Master of Business Administration

Become an Ethics-Driven Leader with Your Guilford College MBA

The Guilford College MBA is a professional degree designed to promote interdisciplinary thinking and provide an ethical focus beyond the typical graduate business program. It emphasizes ethical corporate citizenship and professional competencies while featuring a capstone project that enables students to apply their learnings in ways that promote positive change.

"Understanding the world around us, marketing, decision making, financial control, leadership, and, above all, ethical perspectives, are universal skills. Regardless of where our graduates land — industry, education, nonprofits — these skills are needed," says Michael Dutch, Seth and Hazel Macon Professor of Business Management and director of the Guilford College MBA program.

While classes are live on campus, the program’s HyFlex design — a combination of scheduled, in-person, remote, and recorded activities — also allows for online participation. The MBA's capstone course emphasizes a leader's most important duty, to establish a culture and climate of an organization that promotes its ethical values and norms. Potential projects include a case-study analysis, a marketing plan, a strategic plan, a change-management plan, a governance plan, or a sustainability plan for an organization. The capstone can be individualized to meet the needs of working adults or students preparing to enter the professional workplace.

Distinctive Features

• ACBSP accredited program
• Ethics-focused MBA
• HyFlex design supports in-person and online, remote attendance. (International students on F1 Visas are expected to attend all on-campus sessions in-person).
• Guilford College graduate students can complete the MBA program in just 12 months.
• Successful completion of the two-credit MBA foundations course eliminates program prerequisites.
• Applied capstone project aligns with individual student interests.

Degree Requirements

To earn a Master of Business Administration, students must complete 32 credit hours. A guiding principle of the Guilford College MBA is that students do not need an undergraduate Business degree to apply. By design, the program includes leveling activities that bridge students to graduate-level studies.