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Earn an undergraduate business degree and an MBA in just five years

The 3/2 MBA is a transformative experience designed for high-achieving Kelley accounting and finance students.

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The intensive two-year curriculum prepares students for a variety of careers in assurance and risk management, corporate accounting, management consulting, banking and financial services, governmental and nonprofit organizations, and taxation practices.

It’s a smart investment, too. By earning your BS and MBA degrees in five years, you’ll spend one less year in school than you would in a traditional MBA program. And you won’t have to interrupt your career in three to five years to return to school to earn your MBA—you'll already have one.

Graduates of the 3/2 MBA program have an impressive skill set that leads them to success. Our students understand:

  • The basic principles of accounting
  • Internal structures and operations of businesses
  • The relationship between business and external environments (government, legal, competitive)
  • How to integrate business tools and techniques to analyze and recommend solutions
  • Legal and ethical principles as they affect business and accounting decisions
  • Honed professional skills, including oral and written communication, leadership skills, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and self-assessment

Real-world experience a key component of program’s success

Put your new skills to work before graduation. You’ll work with at least three companies before earning your degree, obtaining firsthand experience that will give you an edge during recruiting. Our immersive, seven-week field studies have included work with companies in China, London, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam.

“James Georgiou and I created a robust and variable Excel simulation for a private hospital in Romania. This simulation will help our client make future decisions regarding capital expenditures and service mix. During the course of the field study, we had to use technical and professional skills learned from our undergraduate and MBA experiences.”

Nick Schmidt, MBA’22Healthcare Investment Banking Associate, KPMG, Chicago

Experiential learning

Building business leaders

Are you ready to lead? Graduates of the Kelley School of Business 3/2 MBA graduate accounting program quickly rise to leadership roles in their organizations. Our alumni attribute their success to the maturity, complex reasoning, and real-world skills they gained from their Kelley 3/2 MBA experience.

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- When I think about the
benefits of the 3/2 Program,

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the most important one to
me is that you come out

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of Kelley better prepared
than an undergraduate.

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- In undergrad, you
learn a lot of formulas,

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you learn a lot of fundamental
building block skills.

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In 3/2, when you get your
MBA, you learn higher order

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thoughts, you learn
critical decision making.

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You learn basically things
that are not so quantitative.

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And I think that's essential
when you're in the business

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world, because it's not
whether you can regurgitate

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a formula, it's whether
you can solve, you know,

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major business problems.

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- The 3/2 MBA program
really enabled me to get

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a kick start on my career.

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For someone going into public
accounting, or corporate

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accounting, the CPA exam
is absolutely critical.

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Being able to be prepared for the CPA exam

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while being in class
during the 3/2 Program

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was really a phenomenal benefit.

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It's a great opportunity
to have a well rounded

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MBA Program in just one
additional year of school.

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- The experience that you
get in the 3/2 Program

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is tremendously helpful in
your ability to navigate

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the corporate workplace,
your ability to analyze

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problems and projects in a strategic way.

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And you get all of that
in a five year deal.

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- Well I think if the
student is on the fence about

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the 3/2 Program, I think
they need to dig down

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within themselves, and
think about what they're

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really looking for over the long term.

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If you want a whole additional
set of opportunities

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that may open up for
you over the long term,

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whether that's being
entrepreneurial, whether that's

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being a more senior executive,
or things along those lines,

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then I just can't see how
you would pass up the 3/2.

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