Dual-degree Purdue MSE + Kelley Corporate MBA

Structure
The Kelley online MBA program will:

• Total 48 credit hours
• Flexible completion timeline from 2-5 years
• 3 to 6 credit hours per term

You'll learn from the same highly ranked faculty who teach in the residential programs.

Topics covered include:

• Business law and ethics
• Economics
• Marketing
• Finance
• Operations
• Information technology
• Project management

Price

• Application fee: $0
• Tuition: $1,145 per credit hour 
• Materials fee: varies by the course 
• Additional fees: none

Application deadlines: June 1 for fall, September 1 for winter, December 1 for spring, March 1 for summer

Upcoming term dates:

• Fall term 2024: August 12 through October 31
• Winter term 2024: November 4, 2024, through February 13, 2025
• Spring term 2025:  February 17 through May 8, 2025
• Summer term 2025:  May 19 through August 7, 2025

Test scores: No GMAT or GRE are required

Bachelor's degree: Can be in any field

Application process

There are two parts to the application. The Part 1 application takes just five minutes to complete.

Start Part 1 application

• After submitting Part 1, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to Part 2.
• Part 2 requires undergraduate transcript, current resume, personal statement, and one letter of recommendation.

Apply through Purdue MSE+MBA program for consideration.

For consideration in this program, please apply through Purdue for the Purdue MSE+MBA program. 

To learn more about this Kelley School program, contact us at keep@iu.edu.

Launch the next stage of your career.

The Kelley School of Business is one of the top business schools in the country. As such, the curriculum for our corporate MBA is rigorous. It matches, in breadth and depth, the scope of our standard online and on-campus MBA program.

In your final quarter, you’ll complete the Kelley Capstone Experience. This comprehensive project will apply the tools learned throughout the program to address a business challenge.

Your corporate MBA program will:

• Total 36 Kelley credit hours + 15 credit hours from Purdue
• Be completed over the course of 27 months
• Flexible schedule to complete the course requirements

You’ll learn from the same highly ranked faculty that teach the residential MBA program. Topics covered include:

• Business law and ethics
• Economics
• Marketing
• Finance
• Operations
• Information technology
• Project management

Kelley immersion

Though the majority of your coursework will happen online, Kelley Immersion invites corporate MBA candidates to spend two separate weeks at the Kelley School of Business, a $33-million complex nestled in one of America’s most beautiful college campuses.

You’ll spend one week on campus your first year, and one week on campus your second year. Each immersion week will take place in early September. Travel to Bloomington, Indiana is required for these courses. 

Cost

Tuition for this program is $1,145 per credit hour for Kelley courses. Please contact Purdue for more information about their tuition rates.

Your coursework will include topics that cover a broad range of business tactics and techniques.

Listed below are the credit hours that are required from Kelley only. This schedule is very flexible based on when you start the Kelley corporate MBA program with your Bridge Course. In the first term of your Kelley coursework, we will work with you to lay out a plan of study that fits your life.

Please note that your credit hours from Purdue are not listed below. See the Purdue site for more information about the Purdue required coursework.

Please also see our academic calendar.

Notes:

• Choose one based on your Purdue Plan of Study
• Bridge courses can be taken in place of electives, and more bridge courses can be added based on your Purdue plan of study. If you do not need to take an additional course from this list, you will have elective credit hours available on your Plan of Study.

Notes:

• All of the classes above are REQUIRED.
• Electives can be taken at any time in the second year of the program. Once you've included all of your bridge, year one, and year two courses in your plan of study, electives will be offered for the remaining credits until your total credit hours reach 36 for your entire Kelley plan of study.

Plan of Study subject to change.

In this course, you’ll learn about:

• Economic decision making in the business firm
• The strategic interaction of business firms in industries
• The purchasing and behavior of individual consumers and consumers as a group
• The influence of public policy on market outcomes

You’ll also develop:

• A fluency with the language of economics and a strong 'economic intuition'
• A fluency with the language of economics and a strong 'economic intuition'
• The skills to analyze intra-industry rivalry
• An improved understanding of public policy issues

There will be an emphasis on the logical foundations of economic analysis and managerial decision making to promote the understanding and application of various quantitative measures.

In this course, you’ll survey the management of operations in manufacturing and service firms. Students will work through diverse activities, such as:

• Determining the size and type of production process
• Purchasing the appropriate raw materials
• Planning and scheduling the flow of materials and the nature and content of inventories
• Assuring product quality
• Deciding on production hardware and how it gets used

You’ll also learn that managing operations will require both strategic and tactical skills. The topics considered include:

• Process analysis
• Workforce issues
• Materials management
• Quality and productivity
• Technology
• Strategic planning

The course makes considerable use of business cases. Most classes will be spent discussing the cases assigned. For each case, students will be asked to review actual company situations and apply technical and managerial skills to recommending courses of action. Most cases will be taken from manufacturing, but some will be service-oriented. Several of the cases will focus on international companies or challenges.

