Master of Business Administration Online
Gain the essential expertise for management roles in the corporate world and transform your career with the Master of Business Administration online program from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Benefit from accelerated 7-week courses, with no prerequisites or foundation courses required.
Program Overview
Discover UNCW’s 100% online General MBA degree
Gain the leadership perspective to navigate current and future issues facing any organization in the 100% online MBA program from UNCW. Refine your skills in the core functions of business to develop effective responses to challenges and opportunities.
In this AACSB-accredited program, you will deepen your knowledge in the functional areas of business law, accounting, information analysis, business analytics, operations management, economics, corporate finance, marketing, strategic management, and more. You can complete your MBA in a few months without relocating or leaving your current position.
Our rigorous core curriculum examines constitutional, legislative, judicial, regulatory and public policy regulations within the business environment. You will study the principles and theory of financial and managerial accounting, with an emphasis on financial analysis and managerial decision making, along with major information technology concepts and issues that business managers face.
This online MBA program emphasizes:
- Understanding and delivering customer value
- Developing quantitative tools to analyze business data
- Financial tools and terminology related to money-management decisions
- Leadership and team building strategies
Elective options focus on investment management, financial statement analysis, real estate investments, international human resource management, global strategy, analytics (descriptive, prescriptive and predictive), and healthcare systems, among others.
The Cameron School of Business features a top-notch faculty committed to your success. Your courses will be taught by full-time professors with terminal degrees and practical management experience in the private sector.
This AACSB-accredited business master's program requires far less financial investment than comparable MBA programs at other business schools in North Carolina while providing diverse options for customizing your degree to align with your career goals and interests. Benefit from accelerated 7-week courses, with no prerequisites or foundation courses required.
In this online MBA program, you will learn:
- Core functions of business including accountancy, economics, finance, marketing, business regulation and legal environment, information systems, and production and operations management
- Analytical and quantitative skills applicable to effective business decision-making
- Formation of thought about current and future challenges facing business leaders with emphasis on communications, teamwork, organizational change, information technology, total quality, the international dimension of business, technological innovation, social responsibility and ethics
- Core functions of business including accountancy, economics, finance, marketing, business regulation and legal environment, information systems, and production and operations management
- Analytical and quantitative skills applicable to effective business decision-making
- Formation of thought about current and future challenges facing business leaders with emphasis on communications, teamwork, organizational change, information technology, total quality, the international dimension of business, technological innovation, social responsibility and ethics
Career roles for graduates of this MBA could include:
- Business Operations Manager
- Marketing Manager
- Operations Business Analyst
- Management Analyst
- Business Operations Manager
- Marketing Manager
- Operations Business Analyst
- Management Analyst
Also available:
UNCW offers MBA programs in a variety of in-demand specializations as well as an Executive MBA and an M.S. program. View our business programs.
Accreditation:
UNCW's Cameron School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB).
Tuition
Find out how and when to pay your tuition
Designed to be affordable and convenient, our tuition is an outstanding value and far less of a financial investment than many other North Carolina universities. We also offer pay-by-the-course tuition for our online programs. Financial aid is available for those who qualify.
Tuition and fees are subject to change each academic year pending legislative approval. View more information on your cost of attendance.
Program | Total Tuition & Fees* |
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MBA – General (in-state residents) | $19,287 |
MBA – General (out-of-state residents) | $51,459 |
*Estimated tuition and fees are for the full program of study, presuming students are enrolled part-time. Please note the above amounts are estimates of tuition and fees only, based on current tuition rates (2024-2025). Textbooks, class materials, and future tuition and fee increases are not included. Additionally, university tuition is subject to change on an annual basis at the discretion of the UNC System Board of Governors.
Tuition breakdown:
Calendar
Important dates for our students
The MBA program is delivered in an online format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring rolling admissions and six start dates each year. Choose the start date that best suits your goals.
Term | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Payment Due | Last Class Day |
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Spring 1 | 1/13/25 | 12/14/24 | 12/14/24 | 1/15/25 | 1/16/25 | 3/2/25 |
Spring 2 | 3/10/25 | 2/15/25 | 2/15/25 | 3/12/25 | 3/13/25 | 4/27/25 |
Summer 1 | 5/12/25 | 4/19/25 | 4/19/25 | 5/14/25 | 5/15/25 | 6/29/25 |
Summer 2 | 6/30/25 | 6/7/25 | 6/7/25 | 7/2/25 | 7/7/25 | 8/17/25 |
Fall 1 | 8/25/25 | 8/2/25 | 8/2/25 | 8/27/25 | 8/28/25 | 10/12/25 |
Fall 2 | 10/20/25 | 9/27/25 | 9/27/25 | 10/22/25 | 10/23/25 | 12/7/25 |
Students must register for courses by 5 p.m. (EST) on the registration deadline date.
