Joint Professional and Graduate MBA Degrees
The Owen Graduate School of Management offers joint degree programs with other prestigious professional and graduate schools at Vanderbilt. Currently, we offer such degrees in concert with the Medical School, the Graduate School, the Nursing School, the Law School, the School of Engineering, and the Divinity School.
There is a significant benefit of time savings in pursuing an MBA as a joint degree. The traditional MBA program requires 61 hours (4 full semesters) of course work. However, when pursued as part of a joint degree, the requirement is reduced to 49 credit hours (3 semesters), since Owen will accept 12 hours from the partner school as electives.
These degree combinations include:
In addition, the Owen faculty recently approved two new joint MBA/PhD programs.
Joint Undergraduate/MBA Degrees
Owen offers a five-year undergraduate/MBA degree with the college of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and with Fisk University. The five-year program allows a student to earn both an MBA and an undergraduate degree within a five-year period rather than the six years that it would normally require to enroll in both programs consecutively.
These degree combinations include:
