Nov 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Early Career Master of Business Administration


Liesl Bohan, Early Career MBA, Program Director

The Early Career MBA program is designed to equip students who have earned non-business undergraduate degrees with applicable knowledge, leadership, and decision making skills imperative to operating in the world of business. This one year, full time, accelerated cohort program is designed specifically for students who have recently completed their bachelor’s degrees, who come from a variety of undergraduate backgrounds and who wish to broaden their knowledge base and expand their career options.

.  The program is constructed with the following objectives:

  • Understand, integrate and apply substantive knowledge in a global context
  • Identify opportunities and problems, generate alternatives, and justify recommendations.
  • Recognize and address moral and ethical challenges, and defend a course of action.
  • Communicate effectively across audiences and modes.
  • Develop self-awareness, demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, and identify one’s vocational purpose.

Admission Requirements 

Students seeking admission to graduate programs should contact the Albers School of Business and Economics at (206) 296-5700 or Seattle University Graduate Admissions at (206) 220-8010.

See Graduate Admissions Programs for admission materials.

Degree Requirements:


The program is designed as a 12 month, full-time cohort program requiring the completion of 48 credits including 14 three-credit courses and a six-credit capstone course.

II. Program Elective


3 credits:

  • Elective approved by advisor 

III. Supplemental Activities


Students are required to complete an approved minimum of extracurricular activities which include completion of a Business Communications Module, and participation in Albers Career Center seminars, the Albers Mentor Program and the Executive Speaker Series.

Minimum credits required for degree: (48)