Online MBA

 

“Being able to go to school and get my MBA at night, and then being able to put what I was learning into practice literally the next day, was the most important way to learn and understand how to manage and lead.”
           
– Heather Lafferty ’05
Executive Director and CEO
Habitat for Humanity Denver

Earn your MBA on your schedule with the Online MBA, the flexible and accessible way to advance your career and build in-demand business skills. Designed for working professionals, this program features a comprehensive, self-paced curriculum that addresses the demands of today’s fast-moving business world. Enhance your learning with real-world application, interactive online coursework, and access to the University of Colorado Denver Business School’s robust network of industry leaders and organizations.  

With fully online delivery, you can complete your MBA from anywhere, balancing work, life, and education without sacrificing quality. The program includes eight-week terms, offering the flexibility to progress at your own pace while engaging in courses focused on business analytics, project management, leadership development, and entrepreneurship. Expect to collaborate with diverse peers, participate in virtual group projects, and gain hands-on experience solving real-world challenges through interactive assignments and case studies.  

The program is designed to build a strong student community through virtual networking opportunities, peer collaboration, and personalized faculty support. This structure fosters relationships that extend beyond graduation, creating a valuable professional network. Program highlights include:

• Flexible online format: Complete your degree from anywhere with engaging online courses designed to fit your schedule.  
• Real-world experience: Apply your skills to practical business challenges through interactive projects and case studies.  
• Career and professional development: Receive personalized career coaching, networking opportunities, and connections to CU Denver Business School’s extensive industry partnerships. 
• Innovative curriculum: Develop expertise in areas such as business analytics, project management, leadership, and entrepreneurship.  

With its focus on flexibility, innovation, and real-world application, the CU Denver Online MBA is the ideal choice for professionals ready to advance their careers and lead with confidence in today’s evolving global marketplace.

Specializations require 12 hours of related coursework and can be added or changed throughout your program. Specializations are not required but a great way to add customized content to your degree.  Students who do not pursue a specialization can mix and match electives of interest.

Accounting

Learn to interpret accounting information, tackle complex problems and communicate information to investors, creditors, managers and other organizational decision makers.

Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship

Taking advantage of Colorado’s biocluster and a collaboration with faculty at the Anschutz Medical Campus, this offering is geared towards helping bioentrepreneurs achieve commercial success.

Business Intelligence

Through hands-on learning, you'll work within MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Software, a leading software for business intelligence. 

Business Strategy

You’ll gain the skills used to develop and implement business strategy, and you’ll have the leadership knowledge to help organizations effectively meet those objectives.

Commodities

Dive into topics like trading operations, investment management, and investment banking. Internships, field trips, guest speakers, and networking opportunities connect you to executives in commodities firms in agriculture, energy, minerals, and metals.

Entrepreneurship

Classes will get into the nitty-gritty of business plans, legal issues, venture capitalists, web development, and more. This specialization gives you access to dozens of networking opportunities including an annual business plan competition, internships, local entrepreneurs, and connections with new ventures.

Finance

You’ll have specialized skills in different financial function areas including corporate, investments, and financial institutions. You’ll be able to choose from a range of topics including forecasting, derivatives, risk management, and firm evaluation.

Information Systems

You’ll know how to analyze data and better manage business processes with technology.

Management

Concentrate your degree on becoming a more effective leader. You’ll develop key leadership skills including project management, negotiation, ethics, and sustainability. 

Sustainable Business

You’ll learn how to build a strategy to reduce operating costs, open up new markets and revenue streams, increase customer loyalty, and improve financial performance.

Marketing

Learn how to build long-term relationships between a company and its customers. This specialization gives you skills in marketing strategy, digital marketing, marketing research, buyer behavior, and sales management.

Risk Management and Insurance

All businesses manage risk and 50% of the industry’s workforce is retiring in the next decade. With this huge need in talent, companies are looking for professionals capable in managing risk to enhance firm value. You’ll learn how to identify liabilities and mitigate risk in commercial settings and introduce insurance products for personal and commercial use. Member of the Global Center for Insurance Excellence. 

All of the core classes for this degree are offered in the 8-week format.

Online is defined as an asynchronous course, meaning that there is no specific meeting day/time.  This provides students with the ultimate flexibility to work on courses at a time that works best for them, while ensuring they meet any weekly deliverables or deadlines specified in the course. Our online courses are taught by the same professors and lecturers that teach on campus. All core MBA courses are offered online.  Students can choose from a plethora of online electives or pursue a specialization to provide specialized content to their degree.

Tuition

The cost of tuition for the Online MBA is different for in-state and out-of-state students. For out of state online only students, please note there is a unique tuition rate set that is significantly less expensive than traditional costs for non-residents.

Residents of western states may qualify for in-state tuition if they are pursuing a Online MBA. The Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP) requires that students maintain current residency of WRGP state until degree completion.

Scholarships

Dual degree options exist for the Online MBA. We design a specific degree plan so you get through both programs as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. Master of Science programs available for dual degree options include:

If you are applying for two degrees through the CU Denver Business School, you will only need to submit one application. For more information about dual degree options and the application process, please contact BSchool.Admissions@ucdenver.edu.

The Online MBA degree admits students for a fall, spring, or summer start. Admissions are made on a rolling basis, meaning decisions are made as applications are completed.

These application deadlines provide timing guidance for applicants, but admission decisions for the Online MBA program are made on a rolling basis and decision notifications are normally sent within 1-2 weeks of submitting a completed application.