Earn Your Master’s Online from the SCU Leavey School of Business

Earn more, faster. Leavey ranks #2 for employment at tech giants.1

In Silicon Valley, things are rarely “business as usual.” Standing out in this dynamic, cutting-edge community requires the right combination of skills, attitude, and experience—and the credentials to prove it.

With the Santa Clara University Online MBA, you’ll have all that and more.

Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals, SCU’s Top Ten Best Online MBA program is the key to propelling your career.2 Learn business essentials, principled leadership, and up-and-coming tools to make waves in the Valley, the Bay Area, or wherever your next step takes you.

Program Details

  • Online curriculum
  • Graduate in as little as 2 years
  • 2 on-campus residencies
  • 4 start dates: fall, winter, spring, and summer
  • 4 concentration options with online and on-campus options
  • AACSB accredited
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Local Influence. National Prestige.
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Local Influence. National Prestige.

In Silicon Valley, things are rarely “business as usual.” Standing out in this dynamic, cutting-edge community requires the right combination of skills, attitude, and experience—and the credentials to prove it.

With the Santa Clara University Online MBA, you’ll have all that and more.

Designed by Silicon Valley veterans for today’s ambitious professionals, our Top Ten Best Online MBA program is the key to propelling your career.2 Learn business essentials, principled leadership, and up-and-coming tools to make waves in the Valley, the Bay Area, or wherever your next step takes you.

Program Details

  • Online curriculum
  • Graduate in as little as 2 years
  • 2 on-campus residencies
  • 4 start dates: fall, winter, spring, and summer
  • 4 concentration options with online and on-campus options
  • AACSB accredited

Bounce Back From Tech Layoffs with $3,000 or More Toward Tuition

SCU Leavey is offering adapted admissions requirements and a guaranteed scholarship of $3,000 or more to all applicants affected by tech layoffs. Talk to an Admissions Outreach Advisor to see how you can claim this reward for any of our online graduate programs.

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The Catalyst for Your Career

#1
in Career Outcomes & Academic Experience (Poets&Quants)3,4
#2
for employment at tech giants1
#9
Best Online MBA (Poets&Quants)2

Learn From Leaders

The SCU Online MBA faculty is a dynamic mix of Silicon Valley educators and veterans of industries ranging from Big Tech to CPG to healthcare. As helpful as they are knowledgeable, the faculty is eager to share its wealth of global experience and business advice with you and your classmates.

Build Powerful Connections

In the Online MBA program, you will build a vibrant professional network that spans Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and beyond. Connect with faculty, classmates, and alumni at major companies like Google, Apple, GoPro, and Tesla to make your next career move.

Unparalleled Earning Potential

Earn an MBA that pays you back in abundance. Leavey School of Business alumni are among the best-compensated MBA graduates in the country.5

Stand Out in the Tech Bubble

Tech jobs are on the rise, but Silicon Valley only recruits the best of the best. Make yourself stand out with impressive skills and extensive connections to secure your dream job at one of these leading companies:

Apple
LinkedIn
Tesla
Cisco
Google
Amazon
Adobe
GoPro

Rigorous & Relevant Coursework

Rooted in innovation, collaboration, and ethics, the Online MBA program offers a well-rounded, real-world applicable curriculum. Enjoy the freedom to pursue your interests and customize your degree from a mix of courses and electives in several in-demand areas.

  • Core courses in business fundamentals, developed specifically for Silicon Valley professionals
  • Four concentrations for further specialization: Data Science and Business Analytics, Leading Innovative Organizations, Marketing, and Finance
  • Wide-ranging electives, including on-campus options, to focus on areas of interest or professional goals

The content and structure of the Online MBA are the same as the on-campus degree, but with the added flexibility to complete classes wherever you prefer, on your schedule.

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Video Transcript

Nydia MacGregor: For the Online MBA program, ethics takes a really prominent role in a couple of places. All of the courses in the MBA program were inspired by best practices from Silicon Valley. We began by saying, "Look, we think we have a rigorous curriculum, but we want to be sure that it's relevant." And ethical dilemmas is a burden of all leaders, anywhere. Doesn't matter what company you're working for, what NGO you work for, this is part of being a leader. So understanding that means you need to know how to articulate what the trade offs are, understand who's going to be affected, and then, again, starting from a base of where your values are, come to a decision that you can be proud of.

So we went to executives here in Silicon Valley and said, "Take a look at what we're doing. What do you think are the skills and values that every student graduating from here needs to have?" And principle leadership is one of them.

Anmol Thiara: Santa Clara educates the hearts and minds of every individual that steps on campus. It is, not only made for you to get a good education, but they're in a way educating the hearts and minds of every individual student within this university to go on and make a world a better place. For companies, especially startups, to be successful, cultures and values are a huge and immense component of their success.

Nydia MacGregor: And so, repeatedly, throughout the program, we ensure that we touch on best practices in general, but in specific, best practices related to principal leadership.

Anmol Thiara: Whatever path I choose to take in life, I know that the values and the upbringing that I've learned at Santa Clara University, I can take along with me, and help make the world a better place to the extent that I can.
Sarah Garza, MBA '20 Candidate
From Our Students
In my current role, I often find myself thumbing back to class notes to help provide evidence and reasoning for product improvements.
Sarah G.
Online MBA ‘20

Where Collaboration is Key

At SCU, online learning is more connected than ever. Collaboration exercises, group discussions, and various networking opportunities will allow you to form meaningful relationships with professionals from various backgrounds, industries and skill levels.

Learn more about the SCU Online MBA and download a program brochure.

Video Transcript

Gabe Limon: Coming into this, knowing that I was going to take an online course, I had thought that it might be impersonal because it's online. I think that's the stigma attached to online courses. But how Santa Clara does it is it puts you in an environment where you're forced to collaborate with everybody. It's a necessity to collaborate with your peers in order to get the most out of this program.