Students must remit tuition payment by 10 a.m. (EST) on the tuition deadline date.
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Admissions
What you need to know before applying
To apply for the MBA online, you must hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university in the United States or its equivalent at a foreign institution by the first official day of classes for the semester of application. Because UNCW considers applications on a rolling basis, you are urged to apply promptly for your preferred start date.
Admission Requirements:
- GMAT waived through 2025
- Cumulative GPA of at least 3.0
- Resume and cover letter
MBA Online Admission Requirements:
Candidates are required to submit the following to the Graduate School:
- An application for graduate admission.
- Official transcripts of all college work (graduate and undergraduate). Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended should be mailed directly from the institution(s) to UNCW at the address below. Electronic password protected transcripts are preferred and may be sent directly from the institution to [email protected].
- UNCW Graduate School
Attn: Kimberly Goerne Harris
601 S. College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5955
- Two online recommendations including one from an employer or supervisor who can comment on the applicant’s work experience and potential for successful completion of a master’s program. Letters of recommendation may be waived if an applicant meets one or more of the following criteria:
- Five or more years of progressive managerial or military work experience
- A cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.2 or higher
- Completion of an advanced degree (graduate level or above) involving some quantitative coursework
- Resume and cover letter (statement of interest) indicating how your background has prepared you for the MBA program.
- A minimum of two years full time, post-baccalaureate professional work experience required for MBA programs.
- A minimum of 5 years full time, post-baccalaureate professional work experience is required for the MBA Executive Concentration.
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in undergraduate work. Applicants with an undergraduate GPA below 3.0 must demonstrate professional experience/advancement that shows progression since graduation and indicates how they will contribute to the program.
- A GMAT score above 500, or an equivalent GRE. However, the GRE/GMAT is currently waived through the 2025 cycle for all programs.
- A minimum score of 79 on the internet based TOEFL iBT test or 6.5 on IELTS test is required for all non-native English speakers only, unless applicant earned their baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited US institution. Scores are good for two years from the date the test is administered.
- Application and all required supplemental documents must be submitted by the published deadline.
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Courses
What you’ll learn in this accredited MBA online program
The Master of Business Administration online curriculum is comprised of 12 courses (36 credit hours), including 30 credit hours of MBA core courses and six credit hours of electives.
You must choose two of the following courses to complete your degree requirements. MBA 518 requires additional fees.
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand a scientific approach to solving management problems to help managers make better decisions
- Identify the nature and usefulness of prescriptive analytical tools and conduct the appropriate modeling techniques to solve business problems
- Use prescriptive analytical tools to assist in making business decisions
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Recognize fundamental predictive analytics concepts and terminology
- Access and prepare data for use with predictive analytics techniques
- Perform feature transformation and selection
- Select and build appropriate predictive analytics models for quantitative response variables
- Select and build appropriate predictive analytics models for non-quantitative response variables
- Distinguish between supervised and unsupervised learning approaches
- Identify opportunities to apply predictive analytics in a variety of contexts
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Install and navigate through the statistical software package (i.e., R)
- Create scripts within R to reuse code and demonstrate working with various packages including installation and loading within the R environment
- Explain and demonstrate fundamental programming skills such as data types, storage, etc.
- Explain and demonstrate how to import and work with various data in the R environment
- Demonstrate data manipulation including cleaning data, subsetting, etc.
- Demonstrate data visualization using various plots such as scatterplots, boxplots, etc.
- Demonstrate how to manipulate and read data using functions included in the Tidyverse package
- Create output of statistical analyses through the use of RMarkdown
- Perform basic statistical analysis using base R
- Perform plotting and exploratory analysis within the R Package Tidyverse
- Transform data within an existing data set using the dplyr function
- Combine relational tables using the dplyr functions
- Wrangle data using the tidyverse packages readr and tidyr
- Demonstrate how to use other statistical packages/programming languages (e.g., Python) to run similar analyses
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Learn critical analytics and decision support techniques specific to health care administration
- Increase efficiency and effectiveness in problem-solving and decision support
- Conduct analyses, simulations, productivity measurements, scheduling, and more
- Discuss the challenge facing healthcare organizations
- Develop skills to leverage advances in both clinical and information technology to improve quality and performance while containing costs
- Locate appropriate data in different commonly used hospital information systems
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Be familiar with database modeling and logical design
- Understand proficiency in developing complex queries to support analytics
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Establish an understanding of concepts and techniques in digital marketing
- Advise a company on managerial problems relating to specific topics in digital marketing
- Develop data analysis and graphing skills
- Apply data analysis methods in Microsoft Excel
- Assess digital marketing campaigns based on data-driven results
**Students taking a full-time course load throughout the program can complete it in as few as 12 months. Consult with your advisor.
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