Online Master of Business Administration Program
Earn Your MBA in as Few as 12 months*
100% Online Coursework
AACSB Accredited
Choose From 3 Specializations
No GMAT Required
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- Duration 12 – 24 months
- Cost per Credit $1,030
- Credit Hours 36
Program Benefits
- Our AACSB-accredited MBA programs offer industry-leading business education
- Optional specializations in Business Analytics, Finance or Health Services Administration
- Fast track and complete our MBA in one year or study part time
Bring Game Changing Skills to Your Business Career With an AACSB- Accredited Online MBA
With rigorous courses in business, Adelphi University’s online self-paced MBA program prepares students to take the next step in their careers. Our students graduate with a comprehensive understanding of business roles and responsibilities, fully prepared to lead in their careers, across a wide range of industries.
With its focus on advanced business principles, this program is designed to help students move into greater professional roles. Through academic advising and career services offered, our students always have access to the resources they need to be successful learners who stand out from the competition.
Learn Key Business Skills
36 Credits
8-Week Terms
Our online MBA program enables students to gain business knowledge and skills for a successful career. We also offer full-time and part-time options that most students can complete in as little as one year to 24 months. We strive to align our curriculum with evolving business needs — watch this space for additional information about our courses and the opportunity to personalize your education with these optional specializations:
MBA Core Courses
An introduction to the accounting information needs of management. Emphasizes the usefulness of accounting information in evaluating alternative courses of action and controlling operations. Examines the alignment of accounting measures with firm goals. Specific techniques discussed. Include operational and capital budgeting, activity-based costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, and standard costing.
Leadership and management are presented in a theoretical and practical framework. Major leadership theories studied include trait theory, behavioral theory, situational theory, and transformational leadership, as well as the management framework of planning, organizing, and controlling. Topics intertwined with leadership and management include power, motivation, ethics, diversity, and organizational dynamics.
This course presents detailed knowledge of how computers operate, how they support the firm or business, and finally how they are integrated into the processes that run a firm today. Students learn Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.
Organizations confront a myriad of problems characterized by uncertainty in the environment. The decision making process requires models, analysis, and solutions that account for this uncertainty, and statistics provides a methodology that assists in the resolution of those issues. Topics include probability, sampling distributions, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, regression/correlation.
Prerequisite 1: DSC 501 DSC 507
This course focuses on the synthesis of strategy and operations in order to improve processes that provide competitive advantage. Methodologies that are examined include Strategy, Total Quality Management, Decision Making, Statistical Process Control, Forecasting, Production Analysis and Facility Design.
The course provides an understanding of negotiation and persuasion theory, processes, and practices at the leadership level. Students are given the opportunity to enhance their negotiation and persuasion skills under various leadership situations. Students gain practical experience in applying these skills during experiential exercises throughout the course.
An introductory graduate core course in corporate finance covering the following topics: an overview of financial decision making, time value of money, risk and return, bond valuation, stock valuation, cost of capital, and capital budgeting.
Effective Leadership requires the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams. This course provides students with the concepts, principles, and theories for planning, forming, leading, and evaluating high-performing teams. Students explore contemporary theories and critical skill sets for high-performing teams, and how to practically apply these theories and skill sets.
The course synthesizes and integrates the concepts and techniques developed in prior courses to construct a rational basis for developing business objectives and strategic plans. Case analysis and business simulation are used to develop understanding of the concept of strategic management. Cases are selected from a cross section of industries.
Adelphi MBA Admissions Details
Transfer Up to 6 Credit Hours
No GRE/GMAT Required
Apply now to begin the one-year online MBA degree program from Adelphi University. No managerial work experience is required, and this program can be tailored for graduates of business and non-business undergraduate programs. Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
| Degree | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution, with a minimum 3.0 GPA |
| Transcripts | Official transcripts from all prior institutions |
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| Online Application Form | Apply Now |
International Students
Adelphi University welcomes international students. Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
| Degree | Undergraduate degree from an accredited university, and a course-by-course evaluation. All graduate applicants with undergraduate-level work completed outside of the United States will be required to send a course-by-course evaluation of their academic work prepared by a NACES member organization. Adelphi recommends you use The Evaluation Company (TEC) or IEE (discount provided for Adelphi applicants), ECE, or WES, but any NACES member evaluation would be acceptable. |
| Transcripts | Official transcripts from all prior institutions in both English and the original language |
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| Online Application Form | Apply Now |
You can learn more on our international student page.
