Management, 2 year (MBA)

SC Johnson College of Business

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Program Description

Johnson’s full-time Two-Year Master of Business Administration (MBA) program features a one-of-a-kind curriculum, with fully integrated leadership development components and the opportunity to take advantage of programming offered in partnership with Cornell Tech in New York City. With Johnson’s unique Two-Year MBA immersion learning approach, students are able to focus their studies on an industry of their choice in the first year.

The two-year program spans 21 months, including a summer internship between the two academic years; the program begins each year in early August.

Full time status for the program is defined as a minimum of 12 graduate-level credits per term. This program follows a Non-Standard Calendar.

Program Policies

  • Students must satisfy all core course requirements. (20.5 core credits - NCC courses)
  • Students must complete 60 graduate-level credits in accordance with degree requirements.
  • Students must complete 4 semesters of residency, which is defined as attempting at least 12 graduate-level credits per term.
  • Students must achieve grade-point averages of at least 2.70 overall and 2.50 in core courses. 
  • Students may take no more than eighteen (18) credits in any semester toward the graduation requirement. Students with a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher may petition to add up to 4 additional credits for a total of 22 credits per semester. 
  • Students may take up to two courses (regardless of credit) that are optionally graded if the student chooses the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option. Additional optionally graded courses can be taken but must be taken for a letter grade.
  • Students may take a maximum of 1.5 total credits of Leadership Skills Programs courses (NMI 5050) toward graduation.
  • Students may enroll in undergraduate courses (under 5000 level) including Physical Education (PE), however these credits will not, under any circumstances, count toward MBA degree requirements. They will however count toward the total number of enrolled credits.