Full-Time MBA

To enable you to achieve your goals, the Lally School offers a streamlined, full-time MBA Program, that allows you to earn an MBA in one year. This intensive, accelerated program will stretch your imagination and creativity, and prepare you to lead in tomorrow’s business world.

If you have a passion for technology, and a keen interest in learning about how business truly works, the Lally MBA is designed for you.

The long tradition and global reputation of Rensselaer in engineering and science create the perfect platform for the Lally MBA Program’s unique educational experience. The innovative curriculum of the Lally School provides you not only with relevant business skills, but also with critical expertise in launching, running, and growing a successful business.

Global. Immersive. Focused.

Join students from over 16 different nationalities in an immersive educational experience that reflects how businesses manage innovation. This knowledge is then applied to industry-focused team projects in courses such as:

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• Creating and Managing an Enterprise
• Business Implications of Emerging Technologies
• Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing
• Strategy, Technology, and Competition

Based on experiential learning, a project-based curriculum, and community and industry interaction, the Lally School MBA program emphasizes a partnership that will truly transform student and corporate leaders. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a recent college graduate, the Rensselaer MBA can get you where you want to be, when you want to be there.

Our MBA program, with its small class size, offers you the opportunity to receive personalized attention while you develop relevant skills such as business communication, negotiation and team building. You also have the ability to tailor your career plan through our career support services and our mentoring network of community members and over 90,000 successful Rensselaer alumni worldwide.

Our strong emphasis on technology management and entrepreneurship means that you will become a creative, strategic thinker who is well-equipped to contribute to the world of business and technology.

Whatever you choose to do, Lally will provide you with the knowledge, experience, and connections to get you there.

Requirements

• MBA Application
• GMAT* (preferred) or GRE** scores
• Two essays, as indicated below
• Undergraduate Transcripts
• Two letters of recommendation from professors and employers
• TOEFL** (89 or above) or IELTS (6.5 or above) score required for International applicants
• Prospective applicants, especially those who have been away from a school or test-taking setting for more than one year, may also consider submitting the ETS Personal Potential Index (PPI) to supplement their application. This test provides information on six personal attributes that professional and graduate schools have indicated are critical for academic success:
  
  • Knowledge and creativity
  • Communication skills
  • Teamwork
  • Resilience
  • Planning and organization
  • Ethics and integrity

The applicant selects evaluators — typically, faculty members or supervisors — to evaluate him/her on each of these dimensions by responding to 24 statements and providing an overall rating. Evaluators can also include optional comments. 

A total of five evaluators is recommended, representing at least three different organizational groups — departments, companies, labs, in which the applicant has worked or studied.

More information about the PPI may be found at this link:http://www.ets.org/ppi/applicants/start/.

Essay Responses

1. Given our emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship in both technological entrepreneurship and finance, students who succeed at Lally tend to be creative individuals who are fascinated with new products and new business ideas and are especially good at identifying new opportunities. Please send us an example of your creative thinking. This couldbe, but should in noway be limited to, one of the following
   • An idea for a new business
   • An advertising campaign
   • A drawing of a new product idea
   • A physical prototype of a new product or concept (use your creativity to amaze us with your idea!)
   • A creative application of a new technology or new business idea to a pressing world problem; for example, an environmental problem or a problem relating to quality of life in a third world country
   The only restrictions are that it cannot be larger than 2 cubic feet (1 foot x 1 foot x 2 feet), no heavier than 50 pounds, and if you upload (or send) a written document, no longer than 1,500 words. If you submit something other than a written work, you must also submit a description of not more than 500 words explaining your submission.
   Please include your name, your date of birth, and the degree you are applying to.

 
*GMAT Score Reporting  
1. Register at http://www.mba.com
2. At this link, search for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute– The Lally School of Management and Technology.
3. To report your score, choose your intended degree from the list of programs available:
- MBA, Full Time
- M.S. in Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics (FERA)
- M.S. in Management
- M.S. in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (TCE)
- Ph.D. Program 
** GRE and TOEFL Reporting Code is 2757