, 2024 | September |
| Sept. 30, 2024 | Oct. 7, 2024 | October |
| Dec. 9, 2024 | Dec. 16, 2024 | January |
| Feb. 3, 2025 | Feb. 10, 2025 | February |
| April 14, 2025 | April 21, 2025 | May |
| June 9, 2025 | June 16, 2025 | June |
Tuition
The Online MBA cost per credit for the current academic year is $900.
Northeastern Student Financial Services publishes the tuition rates for the Online MBA. Under the “Graduate Programs” section, the cost per credit appears next to “D'Amore-McKim School of Business Programs.”
Financial aid
Northeastern's Student Financial Services team will guide you through options to help you finance your graduate education. You can learn more about graduate financial aid options on their website.
Once you become a student, your financial aid advisor will work with you to answer your questions, and provide valuable insight as you navigate the financial commitments of your program.
Scholarships
D'Amore-McKim and Northeastern University offer a variety of scholarships. The following scholarships are offered for the Online MBA program: AmeriCorps and Teach for America MBA Scholarship, Full Circle Scholarship, Forté Scholarship, Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Scholarship. You may also qualify for funding support as an alum, U.S. servicemember, or veteran.
Application fee waivers
D'Amore-McKim offers application fee waivers to applicants that meet specific criteria. You can review the policy on the Graduate Application FAQ web page.
The D'Amore-McKim community believes that understanding and solving problems requires constant interaction among people who bring diverse contexts and experiences to the conversation.
We value uniqueness, recognize the power and importance of diversity in our own and surrounding communities, and ensure engaged participation. Numerous student groups and campus resources focus on building inclusive communities.
Northeastern and D'Amore-McKim offer and partner with organizations that provide scholarships and fellowships to foster diversity and inclusion. This program is eligible for scholarships such as the Forté MBA Fellowships and Reach Out MBA Fellowship.
Curriculum
The Online MBA is designed entirely around transformative experiences and maximum flexibility. You'll start with a core business curriculum that incorporates experiential elements, adding your choice of electives from four market-aligned functional areas —business analytics, finance, healthcare, or innovation and entrepreneurship —and 12 business electives that further your personal career goals. These electives will make up half your total coursework, giving you great freedom to customize your degree and build unique expertise.
For the remaining 20 percent of your curriculum, you'll immerse yourself in experience-focused EXPO electives that develop your analytical skills and ability to work as part of a C-level decision-making team. You'll tackle both business and societal challenges in an executive role—growing your confidence, sharpening your decision-making skills, and preparing you to take on more responsibility in your current role or a new position.
Business core requirements
ACCT 6318 | 2 Hours
Offers guided instruction about problem identification, problem-solving skills, and working as a team to meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. The instructor and selected industry experts work with student teams through lectures, question-and-answer sessions, and team feedback sessions to offer real-world feedback. Offers students an opportunity to leverage skills and thinking through an immersive experience; develop observations and reflections of complex situations or challenges; frame the challenges, drawing on concepts, observed patterns, and experiences; synthesize insights into a creative solution; and apply the learnings to new situations.
EEBA 6401 | 1-3 Hours
Introduces time value of money calculations and applications. Building upon a basis in accounting, offers students an opportunity to learn how to extract relevant information from the accounting statements for use in financial calculations and ratio analysis. Also examines capital planning, including determining relevant cash flows, calculating decision measures, and making the correct decisions.
FINA 6318 | 2 Hours
Offers key insights every business professional should understand working in, managing, and leading organizations in today's complex, diverse, and dynamic business environment. The primary goal of this course is to challenge—and improve—students' understanding of human behavior in organizations so that they are better positioned to strategically leverage human capital. Introduces critical theories and concepts through case analyses, debates, TED Talks, and exercises that aim to help students understand, analyze, and ultimately address real business situations and problems.
HRMG 6318 | 2 Hours
Introduces several entrepreneurship and innovation topics, including innovation and entrepreneurship as a value-creating activity for economies and firms; types of innovation (technological, process, products, business models); fundamentals of product development (design thinking, rapid prototyping, ethnography); startup creation and articulating a value proposition; the role and traits of the entrepreneur; maximizing odds of success and minimizing odds of failure; growing the startup and creating a market; finding or creating the right niche; pivoting and judo strategy; lean startup approach; innovation in established firms and resistance to change; organizational inertia; business model change; and technological discontinuities.
INNO 6318 | 2 Hours
Examines the role of marketing as an organizational function and a set of processes to manage offerings that provide superior value to customers. Focuses on developing student skill in analyzing the customer and business environment and using that analysis to build an effective marketing strategy. Emphasizes methods for the identification, acquisition, and retention of customers in a way that provides mutual value to the customer and the organization.
MKTG 6318 | 2 Hours
Focuses on the integrative management of processes and activities involved in transformation and delivery of goods and services. Emphasizes foundational knowledge on supply chain and operations management concepts, techniques, and functions. Topics covered include sourcing and procurement, manufacturing and service operations, logistics management, process design and control, inventory management, interfirm relationship management, and attendant information flows.
SCHM 6318 | 2 Hours
Provides the fundamental concepts for understanding and managing strategy in a competitive context. Focuses on analysis, critical thinking, and making strategic decisions. Discusses the analytical tools to understand the industry and firm context. Explores the design and execution of strategies to compete successfully. Investigates the strategic changes involved as firms grow and expand into new businesses and geographic markets.
STRT 6318 | 2 Hours
Societal challenges core
Examines how to analyze the impact that societal challenges have in business decision making. Focuses on the challenges that companies face when embracing and empowering goals to add value to their shareholders and stakeholders while “doing good.” Examines the increasingly complex relations between businesses with outsized power and reach and governments in developed and emerging economies. Studies the implications of firm-level and government-level decision making and the impact on the specific communities where decisions are enacted. Studies the roles played by for-profit entities, not-for-profit entities, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies in exploring, understanding, and achieving progress with these challenges.
BUSN 6402 | 2 Hours
Provides a project-based experiential learning opportunity for students to leverage insights on stakeholder values and societal challenges in business. Offers students an opportunity to explore and apply best practices in environmental sustainability to impact societal challenges associated with climate change. Students work in teams to bring their experience and newly learned skills to solve a real sustainability-related business problem. Includes guidance and feedback from industry experts and peers through interviews, case studies, question-and-answer sessions, and team feedback sessions.
EEBA 6402 | 2 Hours
Provides a project-based experiential learning opportunity for students to leverage insights on stakeholder values and societal challenges in business. Offers students an opportunity to explore and apply best practices in promoting diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. Students work in teams to bring their experience and newly learned skills to solve a real DEI-related business problem. Includes guidance and feedback from industry experts and peers through interviews, case studies, question-and-answer sessions, and team feedback sessions.
EEBA 6403 | 2 Hours
Business electives
Students may also take elective courses in the following areas of study: Business Analytics, Finance, and/or Innovation and Entrepreneurship to complete two focus areas. All Online MBA credits must be selected from online course offerings.
Offers guided instruction about problem identification, problem-solving skills, and working as a team to meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. The instructor and selected industry experts work with student teams through lectures, question-and-answer sessions, and team feedback sessions to offer real-world feedback. Offers students an opportunity to leverage skills and thinking through an immersive experience; develop observations and reflections of complex situations or challenges; frame the challenges, drawing on concepts, observed patterns, and experiences; synthesize insights into a creative solution; and apply the learnings to new situations.
EEBA 6401 | 1-3 Hours
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