Earn an on Campus/Online Master of Business Administration in as little as 12 months
Deepen your expertise in business leadership and management. The MBA at St. Edward’s covers core business topics such as accounting, finance, marketing, operations, management, and data analytics, while also allowing students the ability to specialize in one of five concentrations that will set you apart in a competitive business environment.
St. Edward’s MBA focuses on entrepreneurial thinking, social enterprise, innovation, global collaboration, and business analytics. Students will learn to manage and lead through effective communication and collaboration, use quantitative data to develop business opportunities, analyze the local and global environment to formulate solutions, apply critical thinking to integrate business goals with social responsibility, leverage technology in all areas of business to improve outcomes. We offer flexible options to fit your needs.
Flexible: The MBA can be taken 100% online, with the option to visit campus three times per 7 week module.
Location: Our location in Austin allows MBA students to immerse themselves in the St. Edward’s network, in one of the trendiest cities in technology and entrepreneurship.
Prestigious: The Bill Munday School of Business is AACSB accredited, which proves our programs have met rigorous academic standards. Only 30% of business schools nationally and 5% internationally have been awarded this accreditation.
In addition to the MBA, students can also pursue certificates in Management, Business Finance, and Operations Logistics. For further information, please contact an Enrollment Counselor at (512) 326-7501.
Message from the Program Director
Our program is committed to providing the highest quality of education enriched by our Holy Cross mission to prepare ethical business leaders. Getting an MBA, especially one with a tech focus, will prepare you for the post-coronavirus job market. A lot of organizations heavily recruit MBA graduates with robust knowledge in Technology.
The MBA program at St. Edward’s University is unique because it provides students a practice-based graduate education with a focus on the hard and soft skills in a vibrant curriculum to maximize personal and professional growth opportunities. For example, the culminating course of our MBA program is known as the Capstone Consulting Experience. Student teams spend 7 weeks researching and developing solutions to a real problem for a local, national or international organization.
Our classes are filled with students from across the globe providing unique experiences that enrich the learning environment. You will be able to build a sustainable network of professional peers that many of our alumni attest to be personally and professionally rewarding. Our world-class faculty, who have valuable experiences in the corporate world, public sector, and academia, will prepare you for the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.
The St. Edward’s MBA is truly a powerful, transformational experience. I invite you to act now and join our outstanding program.
- Dr. Amr Swid
Check Out This Helpful Q&A with Program Director Amr Swid
The hybrid and online Master of Business Administration program equips students with skills in leadership, strategy, marketing, finance, operations, analytics and ethical reasoning. Program director Amr Swid explains how St. Edward’s prepares MBA graduates for a rapidly evolving business environment.
Learning Goals & Outcomes
Learning Goals:
The MBA focuses on entrepreneurial thinking, social enterprise, innovation, global collaboration, and business analytics – key competencies that industry leaders tell us they need. Students will learn to:
- Manage and lead through effective communication and collaboration.
- Use quantitative data to develop business opportunities in a dynamic world.
- Analyze the local and global environment to formulate business solutions.
- Apply critical reasoning to integrate business goals with corporate social responsibility.
- Leverage technology in all areas of business to improve outcomes.
Outcomes:
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Graduate jobs include Tech startup founder, Director-Level Role at Technology Company (Dir. of Engineering | Dir. of Marketing), VP of Business Development, Product Manager and Business Innovation Consultant. Also, prepares you to move forward in your career as a business owner or business consultant.
Global Business and Supply Chain Management
Graduate jobs include distribution logistics, raw materials sourcing, development of production methods, cost and risk control, project management for an international company, international consultancy firms, and directors at the import and export departments.
Corporate Governance and Management
Prepares students to manage employees and lead teams within an organization. Graduate jobs may include executive leadership, compliance, risk management, regulatory changes, board members and advisory services.
Finance
Graduates pursuing roles in finance including banking, investment management, security analysis, valuation, collections, corporate and international finance.
Digital Management
Graduate takes various jobs in the digital space, including digital strategy, marketing data analysis, e-commerce, and digital innovation and digital marketing management.
Degree Plan
The flexible MBA is delivered online with options to attend sessions on campus*. It is a 36 credit hour program designed to be completed in 24 months. We also offer accelerated options for students who wish to complete the program in as few as 12 months. There are 12 total courses: 9 required Core MBA Courses and 3 courses from a Concentration of your choice. The program culminates with a Final Project Capstone designed as a real-world consulting project.
*The option for classes to meet on campus is usually on Saturday in weeks 1, 4, and 7.
Core Courses:
ACCT 6315 Accounting for Managers
FINC 6317 Finance for Managers
MGMT 6330 Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics
MGMT 6332 Strategies in Operations Management
MGMT 6334 Managing Dynamic Organizations
MGMT 6328 Innovation and Disruption Management
MGMT 6336 Social Responsibility of Business
MKTG 6315 Marketing Management in a Digital Environment
MGMT 6350/GBUS 6350 Management Consulting/Global Project (Capstone)
MBA courses meet on Saturdays three times during each 7-week course, with all other coursework delivered online. Saturday courses are offered in a hybrid format, where students may choose to attend class on campus or join synchronously online.
Detailed Core Course Description:
ACCT 6315 Accounting for Managers
This course is designed for current and future managers to learn the analytical tools for planning, analysis and decision making from an accounting/financial perspective with an emphasis on an entrepreneurial viewpoint, meaning that the student learns to regard the issues, problems and decisions presented as if the enterprise were their own. The course is not designed for accountants but rather for managers in business that would apply or use these analytical tools and techniques. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable. Prerequisite: accounting foundation course or equivalent; FINC 5308 [only required for students under a graduate bulletin prior to 2015-2016].
FINC 6317 Finance for Managers
Corporate finance prepares managers to understand that business decisions are made under financial uncertainty, which forms the basis for risk. The course trains managers to define and quantify risk, and understand risk-based value models that are employed for corporate decisions involving investing, financing and dividend policies. Students also learn application of the risk-return tradeoff concepts to corporate securities, both stocks and bonds, and understand the impact of business decisions made by managers on the market value of the firm. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course leaning as applicable. Prerequisite: ACCT 6315 for MBA students and ACCT 6310 for MBA students pursuing a concentration in Accounting.
MGMT 6330 Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics
In this course students will learn how “Big Data” is transforming modern business through its use in marketing, customer and competitive business analytics, predictive decision-making, and market evaluations. Using case studies and materials from pioneers in the field of data analytics, students will learn how to evaluate, distill, manage, and present information from large sets of consumer, market, and geographically based data from the perspective of corporate management and strategic decision making. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable. Prerequisites: statistics module and economics module or equivalent.
MGMT 6332 Strategies in Operations Management
This course underscores the strategic importance of operations management to overall organization performance. In addition to presenting the evolutionary changes within the field of operations, this class provides students with comprehensive exposure to the concepts and methods used in planning, directing, controlling, and improving the process involved in transforming resources into goods and service. Topics covered include forecasting, capacity planning, process design, scheduling, inventory management, quality assurance, project management, and supply chain concepts. Considerable emphasis is put on newer and emerging concepts that facilitate operating flexibility and reduced product design and production time. Included is an awareness and understanding of the interdependencies that exist between operations and other functional areas within an organization. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable.
MGMT 6334 Managing Dynamic Organizations
This course focuses on an organization’s most critical resource--its people. It takes a systems approach to management, and studies both macro- and micro-level organizational issues relating to sustainable success in a global environment. Topics include: designing organizations to fit with strategic objectives, creating cultures of innovation, collaboration, and engagement, using power and influence effectively with various stakeholders, managing effective teams, and motivating, developing, and retaining employees for the future. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable.
MGMT 6328 Innovation and Disruption Management
This course will introduce the student to the unique problems of managing technology and innovation in a modern business environment. Starting from a theoretical perspective on disruption and the innovation curve, students will learn techniques and processes utilized to both encourage and take advantage of new innovation within a company as well as the optimal corporate structures needed to shield a company from unrelated and potentially devastating technology disruption within an industry. Historical case studies and forward-looking processes will allow the future manager to spot potentially disruptive innovation, incorporate or shield against the potential impact of that disruption, and to create “innovation growth engines” within standard company hierarchies. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable.
MGMT 6336 Social Responsibility of Business
Practicing corporate social responsibility (CSR) requires that an organization integrate business goals with societal expectations of ethical behavior toward its stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, communities in which it operates, and the environment. It begins with the individual employee developing an ethical framework that can be applied to an organization’s business behaviors and practices. The course explores best practices that organizations are using that move beyond traditional philanthropy and partner with stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities for innovative products and services, technologies, and business models aimed at meeting social and environmental challenges in a dynamic, global environment. It examines third-party assessment organizations as strategies to evaluate organizations’ CSR initiatives. In addition, ethics and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable. Equivalent to MSLC 6304.
