Full-Time MBA

Full-Time MBA

The Full-Time MBA is an immersion in innovation, designed to inspire your vision of the future and give you the knowledge to move great ideas to the marketplace. Full-Time MBA students are smart, collaborative, passionate about the business of innovation, interested in the worlds of science and technology -- and ready to launch the next stages of their careers.

MBA Curriculum

The Rady Full-Time MBA curriculum helps students develop the fundamental knowledge necessary for success in an innovation-driven, global environment. Rady MBA students work collaboratively to enhance leadership skills and foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

We Focus on Your Career from Day One

The mission of the Rady MBA Career Connections is to assist MBA professionals in developing, evaluating and implementing career decisions. We are committed to guiding Rady MBAs in a professional and timely manner.

Costs and Financing

Your Rady MBA is an investment of time, energy and money. Early consideration of how you will finance your MBA studies ensures that you will be ready and able to accept an offer of admission. The Rady School is committed to helping you identify your options and providing advice to assist you with your financial decisions.

Full-Time MBA academic fees for 2012-13 are approximately $42,000 for California residents, $47,000 for non-residents. Fees are subject to change. Review the estimated 2012-13 budget.

The Rady School of Management values the wealth of experience members of the Armed Forces and veterans bring to our community. The skills acquired in the military — leadership, teamwork, loyalty and discipline — are an asset in the classroom and align with the Rady School’s values and the emphasis of our MBA program.  Whether you want to transition into a civilian career or continue with your military service, the Rady School provides you with the knowledge you need to accelerate your career and a community in which you can explore and expand your opportunities.

Transitioning from the Military

The Rady MBA core curriculum provides the analytical tools and business fundamentals needed to succeed in a business environment. Then, in your Lab to Market capstone project and in a variety of action learning electives, you will apply those fundamentals to real business problems, building a portfolio of experiences that assist in career transition. The Rady School’s small size means that our career development team can provide individualized attention as you assess your strengths and explore the career path that is right for you.

Advancing Your Military Career

Military leaders – both active and reserve – are increasingly well-educated, and the competition for top positions is tough. A Rady MBA creates a competitive career advantage by providing a rigorous education in business in an environment that aligns with the values of the military.  More importantly, it enhances the contribution you can make to national defense, enabling you to be more effective in leading larger and more complex organizations in a period of change.

The Rady MBA curriculum is an immersion in innovation designed to provide both the analytical and theoretical frameworks for rigorous business decision making and the applied and practical knowledge needed for success as an entrepreneurially minded leader. Our emphasis is on innovation-driven industry sectors, especially those propelled by discovery in technology and science. The MBA curriculum prepares you to identify and capitalize on new trends, ideas and technologies, providing the skills you need to advance your career and achieve your professional goals. At the Rady School, we believe teamwork and collaboration are essential for successful innovation and that action learning is a critical component of your education as an entrepreneurially minded manager and leader — so you will see these elements integrated into every aspect of our MBA program.

Core Curriculum: A Strong Foundation

Our robust core curriculum delivers a strong foundation that prepares you to make adept decisions in an ever-changing business environment. Beyond business cases and formulas, the Rady MBA core curriculum encourages collaboration, classroom discussion and interaction.

Required of all Rady MBA students, the capstone Lab to Market course sequence helps you utilize the skills you’ve learned in the core curriculum and electives to explore a project of significance to you. In this unique, action-learning based course, you learn to assess which innovations are worth pursuing and to move concepts successfully to the marketplace. Lab to Market takes you out of the more structured academic framework of the core curriculum and puts you in a real-world environment, evaluating and pursuing potential business opportunities in collaboration with a team of classmates.

Electives: Focus Your MBA Experience

Our elective courses are a tool for you to focus your educational experience on your personal and professional goals. More than half of the Rady MBA curriculum is elective and our diverse range of electives deepens and enriches your education. Whether you focus on one of the core functional areas of business – perhaps marketing, finance, or operations – or emphasize electives critical for innovation, like new product development or new venture finance ,or take advantage of Rady’s action learning electives like technology commercialization or venture capital management, Rady’s electives provide you with the knowledge and skills critical for working in innovative industries.