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  • MBA Curriculum & Experience
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Career advancement. Unbeatable ROI. Enjoy the benefits of getting an MBA with +Flexibility.

With the top 20 Full-Time +Flex MBA, you have the option to customize your academic journey to fit your career goals. Stay on campus for two years or finish your second year online—taking classes in the #1-ranked Kelley Direct Online MBA program, a pioneer and innovator in the online MBA space for 25 years.

As a Kelley Full-Time +Flex MBA student you will:

  • Immerse yourself in a career-specific Academy and the benefits of our on-campus experiences as you prepare for a summer internship
  • Enjoy one of the best ROIs of any top-ranked full-time MBA program and the lower living costs of life in Bloomington, Indiana
  • Take up to a year to decide how to complete your second year: in Bloomington or online, where you can start a new job, return to your family, or live wherever you choose, potentially seeing even more cost savings.

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Earn a top-20 MBA that’s affordable and flexible

Build the career that you want with proven, nationally ranked quality, an amazing ROI, and +Flexibility that creates even more opportunities for career advancement and cost savings.

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#20

Overall

U.S. News & World Report, 2024

#2

Best MBA for Marketing

#4 Most Family-Friendly
#7 Best Professors
#9 Best Classroom Experience
#10 Best Administered
#10 Best MBA for Consulting

The Princeton Review, 2024

#2

MBA with highest ROI 

Insider Monkey, 2024 

Get ahead with industry-focused Academies

You’ll choose one of the six first-year Academies that aligns best with your career plans and then experience profound professional development to prepare you for your summer internship and career. Academy activities include:

  • Networking opportunities
  • Company visits
  • Industry speakers
  • Focused skill development
  • Real-life, company-based consulting projects
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Andrew Lash talks about the Consumer Marketing Academy, the supportive Kelley Community, and the MBA program’s exceptional ROI.  

 

Exceptional career prep and recruiting opportunities—just a few of the MBA advantages

You’ll receive personalized and comprehensive career development that includes:

  • Partnering with a certified career coach who gets to know you and helps you navigate challenges and opportunities.
  • Choosing a career-focused Academy—led by a director who has industry experience and serves as a mentor—to develop valuable business acumen, skills, and connections
  • Recruit with top companies from across the US who consider Kelley an important recruiting destination for MBA graduates
  • Access to a global network of more than 133,000 Kelley alumni who support students’ success
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Bloomington: family-friendly, welcoming, and affordable

You’ll live in one of the nation’s best college towns surrounded by natural beauty to enjoy and explore. Relax with your classmates, sample global cuisine, take in world-class music, and cheer for Big Ten sports. Plus, you’ll enjoy lower living costs and short commutes!

Students discuss why Bloomington is a great place to retool their careers.

Meet the chair

John D. Hill 
Chair, MBA Program

“The Kelley Full-Time MBA Program provides world-class instruction from faculty who care about your growth, alongside program staff and career services professionals prepared to help you achieve your unique goals. We are proud of our truly collaborative environment which will help you to build a professional network that will support you throughout your career.”

MBA viewbook

Earning an MBA provides a rare opportunity to focus on you: your strengths, your goals, your future. Make the most of every moment—inside and outside of the classroom, and online if you choose your second year—with the Kelley School’s innovative Full-Time +Flex MBA.

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MBA students gather on campus at Kelley School of Business in Bloomington.

Leadership development begins even before classes through our Me, Inc. orientation program. Once classes begin, you’ll learn leadership by leading real-world projects, participating in student-led global business initiatives and studying and analyzing leadership in every class we teach.

From a strong foundation in business fundamentals to a deep understanding of yourself, our program provides a holistic, transformative education that prepares you for success. Tailor your degree to your interests through majors/minors, joint degrees, certificates and electives.

Putting academics into practice, your Academy delivers real career experience in your industry of focus and puts you in front of top companies.

You’ll work with our world-ranked Graduate Career Services and a career coach who truly gets to know you, helps you discover your passion and translates it toward specific functions and industries. We’ll help you tell your story in a way that gets responses from recruiters.

The level of individualized attention throughout the MBA Program results in students prepared to contribute on their first day of the job, and results in Kelley being a top recruiting destination. Kelley's reputation helps open doors wherever your career goals may take you. Review our career statistics to learn more about career outcomes for Kelley MBA students.

Not only is our program among the top in the world, so is our location—Bloomington, Indiana, a “top college town” with an “amazing college campus”—where you will be surrounded by natural beauty, enjoy a low cost of living and live in a community nationally noted as a best place for food, theater, music and adventure.

When you join Kelley, you also join more than 133,000 alumni, a network of business connections who work to advance their fellow alumni. Kelley alumni are leading business in every state and on six continents.

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