With numerous factors like widespread layoffs and a volatile stock market creating an unstable economic climate, earning an advanced business degree remains a solid option to create steady career footing.
Boise State University’s Online Master of Business Administration (MBA) can help you cultivate the skills necessary to be an effective, ethical leader who affects positive change in your direct reports, organization and communities, while increasing your marketability.
The degree also saves you time and money with an asynchronous format and affordable tuition. You can complete your Online MBA in 12 months with a full-time schedule of courses.
The Online MBA is designed for professionals with two or more years of managerial experience looking for career advancement. The coursework strengthens your business foundations, giving you the confidence, knowledge and language to share insights, make decisions and find solutions within your organization.
As a student in the program, you will gain valuable, in-demand skills, like innovation, leadership, adaptability and critical thinking, that build on your experience by adding breadth of learning in business and management.
Optional areas of emphasis in the Online MBA provide specialized, industry-specific knowledge around terminology, revenue cycles and business processes. Those areas are:
- Business Analytics: Become fluent in analytics and build confidence in providing them to your employer for data-driven results to enhance business in a rapidly changing landscape.
- Construction Management: Enhance your business expertise in architecture, engineering or construction by developing effective strategies to manage projects and motivate teams, from the planning stages to execution.
- Cyber Operations: Solve complex problems and execute efficient solutions by acquiring foundational knowledge in cybersecurity systems, lateral movement and resilience. Design systems and networks to contend with and recover from cyberattacks.
- Finance: Increase your knowledge of financial markets, analytics, investments and modeling by using hands-on tools to analyze markets, examine current financial issues and explore investment management in global securities markets through academic theories and evidence and practical application.
- Healthcare Leadership: Add core management and decision-making skills to your toolbox by designing, communicating and implementing patient-focused solutions while examining industry issues in healthcare policy and the impact they have on cost, quality and care access.
- Management: Develop your communication and managerial skills to land leadership roles by learning to apply successful management techniques.
- Marketing Leadership: Master the tools of digital marketing by learning to work across organizational teams to integrate strategy, marketing, data analysis and product development. You will also learn best practices for brand stewardship and management of internal and external communications and simultaneously manage multiple products and services.
COBE Career Services
A valuable resource you will have as an Online MBA student is Boise State’s College of Business and Economics (COBE) Career Services, which offers a business-focused, student-centered approach to providing career tools and opportunities to you. Those services include career coaching, employer connections and programs and events.
“As an MBA student you might not be meeting with Career Services to explore career paths or take an assessment, but rather you can benefit from meeting with a career coach who understands that career planning is unique to each individual, taking into account your specific circumstances and goals,” said Laura Chiuppi, COBE career services director.
“You also don’t have to be looking for a new job to get the most of our career services. For example, think about updating your resume and LinkedIn profile as a way to improve your personal and professional brand and maybe be considered for a promotion.
“Your resume should be updated regularly — even if you aren’t looking for a new job. Resumes are a tool to track your achievements, projects and technical skills. After all, you’ll want to add your MBA to your resume. But, keep in mind that resume techniques change over time, so it’s important to know what is ‘in style.’”
With its flexibility, affordability, quality, custom curriculum, networking and resources, Boise State’s Online MBA is a great option to provide you with a strong foundation in management during uncertain times.
Learn more about the Online MBA
Earning an Online Master of Business Administration from Boise State University can open doors to new opportunities and a brighter future — and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Whether you’re exploring if an online degree is right for you or need help transferring credits, connecting with a student success coach is the perfect first step.
Ready to learn more? Attend one of our online information sessions or contact a student success coach today.