Transfer Credits
The 12-month online MBA program allows students to transfer up to six credit hours (two courses). All transfer credits must be approved no later than the first semester of admission to the program. All transfer credits must be completed with a grade of B or higher and comparable to courses offered by the Willumstad School of Business.
When to Apply
Apply now to begin the admissions process for Adelphi University’s online Master of Business Administration program. We offer new student intakes in the fall and spring — get started today.
An Affordable Online MBA
$37,080 Total Tuition
$1,030 Per Credit Hour
Our online MBA program offers a cost-effective way to expand your business knowledge and advance your career. Our team is here to answer questions and help determine eligibility for financial aid, loans and military benefits.
| Cost per credit hour | $1,030 |
| Total number of credit hours | 36 |
| Total estimated cost, minus fees | $37,080 |
| Additional fees, if applicable |
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Military Students
Your education is an investment, and at Adelphi University we’re proud to make it as affordable as possible. We now offer tuition for Veterans & Active Military (including eligible spouses and dependent children) at a discounted rate of just $250 per credit hour for undergraduate programs.
Additionally, an application fee waiver is available to all military personnel and veterans. To learn more about this and other benefits for servicemembers please visit our veterans and military resource page here.
Financial Aid Opportunities
When you apply to Adelphi University, we suggest you fill out the FAFSA® as soon as possible. Adelphi’s FAFSA® number is 002666.
In addition to FAFSA® and any financial aid Adelphi University can offer, we encourage you to search for tuition assistance from your employer, grants or scholarships. You can also speak with an Adelphi enrollment counselor at any time to explore your options by calling 855.476.7985. Find out more about financial aid.
“Throughout the MBA program at Adelphi, the professors have imparted on me real-world knowledge, information that only comes through years of experience. In a short time, I have gained the skills needed to run my future business.”
–Brianna Dakers, Adelphi MBA Student
Online MBA Specializations
Enrich your learning experience with an optional specialization and build up-to-date knowledge and skills that target the field you’d like to enter or advance in. Each specialization, including the general MBA, offers opportunities for experiential learning through two Problem Solving Days, which are online and on-campus events at which you’ll collaborate in teams to tackle real organizational challenges. You can also attend virtual and on-campus events such as lectures and conferences.
Explore the specializations below and discover the multitude of career benefits available to you with your online MBA.
855.476.7985 Find Out MoreTurn Complex Business Data into Strategic Insights
Online
12 Credits in this specialization
In the online MBA in Business Analytics, you’ll prepare to become a leader in a data-driven world who can improve business operations, spot market trends and predict future business scenarios. Gain an overview of commonly used software such as Python, R and Tableau, and dive into ways that businesses use these tools to optimize data analysis. You’ll also practice essential data visualization and manipulation techniques including advanced analytics, classification methods, forecasting and machine learning.
Business Analytics Specialization Required Courses
Students will improve their managerial decision making skills by applying data-driven insights into customer needs and marketplace opportunities. Students will learn how marketing decisions can be improved using an analytical approach. Select topics may include: marketing segmentation, customer relationship management, pricing, and resource allocation.
Course description coming soon.
Students will acquire key concepts in applied machine learning and will use software packages and applications that are relevant today such as R and Python. The course applies principles of machine learning to business problems. Topics include linear regression models, classification methods and times series forecasting.
Students will learn to prepare and deliver effective business presentations. Students will create professional visualizations for business analytics solutions using state of the art applications such as Tableau and R package ggplot2.
Develop Essential Skills for Financial Occupations
Online
12 Credits in this specialization
The online MBA in Finance focuses on problem-solving and critical thinking techniques, so you can gain a deeper understanding of topics crucial to financial markets. Explore the valuation of stocks and bonds, the relationship between risks and returns, financial security, capital market theory and market anomalies. Your new expertise will help businesses and organizations, including international firms, navigate financial problems, take advantage of financial opportunities and manage cash flow.
