Stevens MBA
Stevens MBA
Program Highlights
A STEM-Designated MBA: Applicable concentrations of the MBA program hold the STEM designations, setting it apart from ordinary MBA offerings by infusing technology at the forefront of the curriculum. This designation also allows students from outside of the U.S. to be eligible for a 24-month extension of their Optional Practical Training (OPT).
Traditional Business Through the Technology Lens: At Stevens, conventional business disciplines are taught from a technological perspective, ensuring graduates are well-versed in leveraging leading-edge tools and methodologies to drive innovation across all aspects of a business.
AI and Machine Learning are Here to Stay: Students gain an essential understanding and practical application of AI and machine learning, equipping them to take the lead in navigating the fourth industrial revolution and propel industries forward.
Real-World Consulting Experience: The hallmark of the full-time MBA, the Industry Capstone Program, immerses students in consulting engagements with real-world companies. Students and their peers, under faculty mentors, take what they’ve learned in their courses to develop solutions to real business problems and present their recommendations to senior executives. This experience provides students with something they can speak about to hiring managers and recruiters. Open to students across graduate programs, the Industry Capstone Project encourages interdisciplinary collaboration, nurturing diverse perspectives and skill development.
Invaluable Networking Opportunities: Capstone projects involve partnering with companies, providing students with networking opportunities and allowing them to foster connections that can lead to career advancement.
GMAT/GRE test scores are optional for all master’s programs. Applicants who think that their test scores reflect their potential for success in graduate school may submit scores for consideration.
An MBA for Today's Digital Era
In today's data-driven world, the traditional business skills taught in traditional MBA programs are no longer enough. Few MBA programs fully address how the data revolution has transformed how managers recognize opportunities and identify trends. The Stevens MBA stands out by integrating technology, data analytics and advanced business practices into its core curriculum.
Taught by expert faculty, this innovative MBA program combines foundational business disciplines such as marketing, strategy and finance with cutting-edge skills in technology and business analytics. You will engage in applied exercises and real-world projects that train you to make fast, data-informed decisions. With a curriculum emphasizing collaboration through group projects, presentations and hands-on experience, you will foster both creativity and critical thinking skills.
This unique approach ensures you are prepared to lead in a rapidly evolving business landscape.
Curriculum Overview
Program Overview
The design of the Stevens MBA is structured to ensure your studies closely align with your professional aspirations. In addition to a blend of tech-centric management courses that prepare you for the challenges of leadership, you will choose four courses directly focused on your career interests — either as part of a structured concentration or as free electives that let you explore different disciplines.
Language Of Business
Courses in this block provide fundamental skills in marketing, operations management and strategy — three crucial areas that give students mastery of topics central to every business unit in every industry.
Choose 1 of these 2 courses.
MGT 657 Operations Management - 3 Credits
This course covers the general area of management of operations, both manufacturing and non-manufacturing. The focus of the course is on productivity and total quality management. Topics include quality control and quality management, systems of inventory control, work and materials scheduling, and process management.
BIA 674 Supply Chain Analytics - 3 Credits
Supply chain analytics is one of the fastest growing business intelligence application areas. Important element in Supply Chain Management is to have timely access to trends and metrics across key performance indicators, while recent advances in information and communication technologies have contributed to the rapid increase of data-driven decision making. The topics covered will be divided into strategic and supply chain design and operations, including -among others- supplier analytics, capacity planning, demand-supply matching, sales and operations planning, location analysis and network management, inventory management and sourcing. The primary goal of the course is to familiarize the students with tactical and strategic issues surrounding the design and operation of supply chains, to develop supply chain analytical skills for solving real life problems, and to teach students a wide range of methods and tools -in the areas of predictive, descriptive and prescriptive analytics- to efficiently manage demand and supply networks.
Leadership And Innovation
The three courses in this block will challenge you to think differently about leadership — how to manage resources, inspire teams and foster innovation. You'll get a better sense of your personal leadership style while developing the confidence and capability needed to fearlessly attack missions and drive change.
Choose 1 of these 3 courses.