MKTG 6315 Marketing Management in a Digital Environment
This course offers a high-involvement approach to marketing management and policy decision-making. Emphasis is placed on problem solving that synthesizes the interrelated elements of the marketing mix. Topics include analyzing marketing opportunities, developing marketing strategies for traditional and digital marketing channels, shaping the market offering, and managing and delivering integrated marketing programs. Marketing management tools and market analytics are introduced. Traditional marketing frameworks and processes are introduced along with emerging new digital marketing approaches such as methods and processes involving marketing in the earned, owned, and paid media channels. Class discussion is used to explore the social and ethical responsibility of marketers and the implications of a global marketplace. In addition, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and communications are brought into the course learning as applicable.
MGMT 6350 MBA Consulting Capstone
The locally based MBA Capstone course focuses on top management strategy formation and administration by building on and integrating the concepts taught in the core curriculum in both private and public sectors to enhance development of a general management approach for managing and leading organizations. Students investigate the formulation, implementation and evaluation of strategies that determine the character, direction and success of the organization. Students integrate their learning of business disciplines and strategy through student consulting projects with actual companies, in addition to case studies and/or business simulations focused on strategic objectives of the organization. Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses.
GBUS 6350 MBA Global Consulting Business Capstone
This globally based Management Consulting course focuses on top management strategy formation and administration by integrating and building upon the concepts taught in the core MBA curriculum. The client consulting engagement in this course is designed to allow students the opportunity to apply what has been learned to enhance organization performance in non-profit, for-profit or public sectors. Students investigate the formulation, implementation and evaluation of organizational strategies that determine the character, direction, growth and success of the client organization, and design implementable changes to improve organizational performance. The project ends with a formal presentation to the client organization. Students must be in good academic standing to enroll in this course. This course requires mandatory travel to a foreign country for approximately 7-10 days. Specific travel documentation will be required in advance. Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses.
Concentrations:
Students will take three of the four courses in one of the below concentrations.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Courses:
MGMT 6345 Entrepreneurship for 21 Century
MGMT 6343 Managing Technology change
MKTG 6325 Managing Social Media
FINC 6316 Financial Statement Analysis Or Valuation
Global Business and Supply Chain Management
Courses:
GBUS 6301 Global Business Management
MGMT 6252 Global Logistics and Supply Chain
MGMT 6354 Global Purchasing and Sourcing
MGMT 6356 Decision Support Model
Corporate Governance and Management
Courses:
MGMT 6348 Strategic Leadership Development
FINC 6322 Corporate Governance
MGMT 6323 Business Negotiation
MGMT 6341 Digital Law Policy
Finance
Courses:
FINC 6304 Global Finance
FINC 6316 Financial Statements Analysis
FINC 6322 Corporate Governance, or Valuation.
Digital Management
Courses:
MGMT 6341 Digital Law and Policy
MGMT 6343 Managing Technology Change
MGMT 6345 Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
MGMT 6348 Strategic Leadership Development
Stackable Certificates
In addition to the MBA program, and our seven program concentrations, students also have the option of building out their education by pursuing certificates in Management, Business Finance, and Operations Logistics.
Management
- Managing Dynamic Organizations
- Social Responsibility of Business
- Business Negotiations
- Marketing Management in a Digital Environment
Business Finance
- Accounting for Managers
- Finance for Managers
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Global Finance
Operations Logistics
- Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics
- Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Strategies in Operations Management
- Innovation and Disruption Management
Engage St. Edward’s MBAs to Address your Strategic Challenges
Our MBA candidates gain real-life consulting experience under expert faculty supervision in their capstone course. They are prepared to collaborate and deliver you creative solutions to current relevant business challenges! St.Edward’s MBA teams have conducted projects for hundreds of local (Details) and international businesses (Details), offering industry and market research insights, fresh ideas, and actionable recommendations. Whether you are a student in the program or an external partner, this is your opportunity to access strong talent and a potential hiring pool for your organization!
Working with our students on projects has three main benefits:
- We tackle projects or explore ideas you aren’t able to resource
- You get to see our students in action, which helps you find proven talent to join your organization
- In almost all cases, projects are overseen by experienced professionals with a track record of success
How it works:
Student teams are ready to take on seven weeks-long projects for small, local businesses and national, international and publicly traded companies - as well as everything in between. The nature of your project drives who at the MBA program can help you move forward. Our students provide consulting in the areas of, marketing, startup businesses, strategy, operation, supply chain, entrepreneurship, human resources and international business.
Interested, please fill the MBA Consulting Project Application for US/Canadian companies and for International companies. Please download and submit to aswid@stedwards.edu.
Meet the Faculty
Arie Brish, MBA
Adjunct Faculty
Arie Brish is a global business leader, educator, venture investor, and best-selling author. He led diverse teams in various industries and business functions. Arie’s experience includes serving as CEO & GM, providing expertise on boards of directors, engaging in M&A activities, driving business development, leading turnarounds, and spearheading change initiatives, working with Fortune 500 corporations, startups, venture-capitalists, non-profits, and more recently - academia.
