Master of Business Administration - Career Advance Dalhousie University

Overview

Dalhousie University ’s 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.

Our curriculum embraces your existing expertise and uses a balance of theory, analysis, and day-to-day practice to prepare you to respond strategically to complex management issues and devise innovative, relevant, and real-world solutions to your organization’s challenges.

This course-based programme has the following components:

• 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 programme currently offers electives in six specialized areas. Choose electives from any of the specialized areas or combine MBA electives with graduate offerings from programmes within and outside of Faculty of Management.  

Applicants to Dalhousie University’s Master of Business Administration - Career Advance programme must have more than 5 years' relevant professional work experience and reside in Canada.

Careers

Common careers for MBA students include Financial Services and Banking, Consulting, Marketing, Healthcare and the Public Sector, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Possible careers include:

• Consultant 

• Finance Manager

• Marketing Manager