MGT 612 Leader Development - 3 Credits
Project success depends, largely, on the human side. Success in motivating project workers, organizing and leading project teams, communication and sharing information, and conflict resolution, are just a few areas that are critical for project success. However, being primarily technical people, many project managers tend to neglect these "soft" issues, assuming they are less important or that they should be addressed by direct functional managers. The purpose of this course is to increase awareness of project managers to the critical issues of managing people and to present some of the theories and practices of leading project workers and teams.
MGT 635 Managerial Judgment and Decision Making - 3 Credits
Executives make decisions every day in the face of uncertainty. The objective of this course is to help students understand how decisions are made, why they are often less than optimal, and how decision-making can be improved. This course will contrast how managers do make decisions with how they should make decisions, by thinking about how “rational” decision makers should act, by conducting in-class exercises and examining empirical evidence of how individuals do act (often erroneously) in managerial situations. The course will include statistical tools for decision-making, as well as treatment of the psychological factors involved in making decisions.
MGT 689 Organizational Behavior and Design - 3 Credits
This course exposes students to the macro and micro aspects of organizational behavior and theory that are essential to technology management. The macro aspects will focus on structural contingency theory as an approach to effective organizational design. The micro aspects will focus on leadership, teams, and individual behavior (e.g., motivation, job attitudes). Specific issues and problems which are covered include: the relationship of the organization with the external environment, the influence of the organization's strategies, culture, size, and production technology on the organization's design, and strategies for managing organizational processes such as teams, conflict, power/politics and organizational change. Current topics, that are key to technology management (e.g., virtual teams), will be stressed.
Analytical Thinking
Courses in this block emphasize highly advanced analytics techniques that will teach you the ways successful managers look at and use data in understanding how markets work and making better recommendations to guide the enterprise.
BIA 500 Business Analytics: Data, Models and Decisions - 3 Credits
This course explores data-driven methods that are used to analyze and solve complex business problems. Students will acquire analytical skills in building, applying and evaluating various models with hands-on computer applications. Topics include descriptive statistics, time-series analysis, regression models, decision analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and optimization models.
BIA 568 Management of AI Technologies - 3 Credits
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an interdisciplinary field that draws on insights from computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience to design agents that can perceive the environment and act upon it. This course surveys applications of artificial intelligence to business and technology in the digital era, including autonomous transportation, fraud detection, machine translation, meeting scheduling, and face recognition. In each application area, the course focuses on issues related to management of AI projects, including fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics, and the law.
MBA Concentrations
The MBA curriculum includes four elective courses, giving you the flexibility to explore a discipline in depth or further round out your studies. If you seek more structure, you can use your elective courses to pursue one of the below concentrations, each of which is aligned with a distinct area of need in industry.
Artificial Intelligence
BIA 610 Applied Analytics
MIS 637 Data Analytics and Machine Learning
BIA 662 Augmented Intelligence and Generative AI
BIA 667 Introduction to Deep Learning and Business Applications
Business Intelligence & Analytics
BIA 672 Marketing Analytics
BIA 674 Supply Chain Analytics
BIA 658 Social Network Analytics and Visualization
BIA 670 Risk Management Methods and Applications
Finance
FIN 526 Private Equity & Venture Capital
FIN 627 Investment Management
FIN 628 Derivatives
FIN 638 Corporate Finance
Financial Analytics
FE 511 Introduction to Bloomberg & Thomson Reuters (1-credit lab)
FE 515 Introduction to R (1-credit lab)
FE 520 Intro to Python for Financial Applications (1-credit lab)
FA 582 Foundations of Financial Data Science (2-credit lab)
FE 513 Practical Aspects of Database Design (1-credit lab)
FA 595 Financial Technology
FA 550 Data Visualization Applications
Financial Engineering
FE 543 Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance
FE 610 Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineers
FE 535 Introduction to Financial Risk Management
FE 621 Computational Methods in Finance
FE 630 Portfolio Theory and Applications
FE 620 Pricing and Hedging
Financial Technology - Fintech
The fintech concentration is designed to introduce MBA students to think critically about the challenges and opportunities from technology-driven changes in finance to bring about organizational success.
