Boise State University’s Online Master of Business Administration offers much more than a credential to add to your resume.
Designed for professionals with two or more years of management experience eager to advance their careers, the fully online program gives you the business leadership skills to be an effective, ethical leader.
In the program, you will learn and cultivate the tools to create positive change in your direct reports, organization and community in the program while continuing to gain real-world experience by working full time.
The coursework strengthens business foundations, giving you the confidence, knowledge and language to share insights, make decisions and find solutions within any organization.
By building on your experience with a breadth of learning in business in management, you will graduate with the essential skills that potential employers value most.
What skills will you gain from an MBA program?
- Leadership: Demonstrate an understanding of essential business disciplines and leadership principles.
- Strategic thinking and decision-making: Use integrated knowledge across business disciplines to define, analyze and solve business problems.
- Data literacy: Produce clear, concise, and compelling (credible and persuasive) business documents.
- Communication skills: Deliver oral presentations that use effective content, organization and delivery, accompanied by the appropriate technology.
- Change management: Identify ethical dilemmas and apply an appropriate ethics model or framework to propose and defend resolutions.
- Collaboration: Apply best practices in team settings and collaborative projects.
You will also keep up with high-interest workplace trends by gaining value through the integration of both knowledge and practice.
The Online MBA curriculum emphasizes practical application to prepare you for real-world leadership.
Rather than focusing on theoretical knowledge, the course design equips you to make immediate, positive change in both your organization and your career.
Customize your learning experience
Boise State’s Online MBA program offers optional areas of emphasis that give specialized, industry-specific knowledge around terminology, revenue cycles and business processes so you can create your own curriculum specific to your interests and goals. Those emphasis areas are:
- Business analytics: Identify opportunities, solve problems and tell compelling stories by making data-informed decisions that generate impactful results.
- Construction management: Become a strategic decision-maker in architecture, engineering or construction management.
- Cyber emphasis: Enhance your business leadership skills and technical knowledge of cyber operations.
- Finance: Lay a strong foundation in financial management, analysis, investments and markets to lead teams, projects and organizations.
- Healthcare leadership: Add to your expertise in areas of healthcare systems, delivery, finance and operations for a well-rounded view of the business.
- Management: Gain versatility in a variety of rewarding careers through a comprehensive business curriculum and a focus on sharpening in-demand leadership skills.
- Marketing leadership: Acquire the ability to guide teams strategically while maintaining an agile and innovative approach to ever-changing marketing techniques, including digital marketing, product management and marketing analytics.
The Online MBA also provides you with long-term value by focusing on the people side of business rather than profits.
As a graduate, you will create value for yourself, an organization, customers, employees and the community by gaining the skills and knowledge employers seek.
You will also gain networking opportunities as an Online MBA graduate. The courses encourage collaboration and networking with a diverse, highly qualified peer group to help broaden your business horizons.
Frequently asked questions about MBA skills
Will an MBA help me develop leadership skills if I’m not naturally an extrovert?
Absolutely. Modern business leadership skills aren’t about being the loudest voice in the room; they are built on structured frameworks like active listening, stakeholder alignment, data literacy and ethical reasoning — all of which are intentionally taught and practiced throughout our asynchronous courses.
What business skills are most in demand across industries right now?
The highest-paying sectors — including healthcare administration, technology management and financial operations — consistently prioritize individuals who possess strong data-informed decision-making capabilities alongside the emotional intelligence needed to guide human teams through significant corporate adjustments.
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.