The 5-Year MBA Plan is designed with the exceptional non-business undergraduate student in mind. The goal of the plan is to increase the marketability of these outstanding students by supplementing their major area academic preparation with the opportunity to earn an MBA with just one additional year of course work after graduation. The business and managerial skills gained in our MBA program will make these future employees more valuable assets to the companies and organizations they hope to work for. In addition, these students will have the opportunity to learn from our highly skilled graduate faculty in a challenging, invigorating classroom environment.

How the Plan Works
With the approval of the Dean of the College of Business and the Dean of the student's college, take up to 18 hours of 500-level graduate business courses during the last two years of the undergraduate career. These 500-level courses are bridging courses for the MBA program designed to bring non-business majors up to speed before they enter upper division Masters Classes and would normally represent the first year of a two-year MBA program (4+2). Under this plan, however these bridging classes would be taken during the student's undergraduate career and constitute an undergraduate minor in Business Administration. Participating students would then be prepared to enter the full-time one-year MBA program upon graduation {4+1}, provided they meet all other requirements for acceptance into the MBA program.

Admission Requirements
Junior standing, non-business major, minimum 3.0 (on 4.0 scale) overall grade point average, and approval of the Dean of the College of Business and the Dean of the student's college.

**Classes taken in this plan are considered undergraduate hours and cannot be used to satisfy other graduate degree requirements. In addition, students participating in the 5-Year MBA plan are required to take all 500-level MBA courses in a lecture setting (no online courses).

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