Business Administration/Industrial and Systems Engineering, Dual MBA/MSE

The degrees provide great flexibility, allowing you to shape them to meet your professional needs. The overall program consists of 19-22 courses, or 57-66 credits. The exact number depends on whether you’ve previously taken courses that qualify you to waive some requirements.

Your courses will explore a wide variety of topics, including developing and interpreting financial information, economic analysis, corporate social responsibility, financial fundamentals and value creation, marketing management, human factors and ergonomics, design and analysis of experiments, and production and operations engineering, among others.

For your MBA, you have the option to pursue a nine-credit concentration in:

• Accounting
• Business Analytics
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• Information Systems Management
• International Business
• Marketing
• Supply Chain Management

For your MSE, you choose many of your courses from dozens of options separated into seven tracks:

• Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Operations Research and Management Science
• Quality Systems Design
• Advanced Manufacturing and Automation
• Information Systems Management
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Program Management and Product Development

You can choose all of your courses from a single track or across any combination of the seven areas.

Our program emphasizes practice-based learning that gives you real-life business experience. For more hands-on experiences, you can analyze a vast amount of real-time market data in the Bloomberg Finance Lab, study abroad in Italy, get an internship with help from the Business Career Center, help conduct real-world research at our iLabs research institute, help your fellow students become more effective business communicators as a consultant at the Mitchell Business Communications Lab, and more.

Our online programs meet the same course requirements and admission standards as campus-based programs, and your diploma and transcript will be identical. Whether you complete your degree online, on campus, or in a hybrid format, it’s the same degree. Online students are welcome to enroll in campus-based courses and are encouraged to take advantage of campus resources and in-person events, like professional organizations and study-abroad opportunities.

Asynchronous Virtual Classroom

College of Business online courses follow the regular semester schedule and are mostly delivered asynchronously. This means your professors will set deadlines, but you’ll have flexibility in when you complete assignments, tests, and activities. Unless specified, there’s no need to log in at a specific time, allowing you to participate from anywhere with internet access! To keep you engaged, our online courses often include group discussions, videos, projects, and quizzes or exams.

Personalized Attention and Support

As an online graduate student, you’ll have direct access to your professors, just as if you were on campus. You’ll also receive priority registration for online courses each semester. For academic advising, call us at 313-593-4776 to schedule a phone appointment during daytime or early evening hours, or email quick questions to [email protected]. While not required, we encourage online students to take advantage of campus resources and events, including professional organizations and study-abroad opportunities. Additionally, you’ll have full access to digital resources like the UM-Dearborn library.

Students may waive ACC 505, BE 530, BPS 516, FIN 531, ISM / MIS 525, MKT 515, and OB 510 if they have equivalent courses in an AACSB business program completed within the previous 10 years and have earned at least a 3.2 post-60 GPA (that is, your GPA in courses taken after your first 60 undergraduate credit hours). Students who do not meet these criteria may request to have their courses evaluated for waiver credit at the time of admission. Students must have earned a B or better in equivalent courses as a part of a degree program completed within the previous 10 years.

Regardless of waiver and exemption credits granted, students must earn at least 57 credits in the dual-degree program.

In addition, up to 6 transfer credits for previous equivalent graduate coursework can be applied to the degree if those credits have not been counted toward a degree.

Waivers and transfer credit are granted at the discretion of the program faculty.

This program welcomes students from all undergraduate majors and levels of work experience. We conduct a holistic review of each application, focusing on strong academic performance, quantitative skills, and a clear statement of purpose. Admission is selective. View our Class Profile for details.

To be considered, you must have:

• A four-year U.S. bachelor's degree (or equivalent) from a regionally accredited institution.
• A grade of C or better in college algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, or higher. If you haven't met this requirement, we'll help you complete an appropriate course before or shortly after admission.