Bachelors/MBA Five-Year Program

Overview

The five-year bachelor’s/MBA program offers exceptional Cornell undergraduate students the opportunity to get a head start on their career. Eligible students apply to Johnson during the fall semester of their junior year and must complete all the requirements of their undergraduate major by the end of junior year. Bachelor’s/MBA students take all of the MBA core courses during senior year and apply these credit hours to their bachelor’s degree. During the second year, after graduation, students register full time as a Johnson student.

In order to complete the degree students must:

Earn two residency units at Johnson by registering as a full-time student at Johnson after graduating from their undergraduate college
Successfully complete at least 30 credit hours of graduate level coursework, including a minimum of 22.5 credit hours of Johnson electives
Maintain a GPA of 2.50 or better in Johnson core courses and an overall GPA of 2.70 or better in Johnson courses

Core Courses (20.5 credits)

Students must take all of the following:

Required Courses (2.5 credits)

Students must take all of the following:

Leadership Elective (1.5 credits)

Students must take one of the following as a letter grade:

Johnson Elective Courses (22.5 credits)

Students may take any graduate level courses (5000 level or above) offered at Cornell within the SC Johnson College of Business (AEM, HADM, NBA, NBAY, NMI).

Elective Courses (13 credits)

Students may take any graduate level courses offered at Cornell (5000 level or above).