A degree of personalization
Business isn’t limited to the C-suite and the corporate world. In almost every field of work, business leaders are needed to help push marketing efforts, drive strategy, grow profits, and manage talent. So we developed an MBA to help you build the skills to bring your business savvy to any industry or work environment.
Earn your online Professional MBA from Regis and learn practical business skills and leadership concepts that are applicable to your specific profession and career.
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Business outside of business
Want to take your business skills into fields like health care, education, social service, communication, and life science? This is the degree for you.
Unlike many MBA programs, the online Professional MBA at Regis is meant to prepare learners from business and non-business fields alike to operate in nontraditional settings—and to meet rising demand in these fields. Develop your skills across a variety of disciplines like marketing, organization, information systems, and ethical management.
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Take your Regis degree further
Our online Professional MBA program is intended specifically for current and recent Regis College master’s students and graduates. That’s because we build aspects of the curriculum around your unique professional circumstances, passions, and education, so you can leverage the Regis master’s degree you’re pursuing or you already received.
Because of this exclusivity, the online Professional MBA from Regis is the most customized degree of its type on the market.
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Why choose Regis College?
- Earn business skills customized to your professional background and interests.
- Apply with no GRE/GMAT and no application fee.
- Complete coursework 100% online and graduate in as few as 12 months.
- Earn an education from an institution regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
- Learn from experienced faculty who offer practical guidance and personalized support.
Redefine your education
Want to prepare for leadership in your organization, find a new path, or start your own firm? Our 100% online Professional MBA can help you build the soft and hard business skills to accomplish your goals—across almost any professional field.
If you’re a current or recent Regis master’s student or graduate, you may be as few as six courses away from a highly customizable MBA that can help you recontextualize your degree and approach your career with a business mindset.
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Study vital business topics
The Professional MBA is the most customizable degree of its type, meaning much of the curriculum’s content is tailored toward your specific career and your goals—regardless of your field of work.
Coursework addresses essential topics in business through the lens of your unique context. In this program, you’ll explore subjects to help you thrive and lead in your career like marketing, human behavior and human resources, ethical practices, financial statement analysis, and leadership strategies.
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A streamlined business plan
If you’re a Regis master’s student or graduate, you can apply to the Professional MBA program with no application fee and no GRE/GMAT needed, then complete your coursework 100% online. Best of all, you can finish in as few as 12 months, meaning you could be a year away from adding an MBA to your resume.
Students with no academic background in business can also complete three prerequisite courses covering financial accounting, economics, and statistics as part of the curriculum.
Business skills you can use in any field
We designed our online Professional MBA program with a flexible curriculum tailored to your specific background, profession, and goals. You can complete this program in as few as six core courses (18 credit hours) and build a graduate-level foundation of business skills relevant to your career in about one year.
To round out your Professional MBA degree, you will work with your program director to define your concentration by analyzing coursework completed during your previous Regis master’s degree. During this process, you’ll choose five courses from that degree that will automatically be applied to your MBA, giving you an MBA concentration based on your interests and your previous educational experience.
Note: In addition to core coursework, the curriculum includes three prerequisite classes (9 credit hours). These prerequisites can be waived via prior coursework or examination, or you can complete them as part of your Professional MBA curriculum.
EC 501 Economics for Managers
This course introduces the study of economic decision making by consumers and business firms in a market setting. Students learn how different types of markets for goods and services function and how government action can impact these markets.
MT 510 Financial Accounting
This course provides a broad introduction to the principles and practices of financial reporting, especially with regard to the foundational financial documents: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. The course also covers the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as the basis for the preparation of financial statements and disclosures.
MT 624 Statistics
This course introduces some of the tools that enable managers to analyze information, including ways to collect, summarize, and analyze data. Topics include probability, measures of central tendency and dispersions, discrete and continuous distributions, and sampling techniques. The course involves the use of computers via statistical package.
MT 540 Financial Statement Analysis
This course explores the significance of, and procedures for, effective financial statement analysis. Working from established rules and regulations for the accounting and finance fields, especially Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), students will learn to utilize the principal financial statements to develop a deeper understanding of organizational performance.
