Business Administration - Career Advance (MBA)
A pathway to advance your career.
Why choose this program?
The career advance pathway is intended for mid-career working professionals who wish to advance their career.
Applicants must have more than 5 years' relevant professional work experience and reside in Canada.
The Faculty of Management’s part-time blended online delivery model ensures that you can complete your MBA degree without losing career momentum in as little as 2.5 or as many as 7 years. In each of the three academic terms, choose from a list of wide-ranging courses balancing your learning needs with your lifestyle and professional responsibilities.
Careers
Common careers for MBA students include Financial Services and Banking, Consulting, Marketing, Healthcare and the Public Sector, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Admission requirements
You'll need to meet the Faculty of Graduate Studies minimum requirements as well as any program-specific admissions requirements before you can apply.
Financial information
At Dalhousie, we want our students to focus on their studies, rather than worry about their personal finances. We offer competitive tuition rates and funding programs to support graduate students in almost all of our professional master's degree programs.
Program options
Core curriculum: Develop a diverse set of fundamental business skills through our core curriculum. The Dalhousie edge is its blended online learning model which allows for the flexibility of online learning while providing the opportunity to develop rich personal connections with your classmates through face-to-face intensives.
Core course intensives: Spend 3.5 days at the end of each term in locations such as Halifax, Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver. Activities and goals of intensives can vary depending on the nature of the class and instructor. They may include lectures, presentations, simulations, group activities, individual assignments, and guest speakers.
Electives: In addition to the core curriculum, you’ll complete 9 credit hours of specialized electives. Elective classes are designed to take your knowledge to the next level. The Dalhousie MBA program currently offers electives in six specialized areas. Choose electives from any of the specialized areas or combine MBA electives with graduate offerings from programs within and outside of Faculty of Management.
Areas of Specialization:
- Finance
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Enterprise Analytics
- Marketing
- Strategy
All graduate programs at Dalhousie are collaboratively delivered by a home Faculty and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