Finance Specialization Required Courses
This course deals with strategies and decisions as they relate to managing the marketing process. Topics include opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning strategies, marketing strategies and the marketing mix – within the context of social, economic, competitive, and legal environments. Information management is utilized to develop marketing strategies and tactics.
Examine the shareholder value creation process by evaluating competing concepts of equity valuation. Alternative approaches to valuation include dividend discount models, free cash flow valuation, capitalized EPS. Other alternative approaches to valuation may be considered, including valuation based on comparables and asset-based valuation.
Study security analysis and valuation, focusing on equity securities and fixed income securities; principles of risk measurement, concepts of valuation, efficient markets, fundamental and technical analysis, and introduction to derivative securities.
Analyze portfolio objectives and investment policies, measuring portfolio risk and returns, and the concepts of diversification and market efficiency, stock selection philosophies and investment styles, and as active and passive portfolio management techniques. are examined.
Explore the Complexities of Today’s Healthcare Landscape
Online
12 Credits in this specialization
In the online MBA in Health Services Administration, you’ll develop skills to help healthcare businesses and organizations run smoothly, including hospitals. You’ll gain familiarity with hospital management and healthcare policy as you review regulatory oversight for quality and safety. For hospitals, specifically, you’ll dive into operations management, budgeting and revenue, clinical functions and more. Finish your Health Services Administration specialization with real-world experience. A faculty member will advise you as you complete a field-related research project, and you can complete an internship within a healthcare organization.
Health Services Administration Specialization Required Courses
This course deals with strategies and decisions as they relate to managing the marketing process. Topics include opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning strategies, marketing strategies and the marketing mix – within the context of social, economic, competitive, and legal environments. Information management is utilized to develop marketing strategies and tactics.
This course familiarizes the student with the concept of quality improvement across the healthcare continuum. This course focuses on the history and evolution of quality, its terms, principles, theories and practices as well as the role and importance of the regulatory agencies responsible for quality oversight.
Emphasis on hospital management. Policy-making by community, boards of trustees, medical staff, government, financial intermediaries, and the use of consumerism in the policy process.
Students will examine the most vital accounting and financial management principles and concepts relevant to health services organizations. Subjects include estimating costs, pricing decisions and profit analysis, planning and budgeting, resource management, business financing, capital investments, cash flow, risk and variance analysis, and reporting assets and profits.
Expand Your Business Skills with a 12-Month Online MBA
An MBA is one of the most versatile degree options available, and we’ve designed our online program for flexibility, helping you fit your studies into your busy life. We offer full-time and part-time options that most students can complete in 12 to 24 months. After completing this MBA program, you’ll be prepared to further your career in business management, marketing, consulting, finance, health services and more.
- Business and financial employment is projected to grow faster than other occupations from 2023 to 20331
- The median annual wage for management occupations was $116,880 in May 20232
Robust Career Services
As an online student, you will have access to comprehensive support through our Center for Career and Professional Development. Our team of career educators can prepare you for professional success through services like Handshake, recruitment programs and job fairs.
A World of Business Possibilities
Marketing Manager $157,620 per year3
Administrative Manager $106,470 per year4
Architectural Manager $165,370 per year5
Construction Manager $104,900 per year6
“A very good thing about Adelphi is the small student-professor ratio. Professors really make an effort to get to know you.”
–Anmol Kumar, Adelphi MBA Graduate
Top Recognition for Adelphi University
Adelphi has been transforming lives with our unique approach to learning for more than 125 years. By welcoming students from around the globe, we’ve expanded our academic offerings and geographic reach, celebrating significant milestones and successful outcomes.
Adelphi University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and our degree programs have received considerable recognition from numerous national publications and organizations such as U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, Military Friendly and more:
Program Outcomes and Skills Acquired
In this program, you’ll gain essential business knowledge that will help you succeed in the field. The program will show you business principles from many practical angles, so you’ll be prepared for whatever challenges come your way in your career.
What You’ll Learn
A general MBA allows students to choose electives from any discipline to round out their degree. Each course emphasizes strategic leadership skills, advanced analytical capabilities and a global business perspective. Graduates emerge ready to accelerate their careers, demonstrating enhanced professional competencies and a strong ability to lead innovative initiatives within their organizations. The general MBA program enhances a multitude of career paths in nearly any industry.
