Business

Motivated and high-achieving undergraduates in the School of Business can complete both their bachelor's and master's degree through this five-year program. The business B.S./MBA degree puts students on track to influence the business world as leaders in thought and practice.

### Why Choose the Business B.S./MBA?

Successful completion of the five-year program leads to the awarding of two degrees:

- A bachelor of science in business (one of seven majors)

- A master's of business administration

This AACSB-accredited program consists of 150 undergraduate and graduate credit hours taken over a five-year period of 10 semesters and one summer session.

### Personalization and Partnerships

Class sizes are small. On average, there are fewer than 25 students per class. Students will discuss topics face-to-face with professors and work on small-group projects and computer-based exercises with classmates.

Manhattan University is unique in that it is a liberal arts college with excellent technical programs, like engineering and science. The O'Malley School of Business has strong partnerships with these programs, providing opportunities to research and learn with non-business students and faculty. It is a great exercise in teamwork to learn a subject from another’s perspective.

### Experiential Learning

Today, employers are looking for experience in addition to conceptual understanding. This on-campus program's strong experiential learning component offers a variety of opportunities to apply knowledge in a real-world setting. Two of the 12 required courses for the on-campus MBA program must be experiential in nature. This can include:

- **Internships**: Students have landed summer or semester-long internships at prominent companies including Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, and the New York Mets.

- **International Study Trips**: Students traveled to India to visit local businesses and corporations as part of a study on the multinational aspects of BRIC economies.

- **Business Plan Projects**: Students traveled to Frankfurt, Germany, where they prepared a business plan for an emerging energy company, met a vice president of Deutsche Bank, and visited the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

- **Entrepreneurial Projects**: MBA students worked with chemical engineering students to create and market a natural hair-dye product for L’Oreal and develop markets for new uses of olive oil produced in Palestine.

- **Research**: Students placed second in the Baylor University-USASBE Student Case Writing Competition.