With the dual degree program, you’ll earn a bachelor’s degree and your Master of Business Administration in just five years.
Students apply to the dual degree program as incoming freshmen and are admitted directly into the graduate program at the same time as their admission as undergraduate students.
Dual degree students are guaranteed a place in the Master of Business Administration program provided they continue, as undergraduate students, to meet program-specific criteria to progress into enrollment in the graduate program. Dual degree students, therefore, have a space reserved for them in the graduate program beginning in their first year, with clear criteria and achievements required to progress into the graduate program.
Combined with advisement from their undergraduate academic adviser, participation in activities and programs offered by the Welch College of Business & Technology and the MBA program provide strong support toward successful progression into graduate study.
Students in the MBA Dual Degree Program earn a bachelor’s and an MBA degree in five years. Students complete the bachelor’s degree in the traditional four-year time frame and complete one year of graduate study in the MBA program. This option is open to students in all Welch College of Business & Technology majors.
Dual degree students pursuing the MBA degree may complete up to six credits toward their graduate degree during their undergraduate studies. These credits count toward both the undergraduate and the graduate degrees. Students, therefore, save on the cost of graduate tuition as these credits are included in the cost of the full-time undergraduate tuition.
Using data from an actual Fortune 500 company, teams develop professional strategic and marketing plans, including plans for international expansion for the company and its products. The course is taught by three senior faculty members with backgrounds in strategic planning, international marketing and finance so that student teams can work to effectively integrate the various disciplines.
While all of our courses are taught by applying theory to real world business problems and simulations, our Integrated Core (as explained above) and our Capstone course make Sacred Heart unique among area programs. The Capstone course is completed in conjunction with the Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Sacred Heart, which provides free strategic consulting projects to numerous nonprofit organizations in the Connecticut area. The combination of the Integrated Core and the Capstone provide students with impactful experiential learning. In the last five years, 349 MBA students completed 76 projects and spent 26,175 consulting hours for nonprofit organizations in Connecticut.
As a graduate student, you can take advantage of a number of resources available through the Center for Career & Professional Development including:
Dual degree students must meet program-specific guidelines to progress through the dual degree program and enroll in the MBA program.
This dual degree program is open to students in the following majors: Accounting, Business Analytics & Applied AI, Business Economics, Fashion Marketing & Merchandising, Finance, Financial Technology & Analytics, Management, Marketing, Sport Management, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Game Design & Development and Information Technology.
For additional information for prospective first-year students, contact:
Undergraduate Admissions
203-371-7880
enroll@sacredheart.edu
For additional information for current dual degree students, contact:
Graduate Admissions
203-365-7619
gradstudies@sacredheart.edu