Jennifer Nguyen: For me, I think the online classroom it's been structured in a way that really is trying to help us engage with each other more. Every assignment has a very discussion-based component to it where we actually have to stand our ground or defend our point of view or answer questions.

Gabe Limon: Having conversations about the coursework has really triggered a lot of thoughts in my mind about just taking positive risks in the future and applying these skills to my current job and future opportunities as well.

Jennifer Nguyen:
Not only are we getting to know each other, but we're also getting very different perspectives on the readings. I have someone who's a product manager over at Cisco, as well as someone who's doing biz ops development over at Stripe, a really hot startup right now. So just having that be the type of people you're talking with every day or bouncing ideas and doing coursework with really changes your perspective but also ties into the Silicon Valley mindset at the same time.
Gabriel L. '20 candidate
From Our Students
I get to work with some of the most brilliant minds in Silicon Valley here in this program.
GABRIEL L.
Online MBA ’20

Have Your Sights Set on Silicon Valley?

The ultimate goal of the Online MBA curriculum is to help students become a Silicon Valley Professional (SVP). An SVP is a person with the skills and tenacity to make change happen in their career and for their company, along with the compassion and ethics to make a positive impact in their community. Each course, residency, and co-curricular is designed and verified by Silicon Valley executives to teach the skills they look for in hiring, which fall under these four domains:

  • Domain 1: Principled Leadership
  • Domain 2: Communication and Team Building
  • Domain 3: Analysis and Interpretation
  • Domain 4: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Mindset

Within these domains, you’ll learn the following values and skills:

  • Communication
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Networking
  • Diversity and Open-Mindedness
  • Teambuilding
  • Organizational Skills
  • Integrity and Accountability
  • Problem-Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Innovation and Curiosity
  • Communication
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Networking
  • Diversity and Open-Mindedness
  • Teambuilding
  • Organizational Skills
  • Integrity and Accountability
  • Problem-Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Innovation and Curiosity

The SVP process, however, is not just limited to the curriculum.

While taking Online MBA classes, you’ll work in the Silicon Valley Professional dashboard, an integrative portfolio designed to simplify your learning experience. Here, you can plan your electives and co-curriculars to make sure you’re on track for your career goals. The dashboard also serves as a networking tool with faculty, mentors, classmates, alumni, and more to receive feedback on your progress and make new connections.

SCU-SVP-Dashboard

Leavey By the Numbers

#1
in Career Outcomes & Academic Experience (Poets&Quants)3,4
#10
in Online Marketing MBA Programs (U.S. News & World Report)6
#8
in Online Finance MBA Programs (U.S. News & World Report)7

Concentrations & Curriculum

This dynamic curriculum features four available online concentrations in Data Science and Business Analytics, Leading Innovative Organizations, Marketing, and Finance, as well as two additional concentrations that can be completed by taking on-campus electives. While selecting a concentration is not required in order to complete the online master’s degree in business administration, concentrations allow students to showcase an area of focus within their degree. If you’d like to specialize in a particular area of business, consider choosing from the concentrations below.

Data Science and Business Analytics Concentration

The Data Science and Business Analytics concentration provides you with the most up-to-the-minute analytical and data skills, embedded within a context of essential business knowledge. Students will learn to synthesize company data resources with broader knowledge of markets to address a wide range of business problems, offer market-based perspectives and solutions to help business intelligence drive corporate value, and work directly with engineering and technical teams to deliver data-driven solutions.

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Leading Innovative Organizations Concentration

The Leading Innovative Organizations concentration will help you effectively create, organize, and sustain organizational systems and processes necessary for success in rapidly changing and turbulent environments. Building from the management and innovation core courses, you will deepen your overall understanding of the innovation context, leadership in complex environments, team and project management, and agile decision-making.

View Leading Innovative Organizations Courses

Marketing Concentration

The Marketing concentration will help you develop a comprehensive understanding of the development, management, and marketing of products, brands, and services in contexts including high tech, business-to-business, services, and more. Students will focus on state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative tools and techniques that are utilized by innovative companies across their marketing applications.

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Finance Concentration

The Finance concentration will provide students with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and manage financial securities such as stocks, bonds, options, and futures, and it will familiarize students with key financial markets. Students will learn how to apply financial principles in corporate settings, such as choosing and managing investment projects, and in investment settings, such as by constructing investment portfolios. They will also build knowledge of the links between finance and other business functions such as marketing and operations.

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On-Campus MBA Concentrations

Online MBA students also have the option of pursuing one of two additional concentrations available to our on-campus MBA students:


While some courses required to complete these concentrations are unfortunately not yet available online, all Online MBA students with the ability to travel to campus for class are welcome to enroll in them.
Charlie Hunts, MBA '20 Candidate
Members of my cohort are from all different industries in Silicon Valley. Just interacting with them has opened up a range of possibilities.
Charlie H.
Online MBA ‘20

What can I do with an Online MBA?

An MBA is so revered and coveted because of its tangible and multifaceted applications; trained in several areas of business, you’ll be able to wield your knowledge and provide value almost anywhere. Graduates from the Online MBA program at SCU Leavey can go on to find success in any of the industries listed below, much like other distinguished alumni.8

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Technology
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Finance
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Consulting
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Market Research
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Government/Politics
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Healthcare
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HR
Marketing
Marketing
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Biopharmaceutical
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Biotechnology
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Engineering
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Manufacturing/
Automotive/Aerospace

Online MBA Admissions Deadlines

Aug
10
Priority Deadline
August 10
Fall 2023 Term
Aug
30
Application Deadline
August 30
Fall 2023 Term
Sep
18
Next Start
September 18
Fall 2023 Term