Master of Business Administration Online
Develop essential business and leadership skills to effectively guide organizational growth in an evolving marketplace.
Apply by:
8/10/26
Start class:
8/24/26
Program Overview
Gain insights into our Online MBA program
Deepen your factual knowledge of fundamental business principles, generalizations and theories in the Online Master of Business Administration program from Bowling Green State University.
This innovative master’s in business program enables you to earn a prestigious BGSU MBA online with the flexibility to accommodate the schedules of working professionals. You will study managerial accounting, marketing management and strategy, financial management in global environments, strategy design and implementation, business ethics and law, and much more. In addition to our dynamic core curriculum, you can choose electives that fit your interests and goals.
Graduates of this Business Administration program will be able to:
- Make solid business decisions through information analysis
- Develop leadership skills to more effectively lead an organization, team, or business unit
- Apply course material in a multitude of problem-solving and decision-making contexts
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of, and commitment to, professional ethics, standards and codes of conduct
- Work in a wide variety of business fields, including for-profit and non-profit organizations
- Make solid business decisions through information analysis
- Develop leadership skills to more effectively lead an organization, team, or business unit
- Apply course material in a multitude of problem-solving and decision-making contexts
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of, and commitment to, professional ethics, standards and codes of conduct
- Work in a wide variety of business fields, including for-profit and non-profit organizations
Business Administration Career Paths:
- Entrepreneur
- General Manager
- Director of Operations
- Director of Sales
- Senior Marketing Analyst
- Entrepreneur
- General Manager
- Director of Operations
- Director of Sales
- Senior Marketing Analyst
Also available:
BGSU offers a variety of specialized MBA concentrations. Check out all of our online MBA programs.
Total Tuition
$18,450*
Duration
as few as 12 months
Credit Hours
30
Accreditation
The Allen W. and Carol M. Schmidthorst College of Business holds dual accreditation in business and accounting from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Dual accreditation is achieved by only 1 percent of business schools worldwide.
Tuition
Learn more about our affordable tuition
The Online MBA program offers affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition. All fees are included in the total tuition. Tuition and fees are subject to change. Books are sold separately.
Ohio Students
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA | $615 | $1,845 | $18,450* |
Out-of-state Students
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA | $626 | $1,878 | $18,780* |
Tuition Breakdown:
Total Tuition
$18,450*
Per Credit Hour
$615
Calendar
Plan ahead with these important dates
BGSU online programs are delivered in an accelerated format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year. Get started today!
| Term | Start Date | Course End Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2 | 6/29/26 | 8/7/26 | 6/15/26 | 6/17/26 | 6/26/26 |
| Fall 1 | 8/24/26 | 8/10/26 | 8/12/26 | 8/21/26 | |
| Fall 2 | 10/19/26 | 10/5/26 | 10/7/26 | 10/16/26 |
Now Enrolling:
Next Apply Date
8/10/26
Start Class
8/24/26
Ready to take the next step toward earning your online degree?
Admissions
Read the details of our Online MBA admission criteria
At BGSU, we’ve streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. Please read the requirements for the Online MBA, including what additional materials you need and where you should send them. The requirements include:
Admission Requirements:
- No work experience required but 2 years of experience is recommended
- Undergraduate degree from an accredited university
- GPA of 2.75 or higher
- Three professional references (name, email, phone) submitted through the online application
- There is no application fee for domestic or international applicants
You must meet the following requirements for admission to the Online MBA program.
- There is no application fee for domestic or international applicants
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, with a minimum 2.75 overall GPA
- No work experience required but 2 years of experience is recommended
- Three professional references (name, email, phone) submitted through the online application
- Professional resume detailing educational and work experience
- No GMAT required
- Scanned copies of official or unofficial transcripts from all institutions attended. Upon admission, final official or notarized copies of transcripts from all institutions where degrees were earned and diplomas from international institutions must be submitted.
