of Business Administration
Lead With More Impact, Without Pausing Your Career.
Earn your MBA online from Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business — fully online, asynchronous, and built for professionals ready to make a bigger impact in the roles they hold now and the ones they want next.
Online MBA from
Northeastern University
Our Online MBA is built for professionals who want to keep moving forward without putting their careers on hold. Fully online and asynchronous, our program gives you the flexibility to pursue an MBA alongside the work you’re already doing.
With a curriculum that’s two-thirds yours to design, you shape the degree around the skills you need now and where you want to go next. What you learn doesn’t wait for graduation to matter.
Through experiential coursework grounded in the challenges shaping business today, you’ll build skills you can bring directly into your work, whether you’re making a case with data, evaluating a new opportunity, leading a team, or solving a problem.
Considering a shorter, more specialized path?
The Online MS in Management may be a better fit if you're earlier in your career or want to build deep expertise in one domain in about a year, rather than lead across every business function.
No required class meeting times. No mandatory campus visits. Study when and where it works for you — early mornings, evenings, or weekends. Complete coursework around your job, family, and life commitments.
Six start dates per year mean you don’t have to wait months to begin. Choose the term that aligns with your timeline.
Courses run in accelerated 7.5-week terms. Most students take one or two courses per term.
Live, faculty-led virtual meetings for deeper discussion, case studies, and peer connection. Attendance encouraged but not required.
Online learning at Northeastern isn’t solitary. You’ll join an active cohort of working professionals from across industries and time zones — people who bring real-world business problems into every discussion and make the learning sharper as a result.
Every Northeastern Online student has access to career resources, including career coaching, employer connections, jobs boards, and recruiting events.
Beyond career services, you have access to Northeastern’s global network of campuses — to study, attend an event, or meet the wider Northeastern community. And a dedicated online success manager is with you for the full length of your program, making sure you always know your next step.
Your experience, goals, and preferences all play a role in how you approach graduate school. That's why Northeastern offers two ways to apply to the Online MBA: a traditional application with an upfront admissions decision, or a performance-based pathway that lets you demonstrate your readiness through coursework. Both lead to the same degree.
Two ways to join
Demonstrate your readiness for the MBA by earning a B or better in two pathway courses.
Apply with your academic and professional credentials to receive an admissions decision before beginning coursework.
Charged per course at enrollment. Take a term off without penalty. Full details and scholarship information at Tuition and payment details →
Federal financial aid is available for Standard Application students from day one, and for Fast App students after completing their pathway courses. If federal aid is a priority from the start, the Standard Application is the right path.
The pay-as-you-go structure makes it easy to align with most employer reimbursement cycles. Employer reimbursement toolkit →
*Tuition above is the published rate. Every student receives a university scholarship, applied automatically with no separate application. The amount depends on how you apply: Standard Application, 14% off, $39,668. Fast App, 16% off, $38,745.
**Eligible via the Standard Application from day one, or via the Fast App after you complete your pathway courses.
Same diploma as the on-campus program.
Your diploma reads: Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Master of Business Administration. No reference to online.
Does any of this sound like you?
"I want to move into a higher-impact role."
Build the cross-functional perspective and leadership capability to move beyond your current specialty and take on broader responsibility.
"I'm moving into a new industry or function."
Pair the experience you already have with a strong business foundation and a curriculum you can shape around where you're going next.
"I want a respected MBA that fits around my career."
Earn an AACSB-accredited D'Amore-McKim MBA without required class times or stepping away from work.
Where an MBA Can Take You
Management occupations are projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations from 2025 to 2035, with about 1.1 million openings projected each year. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025-35)
MBA-level business skills apply across industries and functions—from finance and marketing to people leadership and operations. That broad business perspective can help you explore new career paths and prepare for greater leadership responsibilities.
Build toward roles where you’re responsible for setting direction, not just executing it.
Salary figures reflect 2025 national median annual wages by occupation, not guaranteed outcomes, and vary by geography, industry, and experience. Listed job titles are representative. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Skills employers are hiring for
right now.
The OMBA builds the cross-functional leadership skills every senior business role depends on: strategic thinking, financial and analytical fluency, and the human skills that make strategy stick.
Strategic Leadership
Move from managing a function to setting direction for one. Connect day-to-day decisions to long-term organizational strategy and communicate with the authority your next role demands.
Analytical Fluency
Interpret data and apply insight strategically, without losing sight of the business context that makes analysis actionable.
Applied Problem-Solving
Learn something Tuesday, use it Thursday. Work through complex business problems in ways that translate directly to the decisions you’re making on the job.
Human-Centered Judgment
Apply human judgment where data and AI alone aren’t enough.
A 50-credit MBA built for
breadth, depth, and choice.
Build a strong foundation across business functions, put what you learn into practice through required experiential coursework, and shape more than half of the degree through a concentration and electives.
Business Core
Develop the cross-functional fluency to see business challenges from multiple perspectives, connect decisions across an organization, and think strategically about what comes next. Core coursework spans finance, customer value, accounting, innovation, management, operations, strategy, and experiential business decision-making.
