Oct 28, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Business Administration (Full Time) MBA


Do you want to work smarter, rise faster, pursue your passion, chart a new path and challenge yourself to achieve your fullest potential, all while positively impacting the world and being rewarded financially? There are several reasons why the UB MBA program is the elite MBA program in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, and one of the top MBA programs in the country. Renowned faculty, high-caliber students, outstanding services and successful alumni, are just a few of the reasons our MBA program is an excellent choice. Our full-time MBA program admits in the fall only.

The MBA is a valuable credential that can be paired with a number of professional degrees, offering advanced business training concurrently to students pursing professional credentials.  The School of Management offers 6 such “collaborative” offerings:  the MBA/AuD for speech pathologists, the MBA/Real Estate Development MS for planners and developers, the MBA/DDS for aspiring dentists, the MBA/MPH for public health professionals, and the MBA in combination with our surgical residency, for surgeons-in-training.  Contact the School of Management for more information about these time-saving “collaborative” program opportunities.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)


1. Students will have a command of general business theory and practice.

  • Identify and describe essential concepts in the functional areas of business.
  • Explain how the functional areas of a business are interrelated.

2. Students will be critical thinkers and effective decision makers.

  • Identify and collect evidence to support managerial decision making.
  • Analyze and interpret evidence using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods to support managerial decision making.

3. Students will be socially and ethically responsible business professionals.

  • Identify and describe ethical and social issues commonly encountered in business.
  • Devise appropriate responses to ethical and social dilemmas that consider the perspective of all stakeholders.

4. Students will have effective communication, team, and leadership skills.

  • Demonstrate effective communication through both well-researched written work and professional verbal presentations.
  • Demonstrate effective teamwork skills.
  • Explain how to lead effectively in a diverse and global environment.
  • Explain how to lead an entrepreneurial venture and/or drive corporate innovation.

Electives & Culminating Experience (35 credits)


Electives (33 credits)


Required Internship (Internship requirement can be waived with one year of full-time work experience. If waiver is approved, you must take 3 additional credits of electives.)

  • MG* 648 - Internship  (Limit of 3 credits)

Select an additional 30 credits from 600 level courses within the School of Management (any MG* course).

Culminating Experience: Project (2 credits)


Total Credit Hours: 60


3.0 Degree GPA required

Instruction Method


  • In Person (100 percent of courses offered in person)

Full/Part Time Options


  • Full Time

Credits Required


  • 60 Hours

Time-To-Degree


  • 2 Years

Application Fee


  • $100

SED Statement


This program is officially registered with the New York State Education Department (SED).

Online programs/courses may require students to come to campus on occasion. Time-to-degree and number of credit hours may vary based on full/part time status, degree, track and/or certification option chosen. Time-to-degree is based on calendar year(s). Contact the department for details.