- Applicants without a business undergraduate degree must take three corequisite foundation courses
Official transcripts, test scores and other documents should be sent from the granting institutions to:
Graduate College200 University Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Courses
Take a look at the Online MBA curriculum
For the Online MBA, you must complete 21 credit hours of core courses and 9 credit hours of electives. Students who lack prior academic preparation in Business Administration may need to complete up to 12 prerequisite credit hours in addition to the 30-credit hour MBA curriculum. Completing all foundation courses will lead to a Business Foundations Certificate.
Core Courses (21 credit hours)
MBA 6010: Quantitative Analysis for Managers
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods used in managerial decision-making. Emphasis is placed on formulating, analyzing, and interpreting models that address real-world business challenges. Topics include linear and integer programming, and simulation for risk assessment. Students will apply these tools using industry-standard software to support strategic and operational decisions across various business functions.
MBA 6020: AI and Digital Transformation for Business Leaders
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course equips students with the strategic and technical knowledge to lead digital transformation initiatives powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students will explore how AI reshapes business models, optimizes operations, and creates new sources of value. The curriculum emphasizes AI fundamentals, emerging technologies, technology management strategies, and ethical considerations. Through real-world case studies and hands-on applications, students will develop the skills to manage AI projects, drive innovation, and lead change in dynamic business environments. This course prepares future leaders to navigate the digital economy with confidence, agility, and a strong grasp of technological disruption.
MBA 6030: Managerial Accounting
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
The objective of this course is to examine the information needs of managers when performing their planning, decision-making, and performance evaluation functions. Specifically, topics including cost behavior patterns, product costing issues, budgeting, short term and long term decisions, and management control systems will be discussed. The relevance of these topics for managers performing their functions will be presented.
MBA 6040: Supply Chain and Operations Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to develop an understanding of the principles and practices involved in designing, managing, and optimizing operations and supply chains in both manufacturing and service industries. Topics focus on how supply chains create value for organizations, their suppliers, and customers. Students will explore strategies for supply, operations, and logistics processes and how they are integrated with other functions within the organization and across organizations. Through the use of case studies and applied discussion students gain understanding of supply chain strategy; product, process, and service design; quality, process improvement, and lean; inventory management; and ethical and sustainable practices from a supply chain standpoint.
MBA 6050: Marketing Management and Strategy
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores core principles and strategies in marketing from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on how organizations create, deliver, and capture customer value. Students will develop a strategic perspective on marketing decisions by examining consumer behavior, market segmentation, targeting and positioning, branding, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Through case analyses, discussions, and experiential projects such as simulations, marketing plans, or media-based critiques, students will learn to evaluate marketing opportunities, formulate actionable strategies, and address complex business challenges in competitive and global environments.
MBA 6060: Financial Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course takes a project-based approach to corporate finance, emphasizing financial modeling, analytical decision-making, and real-world application. It examines how firms acquire, allocate, and manage financial resources, with a particular focus on capital budgeting and valuation tools of non-financial companies. The course also introduces the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for financial management.
MBA 6080: Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibilities
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores the dynamic intersection of leadership, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility (CSR), equipping students with the essential knowledge and skills to lead effectively, make ethical decisions, and drive sustainable business practices. In today’s complex business environments, managers must balance various functions and roles, with leadership being paramount, as managers achieve organizational goals through others. A deep understanding of ethical challenges, stakeholder management, and CSR practices is crucial for leading organizations in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. The course examines key concepts and strategies related to leadership, ethics, and CSR, with the goal of preparing students to apply these principles in real-world business environment while considering the diverse perspectives of key stakeholders.
MBA 6090: Strategic Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on how firms can successfully compete in the global competitive environment. Students learn how, as managers, they can help their organization be more competitive. Using real company cases, students learn how to evaluate alternative strategies, structures, capabilities, and processes using analytical and conceptual techniques derived from organization theory and strategic management. This knowledge lays a foundation and enables the students to develop skills for lifelong learning about the strategic management process.
Elective Courses (9 credit hours)
Students can choose 9 credits (3 courses) from the following list:
MBA 5510: Investment Analysis and Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Appraisal of investment risks of specific securities; valuation and suitability of specific securities for investment. Management of fixed-income and equity portfolios emphasizing the role that options and futures play in managing securities portfolios.