Dr. Mary B. Dunn
Mary B. Dunn joined the faculty at St. Edward’s University in 2012. She previously served on the faculty of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and currently serves as our Chair for the Management Department. Mary completed her Ph.D. in Organization Studies at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She received an M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine and a B.A. from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Her scholarly research focuses on professionals’ social networks, learning, and knowledge creation, as well as institutional logics and change in professions. Her work has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and the Management Teaching Review.
Dr. Omid Jadidi
Dr. Omid Jadidi is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Department of management, the Bill Munday School of Business, St Edward’s University. Dr. Jadidi’s research interests include Big Data analytics, Supply Chain Management, Stochastic Inventory Management, Dynamic Pricing, Optimization, and Game Theory. His research has been published in leading journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, and Computers & Industrial Engineering. He also has more than five years of professional work experience as an Industrial Engineer in Manufacturing and Construction industries.
Dr. Adesegun Oyedele
Robert Ryan, MBA
Adjunct Faculty
With over 35 years of management experience and leadership in both high growth start-ups and publicly traded companies, Robert has consistently dedicated his career to pursuing principled excellence. His successful track record has been proven as an Operational Leader in roles such as VP of Sales and Marketing, Divisional GM, and start-up CEO, with a passion for strategic team building. Bob now enjoys transferring his knowledge and inspiring students as a professor at St. Edwards University. Areas of academic emphasis are Entrepreneurship, Management, Strategy, and Business Ethics.
Dr. Sung W. Suh
Dr. Sung Won Suh is an Associate Professor of Finance at St. Edward’s University. Dr. Suh earned his doctoral degree in Real Estate Finance (Ph.D. ’16) and master’s degree in Real Estate (MPS/RE ’06) at Cornell University. He received a master’s degree in Architecture (MS ’97) and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture (BS ’95) at Seoul National University in South Korea. Before undertaking of his Ph.D., he was an active real estate practitioner working for Halla Construction and Development Corp. for eight years as a project manager and a research fellow in South Korea. The MBA courses that he teaches include Finance for Managers, Global Finance, and Financial Statement Analysis.
Dr. Amr A. Swid
Dr. Swid is the MBA Program Director at the Bill Munday School of Business. Dr. Swid's teaching philosophy is focusing on students' engagement using experiential learning activities and technology. Prior to his appointment at Bill Munday School of Business, he was an Assistant Professor of Management and Director of Experiential Education at the New York Institute of Technology. He also held several administrative roles in New York and other global campuses. As a certified experiential educator, he led and organized successfully several curricular/extracurricular activities such as study abroad, international workshops, and the "Corporate Challenge". Besides the USA, Dr. Swid has taught and provided global consultation services in the UK, U.A.E, and Bahrain. He has won several awards such as the presidential engagement award, and the Dean’s distinguished service award. Prior to his academic career, he had over 11 years of successful industry work experience at the giant multinational pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly in several overseas management and marketing assignments.
Dr. Kathleen M. Wilburn
Dr. Wilburn teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in management. In the undergraduate program, she teaches Social Responsibility of Business, Social Enterprise, and International Management. In the MBA program she teachers Social Responsibility of Business and Managing Technology Change. She uses her research in Corporate Social Responsibility for the ethical lens for her courses. She came to St. Edward's after many years in the corporate and government sectors as a manager, and shares what she learned with students. She also taught as an adjunct instructor for twenty years.
Dr. Jane Xie
Dr. Jane Xie is a Professor of Finance in the Bill Munday School of Business. Her current research interests include corporate governance, executive compensation and turnover, and institutional investors. She has taught courses in corporate finance, investments, international finance, entrepreneurial finance, personal finance, and financial accounting.
Tuition & Financing
Tuition
At $44,712, St. Edward’s flexible MBA is a smart investment. The skills learned in this program prepare you for career advancement across a variety of industries. Tuition includes all course fees but does not include books, comprehensive fees, or other course materials. Once accepted to the program, you are required to submit a $500 non-refundable tuition deposit. Deposits are applied toward tuition and secure your place in the upcoming class.
*Tuition is subject to change at the discretion of the St. Edward’s University Board of Trustees.
Financial Aid
The St. Edward’s University Financial Aid office provides information about financial aid opportunities available to graduate students.
Please visit our Financial Aid page or call us at (512) 387-3110 if you are interested in additional details.
To apply for the program, students are required to have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and complete the application process. For application dates and to submit an application, please go to the Graduate Application Page.