Societal Challenges Experiential Core
Apply business concepts to complex, real-world challenges through EXPO coursework. You’ll analyze information, weigh competing priorities, and make decisions in context, not just study how others have done it.
Concentration
Choose a concentration in AI applications, business analytics, corporate finance, corporate innovation, or leading people and organizations to develop deeper expertise in an area relevant to your goals.
Electives
Use your remaining electives to broaden your expertise across business disciplines, build further depth in areas that interest you, or take additional experiential coursework.
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Faculty Who Work in the
Industry They Teach.
The Online MBA is taught by D’Amore-McKim School of Business faculty—researchers and practitioners who bring current business thinking into the classroom. Your instructors aren’t observing their fields. They’re working in them.
This program is designed to stretch your thinking. You’ll collaborate with world-class faculty and experienced leaders who challenge and inspire you, offering real-time feedback rooted in the realities of business today. It’s an opportunity not just to learn, but to evolve into the kind of leader you aim to be.
Build depth in the areas most relevant to your goals.
Choose from concentrations spanning AI, analytics, finance, innovation, and leadership, or work with your success manager to build a broader path across business disciplines.
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Build the judgment to evaluate AI opportunities and lead its responsible adoption across an organization.
What You’ll Learn
- Explore emerging AI tools and trends through a business lens. Learn to identify where AI can create meaningful value, evaluate its implications for people and organizations, and make informed decisions about responsible implementation.
Business Analytics
Build the analytical fluency to turn complex business data into insight, action, and better decisions.
What You’ll Learn
- Learn to work with business data from analysis through communication. You’ll develop skills in preparing and interpreting data, creating effective visualizations and dashboards, and designing information products that help organizations make more informed decisions.
Corporate Finance
Deepen your financial expertise to evaluate opportunities, manage risk, and make more informed strategic decisions.
What You’ll Learn
- Build advanced skills in financial analysis and decision-making, from interpreting accounting data and evaluating investments to managing risk and understanding emerging financial technologies. Learn to connect financial insight to the broader strategic decisions organizations face.
Corporate Innovation
Learn to turn new ideas into strategies for growth, transformation, and long-term competitive advantage.
What You’ll Learn
- Explore how organizations identify opportunities, build support for new ideas, and pursue growth through innovation, partnerships, and acquisitions. You’ll develop a broader understanding of the strategic and organizational decisions involved in leading change.
Leading People and Organizations
Strengthen the leadership skills to build effective teams, navigate complexity, and lead people through change.
What You’ll Learn
- Develop a deeper understanding of how people and organizations work. You’ll explore talent management, workplace ethics, negotiation, and organizational dynamics while building the judgment to lead teams and make thoughtful people-centered decisions.
General Business
Prefer to build your own path?
A concentration isn’t required. Work with your dedicated success manager to select electives across business disciplines and build a course plan around your goals.
Learn from actual
Online MBA course content.
Learn a new skill while you preview the program. These real lesson excerpts from two Online MBA courses reflect the applied, practitioner-led learning you’ll experience every week. Across the program, you’ll learn from faculty who are active practitioners in their fields, and content that connects directly to the work you’re already doing.
Hear from Northeastern Online students.
Here's what makes us different.
Every Northeastern Online course is filmed in a dedicated production studio, by the same faculty who teach on campus. Not retrofitted Zoom recordings. Not rebroadcast lectures. Real lessons, built for how you actually learn online.
Apply to the Online MBA:
Two Paths In.
Both paths lead to the same Northeastern University degree. Choose based on your background and what matters most to you. No GMAT or GRE required for either pathway.
Online MBA Frequently Asked Questions
Whether an online MBA is worth it depends on your goals, the cost of the program, and whether you can apply what you’re learning while enrolled. Northeastern’s Online MBA is designed for working professionals, allowing you to remain employed while earning an AACSB-accredited MBA and apply coursework directly on the job. Students earn a Northeastern University MBA from D’Amore-McKim; the diploma does not identify the program as online.
The clearest way to judge “worth it” for your situation is against your own goals: the role you want next, the skills you want to build, and how the pace and cost fit your life.
No. GMAT and GRE scores are not required for either the Fast App or Standard Application. Standard Application applicants may submit scores optionally if they believe the scores strengthen their application
Both are AACSB-accredited D’Amore-McKim degrees delivered fully online and asynchronously, but they’re built for different goals. The MS in Management is a specialized, one-year degree for early-career professionals and career changers who want deep expertise in a single business domain. The MBA is a broader, 50-credit degree for professionals who are already leading and want to lead across every business function, whether that’s a senior leadership role, a strategic pivot, or validation of the experience you’ve already built.
No. Internships are not part of the online program.
Yes. The program is interactive by design, and there are optional virtual and in-person events beyond coursework.
Yes, completely. Both pathway courses are actual program courses. When you complete both with a B or better you are fully admitted and those credits are already done.
Courses run in 7.5-week terms, with a traditional semester split into two. Most learners take one or two courses per term depending on the timeline they are aiming for. Your success manager can help you plan a schedule.
Ready to learn more
or ready to enroll?
Fill out the form to get program details or start your Fast App today.