In this course, we enhance your statistical and mathematical modeling skills covering the following topics:

• Probabilistic decision making
• Regression analysis
• Forecasting
• Simulation with @@RISK
• Optimization modeling with the EXCEL Solver
• Making decisions when multiple objectives are involved
• Using neutral networks to improve forecasting.

Applications from all major functional areas will be discussed.

Study of information systems management issues including skill and talent management; IT costs, budgets, value, and charge back systems; priority setting and financial justification of IT investments; project management; runaway projects and underperforming vendors; security risks and crises; emerging technology policies; communications with other senior executives; vendor management; infrastructure standardization; support for innovation; and risk management.

Provides a user-oriented understanding of how accounting information should be managed to ensure its availability on a timely and relevant basis for decision making. The first part of the course reviews financial accounting and reporting while the second part of the course focuses on cost-benefit analysis for evaluating the potential value-added results from planning, organizing and controlling a firm’s accounting information. The use of cases, forum discussions and computer support is used extensively.

Provides a working knowledge of the tools and analytical conventions used in the practice of corporate finance; establishes an understanding of the basic elements of financial theory to be used in application of analytical reasoning to business problems; and explores the interrelationship among corporate policies and decisions. Course work will include problem sets, study group preparation of executive summary memos and critiques, and use of PC spreadsheets to develop a planning model for a case focusing on funds requirement.

An introduction to the process of creating a market-driven organization. Specific topics include marketing strategy, market research and analysis, and the development of products and services, pricing, distribution and promotion. The course employs lecture, classroom discussion through threaded discussion forums, case analysis and field research projects.

This course will provide students with an introduction to the concept of personal leadership, using the reflective lens of the DLS self-observant leadership model. Topics covered will include building your capacity for personal awareness, creating and leading meaning in your work, internal / external feedback processing through a self-observant lens, and leadership communications excellence. Students will hear from expert practitioners from the field, as well as top rated Kelley Faculty. Students will have the opportunity to practice each concept in detail throughout the week, and will also be provided the option of seven Executive / Communications Coaching follow up sessions (4 EC and 3CC) to reinforce key concepts, and develop a personal action plan as they begin the Kelley MBA Program. As a result of this course students will be better able to state their personal values and vision, understand how to drive meaning in their work, and be ready to lead themselves through transitional experiences like the Kelley MBA Program.

This course introduces students to strategic management and planning. In the course, you are asked to develop and execute a business strategy in a business simulation. In the Kelley Direct Online MBA Program, you are asked to develop a wide variety of skills and competencies in management. Developing and executing a business plan is only one of these skills. In addition, many of the skills and competencies addressed in this course will receive progressively greater refining in subsequent courses. As a result, this course should be viewed as in introduction to many issues that you will address again from different perspectives throughout the remainder of the MBA program.

Today's business environment forces executives to use every tool at their disposal to create and maintain an effective and adaptable organization. A major source of effectiveness and adaptability is the way in which the company's efforts are organized—its systems, structures, management process, rewards, and strategies.

The primary job of senior management today is to design, build, and operate organizations that function effectively. What this means is that the organization is in a constant state of change. Understanding the change process is vital. Knowing the roadblocks to effective change is very important. The role of the manager as a change agent becomes critical. Often the problems arise not from the change itself, but the process of making the change. Individuals resist change. It is a natural phenomenon. How and why this change manifests itself is a central issue in this course. Developing the skills to move through the change process not knowing what roadblocks one might encounter is becoming incredibly valuable.

This course takes a macroeconomist's lens to the United States economy in a global context. After taking this course, you will be better able to understand the U.S. and other industrial countries' economic performances, including the terminology and theories that are used to document and explain their long-term trends and cyclical ups and downs. That is, you should be able to better understand and evaluate articles you read in business periodicals like the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Economist and the Financial Times.

This course offers an introduction to tools for strategic management. It provides an introductory review of the complexities involved in determining long-term strategies. Rather than assessing the firm's environment in terms of broadly defined opportunities and threats, we will examine the dynamics of the competitive environment, how both the pace and direction of industry change are influenced by the resources, capabilities, and competitive interaction of rivals. The course uses discussion forums, team projects, and an interactive simulation.

The objective is to provide the student of management with a basic knowledge of the American legal system, the legal process and relevant substantive law which is necessary to making informed and effective business decisions. The law develops and evolves in response to changing social, economic, political, and technological forces, and business decisions often carry long-lasting as well as delayed effects. This course emphasizes the study of the law of torts, contracts, and product liability. It is hoped that consideration of a study of these legal principles will give prospective managers insight into the dynamics of the legal process to enable them to predict as soundly as possible the future legal environment in which their present decisions will bear fruit.

The Kelley Capstone Experience is an innovative course designed to enhance a student’s talent in leadership, team dynamics, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Experience in project scoping, data collection, and solutions delivery hones management skills that serve a student well in his or her career. Learning occurs through research and writing, lectures, team meetings, faculty coaching sessions, and presentations.

At its core, this course centers on “experiential learning” rather than on exploring the concept of strategy. That is, this is a course where you learn primarily by what you experience rather than what you read.