MBA 5530: International Financial Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Extends financial management to the international arena with emphasis on the financial strategies of multinational corporations. Topics include foreign exchange markets, currency futures and options markets, swaps, international securities markets, managing and hedging security risk, multinational financing strategies and capital budgeting, and international portfolio management.
ACCT 5510: Auditing
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Auditing principles and procedures for independent verification of financial records and reviews of operations as used by internal auditors and public accountants. Nature of audit evidence, evaluation of internal controls, statistical sampling, computer auditing.
ACCT 6230: Financial Accounting and Analysis II
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is the second course in financial accounting. It reinforces topics from the previous course and examines more advanced accounting topics than those included in the first financial accounting course. Topics include investments, contingent liabilities, long term debt, leases, pensions, the equity section, earnings per share, income taxes and the statement of cash flows. Each section is independent of previous topics
SCM 6010: Category Management and Strategic Sourcing
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the strategic role of supply management within organizations. Topics covered include developing and implementing category plans, developing sourcing strategies, identifying, evaluating, and negotiating with suppliers to establish contracts, administering contracts, and managing supplier relationships. The importance of ethics and sustainability in global supply management and how digital technologies are changing supply chain processes are explored. Approved for distance learning.
SCM 6030: Strategic Project Management For Supply Chain Change
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Projects are key drivers of change in today’s supply chains because they link strategy, execution, and capabilities. Effective supply chain leaders must be competent project managers. This course presents the foundations of project management and introduces students to the world of real-life supply chain project challenges. Course topics include key issues when managing projects in supply chains: strategy, project selection, structure and culture, project plans, managing risk, scheduling resources, reducing project duration, leading and managing teams, supply chain change management, performance management and evaluation and current topics in supply chain project management. Approved for distance learning.
MKT 6100: Consumer Behavior
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A multidisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and theories of consumer behavior. It reviews the knowledge gained from various social sciences in the field of consumer behavior. Emphasis will be given to the underlying factors that influence, and processes that comprise, consumer acquisition, consumption, and disposition of products, services, and ideas. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
MKT 6200: Digital Marketing Strategy & Tactics
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A theoretical and practical understanding of digital marketing strategy and tactics from a managerial perspective. Topics including digital advertising, social media, search marketing, content marketing, email marketing, digital analytics, and online consumer behavior are covered and employed through case analysis and experiential application. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
MKT 6300: Customer Insights & Analysis
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to various marketing research techniques to collect and analyze customer information to help marketing decision-making. The skills and tools taught in this course will help students better understand and predict customer behavior. Topics include, but are not limited to, research design, exploratory research, descriptive research, causal research, questionnaire design, sampling design, data preparation, methods of data analysis, and interpretation and presentation of marketing research results. Prerequisites: MBA 6050, STAT 6010.
MKT 6400: Branding
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the basics of strategic brand management. Topics include the meanings of brand and branding, products versus brands, brand elements and associations, components and processes of a brand strategy, new brands, digital brands, brand architecture, measures of brand performance, and time and place contingencies in branding. Emphasis is on application of branding concepts and theories to draw practical conclusions through case studies and projects. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
Foundation Courses (up to 9 credit hours)
Students who do not hold an undergraduate degree in business must take the following courses, which can be completed as corequisites. Foundation course offerings vary throughout the year. The Coordinator for the Online MBA Program can assist with mapping out a plan of study.
MBA 6000: Financial Accounting and Analysis
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Addresses financial accounting concepts and development of financial statements. Emphasis is placed on the effect of business processes on the reported financial statements of an organization and on the usage of financial information in the management and analysis of business operations.
STAT 6010: Statistics for Managerial Decisions
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Fundamental statistical concepts and important statistical techniques will be introduced. Topics to be covered include exploratory data analysis, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis of variance, and contingency tables.
ECON 6000: Behavior of the Firm in a Global Environment
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A fundamental understanding and application of those economic principles that are relevant to contemporary business decision-making. Special emphasis is given to the global environment now facing business operations of all sizes. Topics include marginal analysis, market structure, competitive strategy and public policy issues.
BGSU's Online MBA is ranked among the "Best Online MBA Programs" by U.S. News & World Report (2025)
*Does not include foundation courses