Part-Time Program with Full-Time Benefits
Bentley’s Professional MBA is a two-year, cohort-based program uniquely designed for motivated professionals, aiming to accelerate their careers and excel as innovative business leaders in sustainable organizations driven by state-of-the-art technology innovation.
Choose from six focus areas with coursework that integrates central business subjects with the program themes of sustainability and emerging technologies. Accelerate your career by joining a diverse cohort of professionals who learn from each other's experiences, exchange valuable insights and form lasting connections. Most coursework is completed online and is structured to fit into your busy life and 10 weekends on campus plus a global experience ensure valuable learning opportunities outside the classroom.
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During these sessions, you’ll hear how the Professional MBA is designed to accelerate your career including your ability to tailor the degree with specialized focus areas, the employer-validated emphasis on emerging technologies and sustainability, personalized leadership coaching, the global immersion experience, and the cohort-based structure. You’ll also hear about the program’s hybrid structure, which balances full-time program benefits like deep community building with part-time flexibility.
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Program Highlights
Global Travel Experience
Participate in a 7-10 day immersion trip focused on leveraging sustainable business practices or emerging technologies to build global management competencies.
Sustainability and Technology Focused
Organizational sustainability and emerging technologies are woven throughout all coursework preparing you to drive innovation.
Accelerated Leadership Coaching
You may choose to participate in a leadership accelerator module where you will be paired with a professional coach to enhance and hone your management style.
Customize Your Degree
Choose from six elective focus areas to specialize your studies: financial analytics, global management, innovation design, sustainable organizations, data analytics and strategic leadership
Why a Professional MBA?
Learn Tomorrow's Skills Today
The program distinguishes itself by seamlessly integrating emerging technologies and organizational sustainability into the curriculum, ensuring you're fully prepared to excel in a constantly evolving business environment. Position yourself as an innovative leader who can tackle complex business challenges and lead positive change in the global marketplace, benefiting both society and the environment.
Hybrid Program Design
This hybrid program includes ten on-campus immersion weekends across the two years, asynchronous online classes to accommodate your schedule, synchronous online classes where you connect live with professors and other students in your cohort and one global immersion experience. The curriculum schedule is pre-established to ensure that students have ample opportunity to organize their professional commitments with their personal obligations
Core Areas of Study
Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, machine learning, robotics, AR/VR, surveillance technologies and more will transform all businesses. Graduates of the program will learn how to use these technologies to improve their organizations and drive innovation while considering sustainable solutions that are in the best interest of their employees, consumers and the planet.
Organizational Sustainability
Organizational sustainability refers to an organization’s capability to thrive long term while minimizing harm to the environment, society, and economy. It involves strategic practices balancing profit with social and environmental responsibility. Such organizations integrate ethical governance, social equity, and ecological consciousness into their operations, aiming to meet current needs without compromising future generations.
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Program Information and Details
The Professional MBA is a two-year, part-time, accelerated program that will allow you to earn an MBA while continuing to grow your career.
To learn more about the curriculum and structure of the program, please visit the curriculum page.
The application is now open.
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- 5 years work experience preferred
Application Requirements
- Résumé/CV or LinkedIn Profile
- All academic transcripts
- One written essay (optional second essay)
- One professional recommendation from a current or former manager (option to submit a second recommendation)
- Interview upon request
- GMAT or GRE scores (optional)
Deadlines
- The priority deadline to apply: February 1, 2025
- The program is designed to be completed in less than two years over four semesters and a summer session. The total cost of the two-year program is $105,000, which will be split evenly across five semesters.
- Students are responsible for the cost of travel and lodging associated with attending the required on-campus immersion weekends.
- The program cost includes tuition, books, food and events during on-campus weekends, global travel experience (in-country travel, meals and accommodations), Harvard CORe, and housing and experiences during the on-campus IGNITE kickoff weekend to start the program.
Learn more about Tuition and Fees, Refund Policy, Payment and Financing Options
Work With World-Class Experts
Ryan Bouldin Ph.D.
Teaching interests include: chemistry of sustainable products, industrial ecology and sustainable product development
Jennifer Xu Ph.D.
Teaching interests include: artificial intelligence, programming languages and database management
Marcus Stewart Ph.D.
Teaching interests include: organizational behavior and change, leadership and diversity
Iris Berdrow is a tenured professor of management and the program director for the Advanced Standing in Business and MBA programs at Bentley University. Iris holds an MBA and PhD with a concentration in Organizational Behavior and International Management from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Long Range Planning, and the Journal of World Business. Her current research interest is in cross-cultural effectiveness, assessing learning outcomes, and competency-based education.
Contact Iris to schedule a time to discuss your background and career goals and how these align with Bentley's programs.