Your Program
Accelerate your career with an advanced degree and the skills employers need.
With an Online MBA from the UB School of Management, you'll gain a combination of managerial, analytical, leadership and communication skills, allowing you to achieve your personal and professional goals on a flexible schedule. Our online delivery in fast-paced, seven-week sessions is a highly effective way to learn for individuals with full-time jobs, families and other commitments.
Your program is delivered fully online in manageable seven-week modules. Most Online MBA students take one 3-credit course per module. The program can be completed in as many as four years — speed up or slow down — it’s up to you.
Curriculum
Our 48-credit Online MBA offers you the same exceptional quality coursework and distinguished faculty as our top-ranked, on-campus MBA program.
Explore the Curriculum Planner to become familiar with foundational courses and advanced elective coursework.
Curriculum Planner
To review course descriptions on UB HUB's public access site:
- Click on the course schedule button.
- Click on the browse course catalog button.
- In the search field, enter a specific course name and number (e.g., MGM 625) or search for courses using a generic term (e.g., marketing).
Convenient Online Delivery
Asynchronous learning means you will log on to weekly learning modules when it is most convenient for you. You will learn through:
- Faculty presentations
- Web-based simulations
- Short videos on course-related topics
- Discussion boards and virtual events with industry experts
- Reading assignments like industry articles and case studies
- Peer collaboration via platforms like Zoom, file sharing and messaging apps
- Assignments, quizzes and exams
Modules may be structured with short videos, articles and an assignment or deliverable, and you decide when and where to work through the material each week.
Optional Live Sessions
You can become part of the UB community in multiple ways, engaging with faculty members and your peers without coming to campus. The following optional live sessions are available during each online course:
- Buffalo Study Nights: Network and learn with your peers in live sessions led by faculty members. Have in-depth subject matter discussions and work on application-driven projects in real time.
- Online office hours: Discuss the material being presented in class, ask questions or talk about other related interests with faculty members in dedicated, online time periods.
- Tutoring sessions: Take advantage of peer tutoring sessions, available by appointment and free of charge, via our Student Success Center.