Courses
FA 582 - Foundations of Financial Data Science
FE 513 - Lab: Practical Aspects of Database Design (1 credit)
FA 595 - Financial Technology (FinTech)
FA 591 - Blockchain Technologies & Decentralized Finance
FA 596 - Digital Payment Technologies and Trends
More information on the fintech concentration
Information Systems
MIS 699 Digital Innovation
MIS 710 Process Innovation and Management
MIS 714 Service Innovation
MIS 730 Integration Information Systems Technologies
Project Management
MGT 609 Project Management Fundamentals
MGT 610 Strategic Perspectives on Project Management
MGT 611 Advanced Project Management
MGT 619 Leading Across Projects
The MBA Project Management Concentration is accredited by the PMI Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC).
Sustainability Management
SM 510 Perspectives in Environmental Management
SM 530 Sustainable Business Strategies
SM 587 Environmental Law and Management
SM 531 Sustainable Development
Capstone
After completing the rest of the curriculum, students must take the MGT 809 Industry Capstone Program.
This three-credit course trains graduate students with the application of tools and methods used by management consultants to provide advisory services to clients. Students will work on an industry project with a team of their peers. They will scope and plan the underlying project, develop a statement of work, and design and deliver status update presentations. Students will learn how to facilitate meetings with different groups of stakeholders over the course of the project, manage client expectations, and apply their disciplinary and technical knowledge to the project.
Application Deadlines
APPLICANT | FALL | SPRING | SUMMER (Domestic Applicants Only) |
|---|---|---|---|
Master's Full-Time | April 15 | November 1 | May 1 |
Master's Part-Time | August 15 | January 1 | May 1 |
Graduate programs admit students on a "rolling" basis, meaning that students may still apply after the preferred deadlines.
Students requiring an F1 Visa are strongly encouraged to apply by the preferred deadlines to allow time for visa processing.
Meet the Program Director
Brian Rothschild currently works as Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies as well as the Senior Director of Management Programs at Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business. He has been in higher education for over 30 years in both technology and business education. Brian has worked extensively in business process reengineering as well as running international and domestic conferences. Brian has a passion for helping students in every aspect of their life as they begin their careers or are using education to move up the corporate ladder faster.
Brian earned his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, an MS in Educational Psychology from Fordham University and a MBA in Organizational Behavior and a BA in Economics from Iona University.
Admission criteria
The Stevens MBA is designed to meet the needs of part-time students — particularly through its award-winning online offering — as well as full-time students seeking a valuable early-career boost to their professional prospects. If you're passionate about the role technology plays in business and are willing to work hard to break into management, you'll find the Stevens program rewarding for its emphasis on applied learning and better decision-making through data and technology.
Application deadlines
For full-time students, applications to the Stevens MBA program are accepted in three distinct cycles. To be considered for admission, all materials must be submitted by the deadline.
Application cycle | Application deadline | Application decision | Acceptance deadline |
Priority | Oct. 15 | Dec. 1 | Jan. 15 |
Standard | Jan. 15 | March 1 | Included in admission offer |
Final | April 15 | May 1 | June 1 |
For applicants interested in pursuing the Stevens MBA as either part-time or online students, admissions decisions are made on a rolling basis.
Admission criteria
Admission to the Stevens MBA is competitive. To be considered for this program, your application must include the following.
GMAT/GRE Scores
All candidates to this program are required to submit GMAT or GRE scores with their application; part-time applicants with work experience may be eligible to waive this requirement. Only students with excellent test scores will be deemed a fit for the coursework. However, it's important to keep in mind that your test scores are only one feature of your application, and will be considered along with your other credentials. Please use the following reporting codes to submit test scores to Stevens:
GRE: 2819
GMAT: 638LX12
International students also must include TOEFL or IELTS scores along with their applications.
Academic Transcripts
Your application must include official transcripts from all universities you have attended. These records must show your name, the name of the university attended, enrollment dates, coursework completed, and grades assigned.
Required Coursework
Given the highly technical nature of this degree, students are required to have completed one semester of calculus and one semester of basic probability, hypothesis testing and estimation prior to starting the program. Stevens offers noncredit courses for students needing to satisfy this requirement.
Professional Resume
You must include a résumé with your application that highlights:
Academic record
Work and internship experience
Leadership abilities
Interviews
Stevens often invites master's candidates to interview prior to making an admissions decision. If you are selected for an interview after submitting your application, you will receive instructions via email.