Business Administration and Management -MBA Master’s program at Indiana University-Bloomington

Add cultural perspectives to your business education with a combined MBA MA degree.

The three-year MBA MA program allows you to combine your business expertise with cultural perspectives. Combine your Kelley MBA with an MA in:.

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If you plan to pursue an MBA MA joint degree, you must apply and be admitted separately by both the Kelley School of Business and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. If you initially matriculate through one of the Master of Arts programs, you must be accepted into the Kelley MBA Program and begin the joint program no later than the fall semester following your first year of study, provided no than 24 credits in the Master of Arts program have been completed. If you first matriculate through the Kelley MBA Program, you must be accepted into the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and begin the joint program by the fall semester following the first year of the MBA Program.

Program Requirements: The program requires 24 credit hours for the Master of Arts program and 42 credit hours in Business for graduation. Non-joint participation in the Area Studies degrees requires 30 credit hours for graduation, while the MBA requires a minimum of 54 credit hours.

Graduation Requirements: You must earn a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 on all work taken in Area Studies and a cumulative GPA of at least 2.75 on all work taken in the Kelley School of Business. To earn your joint MBA MA degree, you must complete all requirements for both programs for graduation and file separately with both the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and the Kelley School of Business. To gain the advantage of the credit hours reduction of the MBA MA program, the degrees must be awarded on the same graduation date.

Transfer Credit: Every MBA student must complete 42 hours as a regularly admitted and enrolled MBA student no transfer credit is ever given to joint candidates. Graduate business course work at Indiana University completed before MBA admission does not count toward the degree. Students cannot use graduate business course work to apply towards both the MBA and MA.

Tuition: The MBA flat tuition fee and MBA program fee will be assessed for all semesters in which MBA MA students are enrolled exclusively in MBA courses. Similarly, students will pay the Area Studies per credit-hour tuition fees during the semesters in which they are enrolled exclusively in Area Studies courses. Information the fee structure during semesters in which students are enrolled in both programs will be provided after matriculation.

Assistantships, Fellowships, and Scholarships: Joint candidates may apply for fellowships or scholarships from either the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies or the Kelley School of Business. The MBA Program has a financial aid program, which consists of graduate assistantships and fellowships awarded on the basis of academic merit. MBA graduate assistantships entail working 5 or 12 hours per week in return for a partial fee remission. An assistantship may be continued for a total of four consecutive semesters.

Students pursuing the joint MBA MA degree typically begin their first year of studies exclusively in one of the Area Studies programs, followed by a full year in the Kelley MBA program.

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