The online MBA in Business Analytics offers dives into techniques that businesses and organizations can use to improve performance across industries. You’ll receive the training to drive strategic, financial and operational decisions with data analytics, data visualization, pattern identification, forecasting and more. Business analytics expertise can apply to a role as a business intelligence analyst, data analytics consultant, data scientist, marketing analyst, operations analyst and more.
The online MBA in Finance hones analytical and decision-making skills essential for financial analysis, investment management and risk assessment. The program prepares graduates to effectively analyze financial problems and opportunities, equipping them with the expertise needed to lead their team through financial environments and market changes. Finance savvy can enhance multiple roles, such as corporate treasurer, financial analyst, financial manager, investment manager and risk manager.
The online MBA in Health Services Administration provides a balanced, diverse and global orientation to topics in business and healthcare. It emphasizes leadership, team building, healthcare data analysis and problem-solving skills, which prepare students to manage healthcare teams and organizations effectively. This knowledge can lead to a role as a clinical services director, facilities manager, healthcare administrator, health policy analyst, hospital manager, operations manager and other healthcare-related business positions.
Skills You’ll Gain
- Leadership
- Team building
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Business Analytics
- Strategic Management
- Entrepreneurship
Faculty Spotlight
Professor Frank Gallucci, Adjunct Faculty, Decision Sciences and Marketing
In 1992, Frank Gallucci founded Whitestone Associates, a boutique investment banking firm that facilitates transactions in niche markets. He has over 30 years of global business experience in the areas of strategic planning, international business development, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Gallucci’s educational background includes MBA and MS, Hofstra University, and BS, State University of New York. Frank is an adjunct professor at Adelphi University’s Graduate School of Business and Stevens Institute of Technology. Frank also sits on the Business School advisory boards of Adelphi University and Stevens Institute of Technology.
Get Support from Experienced Faculty
Our faculty members are expert practitioners in their fields and are dedicated to supporting our students and helping them grow as learners. They take pride in working with students, which is made possible by our small class sizes. Through the course of your study at Adelphi, they’ll be here to give you guidance and help you with your questions so you’ll always feel supported.
Online Study at Adelphi University
By enrolling in Adelphi University’s online programs, you’re gaining access to a team of supportive faculty and top-notch student services. Online study at Adelphi includes:
Answers to Common Questions
Explore our FAQs to learn more about the MBA program. Reach out to us for more information if your question is not included here.
Yes, the online MBA program is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
No, we do not require an entrance exam for admission to the program.
Through the Health Services Administration specialization, you’ll prepare to manage healthcare organizations by building leadership, data analysis and problem-solving skills. The specialization offers global perspectives on business and healthcare through courses that explore operations management, budgeting, clinical functions and more. Select this specialization to prepare for healthcare roles that require business acumen, such as:
- Healthcare administrator
- Health policy analyst
- Operations manager
Learn more by reviewing the Health Services Administration section of the online MBA page.
You’ll complete 36 credit hours to earn your MBA with a specialization in Finance. The Finance specialization accounts for 12 of the 36 credit hours. To learn more about the courses, review the Finance section of the online MBA page.
Yes. Our online MBA program includes three optional specializations to help you build knowledge and skills for in-demand career fields. You can choose:
- Business Analytics: Grow as a data-driven business leader versed in marketing analytics, data visualization and more.
- Finance: Deepen your knowledge of finance to help organizations navigate financial challenges and capitalize on new opportunities.
- Health Services Administration: Build expertise in hospital management, healthcare policy, quality management and more.
Learn more about each specialization on the online MBA page.
You can earn the online MBA degree in as few as 12 months. The total duration depends on the number of transfer credits accepted and whether you choose to study full- or part-time.
Sources and Disclaimer
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- “Administrative Services and Facilities Managers,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved April 8, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/administrative-services-managers.htm
- “Architectural and Engineering Managers,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved April 8, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/architectural-and-engineering-managers.htm
- “Construction Managers,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved April 8, 2025, from https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/construction-managers.htm
*Assumes attendance during the summer term and full-time study.