Prerequisite: MT 520
MT 604 Human Behavior in Organizations
Human Behavior in Organizations places emphasis on individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational concepts as applied to a variety of specific cases and situations. These situations involve the management of human resources and issues involving leadership behavior in health care and related organizations. Students learn to integrate their insights into critical incidents by collecting data, diagnosing, and developing a prescription for action. Health care organizations are contrasted with other non-profit and private sector settings.
MT 621 Marketing Strategies
This course provides a detailed perspective of marketing as a system, including environmental scanning, marketing management, marketing research, and customer relations. This course integrates basic marketing practices with current strategic management thought.
MT 608 Management Information Systems
This course presents fundamental concepts needed to manage information technology effectively. This course examines the use of information technology to support operations management, decision-making and control, and strategic planning. Leadership roles include creating structures that promote integration of information for planning, decision-making, and evaluation.
MT 612 Ethical Practices
This course examines the values, norms, and ethical practices of leaders in a variety of organizations. A continuum of ethical thought and practice is assessed relative to the impact on the organization and its immediate environment. Participants consider ethical frameworks in establishing a decision-making process.
MT 618 Financial Statement Analysis
This course is designed to enhance the participant's ability to evaluate and implement financial strategies. Areas of focus include the meaning and use of financial ratios in the internal and external evaluation of the performance of a corporation; evaluation of investment programs (capital budgeting), including such issues as cash flow forecasting, estimation of the cost of capital, and ranking of investment proposals; evaluation of financing decisions, including the analysis of the cost and benefits of operating and financial leverage.
Prerequisite: MT 616
MT 611 Leadership Systems and Strategies (Capstone)
This course will utilize leadership and systems frameworks in order to diagnose, define, and prescribe solutions to complex organizational issues. To demonstrate a leader's challenge in bringing about continuous change, students will develop a change project based on an actual organizational situation.
Here’s what you need to apply
Our online Professional MBA is designed specifically for recent Regis graduates or currently enrolled students tracking for graduation.
- Current enrollment in or recent completion of a Regis graduate degree program
- Currently enrolled students must be in good academic standing
- Professional resume and two letters of recommendation
- Statement of interest
- Interview with the Program Director
- Application fee is waived
About Regis College
For more than 95 years, Regis College has supported learners in their journey to realize their full potential, reach their personal and professional goals, and become forces of good in the world. It’s our mission to help empower people to challenge themselves as they prepare to serve and lead through education.
With our focus on student success and our commitment to social justice and service, we help students in the greater Boston area and around the globe achieve more and go further.
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Diverse learning opportunities
Regis College is a coed university 12 miles west of Boston in Weston, Mass., founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
With more than 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled on campus and in fully online graduate programs, Regis provides an academically rigorous education within the schools of nursing, arts and sciences, business and communication, and health sciences.
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Business built for leadership
Through the Sloane School of Business and Communication at Regis, students learn the advanced skills needed not only to succeed in business, but to lead. Led by a faculty of experienced professionals who bring their real-world successes into the classroom, students engage in coursework that bridges theory with practical knowledge and skills.
Each program also includes cutting-edge seminars and prestigious internship opportunities across a wide variety of exciting and unique business settings.
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Via Veritas Vita
Our motto, Via Veritas Vita, translates to “the way and the truth and the light.” These words drive our mission of empowering learners through knowledge to live meaningful lives and contribute to our global society.
Today, Regis boasts an alumni network more than 20,000 strong. This supportive, tight-knit community has a history of professional success in the job market: 97% of our graduates find full-time work or pursue further education within six months of graduation.
William "Bill" Koehler, PhD
Over 25 years in education, Dr. Koehler has served as a professor, graduate program director, and department chair, and he now acts as dean for our Sloane School of Business and Communication. He began his career in business as a recruiter, operations manager, founder, and entrepreneur with Marathon Personnel and Pierian Educational Preparation.
He serves on several editorial boards and acts as a consultant for businesses and nonprofit organizations around the Boston area.